Brazilian politicians in three-round punch-up after waterpark feud

Mayor of Amazonian town of Borba and ex-councillor settle differences in bout livestreamed on the internet

Two feuding Amazonian politicians have settled their differences with an ultimate fighting-style rumble in the jungle that has fuelled fears over the increasingly antagonistic nature of Brazilian democracy.

Simao Peixoto, the mayor of Borba, a town 90 miles south of Manaus, was publicly challenged to the fistfight in September by a former councillor called Erineu da Silva.