Anderson Silva Wants His Return Fight To Be In Brazil
Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva is already looking ahead to his return to fighting and according to one UFC official, Silva wants his return fight to be in Brazil.
“There’s nothing set,” Giovani Decker, general manager of the UFC’s Brazil office, said at the post-event press conference for UFC Fight Night 77. “I think it’s another wish of Anderson’s to fight in Brazil; I think every fighter has that wish.”
“We’ve been able to change the way that the fighters are dealing with Brazil,” he said. “There’s great synergy here with the fighters. I think it’s a desire that (Silva) has got, more than anything is defined and anything is set.”
Silva has not fought since January as NSAC executive director Bob Bennett confirmed to ESPN.com just a few week’s after his fight with Nick Diaz at UFC 183 that Silva failed his post-fight urine test and that Silva had tested positive for the steroid Drostanolone.
The commission suspended him for one year retroactive to the date of the fight, as the current guidelines were not in effect at the time of the failed tests.
It should be noted that Silva stated in an interview in September that he was thinking about fighting in April of 2016.
“I think I fight in April, next year. I think I fight April –– in Brazil, in my city Curitiba, on the same card [as] Werdum.”
Ironically, the UFC announced that UFC 197 would be taking place in Brazil on March 5, so this could be when Silva will be returning the sport that he once dominated.
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