The Brazilian Beat
"The Axe Murderer" Chopping his way into the Mainstream in Brazil, Schembri adapting well to Chute Boxe, Storm Samurai coming up, more HEAT FC 3 news and talk of Anderson Silva vs. Jeremey Horn in Korea!

The Brazilian Beat:
      Things are heated in the Brazilian MMA scene as March marches to an end and March Madness will turn into April Madness in this country as plenty of MMA shows will be taking place in the coming month. As those shows approaches more backstage happenings take place and the Brazilian Beat returns to report some more tidbits from the latest. HEAT FC 3 is approaching and its fights are being announced all the time. Chute Boxe will also bring STORM SAMURAI with some new MMA talent in their ring as the team looks stronger and stronger with Nino "Elvis" Schembri starting to look as an official Chute Boxe member. Besides that, Chute Boxe main icon Wanderlei Silva is taking Brazilian mainstream media by storm and preaching the word of MMA to newbies. As Chute Boxe seems to always be the center of attention in what comes to MMA here lately, even their former members are making some noise as rumors have Anderson Silva may be going to Korea to face PRIDE and UFC veteran Jeremy Horn in June. This may only be a rumor, but as one would say, where you can find smoke there's a huge chance of finding fire as well ... So, with no further wait let's go straight to the news as the Beat can never stop in FCF in typical Brazilian madness!
  • PRIDE Middleweight Champion Wanderlei Silva is a busy man. Besides his usual demanding training schedule, Silva has been very requested by the Brazilian press, not only MMA-wise, and his growing fame shows no sign of stopping. This Monday "The Axe Murderer" left his hometown of Curitiba to go to Sao Paulo, the biggest city in the country, where he will attend numerous mainstream media appearances until Wednesday, when he returns to Curitiba. Among his most important commitments will be a guest appearance on a live talk show entitled "É Show!" [which means "It's Show" in Portuguese], the show is one of the most important of its kind in Brazil. Wanderlei Silva told his friends he is looking at this opportunity as a chance to give MMA a good image with the general public and help the sport to gain some more fans.

  • Speaking of the Chute Boxe team, it's looking as their new addition, PRIDE veteran Nino "Elvis" Schembri, will really stay in the city for long and be officially part of the Chute Boxe team. Schembri has been reported to be doing well in training and getting along with everybody very well, and also showing an great enthusiasm with the training. Nino is adapting well to the life in Curitiba and Masters Rudimar Fedrigo and Rafael Cordeiro are very happy with the development he may bring alongside with the work of Cristiano Marcello for the team's groundwork. Speaking of new additions to Chute Boxe, rumor have that talks are going on and more famous names of the Brazilian MMA scene will be heading for the famous academy of Curitiba in the coming months.

  • Chute Boxe stand out Murilo Ninja Rua continues to train hard after recovering from his shin injury, which seemed to be caused by a spider bite. Ninja is training and getting ready, as he is preparing to departure to Japan soon, which means that he will most likely be really taking part in the PRIDE Heavyweight Grand Prix, as it was rumored from a long time already. His opponent on the first round though, is still uknown.

  • Still on the subject of Chute Boxe, Promoter Rafael Cordeiro is putting together the second Edition of STORM SAMURAI, which is the natural evolution of the traditional Muay Thai STORM show, but now counting with MMA matches as well. The next card will take place in Curitiba at April 17th, the interesting note is that STORM also plans a Muay Thai card in Sao Paulo just two days earlier. Anyway, STORM SAMURAI will feature six Muay Thai matches and seven MMA Matches, with STORM stand outs Fabio Tigrao and Mauricio "Veio" Amado both fighting MMA. Tigrao will be debuting in MMA after several Muay Thai wins at STORM, and Mauricio Amado will be going into his second fight after scoring a win at the last STORM Samurai. Speaking of STORM stand outs, rumor have that long time Chute Boxe talent and now black belt Marlon Matias is being prepared to fight in K-1 Max in Japan, and may be appearing in the Japanese tournament in the near future.

  • The northern region of Brazil continues to hold its share of MMA events as the public seems to love our sport over there. One more eight man tournament took place in the state of Amazonas [where most of the Amazon forest is located], when this last March 27th the city of Manaus saw the "Rei Da Selva" show [means King of the Jungle in Portuguese] crown Jiu-Jitsu fighter Paulo Lima as its king after submitting three opponents in one night. On his way to the final Lima scored an arm-lock at Alfonso Diaz in the first round, moving to get a rear naked choke to submit Mauro Silva on the semi-finals to finally get striker Kevin Christopher, who got two decisive KO wins during the tournament earlier rounds, on another arm-lock on the 3rd and final round of the fight.

  • Sources on Brazil have that Shooto Welterweight champion Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro will be taking his moves to Hawaii this next July 9th at Shooto Hawaii. Shaolin's opponent isn't decide yet, and meanwhile the champion continues to train hard as usual, as Vitor Ribeiro is one of the hardest workers and most serious professionals on the fighting game in Brazil.

  • Another famous Brazilian fighter who may have a fight abroad soon is Anderson Silva. The former Chute Boxe member and PRIDE veteran has only fought once, at Conquista Fight promoter by Rodrigo Nogueira in Bahia, since he left the famous Chute Boxe team. Now his first international shot is looking to become a reality as Ultra FC, the long awaited big time Korean show coming up next June. Word is that Anderson will likely be fighting Jeremy Horn in Korea, although nothing official has been announced yet. One interesting point is that after leaving Chute Boxe, Anderson Silva developed a friendship with PRIDE superstar Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira, and has been giving Minotauro some help with Muay Thai training now and then, as Minotauro has been looking to help him getting fights abroad again.

  • Another PRIDE veteran that will be in action in Korea is Brazilian Top Team member Paulo Filho. However, before Filho experience some Korean action, he is fighting this next week in Brazil against HEAT FC veteran Silmar Rodrigo at the third edition of Bitetti Combat. UFC veteran Flavio Moura will also be performing against BTT member "Capixu", and the card will count with another HEAT FC veteran in its card in Fabio Bolinho. The show takes place this next April 1st at the city of Natal, also known as the HEAT hometown as well.

  • Speaking of HEAT FC, as the third edition approaches at April 30th, new fights and names are being confirmed. According to the promoters all fights are signed but will not be announced at once. MECA veteran and Brazilian Top Team member Roan "Jucao" Carneiro will be making his HEAT debut against local fighter Leonardo Souza. Souza fought at Mario Sperry's show Brazil Super Fight and knocked out BTT fighter Haroldo Cabelinho Bunn at his MMA debut. Souza is also a BJJ world champion at purple belt and is currently a brown belt, as Carneiro is already a BTT black belt and has wins at MECA and Argentina, and will be looking to avenge his teammate loss to the hands of Souza. BJJ Black belt World Champion Fredson Paixao's MMA debut at HEAT FC 3 is also confirmed against Rany Yahyra, a stand out in submission Wrestling who was last year's Abu Dhabi Brazilian trials champion! Both guys have fought twice in Submission Wrestling and have some sort of feud, that will be decided on both guys MMA debut.