A. Silva (left) and V. Belfort (right) won on 'Triller Fight Club'. Photo: SUPER FIGHTS montage
Anderson Silva e Vitor belfort gave shows last Saturday (11) knocking out, respectively, Tito Ortiz and Evander Holyfield in the main fights of Triller Fight Club, a boxing event. The victories, however, will not count towards the professional records of Brazilians in the noble art.
According to information from the North American website MMAFighting and the Florida Athletic Boxing Commission, all fights held at the Triller event were conducted as exhibitions and not professional fights.
“Saturday’s fights were conducted as exhibitions. The victories will not count for the cartels and were not official,” said a Commission representative.
Last Saturday's Triller Fight Club was originally scheduled to take place in California. After Oscar De La Hoya, original opponent of Vitor belfort, contracting Covid, abandoning the card and being replaced by Evander Holyfield, the event changed location as the California Athletic Commission did not approve the participation of the American former world boxing champion, now 58 years old.
As soon as Florida was chosen as the new venue for the event, the Commission approved the fight, adding that it could take place as an exhibition or as a professional fight.
The reasons that led Triller to choose to conduct all of the event's fights as exhibitions are still unknown, but the fact is that, even though they may have gone down in history, the victories of Anderson Silva e Vitor belfort will not be taken into account in their professional records.
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