RFT UK: 45 victories in 47 fights

By Guilherme Cruz

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The Luta Livre team RFT, leaded by Marcelo Brigadeiro onEngland, is doing a great job. Last weekend, the team won the six fights that they did on Olympian MMA Championship 2, with a show of submissions. First to get in action, Pietro Menga submitted his opponent with a triangle choke on 35s of the second round. Then Greg Draggo needed 23 seconds to submit his opponent with a guillotine choke, winning the fourth in a row with guillotines in less than one minute. Then, Uche Ihiekwe also used a triangle choke to submit, winning on 83 seconds. Fast as a bullet, Lee Chadwick won in only 17 seconds, with a rear naked choke.

Finishing the job, Richie Downes and Carl Noon also submitted on the first round. “Now our next commitments are Burnley Brawn 2, on November 7, where we’ll be represented by four athletes. UFC 105 will have Terry Etim and Paul Kelly, who left Wolfslair to get in our team. Terry will face Shannon Gugerty and Paul faces Dennis Silver”, Brigadeiro said, revealing that RFT still has eight more fights this month. “To finish the year, we have eight athletes on Olympian MMA Championship 3, on November 28. Besides, Paul Taylor will be here for a while, training with us, and next week Paul Daley will come, he trained with me a few days before the fight with Martin Kampman, on the last UFC, and he called me telling me that he’ll stay some weeks here”.