Bia Mesquita and Urijah Faber met this week in Abu Dhabi, during a press conference organized by the organization of the Jiu-Jitsu World Pro held 15-19 April in the capital of United Arab Emirates. On Monday, the duo wore the gi and trained together.
Mesquita will defend her title in her weight class and sharpened her Jiu-Jitsu with a UFC fighter with the UFC , who is a special guest of the 2014 edition of the World Pro.
Mesquita told Tatame about her experience:
“We rolled for an hour. It was a good technical training. We trained with the Gi, and agreed to train No Gi next time. The training exceeded my expectations, because I thought he would be heavier. Because he is a UFC fighter, he had not that much technique, but he did not go so hard, and the training was great.”
Faber is a brown belt (was promoted top purple in 2010, then brown in 2011) and has defeated numerous BJJ black belts in MMA.
Earlier this year, Faber’s BJJ instructor Fabio Prado had the following to say about his students Jiu-Jitsu progress:
We need to adjust some details with the gi. He needs to train with the gi, and he hasn’t been doing that much lately because he fought a lot last year. But when he returns to train with the gi he’ll receive the black belt, he knows that. Some guys here in the USA that teach for four years and have a lot of black belts.
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