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\nEx-UFC champ Glover Teixeira will lace up the boxing gloves on
\nAug. 29. | Getty\/UFC<\/p>\n
Spaten Fight Night is once again bringing the star power for its
\nthird event.<\/p>\n
After having Chael Sonnen<\/a> The first edition was heavily criticized for the excessive respect Judo, Jiu-Jitsu and Boxing The event will once again be broadcast live by Brazil’s largest TV
\nvs, Anderson
\nSilva<\/a> in the organization\u2019s debut and Wanderlei
\nSilva<\/a> vs. Acelino Popo Freitas in its sophomore edition, Spaten
\nFight Night 3 will be headlined by a boxing match between former
\n
\nUFC<\/a> light heavyweight champions Glover
\nTeixeira<\/a> and Mauricio
\nRua<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nbetween Sonnen and \u201cThe Spider,\u201d which resulted in a fight lacking
\nboth action and emotion. The second event made headlines for the
\nopposite reason due to the excessive animosity between Wanderlei
\nand Popo, which ended with the former Pride Fighting Championships
\nstandout
\nbeing knocked out in a post-fight melee<\/a>. In this third edition,
\nthe promoters took care to invite two champions who, while being
\nextremely competitive, have a deep respect for each other’s
\ncareers. The confrontation will be under boxing rules with eight
\nrounds of two minutes.<\/p>\n
\n
\nThe big news of this third edition is the addition of super fights
\nin two modalities that are extremely popular in Brazil: jiu-jitsu
\nand judo, an Olympic sport where Brazil has a strong tradition and
\na huge fan base. The first two fights announced were duels between
\nBrazilian Olympic champions Bia Sousa and Rafaela
\nSilva<\/a>, who will face international arch-rivals Prisca Awiti and
\nRaz Hershko, respectively. The jiu-jitsu duel will be between
\nrivals and multi-time world champions Felipe Pregui\u00e7a and Nicholas
\nMeregali.<\/p>\n
\nnetwork, Rede Globo, on Aug. 29th, live throughout Brazil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-UFC champ Glover Teixeira will lace up the boxing gloves on Aug. 29. | Getty\/UFC Spaten Fight Night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[1331,703,49,48,44,82],"class_list":["post-698052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-article","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698052","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=698052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}