Anderson Silva har under den senaste tiden återhämtat sig från ett brutet ben, en skada som han drog på sig vid sin senaste match mot mellanviktsmästaren Chris Weidman. Silva är inom kort helt återställt, men ett tag trodde han att karriären var över.
Här kan ni läsa vad Anderson hade att säga om det hela, via gårdagens presskonferens:
I play around because I have to play around. But it’s something I don’t like to remember too much. I went through the worst month of my life. It was a lot of pain the moment when I broke my leg. When I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over. So a million things went through my mind. You might think that depression is not something serious, but I was depressed. I was very upset, and if I didn’t have the people that I have by my side, maybe I wouldn’t come back.
I couldn’t fly, I couldn’t be on the airplane because of the pressure on my leg, and when I got off the bus … my kids were there. Little Joao was there, and the first thing he said was: ‘Daddy, everything is good. We love you.’ That was the most [emotional] moment. I never imagined that I would arrive home with my leg broken and see all my family there in that situation.,
Right after I got injured and I recuperated and I started kicking, I didn’t have a lot of strength. I lost some strength in my leg, which is normal, but now I’m recuperating and I’m working specific work to recuperate my strength in my leg. Everyday that goes by, I’m going back to my origins and being able to kick without any fear, and I believe that I on fight night I will be 100-percent. When in doubt, I’ll kick from the hip up.
After I got injured, I learned to value a few things that I had let go of, some things that I had left behind, and that changed me a lot. I’m more mature, I’m in a different phase [in my life]. So I’m very happy to be able to come back and do this again. I thought I wouldn’t be able to fight again, so I’m training even more now. Every day I’m more enthusiastic about training. My master is holding me back in training, he tells me I don’t have to run every day. Now I want to run every day. I couldn’t run for a whole month, I was just seeing people run, so now I’m running everyday like Forrest Gump.
I lost a lot of things because of my personality, and I’m learning to deal with that and to understand that a lot of things need to change. And I’m very happy to have a lot of people rooting for me. I want to come back and I want to give everyone happiness.
Den 31 januari kommer Silva återigen kliva in i oktagonen då han tar sig an Nick Diaz vid UFC 183, en gala som äger rum i Las Vegas.
