Anderson Silva bröt som känt sitt ben på ett brutalt sätt via en leg kick i matchen mot Chris Weidman under UFC 168. Han har sedan dess tagit starka smärtstillande, något som han nu väljer att dumpa eftersom han känner att han börjar utveckla ett beroende av medicinen.
För att dämpa smärtan tar han nu istället isbad.
Det här berättar Silva, via ”MMAMania”:
I thought that I was getting used to the pain but I wasn’t. I hope to not experience that anymore. I don’t wish that for anyone. It was terrible. I’m fine now but there were months of much pain. There were a lot of strong antibiotics that I had to take to end the pain. I started to take and the pain disappeared. When I wasn’t feeling pain, I wanted already to take the pills, that was the point that I stop taking them. I wasn’t addicted but I was feeling myself depressed, the medicine was letting me sleep. I decided to stop, to avoid getting addicted. I started to fill my bathtub of ice. The pain came and I got into the ice. Pain? Ice! Then I got better.
Silva möter härnäst Nick Diaz under UFC 183 i Las Vegas den 31 januari, vilket blir hans första match på över ett år.
