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[notrightn0w]

It was announced via the official Chute Boxe website on Tuesday that Murilo “Ninja” Rua and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua have decided to leave the famed Brazilian fight team.

Wanderlei Silva and Andre Dida recently left the team and now it is apparently time for the Rua brothers to follow suit.

Chute Boxe has developed some of the greatest fighters in mixed martial arts, and this is not the first time that fighters have left the camp. Some years ago, fighters such as Jose Pele Landi-Jons, Assuerio Silva and current Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder Anderson Silva left Chute Boxe to build a new camp of their own, which some months later didn’t work out and each fighter went his separate way.

Ninja started his career years ago with Master Rafael Cordeiro and was responsible for bringing Shogun to the sport.

"I am leaving Chute Boxe to build my own team,” said Ninja. “I don't have a name yet, but it will be decided soon.

“The fact is that an MMA fighter’s career is short and we don't have huge purses and I have to look for the best for me and my family. I had a good proposal from a businessman to open a facility in Massachusetts, and that will be my destiny soon. I have talked to Master Rudimar Fedrigo and it is sad to leave the camp where I was born, but life goes on."

Shogun told MMAWeekly.com, "I am leaving Chute Boxe because of my brother. I cannot be part of a team that sometime could face my brother. I love Chute Boxe and all my training partners, but I need to be next to my brother on that.”

About the plans of the Rua brothers, things are not clear yet according to Shogun.

"I definitely don't want to move to the U.S. I want to stay, live and train in Brazil. I will try to convince (Ninja) to stay in Brazil. We will build a new camp, but I’ll try my best to not go to U.S. I have family here, my wife has family here and its complicated to leave all this behind and move to another place.”

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Apparently it's Ninja's decision to leave and not Shogun's. Shogun is pulling the standard Brazillian Nationalist approach that most Martial Artists from the mother land of MMA have taken.

That's probably another reason he and Wanderlei had that "rift" a few months back. maybe he saw Wanderlei as "A prostitute" (TY Filho) for leaving Brazil.

[BigBanda]

Yeah seems that Ninja leaving basically made up Shoguns decision that he was going to leave as well. Two very close brothers and I bet they both run this new team together.

[LefthookStcrook]

It kinda sux for the camp as a whole, to lose so many good fighters, but in the long run i think it's good for the fighters and the sport to mix up training camps so often

[DRExLOC]

Shogun made the right decision by sticking with his brother, and by the way..... who still fights for chute box???? is Thiago Silva still with them??

[notrightn0w]

Someone had said that Thiago left, but it was never really confirmed. Werdum is still there to.

[mmafanatic087]

Originally Posted by notrightn0w

Someone had said that Thiago left, but it was never really confirmed. Werdum is still there to.

I think its just a matter of time b4 thy leave the camp too.

[DRExLOC]

i think that camp needs new blood, which is going to be hard to find the same caliber fighters as they had before

[SimpleJack]

Coming to the U.S. would certainly help Shogun's pocket book substantially. Especially with his Beckham-like modeling and marrying a model. Even on the fighting side, he could focus more on the cage, Greco, etc. I think it will help him immensely.

[twankydawg]

Originally Posted by DonFrye

Coming to the U.S. would certainly help Shogun's pocket book substantially. Especially with his Beckham-like modeling and marrying a model. Even on the fighting side, he could focus more on the cage, Greco, etc. I think it will help him immensely.

I think both of them have taken everything they can from Chute Boxe and if you don't move on at that point, you will never improve. Shogun's loyalty to his brother is good, but staying in Brazil doesn't look like an option, especially if the camp is in Massachusetts. It's going to be interesting to see if he follows him there.