Ricardo Arona, Paulo Filho and Murilo ‘Ninja’ Rua Victorious at Bitetti Combat 4 Event in Brazil

Published on: 13th September, 2009

Ricardo Arona, Paulo Filho and Murilo 'Ninja' Rua Victorious at Bitetti Combat 4 Event in Brazil | read this item

Last night in a star studded line-up of Mixed Martial Arts top Brazilian fighters filled up the Bitetti Combat 4 event at a 19,000 seat arena in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil which also aired nationally on pay-per-view. The card featured such MMA stars such as Paulo Filho, Jeff Monson, Murilo ‘Ninja’ Rua, Pedro Rizzo, Marvin Eastman and Ricardo Arona who headlined the fight card.

The Brazilians were all victorious in their match-ups with Filho winning by unanimous decision over former Ultimate Fighter season 1 contestant Alex Schoenauer, Ninja scoring a devastating head kick with a series of punches to stop Alex Stiebling early in the first round to get back on the winning track.

Pedro Rizzo also got back in the wins column after bruatl losses to Josh Barnett and Gilbert Yvel to take a unanimous decision victory over former UFC heavyweight contender Jeff Monson who was previously on a seven fight winning streak and in the main event of the evening former PRIDE standout Ricardo Arona who came back from a two and a half year absence from MMA competition was also able to get the unanimous decision in a win over former UFC veteran Marvin Eastman by using his bread and butter wrestling base to go along with his ground and pound to get the nod.

Here are the full fight card results from the Bitetti Combat 4 event:

Fight Card

Ricardo Arona defeats Marvin Eastman by Unanimous decision
Paulo Filho defeats Alex Schoenauer by Unanimous decision
Pedro Rizzo defeats Jeff Monson by Unanimous decision
Murilo ‘Ninja’ Rua defeats Alex Stiebling by TKO (Strikes) in Rd.1
Milton Vieira defeats Luciano Azevedo by Split decision
Fabio Maldonado defeats Vitor Miranda by Unanimous decision
Glover Teixeira defeats Leonardo Nascimento by Submission (Guillotine choke) in Rd.1
Luis Dutra defeats Henrique Nogueira by TKO (Strikes) in Rd.1
Cassiano Tytschyo defeats Fausto Black by Submission (Guillotine choke) in Rd.1
Alexandre Pimentel defeats Luciano Correa by Unanimous decision