{"id":374895,"date":"2025-12-29T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374895\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:07:09","slug":"today-in-mma-history-the-silva-leg-break-heard-round-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374895\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in MMA history: The Silva leg break heard &#8217;round the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve years ago Sunday, Anderson Silva threw a kick, and his screams of pain immediately after were heard &#8217;round the world.<\/p>\n<p>Silva suffered arguably the most infamously horrific broken leg in MMA history Dec. 28, 2013, in a middleweight title rematch against champion Chris Weidman, who had beaten him to win the belt earlier in the year. Weidman checked a Silva right leg kick in the second round, and the Brazilian&#8217;s leg snapped in half.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>(In a moment of horrendously cruel MMA irony, Weidman broke his own leg <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2021\/04\/24\/ufc-261-chris-weidman-snaps-leg-throwing-kick-vs-uriah-hall-anderson-silva-injury\/81595739007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in a remarkably similar fashion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in a remarkably similar fashion<\/a> against Uriah Hall in 2021.)<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full gallery below, as well as video highlights from Weidman&#8217;s win at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/28\/ufc-168-anderson-silva-broken-leg-vs-chris-weidman-mma-history-december-28-2013-highlights-video\/87939599007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMA history, Dec. 28, 2013: Silva breaks leg vs. Weidman at UFC 168;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MMA history, Dec. 28, 2013: Silva breaks leg vs. Weidman at UFC 168<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve years ago Sunday, Anderson Silva threw a kick, and his screams of pain immediately after were heard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[3625,49,48,37376,641,638,82,159737],"class_list":["post-374895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-anderson-silva","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-weidman","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-uriah-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}