After being plucked from the crowd at an MMA event, this Brazilian fan ended up winning the welterweight title in spectacular fashion…

Everyone loves a feel-good story, and today’s report is like very few others you’ll hear. Luis Felipe Alvim, a Brazilian chocolate brownie salesman attended an MMA event in his home country hoping to make some money.

Alvim and his girlfriend were attending the event as fans, but when they arrived to sell their brownies, MMAFighting.com reported, everyone was already inside the fight venue. A missed opportunity, it seemed, would lead to a huge moment in Alvim’s life.

The event, Juiz de Fora Fight 18, was originally headlined by Carlos Eduardo Rufino vs. Claudinei Kall for the welterweight belt. After Rufino missed weight, Kall refused to fight him, and so the main bout was in trouble.

Alvim was offered a spot in the main event. Check out the full interview with Guilherme Cruz below:

From Selling Brownies to Winning a World Title

“I told Felipe Silva I’d fight, that I’d put on a show, but a new fight was already booked,” Alvim told MMA Fighting. “Forty minutes before the main event, this guy chickened out and they offered me the fight again.”

“He took me down and landed some heavy shots, and I though ‘oh sh*t, what the f*ck am I doing here?’” Alvim said. “When I locked the triangle I thought to myself, ‘sh*t, I’ll catch him.’ I asked God ‘please, don’t let this round end,’ and he tapped.”

The crowd went absolutely bonkers when the fight was stopped. They’d witnessed an incredible moment, but the story wasn’t done yet:

Alvim attacks his opponent with a triangle choke from his back…

Alvim Proposed to His Girlfriend & She Said Yes

After his fantastic title belt win, Alvim got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend. Presumably, their days of cooking brownies to sell might be over now.

“I showed my girlfriend — my fiancee now [laughs] — the trailer of the movie Troy yesterday,” he said, “in which this kid tells Achilles he’d never fight a giant like Achilles was about to do, and Achilles says ‘that’s why your name won’t be remembered.’ That stuck in my mind.”

Unlikely champion Luis Felipe Alvim proposes to his girlfriend after an incredible moment in Brazil (all photos by Leandro Fabi…

Awesome Story

You couldn’t write such a tale and make it believable. Following his title win, it’s likely Alvim will be looking to switch careers. Hopefully we can catch some video footage of the fight later today.

In other worthy MMA news, Rizin FF announces their complete card for this year’s Fukuoka show:

RENA vs. Andy Nguyen
Tenshin Nasukawa vs. Yamato Fujita
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Frank Shamrock — grappling
Akiyo Nishiura vs. Andy Souwer
King Reina vs. Crystal Stokes
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Gabriel Oliveira
Shintaro Ishiwatari vs. Akhmed Musakaev
Jae Hoon Moon vs. Kevin Petshi
Manel Kape vs. Erson Yamamoto
Jerome Le Banner vs. Roque Martinez
Alyssa Garcia vs. Maria Oliveira
Kanna Asakura vs. Sylwia Juskiewicz
Irene Rivera vs. Miyuu Yamamoto
Issei Ishii vs. Jin Mandokoro — kickboxing
YUKI vs. Darvish Kurogi — kickboxing
Yoshihisa Morimoto vs. Ryota Renseigym — kickboxing

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13 COMMENTS

  1. Let’s see, drink in one hand and a short skirt. hmm, get that prenup bro, just sayin 🙂

  2. She’ll eventually cheat on you. They always do. Enjoy your honeymoon, then get ready for a divorce.

      • …and you’re great at recycling exhausted cliches because of your inability to think for yourself…..which is why nobody ever invites you to those parties.

        • Well look here mister, I’m sure you’ve got your reasons to exhaust your frustrations onto me or whoever you don’t agree with, but sorry. The world does not revolve around you. I simply said,”Must be fun at parties,” though that doesn’t mean I don’t have the ability to think for myself. The moment you have read this message, I’m already at a party of those kinds, so good day to you sir! 😀

          • Well if you’re partying at 3:06 PM on a Wednesday, then you’re an unemployed degenerate. “Mister”? “Good day to you sir”? Are you stuck inside of an episode of Leave It To Beaver? Seems like the only party you attend is a “Lemon Party.”

          • Not every single being lives in the US, seems to me your vision of this world is very narrow.

          • I’m 100% positive that Leave It To Beaver had syndication in other countries besides the United States…and the Lemon Party is global, if not universal.
            …and regardless of where you live on this planet…I nailed the Unemployment thing, am I right? Hang in there “Mister”…you’ll find a way to get back on your feet…no matter if you have to blow dudes for pennies. You’ll get there, princess.

          • ….and if you’re at a party, what the hell are you doing checking your Disqus threads? I’m THAT much more important than your present company of “party” goers? Well I don’t know if I should be flattered or feel sorry for the other “party” goers, considering they have to share the room with an unemployed degenerate such as yourself! What a loser!

          • Ha, I bet you have quite the frustrations pent up just to thrash it all at me and others, of course, if you are even conscious of it. Well to be fair, I don’t really care what you say because me having a good time with my friends and colleagues don’t have anything to do with you whatsoever and plus, I bet you have your reasons. Be it a past life having the same fate of what you just said during this whole thread with the other people about being cheated and stuff or just a rant in general. Anyways, I’ve spent enough time on this thread, so to be fair, I shall be on my leave now, farewell. ;D

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