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'TUF Brazil 1' Runner-up Found Dead in Florida Prison
Godofredo "Pepey" Castro went 5-6 in the UFC. | Dave Mandel/Sherdog.comFormer UFC fighter Godofredo Castro died on Sunday in a Florida prison unit where he was being held.
Originally from Ceará state of Brazil, “Pepey” was 38 years old and had been imprisoned since June 30 of this year, when he assaulted his wife Samara Mello, in the city of Deerfield Beach, Florida. The circumstances of his death have not yet been officially reported, but, according to his friend and “TUF Brazil” teammate Rony Mariano Bezerra, who defeated Castro in the featherweight final of the reality show in 2012, the Brazilian took his own life.