Xande Ribeiro and his MMA debut

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Xande Ribeiro and his MMA debut Thursday 02nd of October 2008 03:03 PM

By Guilherme Cruz

Photo Marcelo Alonso

“It couldn’t be better”. That’s how Xande Ribeiro analyzes his first MMA fight, after a third round knockout against Takashi Sugiura at Sengoku 5. Besides the celebrations, Ribeiro says he still has a lot of thing to develop, and wants to come back as soon as possible to the Japanese ring. “By the technical side, I failed when I could have tried an arm-lock finish the fight. But it was cool, I like being in the ring and I’m just waiting for the next fight”, said the black belt, that explained why he got tired on the last part of the fight. “There’s a lot of explanations. The adrenaline on the first round consumed me a little and I came back to the second a little tired, I have to train more cardio and get faster”, told.

At the Japanese’s corner, the expert Josh Barnett helped Sigiura for the fight, and Xande realized that in the fight. “He’s an expert fighter and knows how to avoid the ground, might have help him a little. Sigiura was strong, but when I tried the single leg I didn’t felt so much pressure”, revealed the two times BJJ open weight champion, who’ll come back to trainings in one week. “I don’t know yet (about his next fight), but I might be back in November. I’ll rest this week, train another three and fight again”, finished the athlete, that wants to train more to continue at 205lbs division. “There are a lot of good guys in Sengoku in this division… I wanna get stronger for this weight”.

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vladimirbocaraton 11/05/2008 12:50 AM	Paulo fiho Again... and some people tell me this guy is better than Anderson Silva...ha can not ven make the weigth to his figth...to me he donlt take his profession serious or he does not have good people around him...sorry Filho just lost 25% of his purse must hurt....
giuliano matinhos 11/01/2008 10:17 PM	ta na hora ninja esse e o momento e sabemos da tua capacidade ,sou mais vc,estou em londres treinando mas,em janeiro estarei na praia pra treinar forte contigo,are you ready?giuliano_brownbelt@hotmail.com
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STRIKE THE EAGLE 10/08/2008 11:31 AM	ALLRIGHT, NOW LET'S GET BACK TO WORK GIRLS ... MINOTAURO WILL TERMINATE MIR IN THE END OF ROUND 1 ... LATER THEN, WILL STUNISH GRANPA WITHA BRUTAL RIGHT HAND KNOCK OUT AT 0:04 OF FIRST ROUND TO CAPTURE HIS TITLE BELT BACK ... HEY DENA, C'MON, STOP LENDING LYOTO'S BELT TO ALL THOSE WHITE BELTS ... SINCERELY, THIS IS RIDICULOUS ... WE LOVE THIS GAME ... TS TS TS
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