BRAVE CF 78: Lutterbach vs. Santiago (Also known as Victorious MMA 5) will be a mixed martial arts event held by Brave Combat Federation in co promotion with Victorious Fighting Entertainment on December 7, 2023 at the at the Centro de Formação Olímpica in Fortaleza, Brazil.
Fight Card
Main Card (DAZN )
Super Lightweight 75 kg Brazil Joilton Lutterbach vs. Brazil Luan Santiago
Flyweight 57 kg Brazil Edilceu Alves vs. Brazil Marciano Ferreira
Super Welterweight 79.5 kg Brazil Luiz Cado vs. Panama Vernon Ramos
Lightweight 70 kg Brazil Arlen Ribeiro vs. Guinea-Bissau Yabna N’Tchalá
Lightweight 70 kg Brazil Marcelo Marques vs. Venezuela Manuel Mena
Victorious 5
Lightweight 70 kg Brazil Junior Melo vs. Brazil Danillo Santos
Catchweight 68 kg Brazil Ricardo de Almeida vs. Argentina Roberto Benítez
Light Heavyweight 93 kg Brazil Jhonathan Azevedo vs. Brazil Raffael Cerqueira
Bantamweight 61 kg Brazil Tiago Cabloco vs. Brazil Lazaro Mascarenhas
W.Strawweight 52 kg Brazil Gracy Maia vs. Brazil Ada Leticia
Featherweight 66 kg Brazil Israel Figueira vs. Angola Wilker Nsamo
Background
An inaugural BRAVE CF Flyweight Championship bout between Velimurad Alkhasov and Edilceu Alves was expected to headline the event. However, due to undisclosed reasons, Alkhasov has pulled out of the title fight and will be replaced by Flavio de Queiroz. Ten days later, it was Flavio's turn to withdraw after the latter fell ill. As a results, a super lightweight bout between Joilton Lutterbach and former BRAVE CF Lightweight champion Luan Santiago was promoted to the main event status.
The BRAVE CF Flyweight title curse is real. After yet another injury, the organization will not be crowning its first-ever 125-pound champion in Brazil after all. Flavio Queiroz, who was supposed to face Edilceu Alves for the title, has fallen ill and is out of the fight - It is the 11th time the company is forced to deal with last-minute changes related to the inaugural Flyweight belt, which will continue to have no owner in the near future. Alves now takes on newcomer Marciano Ferreira in a non-title bout, while the Super Lightweight duel between former world champion Luan Santiago and top contender Joilton Lutterbach is the new main event of BRAVE CF 78.
The event, which takes place December 7, in association with Victorious Fight and Entertainment, is the return of the most global MMA organization to its second home in Brazil. For the first time, BRAVE Combat Federation will land in Fortaleza, in the North-East of the country, as Brazil become the first country to host BRAVE CF shows in three different cities (Curitiba and Belo Horizonte being the other ones).
