{"id":171181,"date":"2025-09-26T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171181\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:53:09","slug":"wanderlei-silva-weighs-44-pounds-heavier-than-popo-for-spaten-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171181\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanderlei Silva weighs 44 pounds heavier than \u2018Popo\u2019 for Spaten 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Axe Murderer\u201d tipped the scale at 206.7 against 162.7 for \u201cPopo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Silva, 49, is required to weigh in a second time on Sat. morning and must be under 216 pounds, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/boxing\/405797\/spaten-fight-night-2-weigh-in-results-wanderlei-silva-44-pounds-heavier-than-boxing-opponent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a>. While the former PRIDE FC killer maintains a considerable weight advantage, he remains at a serious disadvantage in terms of skill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/10\/8\/24264817\/ufc-legend-wanderlei-silva-suffering-cte-symptoms-frightening-health-update-depression-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and perhaps durability<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Freitas, 50, is a former two-weight boxing champion who retired at 41-2 with 34 knockouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dWanderlei is a guy I respect a lot outside the ring, but inside the ring, I have no respect for anyone,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/ExBoxing-Champ-Steps-in-to-Face-Wanderlei-Silva-at-Spaten-Fight-Night-2-198317\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freitas said<\/a>. \u201cIf it were in MMA, I wouldn\u2019t last at all, that\u2019s for sure. But just because it\u2019s boxing, he is the one who will not last. After the fight, his name will be changed from \u2018Mad Dog\u2019 to \u2018Dead Dog.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Axe Murderer\u201d tipped the scale at 206.7 against 162.7 for \u201cPopo.\u201d Silva, 49, is required to weigh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-171181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing-news-results","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}