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Rio Fight Club event tomorrow

By Zach Arnold | February 27, 2008

Press release

buy the show @ http://www.intheguard.tv/riofc/livePPV.php

full card @ http://www.intheguard.tv/riofc/fightcard.php

Brazilian Top Team, Nova União, Gracie Barra Combat Team, Black House, Gracie Fusion, Renovação Fight Team and Tata Fight Team are the squads. The fighters have experience inevents like Shooto Japan and Brazil, ZST, Deep, Mo Team League, Fury FC, European VT and the polemic Rio Heroes. But who are the fighters that will battle at Rio Fight Club? A few are newcomers, but others have much more experience than you can imagine. So for details of some of them, take a look on the pre-fight video interviews for the show scheduled for February 28th.

Aloísio ‘Dado’ Barros (Gracie Barra CT/5W-5L/lightweight/ZST vet.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-lz3CgkNhE

Luis ‘Beição’ Ramos (Nova União/9W-4L/welterweight/Deep winner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8BvHcLX9Hc

Danilo Moto-Serra (Gracie Fusion/10W-5L/cruiserweight/Fury FC competitor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIYSC2155_U

Julian ‘Jabá’ Soares (RFT/3W-6L-2D/lightweight/Shooto Brazil competitor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvafGg5qQ8Q

Willian Vianna (TFT/7W-3L/lightweight/2x Rio Heroes champion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUSidfMe6NE

Marcos ‘Bicudo’ Maciel (BTT/2W-1L/lightweight/Shooto Brazil vet.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ1SjXU9brg

Leandro ‘Brodinho’ Issa (Gracie Fusion/3W-1L/featherweight/Fury FC vet.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9YSQ1_HqpY

Fabio ‘Larvinha’ Oliveira (TFT/0W-1L/lightweight/Rio Heroes vet.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVV0JIOgCIs

Willians ‘Parrudinho’ Porfírio (BTT/1W-1L/featherweight/Shooto Brazil vet.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPL7WoIKmPo

More info @ – talkto@intheguard.tv

Topics: Brazil, MMA, Media, Zach Arnold | 3 Comments » | Permalink | Trackback | Share This

3 Responses to “Rio Fight Club event tomorrow”

1. The Marduk says:

   February 27, 2008 at 8:27 am

   ZST veteran Aloisio Barros against Julian Soares will rock!

   Reply
2. Zack says:

   February 27, 2008 at 10:49 am

   Anyone know the rule set?

   Reply
3. Olivar Leite says:

   February 27, 2008 at 12:28 pm

   I’m the ring announcer of the show. The rules will be identical to UFC’s one.

   Reply

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