Anderson Silva won’t fight again until the end of 2013

The biggest hurdle for the mega fight between Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre was thought to be GSP getting past Carlos Condit at UFC 154. 

Well, that may not be the biggest issue any longer.

Now we may have to be concerned more about Anderson Silva than St-Pierre. Reason being is that The Spider is considering taking most of 2013 off and not fighting until the end of the year. In an interview with Tatame, Silva said that not only does he have 12 month vacation plans in mind, but he also has no plans of challenging GSP.

Quotes via sportv.globo.com:

“I am on vacation from fighting I think I will return only in the end of the next year. I have personal projects ongoing. Tomorrow I’m embarking to Los Angeles to attend the arrangements of the academy we’re setting up there. I think this is the time for me to let my life in order. Being always worried and working makes me set my personal life aside. Now I want to work on that aspect.

I will go to Los Angeles and then I will go to Canada for UFC 154. I’m going to stay there to film an action movie that me and Lyoto will participate in [with Steven Seagal]. But it is not my character to step in there and call somebody out. So I think this won’t happen. I fact I don’t just think, I am sure!”

Although he will be in Montreal to watch Condit and St-Pierre’s welterweight title fight, Silva said that it is “not in his character”to enter the cage and challenge an individual after their fight. But why the time off?

Silva says he has a movie to film and is building a new gym. With St-Pierre being out of action for 19 months, it would be hard to believe that he would wait another year for the Silva fight. Furthermore, UFC President Dana White surely won’t want to wait for Silva to take care of his extracurricular oblications before booking quite possibly the biggest fight in the history of the UFC.

Not only that, but Silva isn’t getting any younger at 37 and there’s a possibility that he could shrug off this entire fight and call it a career.

Just as it looked like we were getting closer to a super fight, we may be further away.