Falcão faced M-1 Global Middleweight Champion Ramazan Emeev on 4 April 2016, at M-1 Grand Prix 2016. He lost the fight via submission. Fight Nights Global In 2016 Falcão signed with Fight Nights Global. Falcão defeated Vladimir Mineev on 9 December 2016, at Fight Nights Global 56. Falcao dropped a rematch with Mineev on 21 April 2017, at Fight Nights Global 63 via first-round TKO. Falcao faced Ayub Gimbatov on 4 November 2017 at Fight Nights Global 78. He lost the fight via TKO in the first round. Falcao was scheduled to face fellow Bellator veteran Emiliano Sordi on 18 November 2017 for the Arena Tour Light Heavyweight Championship, but the bout was cancelled. Gas station altercation In July 2013, Falcão and a fellow MMA fighter Kauê Mena became involved in a struggle inside a gas station's convenience store in Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina after Falcão assaulted a female customer. Moments after striking the alleged assault victim, a relative of the victim came into the store and attempted to punch Falcão, missing, and Falcão knocked him to the ground. As Falcão attempted to flee the scene, he and Mena were confronted outside the gas station and surrounded by three or four male relatives and friends of the assault victim. As one of the men punched Mena another hit Falcão with a piece of wood from the front, knocking him out. Falcão was then kicked backwards while receiving more strikes with the makeshift weapon. During this time Mena was punched and kicked while he was on the ground unconscious. Mena was in serious condition at an intensive care unit and Falcão had only minor injuries. A few days after the struggle, Renovação Fight Team'' coach Marcelo Brigadeiro expelled Falcão and Mena from the team. The fight also led to his release from Bellator. In an interview after the incident, Falcão claimed that the two fighters had come to the gas station from a bar to purchase more alcohol. While inside, Falcão admits to making sexual advances towards the young girl. He then admitted to striking the young girl because, he claims, she made racial slurs directed at him. Falcão later apologized to Mena's family as well as the MMA community. Kauê Mena has all but retired from mixed martial arts as he is unable to even go outside without help. Personal life and death Falcão married a Ukrainian woman named Nataliia