Gesias prepares return, eyes Strikeforce

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Without victories since the conquest of K-1 Hero’s tournament, in 2007, , the American Top Team lightweight is recovering from a knee injury and expects to be back to the ring in 2010. “I’ll slow down now. Next year I’ll be back slowly“, Gesias said, commenting the title fight between Shinya Aoki and Joachim Hansen.

“I knew the fight would be like that. Aoki hold the fight and gave no space to Hansen use the hand. Aoki was strategical, played his game, and in the end, when Hansen got distracted, he was submitted. If Hansen knocked Aoki out, I wouldn’t be surprised too”, the two times Hero’s champion said, talking about a possible rematch with both.

“I don’t care who’s in front of me... I’m coming back and I know that I have to make my space and as Hansen lost and they wanted to give me, ok, but I’m not asking for any fight. I don’t want to pass in the front of anybody, I want to do my job”, Gesias explained, talking about a possible fight at Strikeforce. “Nobody told me anything, I was scheduled to fight at Dream now. I got hurt, I won’t fight this year anymore, but I’m interesting. I live in United States and the event is growing a lot, it would be good to me”.