Extra particulars are rising relating to the wild post-fight brawl that noticed UFC legend Wanderlei Silva knocked out chilly following his struggle towards Acelino Freitas.
Scheduled for an exhibition bout towards the previous WBA and WBO world champion at Spaten Struggle Night time 2 in Brazil, Silva was disqualified within the fourth spherical after repeatedly headbutting ‘Popo’ within the clinch. As soon as the struggle was known as, each groups poured into the ring, engaging in a free-for-all that noticed Silva leap proper into the combination.
After getting hit at the back of the top through the fracas ‘The Axe Assassin’ ate a proper hand from the identical person that despatched him crashing to the canvas unconscious.
Because it seems, the person who KO’d Silva was none aside from Freitas’ son, Rafael.
Silva was rushed to São Luiz Hospital, the place he obtained stitches round his left eye earlier than being discharged.
Freitas launched an announcement, apologizing for the scuffle.
“I didn’t come right here to tarnish anybody’s picture, or to start out a struggle or a disturbance,” Freitas stated. “I got here right here to placed on a present for you, to do my finest. If Wanderlei headbutted me, if he elbowed me, it was between him and me and nobody else. Neither my workforce nor his workforce ought to get entangled. The struggle right here is between him and me.”
Acelino Freitas and Fabricio Werdum play the blame recreation
Freitas in the end blamed Silva’s workforce, which included Wanderlei’s son Thor and former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum, for the incident.
“We tried delivering you an ideal present, and I find yourself beat by his coach out of nowhere,” he stated. “One other man tried to rear-naked choke me, nearly chokes me out.
“I’d prefer to apologize to Ambev and Spaten. However I’m telling you, we had no fault. Cowardly, it was his workforce. And I don’t know why they put Werdum on this occasion. This man solely does s–t in different individuals’s occasions. Werdum, be ashamed. If I have been you, I’d be ashamed. There’s video of you throughout me, making an attempt to hit me.”
After all, Werdum was fast to put the blame on Freitas’ crew, who he says outnumbered them by a big margin.
“[Andre] Dida, Thor and I entered the ring when it was throughout and Wanderlei was disqualified,” Werdum stated. “Lots of people entered from Popo’s facet. I feel it was 20 of them and solely me, Wanderlei, Thor, and Dida. We have been reacting to their assaults. They began screaming and coming at us, and we have been solely 4.”
