Galvão trains at the U.S. for Dream GP

By Guilherme Cruz

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After passing through the first phase of Dream’s welterweightGP, the black belt André Galvão decided train for the final stage of the tournament, which happens on June 20, in the U.S.. Beside of Anderson Silva, Rafael "Feijão" Cavalcante and other fighters, André trains hard in Los Angeles, prepared to face whoever comes ahead. "So far I haven’t got a defined opponent, but I'm already training because I know that it won’t be easy", says the black belt, without choosing opponents.

 

"Man, I prefer not to choose, I prefer to train to whoever comes. Of course (Hayato) Sakurai is the most experienced guy there, already made lots of title fights, but if it happen for us to face each other before, there’s no problem ", says Galvão, with one goal in mind: "what I want is to get out of there as the champion, no matter who I face". While training in theUSA, André will cheer for the training partner Ronaldo "Jacaré" Souza, who will fight for Dream’s middleweight title at May 26 against Jason Miller.

 

"Jacaré is training in Brazil with (Josuel) Distak and Rogerio (Camões), and I think he will do well in Japan. He has everything to win the belt too, because the quality of training that he is having is excellent", shows the black belt. After training for a while with Wanderlei Silva in Randy Couture’s team, at the same place where Forrest Griffin trains, Galvão now trains with Anderson Silva, Griffin’s next opponent: "I only know him through the fights, I never saw him train there. I know he likes to go inside, make his ground game, which is good. He is a great fighter and I think it will be a very good fight".