{"id":1801,"date":"2025-07-18T00:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1801\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T00:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:57:03","slug":"mma-legends-to-collide-in-real-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1801\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA legends to collide in &#8216;real&#8217; boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This September, boxing fans around the world will get to see two mixed martial arts legends exchange gloves when Vitor Belfort battles Wanderlei Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Set for Spaten Fight Night on September 27 from Sao Paulo, Brazil, the two will meet in the main event. According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2025\/7\/17\/24469000\/vitor-belfort-vs-wanderlei-silva-real-boxing-match-rules-weight-class-revealed-september-fight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>, the rules have been set.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: U<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/tickets\/news\/ufc-318-tickets-price-vip-best-seats-holloway-vs-poirier-3-smoothie-king-center\/8937eb7cdaaa571ca6c8327e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FC 318 ticket prices for Holloway vs. Poirier 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They include both fighters wearing 12 ounce gloves with eight rounds scheduled. The rounds will be two minutes each and the fight will be held at 20 5pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Spaten Fight Night used 1,100 drones to officially announce the Vitor Belfort vs. Wanderlei Silva boxing match. \ud83d\udc40 \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>(Via Spaten Brazil) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nXf4TSyA8m\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nXf4TSyA8m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MMA Fighting (@MMAFighting) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAFighting\/status\/1945524161759383689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva rivalry is one of the biggest in the martial arts world,&#8221; Spaten marketing director Cinthia Klumpp said. &#8220;A rematch that has never happened, so we decided to make it real in the second edition of Spaten Fight Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spaten Fight Night hosted Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen in the headline bout of the first event. That exhibition ended with no winner being declared.<\/p>\n<p>The first Belfort vs. Silva match took place all the way back in 1998 at UFC Brazil when Belfort scored a 44-second finish. The two have been scheduled several times to meet again, but the fight has never happened.<\/p>\n<p>MORE COMBAT SPORTS NEWS:<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This September, boxing fans around the world will get to see two mixed martial arts legends exchange gloves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","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=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}