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Lucio Linhares is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian-Finnish professional mixed martial artist and M-1 Global

M-1 Global

M-1 Global is the mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia - The Netherlands which organizes between 40 and 50 competitions per year...

veteran who has fought for Shooto

Shooto

Shooto is a mixed martial arts organization that is governed by the Shooto Association and the International Shooto Commission. Shooto was originally formed in 1985, as an organization and as a particular fighting system derived from shoot wrestling. Practitioners are referred to as shooters,...

. Linhares most notable win is over former Ultimate Fighting Championship

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport...

fighter Sean Salmon

Sean Salmon

Sean Michael Salmon is an American mixed martial artist who currently competes as a light heavyweight...

. Linhares is a former member of the M-1 Mixfight Team Finland. Lucio was set to fight in a rematch with rival Mikhail Zayats

Mikhail Zayats

Mikhail Zayats is a Russian mixed martial artist who competes in the Light heavyweigh division. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Zayats mostly competed in his native Russia, where he is an M-1 Global veteran....

at Affliction: Trilogy

Affliction: Trilogy

Affliction: Trilogy was a mixed martial arts event scheduled to be promoted by Affliction Entertainment on August 1, 2009 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California....

, but was later moved to M-1 Global Presents Breakthrough

M-1 Global Presents Breakthrough

M-1 Global Presents Breakthrough was a mixed martial arts event promoted by M-1 Global on August 28, 2009 in Kansas City, Kansas. The event aired live on HDNet. The main event featured Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal taking on Mark Kerr. The card also featured an exhibition match between Fedor...

after Affliction Entertainment

Affliction Entertainment

was an American mixed martial arts promotion company created by Affliction Clothing in 2008. The UFC prohibited its fighters from wearing Affliction clothing after learning Affliction was applying to become an MMA fight promotion. Donald Trump, who owned a significant equity stake in Affliction...

folded its MMA organization.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Linhares was most recently signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport...

and was set to make his debut on the TUF 10 Finale card, but instead made his debut against Rousimar Palhares

Rousimar Palhares

Rousimar Palhares, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is known for his technical mastery of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and his physical strength. His nickname, Portuguese for "tree stump", comes from his short, stocky, heavily muscled build. Many of his victories are by Leg-locks...

on December 12, 2009 at UFC 107

UFC 107

UFC 107: Penn vs. Sanchez was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 12, 2009 in Memphis, Tennessee at the FedExForum.-Background:...

. Linhares lost via second round submission (heel hook

Heel hook

Heel hook may refer to:* Heel hook, in grappling* A climbing technique...

).

Linhares most recently lost to Yushin Okami

Yushin Okami

is a Japanese mixed martial artist. He currently fights at middleweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship . Okami is currently ranked the #3 best middleweight in the world by Sherdog and the #2 best middleweight by MMAWeekly....

via TKO (cut) at UFC Fight Night: Florian vs. Gomi and was later released from the UFC. After his release from UFC, Linhares has put together a 3-1 record, his only loss coming to fellow UFC veteran Kenny Robertson.

Mixed martial arts record

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

|Catchweight bout 80kg (177lbs)
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|Win
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Imatra

Imatra is a town and municipality in eastern Finland, founded in 1948 around three industrial settlements near the Finnish–Russian border. In the course of the last 50 years, this amorphous group of settlements has grown into a modern industrial town dominated by Lake Saimaa, the Vuoksi River and...

, Finland

Finland

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|Win
|align=center|15-6
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Xavier Foupa-Pokam

Xavier Foupa-Pokam is a French mixed martial artist from Paris. Foupa-Pokam is best known for his brief career in the Ultimate Fighting Championships in their middleweight division, and his long career in British MMA with promotions such as BAMMA and Cage Rage...

|Submission (triangle choke)
|100% Fight 4
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|align=center|2:53
|Paris, France
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|Win
|align=center|14-6
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Yushin Okami

Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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|Loss
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Rousimar Palhares

| Submission (heel hook)
| UFC 107

UFC 107

UFC 107: Penn vs. Sanchez was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 12, 2009 in Memphis, Tennessee at the FedExForum.-Background:...

