{"id":183274,"date":"2025-10-01T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183274\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:52:08","slug":"wanderlei-silva-draws-disciplinary-suspension-for-popo-freitas-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183274\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanderlei Silva draws disciplinary suspension for Popo Freitas brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wanderlei Silva was suspended for 180 days for his role in the Spaten Fight Night 2<\/a> brawl last weekend in Brazil. \u201cThe Axe Murderer\u201d got disqualified during his boxing match against Popo Freitas, which led to both corners storming the ring and throwing hands, with Silva getting knocked unconscious<\/a> (watch the replay here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In addition, Brazilian National Boxing Council (CNB) also handed down suspensions to Freitas (180 days), coach Andre Dida (365 days), and cornermen Luis Claudio Freitas and Iago Gutierrez Freitas (180 days). Rafael Freitas, Thor Silva, and Fabricio Werdum were not licensed for the event and therefore escaped CNB sanctions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I realized it, that widespread confusion began, it was started by the Wanderlei team, his son, coach Andre Dida, and Werdum,\u201d Freitas told Globo<\/a>. \u201cWhen I saw them all assaulting my father and my brothers, I went into self defense. In the heat of that moment, I just thought about defending myself and defending my family. I want to apologize to Wanderlei and his whole family for everything he\u2019s done for his sport as well. And to say it wasn\u2019t my intention.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspensions cover any participation in boxing and may not extend to the mixed martial arts (MMA) commissions sanctioning cage fighting events in Brazil; however, regulatory bodies typically practice reciprocity when it comes to suspended fighters, which may affect coach Dida more than anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wanderlei Silva was suspended for 180 days for his role in the Spaten Fight Night 2 brawl last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,43957,40762,85],"class_list":["post-183274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183274","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=183274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}