Former WEC champion and Pride veteran Paulo Filho picked up his third straight victory since suffering his lone career defeat to Chael Sonnen, and fellow Pride veteran Murilo “Ninja” Rua picked up his second straight victory at Saturday night’s Bitetti Combat 5 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

There are a lot of fights happening in the next two weeks, outside of the major promotions. Former UFC middleweights Thales Leites and Dean Lister will headline MFC 23: Unstoppable, a card that also includes Jason MacDonald and Solomon Hutcherson (the other half of “Team Dagger”). MFC23 will take place December 4th at 10pm outside of Edmonton, Alberta and will be broadcast on HDNet. In Sao Paulo, Brazil Pedro Rizzo vs. Valentjin Overeem headlines Bitetti Combat 5, which also features Murilo “Ninja” Rua, Jeff Monson and Tommy Speer. Also, in Amarillo, Texas Shark Fights 7 will be headlined by UFC and MFC cast off Trevor Prangley taking on Marcus “Money” Sursa.

Full fight cards for all three events are included in the full story.

fter losing to Team USA West by a 3-2 margin during the season opener of the 2009 "M-1 Challenge Presented by Affliction," losing at home in their second head-to-head series was not an option for Team Brazil. Led by former IFL superfight veteran Eduardo Pamplona, the team's lone holdover from the opener, Brazil swept Imperial by a score of 5-0