CURITIBA, Brazil -- Anderson Silva is out of a UFC 198 middleweight clash with Uriah Hall, and Silva’s doctor Marcio Tannure told MMA Fighting that the former champion is scheduled to undergo surgery Wednesday morning to remove his gall bladder.
Silva was expected to fly from Rio de Janeiro to Curitiba on Tuesday morning, but was rushed to the hospital four hours before his team was supposed to leave.
"He called me and said ‘I’m going to the hospital, but I’ll get better’, so we came to Curitiba," Silva’s coach Luiz Carlos Dorea said.