Frazzato doesn’t give up of the world title

By Marina Nunes

Photo Eduardo Ferreira

Brazilian champion of Jiu-Jitsu in May of this year, Bruno Frazzato hoped to achieve the same status in 2009’ BJJ Worlds, which happened in early June. Vice-champion in 2008, the athletes trained hard to achieve the dream of bringing home the first world title, but found a tough opponent in his way: Rubens Charles "Cobrinha”.

"I tried to make a fight different than I did in 2008, I fought the whole championship with the final in mind, I tried to make a fight ahead. I knew Cobrinha was a great opponent, I have anything to say about him as an athlete, he’s a great fighter. I tried to give the best of me and don’t stop at the fight, he made a good strategy and managed to maintain a good rhythm. But I liked, I thought the fight was good and that the judge could give to any one of the two. When it ends tied it hasn’t much to do, I don’t have what to complain. I hadn’t even got the opportunity to make a point, neither an advantage", said Frazzato.

Asked if he would start to train MMA, Bruno, who, among other championships, will participate of the Rio Open, guaranteed that won’t desist of being world champion at black belt. "My focus is to continue in the Jiu-Jitsu until the next year. Win the world title in black belt still is my dream. I’ll train much for it and enter into a bigger rhythm of competition in 2009, I competed just a little last year. I’ll compete a lot in the rest of the year, to be better in 2010", said the fighter, explaining the "fifty-fifty guard”, much used by him and the athletes of the Atos team, as Rafael and Guilherme Mendes.

"It’s a position that really stops the fight a bit, but has several variations on it. Some people still don’t know. We created up of a strategy, but it’s a position that sometimes ends up falling in several situations of the fight, we use as any other type of situation. People started to comment a lot why the fight doesn’t have much continuity"