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Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva fight results: Live boxing updates, scorecard, start time, undercard, Showtime PP

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Jake Paul is set for the stiffest test of his young boxing career when he faces Anderson Silva on Saturday night. The social media star and the UFC legend meet in the main event of a Showtime pay-per-view event from Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona.

Paul is 5-0 as a professional boxer and three of his previous wins have come over UFC veterans, knocking out Ben Askren and then beating former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley by decision and knockout in the rematch. Neither Askren nor Woodley have the striking pedigree of Silva, however, who is known as one of the best strikers in UFC history. Silva also holds a 3-1 boxing record, which includes a notable win over former middleweight world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Also of note on the card, former NFL running back Le’Veon Bell will face former UFC star Uriah Hall and social media personality Dr. Mike Varshavski will battle boxer and UFC veteran Chris Avila.

CBS Sports will be with you throughout the entire way on Saturday, so be sure to follow along with the live results and highlights below. 

Fight card, results

  • Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva, cruiserweights (eight rounds)
  • Ashton Sylve def. Braulio Rodriguez via first-round TKO
  • Alexandro Santiago def. Antonio Nieves via seventh-round TKO
  • Uriah Hall def. Le’Veon Bell via unanimous decision (40-36, 40-36, 40-36)
  • Chris Avila def. Dr. Mike Varshavski via unanimous decision (40-36, 40-36, 40-36)

Paul vs. Silva scorecard, live coverage

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Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva: YouTube superstar squares off against MMA legend in boxing match

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Jake Paul and Anderson Silva will be the main event in a catchweight boxing match Saturday night at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona.

The YouTube superstar, who is undefeated in the ring since he decided to get into the sport, will go toe-to-toe against one of the top mixed martial arts stars in the world. It’s a matchup months in the making as Paul was set to fight Tommy Fury before a visa issue prompted the British boxer to back out.

Unlike the previous fights Paul has been involved in, most of the trash talk has been toned down in this one due to their mutual respect. Paul and Silva recreated a photo with Jake’s brother, Logan, in September. The two brothers had taken a photo with the former UFC star when they were younger and followed up with a friendly photo at their joint press conference.

Jake Paul speaks during a press conference at Gila River Arena Sept. 13, 2022, in Glendale, Arizona.
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“I respect the kids because the kids are doing something very special. That’s the problem for a lot of people. When you don’t do nothing, you try to attack people when people are doing something. And the kids do a lot. And why don’t you say congratulations for both,” Silva explained in an interview with Fox News Digital in September.

“And the kids are working a lot and trying to take the respect for the boxing community. That’s why I’m working hard, to prove my respect for boxing more. I think the kids are doing the same, and people need to respect that because the kids are doing a hard job.”

Paul explained to Fox News Digital in September that Silva was his idol growing up.

“All of it man,” Paul said of what intrigued him about the match. “The fact that he was my idol growing up, and he was the first celebrity I ever met. Now, I get to share the ring with him. That, first and foremost, is super cool. And the fact that people didn’t think I was going to take this fight, I think, motivates me and creates a real challenge, and I love to prove people wrong. And that’s what I’m going to do Oct. 29.”

Silva steps into the ring as a master in Muay Thai, jiu-jitsu and Taekwondo. He was 34-11 in MMA fights and is 3-1 in boxing matches. He last fought in a boxing match in September 2021 against Tito Ortiz. He won via first-round knockout.

Anderson SIlva speaks during a press conference at Gila River Arena Sept 13, 2022 in Glendale, Ariz.
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Paul’s fame has skyrocketed since he put on the gloves. He beat AnEsonGib in his first match in January 2020 via knockout and has since beaten Nate Robinson, Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley twice.

Paul said he expected a raucous atmosphere.

“Crazy show. Electric energy in the stadium. Sold-out arena. Iconic moments, fans chanting, throwing s—, fighting in the crowd,” Paul said. “It’s gonna be a movie. It’s gonna be a movie, and I will knock him out. Respectfully.”

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The two also have a side bet going that they agreed to days before the fight.

Paul, 25, said if Silva, 47, wins he would do a rematch in a kickboxing bout. If Paul wins, he said Silva must help him start an association for UFC fighters, according to ESPN. Silva said he would agree if it included all mixed martial artists. The two then agreed.

Their eight-round fight is set for Saturday night at 9 p.m. ET.

