» Fighter: Paulo Filho

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.

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“There’s only so much we can do,” said Fighters.com’s tenth-ranked middleweight “Ely” Paulo Filho’s (17-1) manager Ed Soares to MMA Junkie before Filho no-showed at Bitetti 6 in Brasillia last Thursday. “We love Paulo; he’s a great person, he’s incredible. But he’s going through some issues. He’s having some family problems.”

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Fighters.com’s tenth-ranked middleweight “Ely” Paulo Filho (16-1) bailed on a scheduled matchup versus Yuki Sasaki (22-15-1) at Bitetti Combat 6 in Brasillia Thursday and Bitetti promoters attributed his absence to “personal problems”, furthering the storyline of Filho’s erratic behavior and unreliability.

But, Friday Filho told Tatame that it was money that convinced him to miss the fight.

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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.

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“I think [Vitor Belfort] is a great fighter,” Fighters.com’s fourth-ranked middleweight “Great” Nate Marquardt (29-8-2) told MMA Weekly Radio recently.  “I don’t necessarily agree with him getting a shot or whatever, just because he really hasn’t fought at 85,” he added.

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Strikeforce middleweight “Jacare” Ronaldo Souza (9-2) climbed a rung to to number eight in December with a first-round submission of “The Law” Matt Lindland (21-7) at Evolution in San Jose December 19.

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Fighters.com’s eighth-ranked middleweight “Ely” Paulo Filho (17-1) and “Ninja” Murilo Rua (18-10-1) earned victories at Bitetti Combat 5 in São Paulo Saturday.

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Fighters.com’s second-ranked middleweight Jake Shields (23-4-1) cemented his status as top contender to Fighters.com and UFC Middleweight Champion “Spider” Anderson Silva’s (25-4) titles and picked up the Strikeforce strap himself in a five-round unanimous decision over former top ten and nails-tough “Mayhem” Jason Miller (22-7) at Strikeforce in Chicago November 7.

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Former PRIDE 205-pound contender “Brazilian Tiger” Ricardo Arona (14-5) and former WEC middleweight champion “Ely” Paulo Filho (16-1) both rang up three-round unanimous decisions at Bitetti Combat in Rio de Janeiro Saturday night.

Arona beat “Beastman” Marvin Eastman (16-10-1), who nearly missed the fight due to Brazilian visa miscommunications. The win was Arona’s first MMA fight since getting KO’d in round one versus “African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (6-4) at PRIDE 34 in Tokyo in April 2007. Arona had turned to professional surfing during his hiatus from fighting, but is now devoted to MMA.

Filho, himself on course for a sort of comeback after a disappointing conclusion to his WEC stint last year, beat Alex Schoenauer (13-10) controversially. Filho’s hometown crowd booed the judges’ decision.

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Former WEC middleweight champion “Ely” Paulo Filho (16-1) responded Saturday to the accusations that he is on steroids made exclusively to Fighters.com by Strikeforce light heavyweight champion “Dreamcatcher” Gegard Mousasi (22-2-1).

“People gets sad because I say the truth in my interviews, but I think he’s not enough to beat me and that’s it,” Filho told Tatame. “Mousasi didn’t like with the truth I said.”

Wary of the seriousness of Mousasi’s accusations, Fighters.com held the video interview in which Mousasi makes his accusation for a week and contacted Filho’s Brazilian manager, known as “Joinho”, three times for a response before posting the interview. Joinho only initially responded, “I think it might be a lawsuit.”

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