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By: Alex Williams, MMATorch Contributor
Anderson Silva will be having surgery on his elbow that might keep him out of the Octagon for the rest of the year, WrestlingObserver.com reports. As the Observer notes, this surgery will preclude Silva from fighting at UFC 105 on November 14 in Manchester, a fight card that does not currently have a main event.
Williams' Analysis: Did Silva elect to have elbow surgery now because he was unhappy with potentially facing Dan Henderson or Nate Marquardt again? Maybe he hopes the UFC will be more amenable to him facing a different opponent after the start of the new year.
While we don't know how long Silva will be out, I wouldn't expect for him to fight anyone for the rest of the year since the December 12 UFC already has headline fights (BJ Penn vs Diego Sanchez and, the UFC hopes, "Rampage" Jackson vs Rashad Evans). I anticipate the earliest we'd see him back would be at UFC 108 on January 2.
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