Anderson Silva Out Rest of 2009 Due to Upcoming Elbow Surgery
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Sep 5, 2009 at 3:05 pm ET30 Comments
UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva will soon undergo elbow surgery that will sideline him for the rest of the year, according to a Tweet from ESPN’s MMA Live.
Details on the injury have not been released, though it is not believed to have occurred in his August 8 first-round knockout of Forrest Griffin and is suspected to be lingering injury he has finally chosen to repair while he’s taking a break from fighting.
With Silva now sidelined until sometime next year, it makes more sense than ever to have middleweight contenders Nate Marquardt and Dan Henderson fight in the interim.
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for updates on Silva’s surgery and return, as well as the likely matchup between Marquardt and Henderson.
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Hopefully while he is out the UFC can bring in 1 or 2 MWs from outside of the UFC so he has some fresh challengers lined up. Id love to see Santiago or Lawler make it back to the UFC.
Don’t really like Silva but definately as a competitor never like to see athletes go under the knife…I will be the first one to say sorry for the critism…
hendo, franlin, vandy, marq, belfort I think 185 is doing just fine don’t see lawler beating any of them
3 guys he beat and another guy that hasn’t fought in the UFC in years, and has never fought in the UFC at MW? Henderson said he won’t fight anyone at MW (bs imo) except Silva, Franklin is fighting Belfort (Franklin isn’t a MW no mo)! So that leaves Wandy vs Nate?
then what????
Is this his way to force a Nate and Hendo fight? Just a thought.
I think so. Silva’s been pushing for them to fight since the second Marquart KO’ed Maia. I dont think the UFC want to eliminate another contender but Silva’s having too much fun in the other weightclasses to want to return back to the “boring” middleweight division
can’t wait definatly seeing this fight happen now (hendo vs. marquart).
BTW it says upcoming elbow injury so that means his elbow injury will happen lol.
guys coming to challenge anderson like marquart, hendo, wanderlei, vitor.
Nightmare. That’s too funny dude.
nevermind i rea it wrong lol it says upcoming elbow surgery not injury
Well, now I’d officially like to say how excited I am for Nate v. Hendo! It should be an awesome fight!
+1
and to be honest if you think, silva has 3 fights left on his contract and im sure they could set up good fights right now but in HIS mind machida is gonna be champ for awhile and hes not going for that title, he said something about how he wanted to maybe fight mir… dana laughed saying hes not gonna fight at heavyweight. so really middleweight is where hes gonna need some big title fights, and like some ppl have said him taking the time off is hopefully just going to let the middleweight divison build some more opponents for him.
marquart vs hendo for the an interim could be good for the time being as well, so wether he comes back and fights at lh or mw theres would be some title fights going on at middleweight
sure elbow injury….
Maia vs Akiyama
Simpson vs Rosholt
Belcher vs Leben
I love everyone doubting his elbow injury when originally he stated he wanted to retire at the end of the year… it’s a combat sport injuries occur over time from wear and tear too.
Couple of quick thoughts here -
First, if Silva needed to take time off for medical reasons, then there should be no problems. The man has done more than his share for the sport and the UFC, and I wish him a speedy recovery and quick return to action, wherever he chooses to fight again.
Second, why the whole, “Hendo should fight Marquardt” thing out of Ed Soares, when he had to know that his man Silva was going to be on the shelf for the next several months?
If he had said, “they should fight for an Interim title”, that would have made a He11 of a lot more sense as opposed to making it seem like his man was somehow unwilling to face both men.
Bad move on Soares’ part there IMO.
Third, the above article states:
“With Silva now sidelined until sometime next year, it makes more sense than ever to have middleweight contenders Nate Marquardt and Dan Henderson fight in the interim.”
Makes more sense to whom exactly?
If we’re talking about fighting for an Interim title, then thats one thing. But for 2 top contenders who have each been promised a title shot of their own to square off because the champ needs some time in the shop makes no sense to me at all. And apologies, but I’m not sure if that quote is a comment from the UFC or Blackhouse or Ed Soares or if its just Kris’ own opinion.
The UFC would be stupid to waste either Marquardt or Hendo as Silva re-matches, unless, again, its for an Interim belt.
Hendo would be better served taking a fight at 205 rather than facing Marquardt, who honestly has nothing to offer Hendo, a two time, two weightclass former champion.
Sure, the fight would probably benefit Marquardt immensely, but unless some other accommodation is made for Hendo, I’m not sure what he gets out of the deal, seeing as how he’s already been publicly promised a title shot by El Supremo Blanco.
Fourth, and finally, while I have some relatively minor issues with some of the things Silva has said of late, under no curcumstance can I imagine him faking an injury of anything of the sort. If the man says he’s hurt, than he’s hurt as far as I’m concerned, and deserves every courtesy extended to him during his convolescence and re-training period, regardless of whatever weightclass he chooses to return to competition at…
On your second thought… if you read the first post about Silva needing to take time off Soares says “He’s got three fights left on his contract. He wants to work out a little kinks and bruises that he’s got. He wants to take a little break.”
To me that sounds like he knew he was dinged up, in that time hoping they develop a true #1 contender isn’t asking too much IMO.
