Fighting Lifestyle UAE’s Thais Kelly caught up with 2013 ADCC absolute champion Roberto Cyborg Abreu during his visit to Dubai. Cyborg was in town as part of his seminar tour and took time out to speak to us about certain issues concerning him and the BJJ world as a whole. The topics of discussion were the UAEJJF’s new ranking system, Metamoris and where the organisation is headed given certain controversies surrounding it in recent times. Furthermore he talks about his views on Marcus Almeida Buchecha’s transition to MMA and his view on competing in the super fight against Andre Galvao at the ADCC 2015.
Regarding the ADCC Super fight, Roberto Cyborg Abreu stated,
‘To tell you the truth it was one of the most frustrating moments of my life. I trained super hard for that event, I have never been so prepared for an event. I had the best guys in the world come train with me in Miami, I had a great camp. When I got to the ADCC, I believe I felt the pressure. I haven’t competed in Brazil for 8 years, my family was there, I wanted that moment so much and some how it triggered my heart and ten minutes before the fight my heart just went 200 beats a minute. I just couldn’t control it in time. They called my name and I went in, I wasn’t in the fight and I couldn’t get back in time to put up a fight. I didn’t back out at-least, I went in their and fought how I could, anybody who knows me, knows that wasn’t me who was competing in that fight”
