Anderson Silva admittedly doesn’t feel 100 percent yet, even after ten months to recover from a leg broken in his second fight against Chris Weidman, at UFC 168 on December, 2013. “The Spider” updated the media about his healing process while attending a sports medicine convention and explained that his left leg still lacks strength.
“I was very apprehensive when I had the injury, I thought that I wouldn’t fight anymore. Fabiano (Bastos, his physiotherapist) is following my recovering and we can note the deficit of strength that my leg has. I’m doing some stuff that I used to do because I can’t right now. I’m trying to regain this condition at my strength training with master Rogerio Camoes and the physiotherapy. I was very scared about this situation. I had never had an injury.”
According to Anderson, he also has a problem with his hips.
“The injury has been overcome. There still is some blocking about the kind of move that I do when training. We’re working on resolving this issue so I can do everything that I used to do with effectiveness. I’m still unsafe. At my takedown defense training, I use my leg, my knee and my hips. I lost a little of strength and balance at my hips. We’re training to regain this. There is a important strength training and physiotherapy to achieve this. My head need to be fine. I’ll be back.”
If everything goes fine the former UFC Middleweight champion will be back against Nick Diaz at UFC 183, on January 31, 2015.