Looks like Anderson Silva won’t try out for next year’s Olympic Games after all.
The former UFC middleweight champion, and 5th dan black belt in taekwondo, announced in April his desire to represent Brazil in taekwondo at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but his manager Jorge Guimaraes told PVT that Silva has changed his plans.
"This Olympic thing has been discarded. Anderson won’t participate in the Olympics," Guimaraes said. "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.