Following his victory over Yushin Okami at UFC 134, UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva has now revealed he fought through a shoulder injury. The win gave Silva his ninth consecutive title defense, improving his professional record to 34-4 an…
Following his victory over Yushin Okami at UFC 134, UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva has now revealed he fought through a shoulder injury.
The win gave Silva his ninth consecutive title defense, improving his professional record to 34-4 and his UFC record to 14-0. The recent news is quite surprising, considering how convincingly the Brazilian was able to dispatch his opponent.
“A month before the fight I injured my shoulder while training with Junior dos Santos, and I was feeling a lot of pain in Rio. I’ve had to take some medicine and warn the athletic commission about it,” Silva told Veja, courtesy of TATAME.com.
“It’s a small injury, but I guess it’s on the cuff and bothers me. I’ll rest for a while and get healed.”
Despite suffering from pain in his shoulder, Silva said his injury was not as serious, and he was cleared to compete.
This brings up a lot of credibility to his bout against Chael Sonnen at UFC 117 where Silva retained his title but confessed he had suffered a rib injury in the post-fight interview. It is expected he will defend his middleweight crown against either Chael Sonnen or Brian Stann, where he will be looking to successfully defend the title for a tenth consecutive time.
Silva’s antics and effortless performance proved why he is undoubtedly one of the best fighters in the world.
At 36 years old, however, this also might be a sign that Silva is gradually slowing down as a fighter.
According to UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva, he injured his shoulder while sparring with Junior dos Santos prior to his UFC 134 bout with Yushin Okami and was put on painkillers for the injury. Silva revealed to the Brazilian magazine Veja that he was in pain the day of the bout and that he took some painkillers to ensure he could fight, but says that unlike guys like Bas Rutten and Karo Parisyan who failed to reveal their use of analgesics to their respective athletic commissions prior to bouts, he did tell the group in charge of overseeing the event that he took the unnamed drug prior to the bout.
“A month before the fight I injured my shoulder while training with Junior dos Santos and I was feeling a lot of pain in Rio. I had to take some medicine and warn the athletic commission about it. I’ve talked to my doctors. I had an MRI and then I started feeling pains in my shoulder but the doctors let me go and said it was not that serious,” Silva says. “It’s a small injury, but I guess it’s on the [rotator] cuff and bothers me. I’ll rest for a while and get healed.”
(“Can’t….stop….giggling.”)
According to UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva, he injured his shoulder while sparring with Junior dos Santos prior to his UFC 134 bout with Yushin Okami and was put on painkillers for the injury. Silva revealed to the Brazilian magazine Veja that he was in pain the day of the bout and that he took some painkillers to ensure he could fight, but says that unlike guys like Bas Rutten and Karo Parisyan who failed to reveal their use of analgesics to their respective athletic commissions prior to bouts, he did tell the group in charge of overseeing the event that he took the unnamed drug prior to the bout.
“A month before the fight I injured my shoulder while training with Junior dos Santos and I was feeling a lot of pain in Rio. I had to take some medicine and warn the athletic commission about it. I’ve talked to my doctors. I had an MRI and then I started feeling pains in my shoulder but the doctors let me go and said it was not that serious,” Silva says. “It’s a small injury, but I guess it’s on the [rotator] cuff and bothers me. I’ll rest for a while and get healed.”
The problem lies in the fact that the “commission” in this case was actually the UFC and whether or not the type of medication he took prior to the bout is an approved one and if not, will the UFC report it remains to be seen. The promotion has revealed positive drug tests in the past as they did in the case of Chris Leben who tested positive for the anabolic steroid Stanozolol following his UFC 89 loss to Michael Bisping, but what if the guilty party was its most popular champion and arguably its biggest asset?
Banned painkillers include oxycodone and oxymorphone, while approved ones include ibuprofen and acetaminophen.
It will be interesting to hear if the type of drug is revealed by the UFC or if anyone bothers to ask.
The UFC has the best MMA fighters and the best matches in the world. Nobody else even comes close, and those who have, like Pride and Strikeforce, the UFC has just bought out.That doesn’t mean that they’re perfect. Nobody is, especially when there are …
The UFC has the best MMA fighters and the best matches in the world. Nobody else even comes close, and those who have, like Pride and Strikeforce, the UFC has just bought out.
That doesn’t mean that they’re perfect. Nobody is, especially when there are some dozen-and-a-half events each year, with almost 200 fights going on over those 12 months. Several of those fights are expected to be stinkers.
Though the fans hope that those that suck are the ones never shown on free TV during a live event attended by some 6,500 people, every once in a while, the stinkers will come from the Main Event $50 PPV championship fights between two fighters considered to be the best in the world in their division.
This list will look back and (dis)honor these men.
Last week, I took you through a slide show of five fighters within the UFC’s light heavyweight division who would match up well with current middleweight king, Anderson “The Spider” Silva. The list contained such names as Dan Henderson, Lyoto Mach…
Last week, I took you through a slide show of five fighters within the UFC’s light heavyweight division who would match up well with current middleweight king, Anderson “The Spider” Silva.
The list contained such names as Dan Henderson, Lyoto Machida and light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. Surely, any of those stars could put up one hell of a fight against the man they’re now calling “the greatest fighter of all time.” Right?
It didn’t seem as if the fans are so sure.
The talents of Anderson Silva, they say, would be too much for anyone in the light heavyweight division to handle. Dan Henderson would be choked out again. Lyoto Machida would find himself on the receiving end of the dreaded crane kick. Jon Jones would be blasted out cold while attempting a spinning back elbow. Anderson Silva can’t be beat, won’t be beat.
