Coming off a rough night against Andrei Arlovski, Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva will have surgery in Brazil.
“Bigfoot,” a former UFC heavyweight title contender, traveled to Sao Paulo after his UFC Fight Night 51 bout with Andrei Arlovski, and is scheduled to undergo surgery on Tuesday morning to remove a pituitary gland tumor that has reemerged.
“I should leave the hospital [next] Monday,” Silva told MMAFighting.com. “Bigfoot”, who suffers from acromegaly, has no timetable for his return to the cages.
The Brazilian heavyweight entered the Octagon against Arlovski following a nine-month suspension for testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone in December. He lost the bout via first-round knockout, dropping to 2-3-1 in the UFC.