Brazilian lived for six months in the country and said he lived one of the best years of his life at the time. Against athlete of the house, you want to use jujitsu to come out with the victory
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Raphael MarinhoRio de Janeiro
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Athlete plays with a kangaroo in Australia (Photo: Personal Archive)
On Saturday,
Antonio Carlos Shoe Face will be in Australia to meet the local athlete Daniel Kelly in "
UFC: Hunt x Mir ". But it is misleading to believe that the Brazilian will be mere visitor at the time. The black belt in jiu-jitsu has lived in the country for six months in 2012 after overcoming a drama in his personal life, as just before he recovered from panic disorder. The period lived in Australian land was set by fighter as one of the best years of his life and the opportunity to return there to fight was received with joy by the athlete of the American Top Team (ATT).
- I have lived in Australia a while, is a place that I only have good memories, it was a wonderful time of my life. I intend to keep these good memories, so I want to go there and come out with this win to stay with this image of Australia. It's a long trip, but it was so good thing that happened in that country I'm crazy to go back there. When they told me he was going to fight there, I was very happy. I lived there in 2012. In total was about 6 months in Australia, I have great friends there, so, although no doubt that most of the fans will be for him, I know that I have great friends, so I have a twisted not as big as his, but of quality, heart, sending a lot of energy. I did many things there. I jumped with a parachute, gave several seminars, I made great friends, it was a very nice time in my life. It was right after I had recovered from panic attacks I had. I went through one of the worst years of my life, my worst time in 2011. In 2012 I went to Australia and had one of the best, if not the best year of my life. It was wonderful, everything perfect. Just remember good things there - said in an interview with
Combate.com .
In his last fight, Shoe Face was only 11 seconds in action since accidentally hit Kevin Casey with a finger in the eye, and the US did not return to the fight, which ended in "No Contest". For the duel before Daniel Kelly, the Brazilian kept the same training as both are left-handed, but knows he must take care of the judo rival, who played in four Olympics representing Australia.
Shoe man lived six months on Australian soil, where he made many friends (Photo: Personal Archive)
- I'm training here at ATT with the guys, doing a very similar training with the last fight. It is against a guy handed too, so I'm in the same sparring partners. The difference is that the other was jiu-jitsu and this is the judo Olympian four times by Australia, but the training is basically the same.The strong point of it is judo, falls. Not wrestling falls are hip drops it. It's an older guy, savvy, he was for four Olympics, has enough competition experience. I have to keep calm and do the job straight will be a key to my victory. Although he was more experienced, I think I have more weapons. The strong it is put down and down I feel quite comfortable. It will be difficult for him to get in hip drop. I will try to impose my game and work my jiu-jitsu - analyzed.
Confident of his performance, Shoe Face is considered a complete fighter now and warrants have evolved in areas considered his weaknesses: muay thai, and especially wrestling. To beat Kelly, he bet the most scale to use striking as a shortcut before taking the confrontation to the ground and be able to use jujitsu, which is their specialty.
- He knows I have a good ground game, do not know if will want to tear down and back up. In striking also I think take advantage, I'm bigger than him, have a good reach, so I'll try to use it, my ground game with striking, and I think that is where I find this key to victory. He is left-handed, change some things, but not so much. I want to show that I have trained hard, evolved and grew as an athlete. I learned in the areas that were deficient and can be a great name for this division. I had the background of jujitsu, was training a lot of boxing, but had a very big flaw kicks in, both in defense and in attack, and wrestling, which was my biggest failure. I needed to develop it. Here I found great athletes and teachers who helped me in this. In muay thai, I have trained a lot with Katel Kubis. I do wrestling with King Mo and Steve Mocco, who know a lot. This has left me more complete. I was jujitsu and boxing and now consider myself an MMA fighter, full, which can mix all the arts - completed.
Antonio Carlos Shoe Guy is 25 years old, was the champion of the third season of TUF Brazil, and has a record of five wins, one loss and a "No Contest." His rival, Dan Kelly, have 38, 10 wins and one loss in his MMA career.
