Overview

• Freitas and Werdum met Saturday night in Rio during a UFC event, appearing together in a clip where Cordeiro declared, in Portuguese, that the sport had won.
• Despite the public greeting, both sides still give conflicting accounts of who initiated the ring invasion that triggered the mass fight on September 27.
• Freitas previously said he broke his right hand and announced retirement after the melee, while Wanderlei Silva reported facial fractures and signaled possible legal action over a punch thrown by Freitas’s son.
• Event footage cited in coverage shows Rafael Freitas striking Silva inside the ring, which Werdum’s camp portrays as part of a defensive response to an advance by Popó’s team.
• Spaten’s leadership has not committed to a third edition of the event as it reviews reputational risk, even as former fighters publicly praised the reconciliation video.