Anderson Silva Did NOT Have Elbow Surgery

Contrary to previous reports Anderson Silva's manager is now reporting to Kevin Iole that Silva did NOT have surgery on his elbow:

I spoke to Ed Soares, Silva's manager, and contrary to published reports, Silva has not had surgery on his elbow and is not in any way incapable of fighting in November if he's offered a fight.  Soares said he hasn't spoken to Silva about fighting Couture yet, and stressed that such a fight has never been discussed with the UFC.  But he did say, "Anderson wants to fight the biggest and the best fighters out there and Randy Couture falls into that category.  After Anderson saw the way he fought Rodrigo Nogueira, he said he became an even bigger Randy Couture fan."

Mike Rome from SBNation's BloodyElbow.com adds this:

Another interesting theory is they're holding Anderson out to fight on a rumored "unannounced" card that they supposedly intend to put up against Fedor Emelianenko's Strikeforce debut.  Is it possible that BJ Penn moving to December 12th had nothing to do with the death of a network deal, and that Anderson will main event the extra rumored show?  If Anderson really is healthy it really makes you wonder what is going on. 

Dave Meltzer was floating around the idea of this "unannounced" card the other day but it's hard to see the UFC putting together an entire show and just having all the fighters hold on until Strikeforce announces a date.  In all honesty I wouldn't put it past the UFC to just have people start the rumor to keep Showtime afraid.

Honestly, with Strikeforce's current behavior it is clear that they're scared of anything close to going head to head with the UFC and it's going to kill them in the end.  At some point they have to make a stand and convince people that they're on the same "level" in the MMA world.  Otherwise they'll fade away in a year.