Ok. Well, let’s take it a step further. What if he moved into the heavyweight division?
In all fairness, this isn’t something that is likely to ever happen. However, Silva would only have to put on an extra 35 lbs to go from middleweight to heavyweight. Randy Couture made the move from light heavyweight to heavyweight, and coming into a fight at merely 220-230lbs, he was still crowned the UFC heavyweight champion of the world for a period of time. Sure, he never fought at middleweight, but he was 43 freakin’ years old! That has to count for something.
So, just for the sake of argument, let’s say Anderson Silva did make the move up to the heavyweight division. Who would he face? How would he fare? Let’s have a look-see, shall we?
The highly anticipated World of MMA Awards, hosted by Fighters Only Magazine, is rearing it’s head once again. The show elicits the votes of fans around the world in order to determine the appropriate winners in each category, which spans all…
The highly anticipated World of MMA Awards, hosted by Fighters Only Magazine, is rearing it’s head once again.
The show elicits the votes of fans around the world in order to determine the appropriate winners in each category, which spans all the way from the mixed martial arts media totem poll to the Best Knockout of the Year award.
This year’s show, the fourth edition of the awards ceremony, hosts 22 categories for which fans have the choice to determine the rightful winners. Voting will continue from now till November 25 when the ballots are tallied and later announced during the formal presentation, which will take place later in December.
During said event, Fighters Only will also present a lifetime achievement award, to which UFC Hall of Famer and MMA icon Randy Couture was the proud recipient of last year.
Voting has already begun and the process can be completed by simply visiting WorldMMAAwards.com.
In the mean time, you can now review each of the following finalists in their respective categories (courtesy of MMAJunkie.com):
For all the crap the UFC has gotten for their purchase of Strikeforce back in March, this week’s events have surely helped prove that a small, upstart promotion, though unable to compete with the UFC, can still put on a successful show. On Saturday, the second installment of the Australian Fighting Championships went down. Despite the fact that that the card was full of relatively unknown fighters, it managed to be incredibly entertaining none the less.
The main event featured a couple of familiar faces in Bellator middleweight champion Hector Lombard and TUF 7 finalist Jesse Taylor. Though the fight did not end via Lombard’s typically brutal KO, it saw the Cuban-born Aussie fend off most of “JT Money’s” takedowns in the first round and answer with a brutal onslaught of elbows. The end came shortly into the second round. On a reversal of a Taylor single leg, Lombard secured a heel hook, forcing the TUF alum to tap and halting his five fight win streak. When asked the inevitable question regarding Anderson Silva in his post fight interview, Lombard was rather frank about how the fight would go down. “I wouldn’t be frightened of him,” he stated, “I would go in there to take the head off.” Reports have yet to confirm whether or not Lombard has been spending time at the Frank Mir School of Trash Talk.
But Lombard’s finish was not even the most impressive heel hook of the night, which went to Polish up and comer Marcin Held. Held managed to pull off a spinning inside heel hook on Hawaiian Kaleo Kwan within the opening minute of the fight. Also on the card, former UFC and Pride heavyweight Soa Palelei scored a quick knockout of Son Hai Suk just 28 seconds into the bout. Palelei is perhaps best known for his epic brawl with Eddie Sanches back at UFC 79, which he has gone 4-1 since.
Full results–and a video from the fight–are after the jump.
For all the crap the UFC has gotten for their purchase of Strikeforce back in March, this week’s events have surely helped prove that a small, upstart promotion, though unable to compete with the UFC, can still put on a successful show. On Saturday, the second installment of the Australian Fighting Championships went down. Despite the fact that that the card was full of relatively unknown fighters, it managed to be incredibly entertaining none the less.
The main event featured a couple of familiar faces in Bellator middleweight champion Hector Lombard and TUF 7 finalist Jesse Taylor. Though the fight did not end via Lombard’s typically brutal KO, it saw the Cuban-born Aussie fend off most of “JT Money’s” takedowns in the first round and answer with a brutal onslaught of elbows. The end came shortly into the second round. On a reversal of a Taylor single leg, Lombard secured a heel hook, forcing the TUF alum to tap and halting his five fight win streak. When asked the inevitable question regarding Anderson Silva in his post fight interview, Lombard was rather frank about how the fight would go down. “I wouldn’t be frightened of him,” he stated, “I would go in there to take the head off.” Reports have yet to confirm whether or not Lombard has been spending time at the Frank Mir School of Trash Talk.
But Lombard’s finish was not even the most impressive heel hook of the night, which went to Polish up and comer Marcin Held. Held managed to pull off a spinning inside heel hook on Hawaiian Kaleo Kwan within the opening minute of the fight. Also on the card, former UFC and Pride heavyweight Soa Palelei scored a quick knockout of Son Hai Suk just 28 seconds into the bout. Palelei is perhaps best known for his epic brawl with Eddie Sanches back at UFC 79, which he has gone 4-1 since.
Full Results:
Hector Lombard def. Jesse Taylor via submission (heel hook) rd 2
Dillan Andrews def. Ross Dallow via TKO rd 1
Marcin Held def. Kaleo Kwan via submission (heel hook) rd 1
Soa Palelei def. Son Hai Suk via TKO rd 1
Nick Patterson def. James Fairman via TKO rd 1
Rusty McBride def. Richard Burmann via TKO rd 1
Daniel Hooker def. Yuma Ishizuka via majority decision
Jack Becker def. Ben Hansen via sub rd 1
Troy Williams def. Sam Summers via armbar rd 1
Following his victory over Yushin Okami at UFC 134, UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva has now revealed he fought through a shoulder injury. 
