Chris Weidman was supposed to complete his trilogy against Anderson Silva — under boxing rules — as part of the Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua fight card on Dec. 19 in Miami. Instead, the former UFC middleweight champ will watch from the sidelines as “The Spider” boxes late replacement and former UFC 170-pound titleholder Tyron Woodley.
So what happened to Weidman?
“Tore my bicep tendon throwing a left hook,” Weidman said on Instagram. “There goes that tendon. I tried to push through. I tried to give
it some rest. It was 95-percent torn and because there was a bit of tendon left, it was just too painful. I couldn’t get through it. I would have been better off if the thing was completely torn after the inflammation went down from that. It would have been a little bit weaker but I think I would have been able to fight and then get the surgery afterwards.”
Weidman, 41, has a long history of debilitating injuries.
“Unfortunately, every time I would give it rest and try to give it a shot to train again, I would feel good shadow boxing and stuff and then as soon as I would speed up my punches, it was really bad pain and then I couldn’t even hold my arm up for defense anymore,” Weidman continued. “It sucks. It’s crazy how it happened. It looked like nothing. I was sparring some professional boxer and in the first minute, I threw not even a hard left hook and my bicep just popped.”
Weidman has not competed since a technical knockout loss to Eryk Anders at UFC 310 back in late 2024.
