By Guilherme Cruz

Report and photos by Eduardo Ferreira, directly from California

Accustomed to fight between the feathers beside his brother Rafael Mendes, Guilherme accepted the proposal of the Atos team and declined to, among the feathers, try to snap a title for the team. And it worked. Beating the world champion Samuel Braga for an advantage, Gui won the first world title in the black belt. "I hope this title is the first of many", concludes.

Since he came to the black belt, Guilherme went knocking on the beam, while his brother glowed. In this World Cup, however, the situation was reversed. "Thank God everything went right, I won all the battles very well, felt comfortable in the category, trained for that and thank God I reached. Favorite is always who train and as we train a lot, we are always favorites and I’ll always be there to bother", ended the champion, who can board toward to Japan: "Rafael is going to Japan fight the Deep, Submission event, and I just got a proposal... Maybe I’ll go to Japan too", finalized.