Gesias Cavalcante

Two times Hero’s champion, Gesias Cavalcante is recovering from his knee injury at American Top Team, but watched the finals of Dream’s GP, that he fought against Shinya Aoki twice, but lost. The athlete spoke to TATAME about the surprise Joachim Hansen, that came from a substitute fight and won the GP. The Brazilian fighter spoke about the his recovering and that he hopes coming back soon to GP’s, and winning them. Check below the complete interview.

What do you think about Hansen’s victory at the GP?

This Dream tournament was great, excellent fights! Tournaments are like this, everything can happen, like a substitute being the champion.

Were you expecting it to end like this?

Hansen deserved it, just like Eddir Alvarez. Both did huge fights before and were great on the finals. Something happened with Alvarez and he got hurt and Hansen, that was coming from a good victory over Black Mamba, came back to do the final with Aoki, that defeated Caol Uno on the semifinal. Hansen defeated well Aoki’s ground game and found was great on the ground and pound work, he won it beautifully. Now I hope I get a chance to pass trough the line and get a revenge for the title.

How is the recovering of your knee?

I’m getting better now and soon I’ll be able to train everything. Thanks God, thanks Benkei, that helped me on the preparation for the surgery, the doctor, that made a great job, all my team, family and friend, fans included, that are sending positive vibrations for me, and thank myself, that faced this situation like a real fight.

What do you think about doing two fights on the same night?

A lot of people don’t like this king of tournament, but I actually love it. It’s like the old history of MMA… I like this athlete valorization. I’m glad of winning two GPs in a row, and what is the great of it is that the athlete owns the belt, not the event. If you won, it’s your.