Bellator middleweight champion Hector Lombard will likely fight former WEC champ Paulo Filho at Bellator’s May 20 event, while a previously-announced non-title “super fight” between lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez and UFC veteran Josh Neer is slated for the promotion’s May 6 card.

Thales Leites, Glover Teixeira, and Danillo Villefort were among the notable winners at Thursday’s Bitetti Combat 6 event in Brasilia, Brazil, while Paulo Filho, the former WEC middleweight champ who has been plagued by personal problems, ultimately withdrew from the event.

Former UFC middleweight title challenger Thales Leites has been tapped to replace fellow Brazilian Paulo Filho against Yuki Sasaki at Beitetti Combat 6 on February 25 in Brasilia, Brazil. According to Tatame Filho has been forced from the contest by his ongoing personal problems.

- Middleweight contender Demian Maia, who was recently tapped to replace an injured Vitor Belfort and fight champion Anderson Silva at UFC 112 in April, has been cleared for the fight after initially being medically suspended until August due to a cut suffered in his victory at UFC 109 earlier this month.

- A matchup between Yoshihiro Akiyama and the winner of this weekend’s UFC 110 fight between Wanderlei Silva and Michael Bisping is likely to take place at UFC 115 on June 12 in Vancouver.

Former WEC middleweight champ Paulo Filho will likely face Japanese MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba at Bitetti Combat 6, which takes place on February 25 in Brasilia, Brazil. Filho’s trainer, Josuel Distak, confirmed the likely matchup with Tatame on Monday.

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.

In this weeks addition of MMAFrenzy.com’s Rising Sun Roundup, our weekly look at the MMA happenings in Japan, we take a look at Takanori Gomi’s “last fight in Japan” as well as the rest of the Vale Tudo Japan card. Also included is a look at the upcoming Sengoku 11 and Dream 12 fight card additions, and more.

Recently crowned Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi has confirmed that he will be defending his title on the CBS televised November 7 Strikeforce event, at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The scheduling of the title defense was recently confirmed by Mousasi with m-1global.com, though no opponent has been confirmed.

The Japanese promotional group FEG, which runs the Dream MMA events, has long be suggesting that they had a big surprise in store for their already announced Dream 12 event, which will take place on October 25 in Osaka, Japan. They had already released a short promotional video in which were a few shots of a cage which led some people to believe that would be the surprise. Those people were correct, and Dream has officially confirmed that with a new promotional video for the event (included below).

Dave Herman needed just 60-seconds to stop Don Frye on Saturday in the main event of Shark Fights 6, forcing a referee stoppage at the one-minute mark of the headliner. Gerald Harris, a cast member on the Ultimate Fighter 7, knocked out former WEC and UFC fighter Nissen Osterneck in the co-main event to with the promotion’s middleweight title.

Complete results from Shark Fights 6, Arena Rumble, and Bitetti Combat are after the jump…

A light heavyweight tussle between Ricardo Arona (13-5 MMA) and Marvin Eastman (16-9-1 MMA) will headline the upcoming Bitetti Combat 4 card on Saturday. The event takes place in Rio de Janiero, Brazil and also features MMA notables including Murilo “Ninja” Rua, Jeff Monson, Pedro Rizzo, and Paulo Filho.

Ricardo Arona vs. Marvin Eastman, Paulo Filho vs. Alex Schoenauer, and Pedro Rizzo vs. Jeff Monson are set for Bitetti Combat on September 12 in Brazil, Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal will face Don Frye at M-1 Global’s “Breakthrough” event on August 28 in Los Angeles, Eliot Marshall vs. Jason Brilz has been added to UFC 103, and the Palace Fighting Championship has ceased operations.

Read all about these stories and more in MMAFrenzy.com’s latest quick hits…

Marius Zaromskis won the DREAM welterweight grand prix and became the promotion’s first-ever 76kg champion on Sunday by upsetting Hayato “Mach” Sakurai and Jason High with back-to-back knockouts at DREAM 10 in Saitama, Japan.

In other DREAM 10 action, Shinya Aoki topped Vitor Ribeiro by unanimous decision in a lightweight bout that filled to live up to expectations TUF 7 cast member Jesse Taylor defeated Dong Sik Yoon, who was unable to continue due to a left ankle injury, and former WEC champ Paulo Filho submitted kickboxer Melvin Manhoef in the opening round of their middleweight matchup.

Though it wasn’t without a notable struggle, all 14 fighters successfully made weight on Sunday for DREAM 10, which takes place overnight in Saitama, Japan and airs live on HDNet.

Welterweight grand prix participant Hayato “Mach” Sakurai struggled to reach the 76kg limit for his semifinals bout against Marius Zaromskis, but eventually dropped the necessary weight for his third weigh-in attempt.

DREAM has released the finalized fight card and bout order for Monday’s DREAM 10 event, which takes place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan and airs live on HDNet.

The official fight card, which includes Shinya Aoki, Jesse Taylor, Paulo Filho, and Melvin Manhoef, is after the jump.