Jake Paul, left, and Anderson SIlva face off during a press conference at Gila River Arena Sept. 13, 2022, in Glendale, Ariz.
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Here’s the rest of the card

Uriah Hall vs. Le’Veon Bell

Ashton Sylve vs. Braulio Rodriguez

Chris Avila vs. Doctor Mike

Danny Barrios vs. Edgar Ortiz Jr.

Adrian Rodriguez vs. Dominique Griffin.

Ryan Gaydos is the sports editor for Fox News Digital.

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Brazil election: ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins vote but not outright victory | Brazil

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Brazil’s acrimonious presidential race will go to a second round after the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva failed to secure the overall majority he needed to avoid a run-off with the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

With 98.1% of votes counted the leftist veteran had secured 48.04% of the vote, not enough to avoid the 30 October show down with his right-wing rival. Bolsonaro, who significantly out-performed pollsters’s predictions and will be buoyed by the result, received 43.54%.

Speaking on the eve of the election Lula said he was hopeful of a first round win but would redouble his efforts to reclaim power if a second round was needed.

“I feel great hope that this election will be decided tomorrow, but if it isn’t we’ll have to behave like a football team when a match goes to extra time. We’ll rest for 15 minutes and then we’ll get back out onto the pitch to score the goals we didn’t score in normal time,” he told reporters.

Gleisi Hoffmann, the president of Lula’s Workers’ party, told reporters the campaign was neither “sad or downcast” at the result and pointed to Lula’s more than 56 million votes.

“Congratulations president Lula for your victory,” she declared.

But the election result was a major blow to progresssive Brazilians who had been rooting for an emphatic victory over Bolsonaro, a former army captain who has repeatedly attacked the country’s democratic institutions and vandalized Brazil’s international reputation.

Bolsonaro is also accused of wreaking havoc on the environment and catastrophically mishandling a Covid epidemic that killed nearly 700,000 Brazilians, by undermining vaccination and containment efforts and peddling quack cures.

As she cast her vote for Lula on Sunday morning in São Paulo, restaurant host Gabriela Leoncio said of Bolsonaro’s administration: “It’s been a joke-slash-tragedy.”

Despite that, Bolsonaro confounded the forecasts of pollsters in several key states, including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Prominent Bolsonaristas were elected to Brazil’s congress and as state governors, including Bolsonaro’s former health minister, Eduardo Pazzuelo, who became a congressman for Rio, and his former environment minister Ricardo Salles.

Rio’s Bolsonaro-supporting governor Cláudio Castro was re-elected while one of Bolsonaro’s most controversial former ministers, the evangelical preacher Damares Alves, claimed a place in the senate.

Tarcísio de Freitas, Bolsonaro’s candidate for the governorship of São Paulo, also performed better than pollsters predicted and will face Lula ally Fernando Haddad in a second round.

“The far-right will be thrilled,” said the political scientist Christian Lynch.

Thiago Amparo, an academic and columnist for the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, said the right’s stronger-than-forecast showing showed Bolsonaro and Bolsonarismo were “alive and kicking”.

“There was a feeling among the left that Lula had a chance to win in the first round … the results show that it was wishful thinking to imagine the election would serve as a way to punish Bolsonaro for his disastrous policies during the pandemic.”

“I feel exhausted,” Amparo added. “But the results show we do not have the time to rest now. It is time to go out onto the streets… otherwise we are going to have a very dark future again.”

“I think Bolsonaro has the momentum,” said Thomas Traumann, a Rio de Janeiro-based political observer, although he believed Lula was still the favourite. “It’s a very disappointing night for the left.”

There was defiance from Lula and his allies as the right-wing successes and the need for a second round became clear.

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Henry Silva, Hollywood tough guy, dead at 95

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Actor Henry Silva, known for playing gangsters, goons and henchmen in hundreds of films including “Ocean’s Eleven” and “The Manchurian Candidate,” died Wednesday. He was 95.

Silva died of natural causes in Woodland Hills, California twenty years after retiring from an epic career that spanned five decades, his son told Variety Friday.

The prolific actor often shared the screen with Frank Sinatra, playing a Communist agent who fought with the singer in ‘Candidate’ and one of the 11 crooks in the classic 1960 casino heist film.

The Spanish Harlem native’s death was reportedly first announced by the daughter of Dean Martin, who appeared alongside him in the iconic Rat Pack caper.

“Our hearts are broken at the loss of our dear friend Henry Silva, one of the nicest, kindest and most talented men I’ve had the pleasure of calling my friend,” Deana Martin tweeted Friday afternoon.

