Considered one of MMA’s longest-running promotions pays the very best prize in Brazilian MMA historical past in 2025.
On Monday, Jungle Struggle introduced it is going to maintain two tournaments to crown “King of the Jungle” and “Queen of the Jungle,” beginning with the eight-man light-weight event that kicks off June 14 in Brasilia, Brazil. The promotion has but to disclose a date for the ladies’s flyweight grand prix.
Event winners will likely be paid R$500,000 (almost $90,000 USD), the very best pay in Brazilian MMA historical past. The light-weight matchups are Carlos Alexandre da Costa vs. Lucas Campos, Marcelo Medeiros vs. Bruno Guimarães Santos, Eliwelton Travassos vs. Arcangelo Anjo, and Jorge Silva vs. Cleiton Morais.
Jungle Struggle landed an enormous TV cope with Globo, the most important community in Latin America and a former longtime companion of the UFC within the nation. Globo airs Jungle Struggle title bouts stay on community tv, with full playing cards airing on SporTV and Combate. Figures of the deal weren’t disclosed.
“An evening the place two fighters will win R$1 million in whole,” Jungle Struggle founder and president Wallid Ismail mentioned following an occasion Saturday. “It’s going to be unbelievable. Think about how completely satisfied I’m to have the ability to pay this gigantic sum of money to those warriors. They deserve it.”
Ismail’s newest occasion, Jungle Struggle 136, aired Saturday night time on Globo and noticed Laura Vasconcelos cease Laura Fontoura in simply over three minutes to defend the strawweight championship in the primary occasion. Vanderlei Gonçalves unified the welterweight belts with a second-round TKO over Anderson Nascimento within the co-headliner.
