"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." ...

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. ...

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. ...