{"id":334739,"date":"2025-08-11T03:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334739\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:27:12","slug":"vitor-belfort-vs-wanderlei-silva-fight-card-set-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334739\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitor Belfort vs. Wanderlei Silva fight card set in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Spaten Fight Night 2 line-up is now complete with the addition of two high-stake boxing matches and a champion vs. champion collision under MMA rules, the promotion announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The card, headlined by an eight-round boxing showdown between UFC Hall of Famers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2025\/7\/15\/24468169\/vitor-belfort-wanderlei-silva-boxing-agreed-spaten-fight-night-brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva<\/a>, will have two-time Olympic medalist and IBF lightweight world champion Beatriz Ferreira defending her throne against Maira Moneo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ferreira is 7-0 with two knockouts since turning pro in 2022, and Moneo enters the ring carrying a record of 16-2 with three knockouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Olympic gold medalist Hebert Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, who won the Brazilian super middleweight title on the first edition of Spaten FC with a win over Esquiva Falc\u00e3o, defends it for the first against against his brother Yamaguchi Falc\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Falcao brothers have also won Olympic medals in boxing, with Yamaguchi claiming bronze in 2012. The match will be contested in 10 3-minute rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The sole MMA bout of the night will see Shooto Brazil lightweight titleholder Thiago Silva (26-17, 1 no contest) taking on MAC lightweight champion Wanderson Barcellos (7-2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spaten Fight Night 2 line-up is now complete with the addition of two high-stake boxing matches and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,1501,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115008008564462324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}