White: Silva ‘wants that belt back’
UFC President Dana White spoke to the media about Anderson Silva’s injury and whether or not he expects the former champion to return.
After breaking his leg at UFC 168 versus Chris Weidman, many wondered whether or not Anderson Silva’s fighting career was over. Today at a media scrum for UFC 169, UFC President Dana White spoke to the media about Silva’s injury and whether or not he expects the former champion to return:
He’s going to heal great, White said at Madison Square Garden in New York following a media event for Saturday’s UFC 169, which takes place in nearby Newark, N.J. He’s going to come back. The bone will be stronger. If you blow your ACL, you’re out for a year and three months. Rehab is gruesome on the thing, and you don’t know if you’re going to perform the same way. He broke a bone. He’s going to be good.
I’m downplaying it. It hurt like hell. I don’t ever want to break my bone like that, but he’s got a broken bone.
