On Saturday at UFC 168 Anderson Silva challenged the new middleweight champion Chris Weidman to rematch after losing his title. During the fight the Brazilian legend broke his leg while attempting a low kick at Weidman breaking his leg after Weidman Checked it. Silva is one of my favorite fighters and its very disheartening to see him gain an injury like this. Do not get the wrong idea. Broken bones are expected when playing this combat sport and becoming a martial artist. I just think that it was unfortunate that his leg broke due to some bad incident rather than in an actual fight which would be acceptable. When i saw the fight his whole shin just collapsed under his skin. I was surprised!!!! I didnt expect the great Silva to fall like that. When i saw the replay i think his leg broke from the force of the kick before it even made contact with Weidman's shin although that is speculation so i would not go with that theory. Silva was taken in for surgery by the UFC Surgeons and will be taken care of. Most likely he's gonna be out for months before getting in the octagon again. Silva will probably go through some type of physical theraspy. I hope he'll be coming back and this injury will not have a lasting effect on my favorite fighter.
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