As gruesome and grizzly as Anderson Silva ’s broken leg looked in his fight with Chris Weidman at UFC 168, as harrowing as the raw footage of the incident was in UFC president Dana White’s recent video blog, the former UFC middleweight champion simply suffered a broken bone that will heal. And White says that the prognosis is that it will heal and Silva could be back in the Octagon by the end of 2014. “What’s crazy about that 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 Monday’s edition of SportsNation on ESPN2 . “So if you blow your ACL out, you’re out for a year and three months.
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UFC President Says Anderson Silva Back Fighting by Year’s End, Non-Committal on Trilogy – MMA Weekly