Vitor Belfort vs. Wanderlei Silva boxing match agreed for Spaten Fight Night 2

[Edge Guerrero]

Longtime rivals Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva have agreed to meet inside a boxing ring in the main event of Spaten Fight Night 2, an event expected to take place Sept. 27 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting.

Belfort and Silva met under MMA rules back in October 1998, a clash that ended by knockout in just 44 seconds in Sao Paulo.

“The Phenom” was victorious that night, the final appearance of that UFC stint before joining PRIDE. He would return to the octagon years later to finally claim a UFC belt in 2004. “The Axe Murderer” would join PRIDE a year after that bout, then starting a historic run as company champion between 2000 and 2006, winning 22 of 28 matches.

The Brazilian legends were scheduled to rematch in 2012 after coaching a season of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil, but Belfort was forced off the card in Belo Horizonte with a broken hand. Rich Franklin replaced him to capture a Fight of the Night bonus-winning decision at UFC 147.

Now members of the UFC Hall of Fame nearing 50 years of age, they now collide in a boxing ring, a first for Silva. Belfort was victorious in boxing matches against Evander Holyfield and Ronaldo Souza in 2021 and 2023, while Silva hasn’t fought since a 2018 knockout loss to Quinton Jackson in Bellator.

Spaten Fight Night held its first card in June 2024 in Sao Paulo, when Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen fought to a draw in a lackluster boxing exhibition.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2025/7/15/24468169/vitor-belfort-wanderlei-silva-boxing-agreed-spaten-fight-night-brazil

[Masato]

Longtime rivals Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva have agreed to meet inside a boxing ring in the main event of Spaten Fight Night 2, an event expected to take place Sept. 27 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting.

Belfort and Silva met under MMA rules back in October 1998, a clash that ended by knockout in just 44 seconds in Sao Paulo.

“The Phenom” was victorious that night, the final appearance of that UFC stint before joining PRIDE. He would return to the octagon years later to finally claim a UFC belt in 2004. “The Axe Murderer” would join PRIDE a year after that bout, then starting a historic run as company champion between 2000 and 2006, winning 22 of 28 matches.

The Brazilian legends were scheduled to rematch in 2012 after coaching a season of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil, but Belfort was forced off the card in Belo Horizonte with a broken hand. Rich Franklin replaced him to capture a Fight of the Night bonus-winning decision at UFC 147.

Now members of the UFC Hall of Fame nearing 50 years of age, they now collide in a boxing ring, a first for Silva. Belfort was victorious in boxing matches against Evander Holyfield and Ronaldo Souza in 2021 and 2023, while Silva hasn’t fought since a 2018 knockout loss to Quinton Jackson in Bellator.

Spaten Fight Night held its first card in June 2024 in Sao Paulo, when Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen fought to a draw in a lackluster boxing exhibition.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2025/7/15/24468169/vitor-belfort-wanderlei-silva-boxing-agreed-spaten-fight-night-brazil

LOVE it

Great find Edge.
I will watch

Hope the gloves are small

[Edge Guerrero]

Longtime rivals Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva have agreed to meet inside a boxing ring in the main event of Spaten Fight Night 2, an event expected to take place Sept. 27 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting.

Belfort and Silva met under MMA rules back in October 1998, a clash that ended by knockout in just 44 seconds in Sao Paulo.

“The Phenom” was victorious that night, the final appearance of that UFC stint before joining PRIDE. He would return to the octagon years later to finally claim a UFC belt in 2004. “The Axe Murderer” would join PRIDE a year after that bout, then starting a historic run as company champion between 2000 and 2006, winning 22 of 28 matches.

The Brazilian legends were scheduled to rematch in 2012 after coaching a season of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil, but Belfort was forced off the card in Belo Horizonte with a broken hand. Rich Franklin replaced him to capture a Fight of the Night bonus-winning decision at UFC 147.

