Murilo “Ninja” Rua (20-10-1) is currently without a promotional home as the fighter bounces between different events around the world.
The former PRIDE star and EliteXC middleweight champ has won his last four fights, earning a submission win over Jeremy May at the Impact FC 2 – The Uprising: Sydney event in July. He’s fought such big names as Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Dan Henderson, Robbie Lawler, and Kevin Randleman in the past.
Recently his brother, UFC light-heavyweight champ Mauricio “Shogun” Rua put out a request to UFC president Dana White to bring “Ninja” to the UFC via Twitter.
@danawhite , pleaase give a chance for NINJA fight in UFC , he always give very good fights for the fans @ShogunRua know this too !!RUAS !!!
Murilo himself is looking for some big things to happen in 2011 concerning his career. His manager, Eduardo Alonso spoke to Tatame.com recently about his fighters future.
“There’re a lot of things happening related to Murilo. I’m trying to define his future in 2011. We’ve straightened a good way to go with good wins and now we wanted him to have the greatest challenge of his career, to find within himself the motivation to face those challenges. It came up a possibility for him to fight in Europe, Israel and Hawaii, but everything is just a speculation yet”.
“There’s still the possibility of him coming back to Dream. They even said something about him fighting (Kazushi) Sakuraba, but they’re old friends, so it didn’t happen. We want Murilo on the United Stated in 2011, on a bigger event… We’re prioritizing it.”