Bellator: Paulo Filho Versus Champion Hector Lombard Reported

By: Fighters.com Staff Posted On: March 16, 2010 at 11:44pm

Fighters.com’s tenth-ranked middleweight “Ely” Paulo Filho (16-1) fill fight Bellator middleweight champion “Shango” Hector Lombard (25-2-1) for the title at Bellator May 20, according to a Tatame report.

Tatame quotes Conan Silveira, Lombard’s jiu-jitsu instructor at American Top Team, saying, “We’re ready for anything. I just came from Australia, I didn’t know if Paulao had signed it yet. That’s a sad situation because Paulao comes from the same school that I came, from Carlson’s, he’s my friend, but this is professional.”

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

Lombard defended his Australian Cafe Fighting Championships belt in Sydney March 12 with a TKO of “Pachuco” Art Santore (18-8).