Caiçara submits to get off his brother’s shadow

Photo Eduardo Ferreira

After every fight, Carlos “Caiçara” Galvão works to get off his brother’s shadow, the BJJ world champion André Galvão, and conquest his space in MMA. Fighting on Real Fight 7, Carlos faced the tough Matias Lemon, but the rear naked choke on the second round guaranteed the victory. After the fight, Caiçara talked with TATAME about the victory and the expectations to grow even more on MMA. “My career grew more now, and the intention is to fight overseas, but if some fight appears here I’ll fight. I can face anyone, no problems”, said the fighter, on the chat below.

You caught a tough Argentine, passed thru bad moments at the beginning. What did you think about the fight?

The strategy was other, to feel the fight and get in a sequence to take him down, but he surprised me. I tried to escape and take him to the ground, but he hit me with a cross and I felt. He has a heavy hand and I tried to work my Jiu-Jitsu. I saw he wasn’t calm hitting me and I felt he would get tired sometime, but the first round finished and I could take him down. I saw he was a little tired, so I passed the guard and punished him, opened his eyebrow… He felt, turned his back and I putted the Jiu-Jitsu on… Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu worked once again.

What have changed on your training? You went to Rio to train with your brother, Anderson Silva and all that people?

My training changed a lot, I have another head now, I see the fight in a different way. I worked a lot on striking and now I’m more comfortable. To train with those guys, Anderson, (Ronaldo) Jacaré, (Rafael) Feijão, I trained now with (Rogério) Minotouro and all the guys from X-Gym, (Rogério) Camões… Train with these guys makes you calm in a fight. At the beginning I wasn’t calm when I saw everybody there, supporting me and I didn’t want to disappoint them, but on the second round I could do what I wanted. I was dreaming about a submission and everything went well.

With the new training and this victory, do you expect to fight overseas now?

My career grew more now, and the intention is to fight overseas. Every fighter dreams on fighting overseas, but if some fight appears here I’ll fight. I can face anyone, no problems.