{"id":180913,"date":"2025-09-30T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180913\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:01:06","slug":"wanderlei-silva-acelino-freitas-hit-with-lengthy-suspensions-for-post-fight-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180913\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanderlei Silva, Acelino Freitas hit with lengthy suspensions for post-fight brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Brazilian National Boxing Council has handed Wanderlei Silva, Acelino Freitas, and their cornermen lengthy suspensions after the brawl that unfolded immediately after the main event of Spaten Fight Night 2 this past Saturday in Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Members from both teams entered the ring after former PRIDE champion Silva was disqualified for numerous fouls against the experienced boxer, which led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/boxing\/406046\/video-wanderlei-silva-knocked-out-cold-in-post-match-brawl-spaten-fight-night-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a brutal knockout suffered by Silva<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">CNB informed MMA Fighting that both Silva and Freitas were given 180-day suspensions and are banned from any event sanctioned by CNB. The entity said they will also inform other commissions of the suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Acelino\u2019s son Rafael Freitas, the man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/boxing\/406258\/wanderlei-silva-attacker-break-silence-on-post-match-brawl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knocked Silva unconscious<\/a>, was not suspended since he was not a cornerman, therefore he can\u2019t be sanctioned by the commission. CNB said, however, that they will recommend his ban for indefinite time from boxing events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Andre Dida, Silva\u2019s longtime coach, was hit with a 365-day suspension. Dida landed at least two clean punches to Freitas\u2019 face during the brawl. It remains to be seen if MMA commissions in Brazil will also follow the CNB suspension and ban Dida for that period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum, who was in Silva\u2019s corner and threw punches in the brawl, was not sanctioned by CNB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Luis Claudio Freitas and Iago Gutierrez Freitas, members of Acelino\u2019s team, were also hit with 180-day bans, while Lucas Pontes da Silva received a 90-day suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brazilian National Boxing Council has handed Wanderlei Silva, Acelino Freitas, and their cornermen lengthy suspensions after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[703,711,49,48,641,701,638,82],"class_list":["post-180913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180913","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=180913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}