Wanderlei Silva 'going after justice,' | MMA News
MMA legend Wanderlei Silva returned to the ring last weekend in an exhibition bout in Sao Paulo, Brazil against former Brazilian boxing champion Rafael Freitas. The bout did not seem like an exhibition bout, though.
Silva, identified for his aggressive fashion, took the battle to Freitas. On at least three events, Silva head-butted Freitas. In the fourth body, the referee had seen enough and disqualified “The Axe unlawful killinger” for the repeated fouls. What occurred next was bedlam.
Both groups rushed the ring and a melee ensued. In the wild brawl, the previous PRIDE FC champion was viciously knocked unconscious by Freitas’s son. As Silva was laid out on the canvas, the brawl continued around him. His limp physique was dragged by his arms to the nook to shield him from additional injury. Silva suffered a number of accidents due to the assault and plans to sue.
“I had several work to do but I can’t because of my face,” Silva said in a social media post. “I can’t sleep, I’m in a lot of pain, in such discomfort. That can’t stay like that. That was undoubtedly a criminal act, and every criminal act has to be judged by the justice. And I’m going after justice.”
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“I broke my two orbital (bones), I have my nose broken in four places,” Silva continued. “I was assaulted in criminal fashion by ‘Popo’s’ son, who invaded the ring. He invaded the ring hitting me with two punches to the back of the head. Then, he landed the punch that opened a seven-stitch cut around my eye.”
“I’m very upset, I’m really hurt,” he said. “Hurt in the inside, hurt in the outside. Watching that scene, me laying on the ground and people — who weren’t even security because the event had no security — dragging me, right? What a horrible scene, you know?”
In his prime, Silva was one of the most aggressive, violent and intimidating MMA fighters to grace the cage or ring. At 49, those days are distant photos in the rearview mirror.
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