Ronny Markes - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Ronny Marki Sales da Silva (born April 21, 1988) is an Brazilian

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...

mixed martial artist

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

currently competing in the Light Heavyweight

Light Heavyweight (MMA)

The light heavyweight division in mixed martial arts generally refers to competitors weighing between 186 and 205 lb . It sits between the lighter middleweight division, and the heavyweight division....

division of the UFC. He fights out of the Nova Uniao

Nova União

Nova União is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Its population was 9,329 and its area is 807 km²....

camp in Natal

Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

-History:The northeastern tip of South America, Cabo São Roque, to the north of Natal and the closest point to Europe from Latin America, was first visited by European navigators in 1501, in the 1501–1502 Portuguese expedition led by Amerigo Vespucci, who named the spot after the saint of the day...

, Rio Grande do Norte

Rio Grande do Norte

Rio Grande do Norte is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern region of the country, occupying the northeasternmost tip of the South American continent. Because of its geographic position, Rio Grande do Norte has a strategic importance. The capital and largest city is Natal...

, Brazil

Brazil

Early career

Markes made his professional MMA debut in 2007 at an event in Spain. Markes competed mostly in his native Brazil

Brazil

, with a few early professional fights taking place in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

. He amassed an impressive 11 wins and 1 loss prior to signing with Zuffa in 2011.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Markes signed for the UFC on June 17, 2011, as an injury replacement for Stephan Bonnar

Stephan Bonnar

Stephan Patrick Bonnar is an American mixed martial artist who currently competes for the Ultimate Fighting Championship...

. He faced Karlos Vemola

Karlos Vemola

Karlos Vemola is a Czech mixed martial artist. He is currently signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and competes in their heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions. He is a 6 time Czech Republic National Wrestling Champion. He is known for his great strength...

at UFC on Versus 5

UFC on Versus 5

UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on August 14, 2011, at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The event was the first that the UFC has hosted in Wisconsin...

on August 14, 2011, winning by unanimous decision (30-27 on all cards).

Mixed martial arts record

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| Win
|align=center| 12-1
| Karlos Vemola

Karlos Vemola

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...

, 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| 11-1
| Paulo Filho

Paulo Filho

Paulo Fernando de Souza Leite Filho, better known as simply Paulo Filho , is a retired Brazilian mixed martial artist as well as a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo practitioner, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

Recife

Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

, Pernambuco

Pernambuco

Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...

, Brazil

Brazil

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| Win
|align=center| 10-1
| Diogo Osama
| TKO (punches)
| Shooto: Brazil 22
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|align=center| 1
|align=center| 0:45
|Brasilia

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

, Brazil

Brazil

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| Win
|align=center| 9-1
| Wendres Carlos da Silva
| Submission (punches)
| Gouveia Fight Championship 2
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|align=center| 3
|align=center| 4:57
|Natal

Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

, Rio Grande do Norte

Rio Grande do Norte

, Brazil

Brazil

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| Win
|align=center| 8-1
| Fernando Silva
| TKO (punches)
| Brazil Fight 3: Minas Gerais vs. Sao Paulo
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|align=center| 1
|align=center| 3:08
|Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...

, Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

, Brazil

Brazil

Belem

Belem or Belém may refer to:* Belém, capital city of the Brazilian state of Pará* Belem , a three-masted barque from France* Belém, Alagoas, a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas...

, Para

Para

Para may refer to:*Para Loga, one among the seven Logas in Ayyavazhi mythology*Para-quaternions, expression from algebra in mathematics*Paramedic is a first response ambulance crew member...

, Brazil

Brazil

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| Win
|align=center| 7-0
| Fernando Almeida
| TKO (punches)
| Amazon Show Combat
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|align=center| 1
|align=center| N/A
|Manaus

Manaus

Manaus is a city in Brazil, the capital of the state of Amazonas. It is situated at the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers. It is the most populous city of Amazonas, according to the statistics of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, and is a popular ecotourist destination....

, Amazonas, Brazil

Brazil

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| Win
|align=center| 6-0
| Wanderlan Vila Cruzeiro
| TKO (punches)
| Shooto: Brazil 16
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|align=center| 1
|align=center| N/A
|Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, Brazil

Brazil

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| Win
|align=center| 5–0
| Roque Oliver
| Submission (arm-triangle choke)
| Platinum Fight Brazil 2
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|align=center| 1
|align=center| 2:42
|Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

, Brazil

Brazil

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| Win
|align=center| 4–0
| Charles Andrade
| Submission (kimura)
| Natal Fight Championship 2
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|align=center| 1
|align=center| 3:56
|Natal

Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

, Rio Grande do Norte

Rio Grande do Norte

, Brazil

Brazil

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| Win
|align=center| 3–0
| Michael Knaap

Michael Knaap

Michael Knaap is a Dutch mixed martial artist currently competing at Heavyweight. A professional MMA competitor since 2001, Knaap mainly competes in his home country of The Netherlands...

Beverwijk

Beverwijk is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The town is located about northwest of Amsterdam in the Randstad metropolitan area, north of the North Sea Canal very close to the North Sea coast...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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| Win
|align=center| 2–0
| Junior Fofinho
| Submission (arm-triangle choke)
| Platinum Fight Brazil
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|align=center| 1
|align=center| 0:28
|Natal

Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

, Rio Grande do Norte

Rio Grande do Norte

, Brazil

Brazil

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| Win
|align=center| 1–0
| Enrico Vaccaro
| TKO (punches)
| KO: Arena 6
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|align=center| 2
|align=center| 1:05
|Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

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