Marcelo Alonso

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JungleFight celebrated its 22nd anniversary in a big way over theweekend. Jungle Fight 136, which took place on Saturday in Sao Paulo,Brazil, marked the beginning of a national television broadcastpartnership with Rede Globo. At the conclusion of the event, JungleFight founder WallidIsmail announced that the organization will hold a $1 millionreais (approximately $180,000) tournament in the men’s lightweightand women’s strawweight divisions.

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It was designed to be a celebration for three Brazilian jiu-jitsustars: AmauryBitetti, JorgePereira and Crezio deSouza. Instead, it was remembered for a fight in which EugenioTadeu protégé AlanCarvalho made his debut as a luta livre representative andstunned one of the Carlson Gracie academy’s premierlightweights. Vale Tudo O Lutador was held on Dec. 19, 1996 at Canecao—thelargest concert venue in Rio de Janeiro. It marked the first andonly time a vale tudo event took place there.

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JeanSilva is taking his study of IliaTopuria seriously. After Topuria recently dismissed Silva’s offer to help prepare CharlesOliveira for his lightweight title fight against “El Matador”at UFC317, the Fighting Nerds product took to YouTube to show somemistakes the Georgian-Spaniard made in fights against BryceMitchell and JaiHerbert. “Actually, I did better than you. Look at my fight against BryceMitchell and see how many punches he landed on me. You got hitand rocked,” Silva said.

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MauricioRuffy believes BelalMuhammad’s loss to JackDella Maddalena is a sign of things to come. In an interview on Laerte Viana’s YouTube channel, Ruffy analyzedthe UFC 315main event. Muhammad, who has a close relationship with the likesof KhabibNurmagomedov and IslamMakhachev, struggled to implement his preferred style againsthis Australian opponent. “I've seen this fight three times.

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Things are already getting interesting as for IliaTopuria as his lightweight debut draws near. With his fight against  CharlesOliveira for the vacant lightweight belt on the horizon,Topuria announced that he had split with longtime coaches Jorge and AgustinCliment.