Chute Boxe Fans...

[Eric?!]

2007-05-22

- Chute Boxe's Thiago Silva will be making an appearance in Las Vegas on May 26th, at UFC 71. Thiago Silva, who has been training under Macaco, currently has 9 wins and 0 losses. His UFC debut fight will be against James Irvin.

- During K-1 Hero's first appearance in Los Angeles on June 2nd, Kazushi Sakuraba will fight Royce Grace for the second time. Kazushi Sakuraba, who has been training with the Chute Boxe academy in Curitiba, Brazil, has earned the nickname, "The Gracie Killer" after defeating four different Gracies. After defeating Royler Gracie, Sakuraba went on to defeat Royce Gracie, Renzo Gracie, and Ryan Gracie. Sakuraba will be coming to the Los Angeles area to train with Chute Boxe USA's Coach Roberto Piccinini prior to the event on May 25th. Tickets to this event are available for sale here on Chuteboxe-usa.com for $10 each.

- On June 22, Strikeforce / Elite XC will be holding an event in San Jose, California, where Chute Boxe's Murilo "Ninja" Rua will be fighting Joey Villasenor.

- On June 26, Cristiano Marcello is scheduled to be fighting in Dallas, Texas.

- Mauricio "Shogun" Rua has signed a contract with the UFC and may participate in UFC 72.

- Evan Tanner is back in Los Angeles with Coach Roberto Piccinini. He is determined to take back the UFC title from Anderson Silva and will be fighting under the Chute Boxe USA banner.

More details will be available soon... only on Chuteboxe-usa.com.

[JustinMcCorkle]

Evan Tanner... I don't know what to think about him. I followed his "foundation" stuff on his website for so long, which I found a bit odd and random. Only for it to fall through, and him suddenly decide out of nowhere to want to fight again.

In my opinion, he's going to have his hands full. Don't get me wrong, I was a huge Evan Tanner fan, and except for the fight against Rich, have ALWAYS rooted for him. He used to train at a gym here in my area that several of my training partners know him personally. But I think the 185 top 5 or 6 will be tough matchups for him...

Rich, Anderson, Marquardt, Okami, Kampman (when he's healthy again), Lutter, even Leben may pose as a problem for him.

[Tom Gavrilos]

2007-05-22

- Chute Boxe's Thiago Silva will be making an appearance in Las Vegas on May 26th, at UFC 71. Thiago Silva, who has been training under Macaco, currently has 9 wins and 0 losses. His UFC debut fight will be against James Irvin.

- During K-1 Hero's first appearance in Los Angeles on June 2nd, Kazushi Sakuraba will fight Royce Grace for the second time. Kazushi Sakuraba, who has been training with the Chute Boxe academy in Curitiba, Brazil, has earned the nickname, "The Gracie Killer" after defeating four different Gracies. After defeating Royler Gracie, Sakuraba went on to defeat Royce Gracie, Renzo Gracie, and Ryan Gracie. Sakuraba will be coming to the Los Angeles area to train with Chute Boxe USA's Coach Roberto Piccinini prior to the event on May 25th. Tickets to this event are available for sale here on Chuteboxe-usa.com for $10 each.

- On June 22, Strikeforce / Elite XC will be holding an event in San Jose, California, where Chute Boxe's Murilo "Ninja" Rua will be fighting Joey Villasenor.

- On June 26, Cristiano Marcello is scheduled to be fighting in Dallas, Texas.

- Mauricio "Shogun" Rua has signed a contract with the UFC and may participate in UFC 72.

- Evan Tanner is back in Los Angeles with Coach Roberto Piccinini. He is determined to take back the UFC title from Anderson Silva and will be fighting under the Chute Boxe USA banner.

More details will be available soon... only on Chuteboxe-usa.com.

Im pretty damned excited about all of this! Ive been waiting on Shogun to come in and run this division!;)
Im a HUGE Chute Box Fan!

[Eric?!]

Yeah... I'm with you on the E. Tanner subject, but who knows I've seen stranger things. And there are older and least talented MMA Fighters out their as well...just my .02 cents

[Ryan]

I like Evan even though he was totally unpredictable for about 6 months. He became a mountain man, lived in Vegas, lived in Oregan and then moved to Cali. From what I have read on his sites he is going back to the UFC for the wrong reasons. He states that his foundation can't and won't be successful without the backing of "UFC middleweight champ" as his title. People won't sponsor, fighters may not be interested and the notoriety just wouldn't be there. So, should he come back just to give his foundation a name or should he come back for himself and the fans? Tanner is a scarred person from what I have read. He says he went to a UFC event, sat in the back row and looked like a Mt. man. He was disgusted that when he was famous people would run up to him but now that he isn't recognizeable he was getting pushed aside (literally) so they could get to someone else.

[Eric?!]

Im pretty damned excited about all of this! Ive been waiting on Shogun to come in and run this division!;)
Im a HUGE Chute Box Fan!

Yes Sir... I can't wait too see SHOGUN take over the LHW Division?!

[Marcus_CC13]

Cant wait to see Shogun again

[BigD]

Poor Rampage, he leaves Pride, comes to UFC, will probably get the belt saturday only to have it taken by Shogun in a few months...lol

Chute Box FTW!!