Wanderlei Silva is reportedly conscious and only went to hospital out of caution after he was brutally knocked out in a bizarre post-fight brawl last night.<\/p>\n
UFC Hall of Famer Silva was left unconscious in the middle of the ring<\/a> as chaos broke out around him at last night\u2019s Spaten Fight Night. He had just been disqualified from an exhibition bout with former boxing<\/a> champion Acelino \u2018Popo\u2019 Freitas when carnage ensued.<\/p>\n Silva was punched by a member of the Freitas corner wearing a tuxedo, and was unconscious for a decent length of time before being attended to by officials. He then went to a Sao Paulo hospital where he is recovering well.<\/p>\n Wanderlei Silva\u2019s manager gives positive update from hospital after KO in brawl<\/p>\n Wanderlei Silva<\/a> was quickly rushed to hospital after being knocked out in a post-fight brawl at Spaten Fight Night on Saturday. According to a report from Combate<\/a>, the UFC legend was taken to S\u00e3o Luiz Hospital in the South of S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n His management have also claimed that the measure was just \u2018a precaution\u2019 after they were able to walk him out of the ring and get him on to a stretcher and into an ambulance. The same Combate report, translated by Bloody Elbow, quotes an unnamed manager as saying Silva is already conscious.<\/p>\n Reporter Wesley Felix caught video from ringside that showed Silva being walked out of the ring covered by a towel doused in blood. He reports that \u201cit took at least three cloths to clean the canvas\u201d following the incident.<\/p>\n Felix also reports that tensions did not cool much once Silva was taken care of, and that there were further arguments backstage.<\/p>\n Wanderlei Silva was disqualified from Spaten Fight Night exhibition in bizarre circumstances<\/p>\n Former PRIDE champion Silva returned against former two-time world boxing champion Acelino Freitas (41-2) in an exhibition at Spaten Fight Night 2. The silliness began at their pre-fight weigh-in, when \u2018The Axe Murderer\u2019 outweighed his opponent by 44lbs, but it didn\u2019t help him much in the ring.<\/p>\n \u2018Popo\u2019 is a far more accomplished boxer than Silva and was able to frustrate him throughout the contest into throwing illegal shots including kicks and headbutts. And eventually the former MMA star was disqualified, leading to a mass brawl in the ring.<\/p>\n Silva was deducted two points for throwing repeated headbutts before ultimately being disqualified. The referee had seen enough and waved things off at 1:34 of round four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wanderlei Silva is reportedly conscious and only went to hospital out of caution after he was brutally knocked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,74976,74977,101,56,54,55,74978],"class_list":{"0":"post-165648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-fabricio-werdum","10":"tag-spaten-fight-night","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-wanderlei-silva"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}