Wand (photo) has become the UFC’s “number one enemy” since his retirement. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC
Considered a living legend of world MMA, Wanderlei Silva is still responding to a UFC defamation lawsuit after accusing the world's leading fight organization of forging the results of its fights. And the Brazilian cited a controversial episode involving a compatriot to point out Ultimate's “lack of credibility”.
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In July of this year, Wanderlei made a controversial post on his Facebook page, stating that the UFC combines the results of its fights and that he could prove it. Shortly afterwards, the North American company took legal action against the Brazilian.
Wand's lawyers appealed and cited an old case involving Vitor belfort in defense. Recently, the North American website “Deadspin” revealed documents showing that the “Phenomenon” fought at UFC 152, in 2012, despite having failed an anti-doping test weeks before, with excess free testosterone.
“Silva’s declarations of armed fights were motivated by the now public evidence that the UFC allowed fighters who failed drug tests to compete, in addition to forcing fighters to compete when they felt injured. As was recently revealed on September 21st, in 2012 the UFC knew that Vitor belfort he had significantly high levels of testosterone and they allowed him to fight anyway”, says the Brazilian’s defense.
At 39 years old, Wanderlei finds himself in a kind of “limbo”, as he still has a contract with the UFC, but is not in a position to fight. This is because the Paraná native was banned for life by the Nevada Athletic Commission for refusing to take a surprise anti-doping test before the fight he would have against Chael Sonnen. Since then, Wand has been waging a real war with the UFC.
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