Anderson Silva will walk to the ring on Saturday at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, to fight YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul in a bout that has curiously turned into a rallying point for MMA fans tired of Paul finishing their heroes.
Silva, one of the greatest fighters in UFC history, wasn’t willing to give up his career when he parted ways with the UFC a few days after a loss to Uriah Hall on Oct. 31, 2020. It was his third loss in a row, his fifth in his last six bouts and it had been more than 23 years since his MMA debut.
But for a while, Silva worried he wouldn’t have Robledo Jr. in his corner for the Paul fight. On Dec. 5, 2021, Robledo was hospitalized with COVID-19. In early January 2022, he lapsed into a coma and was kept alive with a respirator. “I wouldn’t say that I was in denial, but I wasn’t thinking of the date and that my Mom had passed on that date,” Robledo III said. “I had no time to dwell on the date. My brothers and sisters, and everybody around the family, they all took it very hard. But I was just so focused on my Dad and getting him better.
“I said, ‘I’m not OK with it, but there is nothing I can do.’ I said, ‘If God wants me, I’m ready to go.’ And then I went into the coma, but I don’t really remember that.” At that point, Robledo awakened and was out of the coma. It was March 15, 2022, and he had been comatose for more than two months. His birthday was March 21, 2022, and the family celebrated it in the hospital, though Robledo Jr. doesn’t remember.He began to recover from the symptoms of COVID that had nearly killed him, but he faced another problem: He couldn’t walk. He’d been in a hospital bed since early December. It was now April 2022.
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