“He was the last surviving star of the original Ocean’s 11 Movie. We love you Henry, you will be missed.”

Actors Edd Byrnes, Henry Silva and Raf Vallone on set of the movie “The Secret Invasion” in 1964.
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Henry Silva played one of the 11 thieves in the 1960 film “Ocean’s Eleven.”
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Silva got his start as a heavy in Westerns like “The Tall T” and “The Law and Jake Wade” before starring as the titular characters in 1963’s “Johnny Cool” and 1965’s “The Return of Mr. Moto.”

Later in his career, Silva appeared in pictures like “Sharky’s Machine,” “Above the Law,” “Dick Tracy” and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.” He made a final brief screen appearance in the 2001 “Ocean’s Eleven” remake.

Henry Silva appeared in “Dick Tracy” toward the end of his career.
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Actor Henry Silva on set of the movie “The Secret Invasion” in 1964.
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Silva was of Italian and Puerto Rican descent but was often tapped to portray other ethnicities, playing Korean, Venezuelan, Native American and Japanese men in some of his best known roles.

Silva reportedly dropped out of school at the age of 13 and took drama classes while earning money as a dishwasher and waiter. He was one of five students selected to the Actors Studio in 1955 out of 2,500 applicants, Variety reported, citing the 2000 book “Hispanics in Hollywood.”

Henry Silva shared the screen with Chuck Norris in “Code of Silence.”
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In 1985, Silva reportedly told Knight-Ridder journalist Diane Haithman that his Manhattan upbringing informed his trademark tough guy persona.

“I saw a lot of things in Harlem. It was the kind of place where if you lived on one block and you wanted to go a few blocks away, you had to take a couple of guys with you, or else you would get your ass kicked,” he said at the time, according to Variety.

“I think the reason that I haven’t disappeared is that the heavies I play are all leaders. I never play a wishy-washy anything. They’re interesting roles, because when you leave the theater, you remember these kinds of guys.”

The thrice-divorced late actor was reportedly survived by his two sons, Michael and Scott.



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Thiago Silva And Kai Havertz Start, Christian Pulisic On Bench

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Chelsea face Club America in their first pre-season outing and the confirmed team news is in from the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

Club America are already underway in their 2022/23 season, having played three games – W1, D1, L1 – while Chelsea are just beginning their preparations ahead of their Premier League opener in three weeks time against Everton.

Thomas Tuchel is expecting an intense battle against the Liga MX side, admitting in his pre-match press conference: “I don’t have a full overview of the Mexican league to be very honest, but of course now we analyse this opponent.

“At this moment in pre-season it’s also the moment to focus on us and give our players and our situation the full support and the full focus.

“Club America’s league is playing already so they are in a different physical situation than us and normally they’re a very physical, very aggressive team. Let’s see with big names and big personalities how this will work out but we expect an intense match.”

Here is the confirmed team news from Las Vegas as Chelsea take Club America.

Chelsea

Starting XI: Kepa, Chalobah, Silva, Sarr, Hudson-Odoi, Barkley, Gallagher, Chilwell, Ziyech, Havertz, Kenedy

Bench: Bettinelli, Alonso, Ampadu, Azpilicueta, James, Mount, Pulisic, Batshuayi, Werner

Club America

Starting XI: Ochoa, Sanchez, Valdez, Caceres, Reyes, Aquino, Dos Santos, Damm, Fidalgo, Layun, Martin

Bench: Jimenez, Sanchez, S. Martinez, Araujo, Campos, Fuentes, R. Martinez, Moreno, Lara, Valdes, Zendejas, Rodriguez

Thiago Silva captains Chelsea at the back, and is joined alongside Malang Sarr and Trevoh Chalobah.

Kepa Arrizabalaga begins in goal, while Marcus Bettinelli is on the bench.

Kai Havertz and Hakim Ziyech are in attack with Kenedy. Conor Gallagher, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Ross Barkley all also get the nod, as does Ben Chilwell.

Christian Pulisic starts on the bench. It’s a strong substitutes bench for Tuchel, with Mason Mount, Reece James and Timo Werner all named.

Billy Gilmour, Harvey Vale, Tino Anjorin and Edouard Mendy are four not involved in the matchday squad, as well as Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly and Armando Broja. Mateo Kovacic and Levi Colwill also miss out.



