Wanderlei Silva Gives Health Update

I am here to talk about my last few days.  I went through a very tense and difficult weekend and had a very hard decision.  Two weeks ago I felt pain in my knee while I was training wrestling.  I had an MRI of my knee and three doctors told me my knee was torn.  I took medicine to help with the pain, and although my knee felt loose, I said "no," this date is very important to me and I continued training.

I tried training more upper body and boxing; I kept losing weight and I was gonna fight no matter what.  Last Friday, during sparring, I injured my rib.  It was very painful and the next day I had an x-ray and an MRI.  I discovered I had three broken ribs.

- Wanderlei Silva gives an update on his health and his reasons for pulling out of his UFC 116 bout with Yoshihiro Akiyama.

Silva also went on to express how badly he wanted to continue with the fight and how difficult it was for him to sit out.  As one of the biggest fan favorites in the sport's history I'm sure everyone wishes Wandy a speedy recovery and we look forward to seeing him in the ring again.