Prior to his UFC 108 main-event contest with Rashad Evans, Brazilian
slugger Thiago Silva was rumored to be suffering from a serious ankle injury.
Silva’s camp adamantly denied those rumors, but today his manager, Alex
Davis, today admitted to MMAjunkie.com Radio that a
real back injury had been the factual basis for the inaccurate rumors.
“The rumor came out that it was an ankle injury,” Davis said. “Actually, it was not an ankle injury; it was a back injury.