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Silva leads Manchester City’s charge towards last eight in rout of Sporting | Champions League

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This Manchester City demolition of Sporting was akin to a heavyweight bullying a featherweight. A fair question was to wonder how these opponents shared the same pitch, so dominant were England’s champions.

At the break Pep Guardiola’s men were four goals up, by the final whistle it was 5-0, and at the close of the tie they may go close to Bayern Munich’s 12-1 evisceration of Sporting at the same stage in 2008-09.

That was the Portuguese club’s only previous last-16 experience and this lack of knowhow was written all over how City toyed with them and landed killer blows at will. A prime factor is, of course, the riches the side fuelled by Abu Dhabi’s petro‑dollars enjoy: that should allow them to beat a significantly lower‑budget operation such as Sporting but so immaculately are they drilled by their manager, who might stop the City juggernaut finally claiming the Champions League this term is a puzzle.

At kick-off the Estádio José Alvalade glittered from phone torches that lit up the Lisbon night and what followed was a perfect City start. Aymeric Laporte found the excellent Bernardo Silva and when Phil Foden’s shot was subsequently saved, Kevin De Bruyne passed to Riyad Mahrez and the Algerian scored. City seemed to think De Bruyne was offside but VAR ruled Gonçalo Inácio played the Belgian on, and thus Mahrez had a 10th goal in his past 11 Champions League appearances.

Sporting and their support were stunned. The Portuguese champions’ last outing, a 2-2 draw with Porto on Friday, ended in a mass brawl and three of their men sent off. In Rúben Amorim they have a 37-year-old manager who cost the club €10m to prise from Braga and whose repayment was a cup-and-championship double, the latter a first title in 19 years.

Amorim now, somehow, had to rally his men but instead City struck again. This time a Mahrez corner was weakly cleared and Silva pounced, rifling a superb half-volley past Antonio Adán for a 2-0 lead 17 minutes in.

Guardiola’s XI featured four old boys of Sporting’s crosstown rivals Benfica – João Cancelo, Rúben Dias, Silva and Ederson were booed initially whenever they took a touch, the home support switched focus to their own team. For a while, Sporting showed in flashes. A Ricardo Esgaio raid along the left had City back-pedalling. Then, Pablo Sarabia looked to do the same but the No 17 ran infield and John Stones, who ended the threat. In-between, Pedro Gonçalves, the scorer of four goals in the group stage, let fly twice.

Riyad Mahrez (left) scores Manchester City’s opening goal against Sporting. Photograph: Michael Zemanek/Shutterstock

Guardiola, on the prowl in the technical area, was conscious of Sporting’s threat – a volley he gave Dias for not passing diagonally indicative of his concern. The Catalan was about to applaud his team, though. At first Dias, Rodri, and Stones played keep-ball in their half. But, suddenly, De Bruyne was marauding towards goal, feeding Mahrez who pirouetted and crossed for Foden to finish – Sebastián Coates, the nearest defender, making it too simple for the forward.

Three-nil up so soon pointed to the serious mismatch occurring. City were illustrating precisely why they are the competition favourites and Sporting were showing how Ajax put five past them here in September. The rest of the period had City in a quasi-exhibition mode. Passes were interchanged, positions shifted, differing zones occupied. And, then, a fourth was secured: this time Silva’s strike was from close range, Raheem Sterling teeing him up.

City’s travelling contingent ended the first half regaling their team. The second half, now, seemed a matter of how many more they might register.

Sporting fans, to their credit, kept singing and would do so until the end.

The way Cancelo, De Bruyne and Rodri harried their men showed City were targeting the jugular still. On the touchline, Guardiola next threw up his hands in dismay at an errant Dias chip forward, then had a prolonged chat with the fourth official, his gestures suggesting unhappiness with the refereeing of Srdjan Jovanovic.

More pleasing for the 51-year-old was how a rare Sporting attack was broken up and City, in their slick fashion, moved upfield via Rodri, De Bruyne and Cancelo. And, even better was the team’s fifth finish. Here, Sterling was ruthless, the No 7’s long-range effort sailing into the top corner and moving him to 10th on the club’s all-time list of scorers.

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This had entered embarrassing territory for Sporting. Portugal’s domestic champions were being made to appear a part-time outfit. There were no more goals – but only because City were content with their night’s work.

Guardiola found fault with the “loss of balls” as he is a perfectionist. But, he did also call it, correctly, the “dream result”. Silva, the clear man-of-the-match, said: “It was nice to start the last 16 with a 5-0 win. There is still a job to do in Manchester. We cannot relax.” They most certainly can.

