Although many, including his management and UFC president Dana White, have speculated that we might see Anderson Silva return to the Octagon by the end of 2014, that doesn’t appear to be on the docket for “the Spider.” Silva, in an interview with Brazilian website Combate.com , said, “This year is over for me. It may be that I fight in the middle of next year.” That’s a much later timeline than White had been hoping for. “What’s crazy about (Silva’s) injury is he will be walking without crutches in a few weeks, he will be training in less than six months, and he will be fighting by the end of the year,” White said on SportsNation on ESPN2 in late January. Silva has been releasing video snippets of his recovery progress. Those videos have already shown him walking without crutches, and more recently show him doing some light training
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Anderson Silva Says He Wont’ Fight in 2014: “This Year is Over for Me” – MMA Weekly