By Eduardo Ferreira

Photo EliteXC courtesy

Without fighting since EliteXC’s collapse in the United States, Fabricio “Morango” Camoes wants to go back to America and find another job. After two great victories in the octagon, Morango can’t sign with another event until his contract is released from the organization. “I’ll go back there by the end of the month, I just came to Brazil to renew my visa and see my family. I have some proposals from another organizations in the US, like UFC, but I didn’t sign anything yet because EliteXC has my contract. I’m just waiting to sign with another event. I’m trying to do it fast”, said the BJJ black belt.

Enjoying the vacation in Brazil, Morango doesn’t stay a long time away from training, since then he went to Delfim’s gym and trained with Brazilian Wrestling team and MMA at X-Gym, where he trained with Ronaldo “Jacaré” Souza, Anderson Silva, Rafael “Feijão” Cavalcante and Fabio Maldonado. “I need to stay training”, said Camoes, helping Anderson on his preparation to face Thales Leites at UFC 97: “Anderson is training with Jacaré and Sylvio Behring (BJJ seven degrees red and black belt), and I’m helping him too. Actually, I’m trying to help him, because he’s already a complete guy and he’s in a level above the guys here… He’s the man!”.

Besides believing that Jiu-Jitsu is enough to win a MMA fight, this time Morango thinks that Anderson’s technique will be too much for Thales. “Fight is a box of surprises, but Anderson had everything in the octagon, he passed for everything and it needs to be something really new to surprise him. I’m a guy from Jiu-Jitsu too, I trust in my technique on the ground and I win most of them there, but the fights starts standing up and until you put him down a lot of things can happen, and Anderson is like “Matrix”… Thales is tough, has a great Jiu-Jitsu, I respect him a lot and I believe it’ll be a tough fight”, analyzed.

While the freedom doesn’t come from EliteXC, Fabricio knows where he’ll work when comes back to USA. “I teaching BJJ at Brandon Ver’s team and I might start a big job in a training center that will start soon, with Saulo Ribeiro’s ex-partner. It’ll be Arena’s training center and I’ll be the MMA responsible at the team”, said Morango, who passed whole 2008 training for his fights and helping Ronaldo Jacaré and Alexandre Ribeiro for their fights at Universidade do Jiu-Jitsu, at San Diego.