Eder Jones foi um dos destaques do último show em Brasília, ao lado dessas beldades. Foto: Carlos Ozório.

All’s set for the 22nd installment of Shooto Brazil, the Brasilia leg. The crowd in Brazil’s capital will be treated to three title fights this Friday starting at 8 m in the Nilson Nelson Gymnasium. After a great deal of training, 22 athletes are set to face off in the ring in pursuit of victory.

The weigh-ins are set for this Thursday the 31st at Hotel Nóbile starting at 1pm. The event will include 11 fights.

“With all the fighters making weight this Friday, we can expect a great show,” guarantees Luciano Girade, one of the event’s organizers.

Check out the card:

Shooto Brazil 22

Nilson Nelson Gymnasium, Brasília

Friday, April 1, 2011

Title fights

Under-83kg (middleweight): Eder Jones (Minotauro Team) vs. Carlos Índio (Dragon Fight)
Under-70kg (lightweight): Eliene Pit (Cerrado MMA) vs. Hacran Dias (Nova União)
Under-90kg (light heavyweight): Diogo Osama (Distrito da luta) vs. Ronny Marques (Kimura NovaUnião)

Anistavio Medeiros (Kioto) vs. Lucio Curado (Gracie Barra)
Bruno Macaco (FFT/Nova União) vs. William Mendes (Gile Ribeiro)
Saulo Martins (Equipe Pedro Galiza) vs. John Lineker (Emporium JJ Team)
Johnny Eduardo (Nova União) vs. José Wilson (RKT)
Alexandre Pantoja (MT Arraial Nova União) vs. Jose Maria Sem Chance (RFT)
Hernani Perpétuo (Nova União) vs. Marco Antonio Bad Face (CM System)
Ronys Torres (Nova União) vs. Guilherme Kioto (Kioto)

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Eduardo Dantas comes up with fine finish. Photos: Carlos Ozório.

André Pederneiras, the president of the Shooto South America promotion, closed out the year with the organization’s twentieth installment in Brazil. And of the six bouts on the card, one featured an inaugural title fight and the other a former UFC fighter.

In the under 52 kg title fight, serving also as the final of the divisional GP, Lincoln Sá took the glory by unanimous decision over Maicon William. Sá started out behind in the first, but got the better of the action in the two rounds that followed. He landed solid takedowns and worked well from the top, mainly form the half guard. Maicon threw caution to the win throughout, always threatening with heel-hook attempts that were snug but well defended, but it wasn’t enough.

Lincoln de Sá celebrates.

Former UFC fighter Antonio Samuray did a good job in the standup department. He landed pain-inducing kicks, concussive knees, and was only in any danger when Amenilson Negão shot for takedowns. But after two rounds of punishment from Samuray, Negão did not return for a third round.

Dudu Dantas was supposed to have defended his bantamweight belt. However, Carlos Betão suffered an injury the week of the fight. So in came Samuel de Sousa, who took the initiative and attacked launched a standup assault that ended when Dantas pulled guard and promptly put an end to the action with an armbar, just twenty seconds into the affair.

Samuray high kick

Leandro Sete Bala was getting the worst of his altercation with Revellis Barcellos, who was winning by way of repeated takedowns. In the third round, though, Sete Bala managed a takedown of his own, mounted, got back mount and handily ended the action with a rear-naked choke. In other fights, Jefferson connected in the opening seconds with a resounding punch to D’Branco, following up with a takedown, mount and barrage of strikes that ended the bout. Leandro Batata landed powerful strikes in the standup action, with neatly-crafted combinations, that resulted in a possible hand fracture, and carried out repeated takedowns on his way to a unanimous decision win over Edivaldo Oliveira.

Check out the results:

Shooto Brazil 20
December 11, 2011
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Eduardo Dantas (Nova União) submits Samuel de Sousa via armbar in R1

Leandro Batata (Nova União) defeates Edivaldo Oliveira via unanimous decision

Lincoln de Sá (Art Combat) defeats Maicon Willian (Nocaute) via unanimous decision

Leandro Sete Bala (Nova União) submits Reveilis Barcellos (Peterson Mello) via rear-naked choke in R3

Antonio Samuray defeats Emenilson Negão (Nova União) via TKO (desistance between rounds two and three)

Jefferson (RVT) defeats Francisco D´Branco (Beto Padilha) via TKO in R1

Will Ribeiro at WEC weigh-ins with the late Master Luiz Alves on left. Photo: Josh Hedges

An MMA event for a special cause will be held this Saturday in Rio de Janeiro. All the proceeds from Shooto Brazil 20 will go to the treatment of former WEC rising star Will Ribeiro, who suffered a debilitating motorcycle accident two years ago, leaving him partially paralyzed and missing a large part of his skull.

Promoter of the event André Pederneiras calls on one and all to show up and enjoy the excitement of the always-entertaining Shooto Brazil event and help change Will’s life for the better, by contributing to his skull-reconstruction operation.

Shooto South America bantamweight champion with a dynamic game Eduardo “Dudu” Dantas headlines the event and hard-hitter with a capoeira background Leandro Batata also features on the card, as well as some must-see little-guy action with Maicon Willian versus Lincoln Sá.

Tickets cost $R 30.00, and can be purchased at the door at Delfim Academy, just around the corner from São Francisco Xavier subway station, or at Upper Academy, a stone’s throw from Flamengo subway stop.

The events starts at 6pm.

Shooto Brazil 20
Location: Academia Delfim, Rua Pereira de Siqueira, 45. Tijuca.
Date: Saturday, December 20, 2010
Time: 6 pm
Cost: 30 Brazilian Reais

Maicon submits Evandro Brilhante. Photo: Carlos Ozório

The entire gate from the December 11 Shooto Brazil 20 event at Delfim gym in Rio de Janeiro will be donated to the treatment of former MMA fighter Will Ribeiro, who suffered a serious motorcycle accident in 2008 and urgently needs complicated surgery to reconstruct his cranium.

The decision to donate the proceeds was André Pederneiras’s. Pederneiras is the president of the Shooto Brazil organization and a former coach of Ribeiro’s.

“Will needs our support more than ever. The operation will reconstruct his crushed skull and make him appear normal again,” said Pederneiras.

Shooto Brazil 20 will feature six fights with a few title challenges: Carlos Alberto “Betão” (RFT) will have a rematch against bantamweight divisional champion Dudu Dantas (Nova União), while the inaugural Shooto South America flyweight title will be determined between the finalists of the Shooto 19 flyweight GP, Maicon Willian (Nocaute) and Lincoln Sá (Art Combat).

Tickets for the event are on sale at Upper Academy (Rua Marquês de Abrantes, 88 – Flamengo) and Delfim Boxing Academy( Rua Pereira de Siqueira, Tijuca) at a cost of R$ 30.

Check out the card:

Shooto Brazil 20
December 11, 2011
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dudu Dantas (Nova União) vs. Carlos Alberto Betão (RFT)

Leandro Batata (Nova União) vs. Eder Jones (Minotauro Team)

Maicon Willian (Nocaute) vs. Lincoln de Sá (Art Combat)

Leandro Sete Bala (Nova União) vs. Reveilisf Barcellos (Peterson Mello)

Jeferson (RVT) vs. Francisco D´Branco (Beto Padilha)

Antonio Samuray vs. Emenilson Negão (Nova União)