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Anderson Silva vs. Tito Ortiz full fight video highlights

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Watch Anderson Silva vs. Tito Ortiz full fight video highlights from their clash above, courtesy of FITE TV and other outlets.

Silva vs. Ortiz took place Sept. 11 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla. Anderson Silva (3-1) and Tito Ortiz (0-1) collided in the co-main event. The fight aired live on pay-per-view.

Catch more video highlights below.

For more on Silva vs. Ortiz, check out the live blog by MMA Fighting’s Shaun Al-Shatti.

Round 1: Well here’s a fight I never expected to be doing play-by-play for. 2021 is the weirdest, y’all. Tito Ortiz opens the promo package by claiming that Anderson Silva hasn’t ever fought anybody like him, which isn’t true, and complaining multiple times about the 195-pound weight limit, which he didn’t even come close to hitting. Good stuff. Silva basically giggles his way through the whole package. He seems to be finding it hilarious that he’s getting paid big money to do something like this. Hard to fault him for that. Both of these men are 46 years old. Ortiz no-sells every question in the pre-fight interview before his walk. He’s not here for your nonsense, Triller. Ortiz walks to the ring while carrying a “thin blue line” American flag. Here comes Silva draped in his trademark black and yellow with his classic DMX walkout song. Here we go. Ortiz already very much does not look like a boxer. Ortiz swarms with slow punches, Silva avoids them all. Ortiz’s punches are really looking rough. Silva ducks underneath and unloads with a right hand! Silva crushes him! Left hand follows! Ortiz is out! That was quick! Silva barely broke a sweat.

Official result: Anderson Silva def. Tito Ortiz via KO (punch) at 1:21 of Round 1

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Lula da Silva: Former Brazilian President attacks Bolsonaro as his path to political comeback clears

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The former President, better known as Lula, neither confirmed nor denied heated speculation that he might now challenge Bolsonaro in the 2022 presidential race as the left-wing Workers Party candidate, saying only that it was “too early” to engage in that discussion.

“When it arrives in 2022, the party will discuss whether we have a candidate or whether we act on a broad front,” he said.

“My head doesn’t have time to think about candidacy in 2022,” he added. “We have a lot to do before we talk about ourselves.”

Da Silva had been convicted for corruption and money laundering in 2017 stemming from a wide-ranging investigation into the state-run oil company Petrobras, dubbed “Operation Car Wash.” Those convictions were annulled on Monday by Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Luiz Edson Fachin, effectively restoring his right to run for office.

Speaking on Wednesday at the ABC Metalworkers Union in São Bernardo do Campo, the same place where he spoke to supporters moments before going to prison, da Silva hailed the ruling as acknowledgment “that there was never a crime committed by me… that there was never any involvement of mine with Petrobras.”

According to the judge’s statement, judicial procedure in da Silva’s case was flawed from the beginning because the Federal Court of Curitiba which ruled on his conviction did not have jurisdiction. “With this decision, all the rulings handed by the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba are declared null,” the statement from Fachin’s office read, ordering that two cases in which da Silva was convicted be processed again at the Federal Court of Brasilia.

What happens next is up to the broader Supreme Court. According to CNN Brasil, the country’s attorney general has promised to appeal Fachin’s ruling. Even if the Supreme Court upholds it, da Silva could still be convicted again in a retrial. Meanwhile, a separate vote by the Supreme Court this week could also see the cases tossed out.

For now, however, the way has been cleared for the former president to return to politics, potentially reshaping the 2022 election landscape. If da Silva runs for president next year, it could be difficult for a centrist candidate to emerge and would likely push Bolsonaro to implement more populist policies in the hopes of solidifying his base.

“Don’t be afraid of me, I am radical because I want to go to the root of this country’s problems,” da Silva said Wednesday.

Bolsonaro, the so-called “Trump of the Tropics,” faces fierce criticism of his handling of the pandemic. The country reported a record high of Covid-19 deaths Tuesday, with 1,972 new fatalities in 24 hours bringing the total toll to 268,370.

Speaking to press on Monday, Bolsonaro said he hoped Brazil’s Supreme Court would ultimately reverse the decision and restore da Silva’s convictions. He added that he didn’t think Brazilians wanted a presidential candidate like da Silva in 2022.

But the former leader, now 75, has enjoyed immense popularity in Brazil over the years. A longtime friend of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, da Silva brought working class bona fides to the Brazilian presidency as a former metal worker and union leader.

