Anderson Silva Resumes Training After Elbow Surgery
by Kelvin Hunt on Jan 6, 2010 8:00 AM EST
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PrintSherdog's Marcelo Alonso was on hand to photograph the UFC middleweight champion during a recent training session. Of course we have covered the entire saga with Silva's manager Ed Soares playing mind games about Silva not being injured, but then ultimately confirming that Silva did in fact have elbow surgery to remove bone spurs. It's still not confirmed when and who Silva will fight next, but him getting back to real training after surgery is a good sign. Silva has gone on record stating that he thinks that Nate Marquardt will be the next champion at middleweight in the UFC(I agree with him). Marquardt has a upcoming matchup against Chael Sonnen at UFC 109, so a win there could put him in the mix as well if the fight with Belfort doesn't come to fruition.
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I never really understood why Soares or Silva’s statements were interpreted as mind games or attempts to ducking Belfort, Marquardt or Henderson. Sure the release of the healthy/unhealthy elbow may have been handled awkwardly but for the most part it was just an injury he had to take care of.
Here’s a recent statement from Ed Soares I grabbed from MMAJunkie.
It doesn’t matter. Wherever they can place him to fight, he’ll fight. He wants to get in there and fight again. It is who they say it is, it’s not a matter of signing off. I’ve never said it wasn’t going to be a great fight. All I ever said was I didn’t think he deserved to fight for a title. Some people agree with me; some people don’t. It doesn’t really make a difference. Anderson always has and always will fight whoever he puts in front of him.
Sometimes people take my opinion or someone else’s opinion that we won’t fight him. I’m not saying we won’t fight him. I’m jusy saying we don’t think he doesn’t deserve it. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s going to be a phenomenal fight. Vitor’s a dangerous guy, but Anderson is very dangerous too. I think Anderson has more tools, but I think Vitor poses a lot of threats. He’s a super-tough guy. – Ed Soares
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