By Guilherme Cruz

Photo courtesy of Strikeforce

Confirmed at Dream’s light heavyweight tournament, Renato “Babalu” Sobral, who doesn’t fight since last August, showed an extra excitement to be in the Japanese tournament. “We’re in… We’re going with everything, total pressure. Tournament in cool, give you an extra gas,” said the fighter to TATAME.com.

Besides the extra motivation for being in a tournament, Sobral has another reason to put his in the ring to get the title. “The opponents doesn’t matter, what I want is to win this belt,” guarantees the former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion, revealing that a fight against Gegard Mousasi, who defeated him in the American event and is also confirmed in the GP, would be great.

“Of course, a fight against him would have an extra flavor, but if it doesn’t happen I’m cool. I’m only worried with my side, training to beat him, beat everybody up there,” says, training hard in the United States. “I’m training since January, so I took a break, everything controlled by the physical coach. We’re going without too many excitement to not get in overtraining, but I feel like I’m 18 again”.

Besides training with great names of the MMA, like Wanderlei Silva and Fabricio Werdum, the black belt received Gustavo Ximu in his camp. “Without mentioning the guys from Gracie Barra, Márcio Feitosa, Carlos Gracie training together with us… The Gracie Barra army is all here… We have the striking army, the ground army, the wrestling army (laughs)… We’re getting ready, we’ll do whatever we need to win”.