Representing Ruas Vale-Tudo, Jose Aldo credits Marco Ruas and Pedro Rizzo for his successful stand up game and has faith in another fellow student of this fighting system. The UFC 145-pound champion ...

If you grapple, I punch and kick... If you punch and kick, I grapple… There’s no way out… —Marco Ruas Ruas Vale Tudo t-shirts with the above inscription had been seen on the streets of Rio de Janeiro ...

One moment in particular moved the Brazilian fans at UFC 301 on May 4 in Rio de Janeiro. Just before the Jose Aldo-Jonathan Martinez co-main event and the Alexandre Pantoja-Steve Erceg headliner, the ...

Yahoo continues it’s UFC retrospective and this time Kevin Iole takes a look at what made UFC 7 unique: Marco Ruas not only used leg kicks to stop Paul Varlens, he did so before the true effectiveness ...

A week before the first edition of the Ultimate Fighting Championship event in Brazil, UFC 17.5 in Sao Paulo, I went to Japan to cover Pride 4, an event filled with combat sports icons from three ...

RIZZO: Brazilian Vale Tudo fighter and Luta Livre practitioner Pedro Rizzo (Pictures) is a four-time Brazilian Muay Thai champion with a record of 31-0-1 (30 KO) in kickboxing. He is the World Vale ...

This iconic statement, attributed to many, fits perfectly in the history of humanity. Long-time Sherdog collaborators and friends Marcelo Alonso and Gleidson Venga from Brazil’s trusted Portal do Vale ...