Edson Draggo talks about returning to MMA

By Guilherme Cruz

Photo Marcelo Alonso 

“Draggo is back!”. That’s how WFE announced the main event of its 5^th event. One year and five months after suffering a serious motorcycle accident and fight for life, Edson Draggo will get in the octagon in Salvador on November 21, against Edinaldo “Lula Molusco”. Training hard for the return at Minotauro Team, Draggo talked with TATAME.com about the expectations to the combat. “I’ll be back very strong and the expectation is to knockout on the first round. I’m training hard because I don’t want my hegemony ends in Bahia, I want win by knockout”.

Against “Lula Molusco”, who’s coming from victories on Jungle Fight Fortaleza, the former Pride and Cage Rage fighter dreams about coming back to international events. “My goal is to do two or three fights in Brazil, keep training hard and go back to the international market. UFC is the big event, I’m looking at the UFC”, said the heavyweight, that impressed with four knockout victories in a row in less than 45 seconds, debuting in Cage Rage 5 seconds knockout victory.

Analyzing his opponent, Draggo waits for a fight of different styles. “He’s a Jiu-Jitsu guy, so I think he’ll try to take me down, and I’ll do my game… Who makes his best will win”, analyses the heavyweight, excited with the return. “This return is being great, even because is in Bahia, where I’m well known. Nobody believed in my return, and just to can train hard and without injuries I already get very happy”.

Ready to the fight, Draggo says that the anticipated fight against Assuério Silva will probably happen in the next months. “There are three events calling me to fight with Assuério… In January it’ll happen an event on Costa do Sauípe, another one in Natal… We’ll fight on the event that make the better proposal”, finished.