When he left office in 2011 after two terms, it was with a 90% approval rating — though his handpicked successor Dilma Rousseff was impeached for breaking budget laws during her second term, after her approval rate plummeted amid the corruption scandal engulfing the Workers Party.

Nonetheless, da Silva was also the frontrunner in his 2018 race against Bolsonaro, before being forced to drop out due to his legal troubles, which his party derided as a “farce” at the time, designed to keep him from claiming a third term.

The Curitiba court that originally convicted da Silva — led by Sergio Moro, later appointed justice minister by Bolsonaro — found that the former president benefited from the renovation of a triplex in a beach town near Sao Paulo by the construction company OAS, which was deeply implicated in the Petrobras bribery operation.

The charges were connected to 3.7 million reais’ ($1.1 million) worth of bribes received from OAS through the beachfront apartment. In return, da Silva helped the builder acquire contracts from the oil company, the prosecutor’s office said — charges he has long denied.

Da Silva served just 18 months of a reduced sentence of eight years and 10 months before his release in November 2019.

Reporting contributed by CNN’s Shasta Darlington in Sao Paulo, Vasco Cotovio in London, and Tatiana Arias and Hira Humayun in Atlanta.

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Brazil: Lula has convictions quashed, leaving him free to challenge Bolsonaro | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could be set for a sensational comeback attempt after a supreme court judge annulled a series of criminal convictions against the leftist icon and restored his political rights.

The ruling, which analysts called a political bombshell, means Lula is almost certain to challenge Brazil’s incumbent president, Jair Bolsonaro, in the 2022 presidential election.

“The election starts today … It’s virtually impossible Lula won’t be a candidate,” said Thomas Traumann, a Rio de Janeiro-based political observer. “In American terms, it’s going to be like Sanders versus Trump.”

The Valor Econômico, Brazil’s leading financial newspaper, declared: “Lula is back in the game.”

Lula was president of Latin America’s largest economy for two terms, between 2003 and 2011, and oversaw a historic period of commodity-fuelled growth and poverty reduction. The Workers’ party (PT) politician, who is now 75, had hoped to seek a third term in 2018 but was sidelined after being jailed on disputed corruption charges, paving the way for Bolsonaro’s landslide victory.

Lula was released from prison in November 2019 after 580 days behind bars but remained unable to seek election after being stripped of his political rights.

Speaking to the Guardian last April, the former shoeshine boy played down speculation he would challenge Bolsonaro in 2022 but accused the far-right former army captain of leading Brazilians “to the slaughterhouse” with his “grotesque” and “reckless” response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“You can be certain the left will be governing Brazil again after 2022,” Lula claimed. “We will vote for someone who is committed to human rights and respects them, who respects environmental protection, who respects the Amazon … who respects blacks and the indigenous. We’re going to elect someone who is committed to the poor of this country.”

Traumann said Monday’s ruling was an unmistakable turning point and potentially positive for those who wanted to see the back of Bolsonaro, under whose highly controversial watch more than 265,000 Brazilians have lost their lives to Covid-19. “If you are absolutely opposed to Bolsonaro, this is good news – because you have a candidate who is undeniably strong, popular and who can defeat Bolsonaro.

“The problem is that there is a pretty reasonable number of people who don’t want either of them [as president] – and if these people don’t get together and come up with a [third] candidate now, there will be no room for them,” Traumann added. “If the other candidates don’t decide to run now, by the time we get to next year things will be so polarised that there will be no room for a third candidate.”

Some believe Bolsonaro will also relish a potential election fight with the bearded former union leader who is a bogeyman for many conservative voters.

Lula supporters expressed joy at the decision on social media, with some using the hashtag #LulaPresidente2022. One PT ally tweeted a video of the septuagenarian politician pumping iron in the gym to the sound of a song by the Brazilian composer Chico Buarque called Tô Voltando (“I’m coming back”). “Fill the house with flowers because I’m on my way back,” its lyrics announce.

Meanwhile, there were signs of political heartburn from several personalities who have been trying to position themselves as supposedly centrist alternatives to Bolsonaro’s radical administration. Bolsonaro’s estranged former health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who is reportedly plotting a presidential run, tweeted: “The extremes rejoice because they feed off each other.”

Luciano Huck, one of Brazil’s best-known TV presenters and another potential contender, tweeted: “One thing’s for sure: you can’t complete a sticker album with doubles.”



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