Now members of the UFC Hall of Fame nearing 50 years of age, they now collide in a boxing ring, a first for Silva. Belfort was victorious in boxing matches against Evander Holyfield and Ronaldo Souza in 2021 and 2023, while Silva hasn’t fought since a 2018 knockout loss to Quinton Jackson in Bellator.

Spaten Fight Night held its first card in June 2024 in Sao Paulo, when Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen fought to a draw in a lackluster boxing exhibition.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2025/7/15/24468169/vitor-belfort-wanderlei-silva-boxing-agreed-spaten-fight-night-brazil

LOVE it

Great find Edge.
I will watch

Hope the gloves are small

- Watched some training footage. Belfort still moves great. Wand is looking watched and old, like Mark Coleman on thew Couture fight.

[Masato]

Longtime rivals Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva have agreed to meet inside a boxing ring in the main event of Spaten Fight Night 2, an event expected to take place Sept. 27 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting.

Belfort and Silva met under MMA rules back in October 1998, a clash that ended by knockout in just 44 seconds in Sao Paulo.

“The Phenom” was victorious that night, the final appearance of that UFC stint before joining PRIDE. He would return to the octagon years later to finally claim a UFC belt in 2004. “The Axe Murderer” would join PRIDE a year after that bout, then starting a historic run as company champion between 2000 and 2006, winning 22 of 28 matches.

The Brazilian legends were scheduled to rematch in 2012 after coaching a season of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil, but Belfort was forced off the card in Belo Horizonte with a broken hand. Rich Franklin replaced him to capture a Fight of the Night bonus-winning decision at UFC 147.

Now members of the UFC Hall of Fame nearing 50 years of age, they now collide in a boxing ring, a first for Silva. Belfort was victorious in boxing matches against Evander Holyfield and Ronaldo Souza in 2021 and 2023, while Silva hasn’t fought since a 2018 knockout loss to Quinton Jackson in Bellator.

Spaten Fight Night held its first card in June 2024 in Sao Paulo, when Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen fought to a draw in a lackluster boxing exhibition.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2025/7/15/24468169/vitor-belfort-wanderlei-silva-boxing-agreed-spaten-fight-night-brazil

LOVE it

Great find Edge.
I will watch

Hope the gloves are small

- Watched some training footage. Belfort still moves great. Wand is looking watched and old, like Mark Coleman on thew Couture fight.

Wand took way more damage over his career.
Belfort looks to be aging well and should likely defeat him easily but it will still be fun to watch

[Edge Guerrero]

LOVE it

Great find Edge.
I will watch

Hope the gloves are small

- Watched some training footage. Belfort still moves great. Wand is looking watched and old, like Mark Coleman on thew Couture fight.

Wand took way more damage over his career.
Belfort looks to be aging well and should likely defeat him easily but it will still be fun to watch

- Wand will be lucky if Belfort caries him, instead of executing him

[Masato]

- Watched some training footage. Belfort still moves great. Wand is looking watched and old, like Mark Coleman on thew Couture fight.

Wand took way more damage over his career.
Belfort looks to be aging well and should likely defeat him easily but it will still be fun to watch

- Wand will be lucky if Belfort caries him, instead of executing him

Speed kills.
Belfort is likely 5X faster at this point

I'd rather see them in a Vale Tudo match with no gloves

[Edge Guerrero]

Wand took way more damage over his career.
Belfort looks to be aging well and should likely defeat him easily but it will still be fun to watch

- Wand will be lucky if Belfort caries him, instead of executing him

Speed kills.
Belfort is likely 5X faster at this point

I'd rather see them in a Vale Tudo match with no gloves

- I would think Vitor would floor Wand even on Muay Thai.

[Masato]

You're ruining this fight for me before it even starts, lol

[Edge Guerrero]

You're ruining this fight for me before it even starts, lol

- Sorry:D

[Masato]

You're ruining this fight for me before it even starts, lol

- Sorry:D

WAND BY KO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like to cheer for underdogs


I met Belfort once on the beach in Rio. Got to shake his hand
I don't usually get star struck but that was pretty cool. This was around 2001