After suffering an injury that many people thought would end his career, Anderson Silva was able to recover in just a matter of weeks. Though still in crutches, the Brazilian southpaw is raring to come back on training and be able to get on the octagon again.

According to Silva's coach Pedro Rizzo, the consensus No. 1 pound-for-pound mixed martial arts fighter doesn't have any plans to retire yet.

"At the hospital, Anderson told me 'I will be back, master. I will be back,'" Rizzo told MMAFighting.com. "I told him 'yeah, you'll be back home to recover and rest'. And he said 'I will be back, master.' He's a fighter. He has six months to recover, heal and then decide what he's going to do next.

"He has everything to come back to fighting if he wants. He has a good head to handle all the pressure from the UFC through all these years. Anderson will decide that. He just broke a leg, he has a lot of things to think now. He has nothing left to prove inside the Octagon. But if he decides to fight again, we will be there to help him."

Rizzo said he never expected Silva to undergo this kind of situation. He even expected the Spider to win against Weidman.

"I was absolutely positive that he would win that fight," he said. "I worked with him since the Vitor Belfort fight and I never saw him in a better shape. We already expected that Weidman could be better in the first round, but Anderson always starts slowly and then gets loose. We'll never know what would have happened, though."

Silva's decision to continue might not sit well with his son, Kalyl who earlier called on his father to retire because he's "tired of watching my father train every day, be gone for two or three months, and a broken leg happens."

Earlier, Silva said that all he wants for now is to be with his family to "recover better."