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I have literally never heard of this supposed rematch, got any links or old fourm threads to back this claim up?
Those conversations would have been from around 2005, about the same time period that Mauricio said that the pitbull puppy story was had been greatly exaggerated/took a life of its own (not the pup I mean).
Rua then proceeded to clarify that Wand and himself did knock each others out in training, even giving the important detail that Wanderlei's victory was via flying knee; and that the 2 stories got mixed up or whatever.
I'll look in the archives, but I've recently already tried to find old threads from my old account (2005 era) and didn't have much luck locating it.
(I'm 99% sure it was when Sakuraba first trained at Chute Boxe, and he had that flash KO against Ken and won that beautiful submission war against Minowaman)
Another interview of his I'd like to find is the one before Murilo Ninja fought Denis Kang a couple years later, and Mauricio was saying that Ninja was the best when it came to sparring at the gym and would "KO everyone", but sometimes froze of the big stage, but against Kang his camp had been perfect, his body was in top condition (gone the flabs from the Sergei fight, welcome the 6-pack!)
I cried tears of blood when Kang besmirched him in 5 seconds