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11/5/2000

RUAS AND PEDERNEIRAS TOGETHER
After years of war finally some of the biggest Brazilian Vale-Tudo fighters are putting professionalism ahead of rivalry and not just training together, but also sharing the same Academy. Now the Ruas Team, which has always trained in the Radar Academy, has moved their headquarters to Pederneiras dojo in the Flamengo district. "The rent at the Radar Academy dojo was really high, so we decided to accept Pederneiras’ invitation" explained Roberto Leitão. Now, besides Jiu-Jitsu classes, Pederneiras’ academy has Vale-Tudo, Muay Thai and also wrestling classes. Champions Ricardo Arona (Jiu-Jitsu) and Alexandre Pequeno (Luta-Livre) are following along the same lines. The current 93kg Abu Dhabi champion and the 64kg Shooto champion are teaching in the same dojo at the new World Fight Center academy, in Niteròi, Rio de Janeiro. The results are evidenced by the growing number of students at the academy. After all, everybody wants to have a champion as a teacher.

MECA WORLD VALE TUDO III
Rudimar Fedrigo, leader of the Chuteboxe team, has just confirmed the 3^rd edition of Meca, the new Brazilian Vale-Tudo event that is giving the opportunity to showcase new great names in the NHB world. The event will take place in Ginàsio do Circulo Militar in Curitiba city, Paranà on November 12, 2000. As always, Rudimar chose rounded fighters which promises very action-packed fights for the event:

Assuèrio Silva (105kg) Acad. Chute Boxe – Pr	Vs.	The Pedro (103kg) Acad. Fight Team – RJ
Ninja (85kg) Chute Boxe – Pr	Vs.	Claudinho (85kg) Acad. Luta Livre Hugo Duarte – RJ
Mamute (130kg) Ac. Marcelo Ribas-MG	Vs.	Natalio (110kg) Acad. Glenda – Pr
Emerson (83kg) Acad. BVT – Santos	Vs.	Sandro (82kg) Acad. Fernandes – Pr
Josè Santos "Zinho" (85kg) Acad. Èpicos – SP	Vs.	Gustavo Machado " Ximù" (86kg) Acad. Ruas Vale Tudo – RJ
Luiz Azeredo (79kg) Acad. Godoi-Macaco – SP	Vs.	Fabricio "Morango" (80kg) Acad. Vinicius Aieta – RJ
Angelo (92kg) Acad. Glenda – Pr	Vs.	Claudio Godoi (93kg) Acad. Godoi-Macaco

SUBMISSION IN CAMPINAS
It’s really amazing the way submission wrestling style events are growing in Brazil. Every month, somebody in some state of this continental country is making a new event. The 2^nd Professional Audicon of Jiu-Jitsu without gi will take place in Campinas, São Paulo on November 26^th. Marcelo Giudici, a brown belt under Ryan Gracie, and promoter of the event, will give around $4000 in prizes among the winners of each category. The biggest Jiu-Jitsu teams from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have already confirmed that they will be there.

BABALÙ AND SMITH IN UFC XXVIII
Brazilian Renato Babalù has been announced as the opponent for fight Maurice Smith in the upcoming UFC that will take place on November 17^th in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Initially, Babalù was invited to fight against Couture for the heavyweight belt but did not accept out of respect for his teammate Pedro Rizzo "It would not be fair. He has fighting for this belt for a long time, I’m just getting in the event right now" said Babalù. About the fight, the Ruas representative said, "The audience can expect a very good and technical match. Maurice is a very experienced and good fighter. In spite of that, I’ll look for the KO from the start."

Assuèrio Silva (105kg) Acad. Chute Boxe – Pr	Vs.	The Pedro (103kg) Acad. Fight Team – RJ
Ninja (85kg) Chute Boxe – Pr	Vs.	Claudinho (85kg) Acad. Luta Livre Hugo Duarte – RJ
Mamute (130kg) Ac. Marcelo Ribas-MG	Vs.	Natalio (110kg) Acad. Glenda – Pr
Emerson (83kg) Acad. BVT – Santos	Vs.	Sandro (82kg) Acad. Fernandes – Pr
Josè Santos "Zinho" (85kg) Acad. Èpicos – SP	Vs.	Gustavo Machado " Ximù" (86kg) Acad. Ruas Vale Tudo – RJ
Luiz Azeredo (79kg) Acad. Godoi-Macaco – SP	Vs.	Fabricio "Morango" (80kg) Acad. Vinicius Aieta – RJ
Angelo (92kg) Acad. Glenda – Pr	Vs.	Claudio Godoi (93kg) Acad. Godoi-Macaco

"NO HOLDS BARRED" ON EYADA SPORTS,
THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 6 – NOVEMBER 10:
by Eddie Goldman

Eddie Goldman interviewing Matt Serra

"No Holds Barred" can be heard every Monday through Friday, 3 to 5 PM New
York time (Eastern Time – U.S.), only on eYada.com (http://www.eyada.com).

Monday, November 6 — Shane Mosley, WBC welterweight champion and regarded as the best pound-for-pound boxer by many, dazzled everyone in sight with his spectacular performance this past Saturday at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. We will have a report from that fight today, including brief postfight interviews with Shane and his father and trainer Jack Mosley, as well as comments from boxing legend Jose Torres, HBO announcer Jim Lampley, and the New York Post’s Wally Matthews. Also, former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champ Randy Couture will be returning to the Octagon at UFC XXVIII on November 17 in a quest to recapture the heavyweight title from reigning champion Kevin Randleman. Today we speak with Randy about that fight.

Tuesday, November 7 — Ultimate Fighting Championship matchmaker extraordinaire John Perretti joins us to keep us up-to-date with what is going on in that organization. UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer also adds his erudite observations about what to expect in and out of the Octagon. And promoter Lou Neglia, whose series of "Vengeance at the Vanderbilt" kickboxing and grappling shows continues with an event this Friday, November 10, in Plainview, NY, speaks with us as well.

Wednesday, November 8 — Evan Tanner will continue to wear two hats at the USWF’s "Battle of the Belts" shootwrestling show on November 25 in Amarillo, Texas, as he is both the promoter and the USWF heavyweight champ. Evan tells us all about this today, including comments on his title defense against "Iron Man" Travis Fulton. Also, Jens Pulver will be fighting the always-tough John Lewis at UFC XXVIII on November 17 in the 150-pound weight class. Today we speak with Jens.

Thursday, November 9 — Journalist and cultural critic Adisa Banjoko is at it again, with two new current articles in "Honey" and "Blu" magazines. Today Adisa expands on his views on the relationships between Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, mixed martial arts, and hip hop music. Also, Jason Godsey is involved in promoting this coming Saturday’s "Circle City Challenge" mixed martial arts show in Indianapolis, Indiana. Today Jason discusses this show, as well as expounding on the state of mixed martial arts and the political climate in America.

Friday, November 10 — Today eYada begins the big move into our new state-of-the-art studios in Times Square, so our show will be archived today as we replay the show of Tuesday, October 31. On that show, we started with an interview with Emanuel Steward, Lennox Lewis’s trainer, about this coming Saturday’s Lennox Lewis-David Tua heavyweight championship fight. We also had some comments from veteran boxing writer Bert Sugar. We also spoke at length with Japanese NHB journalist Tadashi Tanaka about the Pride and Pancrase mixed martial arts cards held in Japan on October 31, and the issue of promoters that hold worked or fixed fights and bill them as real, mixed martial arts fights.