On the third- I believe this is Kris opinion however, it does make sense because what if say Okami gets destroys Sonnen and is healthy. Then you have 3 guys with a legit claim to the title. If say Hendo refuses to fight Marquardt and then Marquardt and Okami fight… Hendo could get bypassed altogether by whoever won that fight if he doesn’t want to fight at 185 against anyone but Silva then I doubt he gets another shot. By that time others could step up.
fourth…thank you…
Maybe its me, but I just think this whole Anderson SIlva thing could have and should have been handled maybe a little better.
And oh yeah, just because I see things differently I don’t want to be overtly disrespecting Silva or Kris.
Also, I’m not all that happy with Hendo’s reaction towards fighting Marquardt. Rather than him respond with a lukewarm “meh” to the prospect of him fighting Marquardt, I would have much rather him come out aggressive and say, “hey, if its for an Interim title, I’ll punch Marquardt’s ticket as hard as I’ll punch anyone else’s!”…
Some of it has been mishandled, more has been blown out of context IMO.
Definitely note that there is no mention of an Interim title only that it makes sense for these guys to meet “in the Interim.” Don’t want to get ahead of ourselves yet!
Well if Hendo sticks to that then IMO he can wait until Anderson is retired because by the time Anderson comes back(dependent on how long Silva is sidelined) the landscape could change pretty quick. Belfort could(and probably will) come back down, and of course what I said earlier about Okami. It didn’t take long for the heavyweight weight class to change, same could be said of 185.
Jcohl
Was wondering what you meant by “has nothing to offer Hendo”? Did you mean Marquardt has nothing to offer Hendo?
I mean that Hendo IMO doesn’t really gain anything in the MW division by fighting Marquardt, when you consider that he’s already been assured of a title shot by Dana White by beating Michael Bisping. The same can be said of Marquardt, by beating Maia. Why should Nate take on Hendo if there is no title involved?
Regardless of what Ed Soares says or thinks, or Anderson Silva might say or think, from Hendo’s and Marquardt’s prespective, they’ve got title shots coming, as per Dana, and seeing as how neither of them have a belt, then why should they be fighting?
Now I’ll be the first to admit that beating the Count shouldn’t earn you a free pass to a title shot, although beating Maia probably does, but those were Dana’s calls, and Hendo and Marquardt are holding him to his word.
I’m not trying to disrespect Marquardt, or Hendo for that matter, just trying to frame the argument in such a way that makes sense to me. Each man has a title shot coming according to the Boss. If Silva is injured, no worries, because White can solve the problem that HE created by simply making Hendo-Marquardt for the 185 Interim title, and let Silva take off as much time as he needs to get sorted out physically.
Sound good to everyone else?
nope not good enough… just kidding man haha
I just honestly see there being the possibility of having four possible challengers for the 185 title if they do not face each other, that also would make it impossible to fit into the 3 remaining fights on Silva’s contract. Those guys being Belfort, Hendo, Marquardt, and Okami.
So by not facing each other… so just like Tito’s wife’s old job someone has to get screwed…
i think he has 1 thing 2 gain. being true #1 contender.
But that’s completely irrelevant when the Big Guy Upstairs (the one who thinks he’s God, not the real one) as already assured both of it. “True #1″ is just a point of pride, which means nothing when someone else has the belt.
Oh… Nice explanation homie. I thought you were saying that If they fought Nate would have nothing to offer Hendo in the cage. The rest sounds good.
IMO I think Marquardt would take the “W” over Hendo. Dan the man only honestly has the BIG right hand witch he displayed very nicely against Bisping. Nate’s stand-up is a lot better than Bisping and has a lot better wrestling also. Besides I really think Nate would have a better chance against Anderson even though Henderson had the best fight against him to date in the UFC.
Nate having better wrestling is a MASSIVE stretch. He may have a more diversified ground game but better wrestling is hard to say when Hendo is a 2x Olympian in wrestling.
I was referring to Bisping not Hendo. But Nate’s wrestling game ain’t bad.
my mistake I read that wrong! Nate has good wrestling but good and Olympian are two different things. Mir has good wrestling but that didn’t help him against Lesnar.
Again though my mistake!
I made the same mistake you did, bro.
I thought that animosity was saying that Marquardt had better wrestling than Hendo, and I was like, “WTF?!”, but now I get it.
We’re all straight here now animosity!
And yeah, Marquardt’s wrestling sure doesn’t su<k by any means, but, y'know…Olympian and all..not liking Marqaurdt's chances of avoiding too many Greco throws and takedowns if Hendo goes that route.
Also, just to be glass clear, if Hendo and Marqaurdt does go off, I expect a rock 'em sock 'em robots-type fight, with lots of transitions and strikes and good energy throughout.
I think the keys will be caution on the ground for Hendo, to make sure he doesn't get hooked by the former King of Pancrase, and I think cage command is important for Marquardt, so he doesn't get Couture 101'ed for 15 [or maybe 25] minutes and lose an ugly UD and possibly the Interim MW belt…
Also I think Hendo would be ok on the ground the only people to have submitted him have been pretty bad men and no disrespect to Nate but he’s not Anderson or Rogerio. Hendo as long as he smothers you after takedowns or keeps it standing should be able to pull this off. If Marquardt comes in with great takedown defense though, it’ll be a close decision.
Hendo was promised a title shot that is what he should get. It’s what a lot of fans want to see.