Report: Paulo Filho Versus Kazushi Sakuraba at Bitetti Combat 6

By: Fighters.com Staff Posted On: January 25, 2010 at 4:46pm

Fighters.com’s tenth-ranked middleweight “Ely” Paulo Filho (16-1) and MMA legend “Gracie Hunter” Kazushi Sakuraba (23-13-1) will probably matchup at Bitetti Combat 6 in Brasillia February 25 according to Filho’s trainer, Josuel Distak, in Tatame.

Filho submitted Tatsuhiko Nishizaka (3-5-1) at Bitetti Combat 5 in São Paulo December 12.

Sakuraba finished “Benkei” Zelg Galesic (8-4) in a kneebar at DREAM.12 in Osaka last October.

Distak said, “Sakuraba is a legend. If they confirm it, this fight will put Paulao at the tops again.”