Cyborgs back to Strikeforce in December

By Eduardo Ferreira

Photo Marcelo Alonso

Chute Boxe’s leader, Rudimar Fedrigo is smiling from ear to ear with his team back to the good phase. With Fabrício Werdum, Cris Cyborg and Alexandre Cacareco’s victories, the Fedrigo expects an exited end of the year, with the couple Cyborg in action on the same night by Strikeforce. “We’ll talk to the president of the event and know who’s gonna bet he opponents, but Cris and Cyborg will fight on the same event“, Rudimar said, revealing that Evangelista “Cyborg” drop to welterweight division.

Cacareco received proposals from Shine and UFC. Why did you chosen Shine?

It was a really good proposal, the event surprised us. He can do three great fights and then go to UFC. But at this moment Shine showed bigger interest, made a good offer, everyone got satisfied with the values.

Cris and Cyborg are on Strikeforce. When will they fight again?

He’ll finally debut at the 170 pounds category, in December, at Strikeforce. He’ll fight, but hasn’t a chosen opponent yet, and then he’ll be back to Brazil to the end of the year. We’ll talk to the president of the event and know who’s gonna bet he opponents, but Cris and Cyborg will fight on the same event.

After two years reorganizing the team, this year was a great year to the team, that closed good deals, the athletes had a lot of victories... Do you have any idea of the percentage of victories of the team?

I can assure that was a really good year, in results and motivation. All the team has to have motivation and this was a spectacular year, amazing. It was, also, one year of conduction of Nilson Castro’s method of training, his style to lead the trainings. I’d say that the team’s patrimonies, now, are the coaches.

What did you think about the fight between Lyoto and Shogun?

I couldn’t watch the fight yet, but, in conversations, with trainers and students of the gym, everyone thinks that Shogun won. To have an opinion I have to watch the fight. I think that he used Muay Thai’s strength, that’s he’s base, and everyone here in the gym thinks that he used the Muay Thai’s strength, using kicks on the legs and going for it all the moment. It made the difference.