"I went through the worst month of my life. It was a lot of pain the moment when I broke my leg. When I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over so million things gone through my mind."

His leg was broken in the middle of the fight. He plummeted; he clutched the shattered limb and screamed in pain.

It was a couple of consecutive TKO loss for the once dominant UFC middleweight champion we all known as Anderson Silva. At 38 years old, it appeared to the entire world as though Silva's great MMA career was done.

"It's something I don't like to remember too much," Silva said, of his traumatic leg injury.

People have witnessed his fast rehabilitation and recovery period through the past months and now he's all set to battle Nick Diaz (26-9) in a return bout in 2015 at UFC 183.  

However, at the beginning of the rehabilitation, Silva became seriously depressed. "You might think that depression is not something serious, but I was depressed," he revealed.

"I was very upset, and if I didn't have the people that I have by my side, maybe I wouldn't come back."

"The Spider" added on the interview that he was pushed or motivated by the people around him to come back in the industry. "This thing about returning, it's because I feel that I let something go in this whole road, fighting," he said.

"In my last fights, I let something go, and I'm looking for that again. That's what I'm after...After I got injured, I learned to value a few things that I had let go of, some things that I had left behind, and that changed me a lot. I'm more mature, I'm in a different phase [in my life]. So I'm very happy to be able to come back and do this again. I thought I wouldn't be able to fight again, so I'm training even more now."

(Source: Yahoo Sports)