{"id":174717,"date":"2025-09-28T05:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174717\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T05:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:59:10","slug":"ufc-legend-wanderlei-silva-dqd-then-kod-as-brawl-erupts-at-boxing-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174717\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Legend Wanderlei Silva DQ&#8217;d, Then KO&#8217;d As Brawl Erupts At Boxing Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"466\" class=\"entry-thumb webpexpress-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wandy.jpg\"   alt=\"Wanderlei Silva\" title=\"Wandy\"\/>Wanderlei Silva (green trunks) at Spartan Fight Night 2 Credit: ayres_mt\/Twitter(X)<\/p>\n<p>Wanderlei Silva\u2019s highly unnecessary foray into the world of boxing has ended with a circus-like scene, and a nasty looking knockout.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, that knockout came after the fight was over, and appeared to be landed not by a licensed combatant, but by a security guard, or possibly a member of his opponent\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year old Silva, who had reported long-term, debilitating concussion-like symptoms while the UFC\u2019s recently settled anti-trust lawsuit was unfolding, was competing at Spartan Fight Night 2 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There, he was facing renowned Brazlian boxer Acelino Freitas. While Freitas had the experience advantage, Silva was the far larger fighter, though he had not competed since a 2018 loss to Rampage Jackson in MMA.<\/p>\n<p>What unfolded in the ring, as is the case with so many circus-like celebrity and influencer boxing matches, was embarrassing for all involved. Silva, out of his depth, committed foul after foul, leading to \u201cThe Axe Murderer\u201d being disqualified. Those fouls included a head butt in the fourth round, followed by more, and three point deductions before the DQ.<\/p>\n<p>That should have been the end of it. Instead, a brawl erupted, captured by multiple parties filming ring side. With Silva entering into the fray, he eventually was caught unprepared by a punch thrown by a man wearing a suit \u2013 and it was lights out. Members of Silva\u2019s team could be seen dragging the UFC legend back to his corner.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Coe mano o Wand caiu falecido Kkkkkkkkkkkk <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bfaGp6cdIY\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bfaGp6cdIY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matheus A. (@ayres_mt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ayres_mt\/status\/1972143244797792266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">September 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wanderlei Silva had been set to be a GM in the failed Global Fight League, that had been announced as launching in 2025. In 2018 and again in 2022, he attempted to move into politics at home in Brazil, but was not elected after running for Deputy (in the Brazilian federal legislative body).<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wanderlei Silva (green trunks) at Spartan Fight Night 2 Credit: ayres_mt\/Twitter(X) Wanderlei Silva\u2019s highly unnecessary foray into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[1857,703,49,48,639,641,1868,1858,1866,1860,1262,1296,638,1865,1864,1863,1859,1867,82,1861,640,1862],"class_list":["post-174717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bellator","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-fighting","tag-gsp","tag-invicta","tag-jon-jones","tag-lfa","tag-martial-arts","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-one-fc","tag-pfl","tag-rizin","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-sports","tag-titan-fc","tag-ufc","tag-wsof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}