Brown belt under GFTeam’s Julio Cesar, Victor Honorio was the breakout star at last weekend’s Copa Podio Heavyweight GP. Honorio fought on the same level and even better than monsters such as Delson “Pe de Chumbo”, Erberth Santos and Felipe Preguica. The GFTeam memeber only lost one match: to Preguica who ended up winning the GP.
In an interview with TATAME, Victor commented on his performance in the championship, analyzed his loss to Felipe Preguica in GP final, and his win against Preguica in the fifth round, and revealed the desire to fight more times in Copa Podio.
“For the competition, I changed the diet more because I went from 111 kg to 96 kg. The guys at GFTeam helped me a lot during training. All fights I had were very hard. The event was very good. I can not complain about my performance during the championship. I had a good campaign, unfortunately I lost to Preguica at the end of the fight, when he passed my guard and he took the back. But I fought well, going forward, and I want to compete more times in the Copa Podio. ”
About his hard matches:
“I knew that Pe de Chumbo was a tough guy, but he surprised me. He did not tire, and it was not only against me, it was in all of his fights. It was a tough fight. And against Preguica, you can not make mistakes, can not stop. I tried to make my game against him … The first time it worked in the second was working too, I was trying to pass guard. But the guy is a black belt world champion, and you can not make mistakes against these guys. I took a break, the guy took my back and ended the fight. I hope to fight him again, “
Victor Honorio also revealed his plans to compete in the IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu championships, to be held on 28, 29, 30 and 31 May in California. The athlete said he returned to training already and is also training Wrestling and said he wants to take the gold in weight and absolute:
“For the World IBJJF, I’ll follow my training. The only thing that will change is the training time, that there are eight minutes, then I should change a little my physical preparation. I intend to continue making adjustments. In the standing I went back to basics, back to train Wrestling, since I was the Brazilian national wrestling team. I opted not to train any more Judo and chose Wrestling, which is my base. I want to take this World at weight and all, I’m very confident, “he said.
