Shocker! (not really)
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion Anderson Silva has abandoned his unpopular bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, a pipe dream that we can file next to the oft-teased but never realized "super fight" against Roy Jones Jr.
"This Olympic thing has been discarded, Anderson won't participate in the Olympics," Silva's manager, Jorge Guimaraes, told PVT (via MMA Fighting). "He's now waiting for the athletic commission's verdict, which should come soon. We are waiting, we'll see if there's going to be a punishment and how long it will be.