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

|UFC Debut
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|Win
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Mikhail Zayats

| Submission (rear naked choke)
| M-1 Global Presents Breakthrough

M-1 Global Presents Breakthrough

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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|Win
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Valdir Araujo
| KO (punch)
| 2009 M-1 Challenge Season

2009 M-1 Challenge Season

The 2009 M-1 Challenge Season was the second season of the M-1 Challenge series presented by M-1 Global. It started on February 21, 2009 and concluded on December 3, 2009. 16 teams from around the world competed in the 2009 M-1 Challenge Season, up from the 9 teams that competed in 2008. The...

Kansas City, Kansas

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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|Win
|align=center|11-4
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Sean Salmon

Sean Michael Salmon is an American mixed martial artist who currently competes as a light heavyweight...

| Submission (rear naked choke)
| Fight Festival 25
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|align=center|2:07
|Helsinki, Finland
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|Win
|align=center|10-4
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Kamil Uygun
| Submission (armbar)
| 2009 M-1 Challenge Season

2009 M-1 Challenge Season

Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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|Win
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Karl Amoussou

Karl Amoussou is a French professional mixed martial artist. Amoussou is a M-1 Global, Dream and Strikeforce veteran and has fought for Cage Warriors.-MMA career:...

| TKO (punches)
| M-1 Global

M-1 Global

M-1 Global is the mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia - The Netherlands which organizes between 40 and 50 competitions per year...

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|align=center|4:52
|Helsinki, Finland
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|Loss
|align=center|8-4
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Mikhail Zayats

| Decision (unanimous)
| M-1 Global

M-1 Global

M-1 Global is the mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia - The Netherlands which organizes between 40 and 50 competitions per year...

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|align=center|2
|align=center|5:00
|St. Petersburg, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|8-3
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Moyses Gabin
| Submission (armbar)
| M-1 Global

M-1 Global

M-1 Global is the mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia - The Netherlands which organizes between 40 and 50 competitions per year...

Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, with a population of 838,397 which constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago...

, Spain

Spain

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|Loss
|align=center|7-3
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Hyun Gyu Lim
| KO (punch)
| M-1 Global

M-1 Global

M-1 Global is the mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia - The Netherlands which organizes between 40 and 50 competitions per year...

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|align=center|N/A
|St. Petersburg, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|7-2
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Tor Troeng
| Decision (split)
| Shooto

Shooto

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|align=center|2
|align=center|5:00
|Lahti, Finland
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|Win
|align=center|6-2
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Nordin Asrih
| Submission (armbar)
| Fight Festival 22
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|align=center|1
|align=center|1:56
| Helsinki, Finland
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|Win
|align=center|5-2
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Matti Mäkelä

-References:...

Imatra

, Finland

Finland

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|Win
|align=center|4-2
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Tomasz Drwal
| TKO (punches)
| The Cage Vol. 4: Redemption
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|align=center|1
|align=center|3:32
| Helsinki, Finland
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|Win
|align=center|3-1
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Robert Jocz

Robert Jocz is a Polish mixed martial artist. He fights in the Middleweight division and has competed for numerous European MMA promotions, like BOTE, M-1, KSW, Ultimate Glory and The Cage. Robert has earned the reputation of a tough fighter, because he has never been finished for the most of his...

| Decision (split)
| The Cage Vol. 3: Rise of the Titans
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
| Helsinki, Finland
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|Win
|align=center|2-1
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Grzegorz Jakubowski

Grzegorz "Jakubek" Jakubowski is a Polish mixed martial artist, one of the first Poles to archieve international success in the sport.His most notable victories came against UFC fighter Antoni Hardonk and KSW 5 winner Francis Carmont. He has also fought the likes of Travis Lutter , Jean Francois...

| Decision (split)
| The Cage Vol. 2: Capital Collision
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
| Helsinki, Finland
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|Loss
|align=center|1-1
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Thales Leites

Thales Leites Lourenço is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is the current Superior Challenge middleweight champion.-Mixed martial arts:A relative newcomer to the sport, Leites made his mixed martial arts debut at Shooto Brazil in 2003, defeating Felipe Arinelli by arm-triangle choke submission...

| TKO (corner stoppage)
| Vitória Extreme Fighting 1
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|align=center|1
|align=center|4:00
|Vitória, Brazil
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|Win
|align=center|1-0
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Julio Cesar Alves
| Decision (unanimous)
| Vitória Extreme Fighting 1
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Vitória, Brazil
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