MMASWISSNEWS.COM: Strikeforce: Andre Galvão anxious to debut

By Eduardo Ferreira

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Without fighting since Dream GP’s finals, André Galvão is anxious to make his Strikeforce debut. While a visit to the training center of X-Gym, the black belt gave an exclusive interview and talked about the opportunity on United States. “I must fight on January 30, but I’m waiting. They’re holding me for a long time... A revolution is happening and you’ll see the difference”, guarantees, making clear the interest on participate of Worlds Jiu-Jitsu this year, in case he doesn’t have any MMA fight scheduled on the same time. Check below the exclusive chat with Galvão.

You were going to fight in December, then it was changed to January... When will you debut on Strikeforce?

I might fight on January 30, but I’m still waiting. It’s pretty close and I depend on their answer. They’re holding me for a while, I’m ready to fight for a long time, I thought I was going to fight in December, in November, and they postponed, and now they’re saying about the 30th.

Did they already say something about opponent?

They didn’t say anything about the opponent yet, but I’m ready to anyone, to debut well, to show my game, my evolution on the training from our training to search the Jiu-Jitsu, the submission, the technical knock out.

What’s disturbing you about taking this long to choose the opponent?

The psychological is what disturb the most, sometimes you lost your focus. You’re ready to fight and they tell you that you won’t fight on this event, but on the next one. It happened three times with me. It’s disturbing me on my diet too, my physical, my training… We train power, explosion, speed, according to the time we have to the fight. You have to be very clever, as the physical preparer Rogério Camões (physical coach) says, you have to be clever on a training like that. But, thanks God, I always trained a lot on Jiu-Jitsu, all the time, and I think it’s not disturbing me.

Do you see the fighters on your category? Who do you must face?

There are a lot of athletes, you know, and there are a lot of though guys. My category will have the fight for the belt now on the 30th with Nick Dias against Marius Zaromskis, that guy who won the Dream, they’re tough athletes, and there are a lot of other athletes. There’s a lot of people on 170 pounds category.

Do you want to fight for the belt as soon as possible?

I’m not hurried, I’ll do my job, I’ll be focus on each fight to do a good work and the belt is a consequence, to be a champion is a consequence from your work, dedication. So, it’s to think fight after fight. If it’s God’s willing I’ll win that before the end of my contract.

Will we see you on the World’s Jiu-Jitsu or is your career totally on MMA?

I want very much to fight Jiu-Jitsu yet, I love Jiu-Jitsu and I don’t fight MMA for a long time, I think my last fight was in July, almost seven months without fighting so I want to fight. I’m a Jiu-Jitsu athlete who fights MMA, every month I was fighting a couple of championships, competition is inside me, it’s a part, but I can’t say if I will be fighting or not, but I believe that, if it’s God’s willing, no, because it’ll mean that my career is more focused on MMA, and that’s what I want now.

In which category?

Light heavyweight.

And what’s the expectation to 2010?

I have a fourteen months contract and inside that I have to make five fights and I want to end that, and, if it’s God’s willing, finishing that, to go to a step higher, the UFC. Is everything in God’s hands, everything is going well to me, I have nothing to complain, but I have a good structure on trainings, Anderson is helping me, Minotauro supports me, all my training partners, trainers, Distak, Rogerião, Juan, everyone is helping me and that’s good, an evolution is happening and I think you’ll note the difference. And in 2010 is to make fight after fight, seriously, because in Japan I’ve lost the focus and I intend not to make those mistakes again neither the mistake that I had on my last fight to have a shining 2010.

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TATAME TV: Galvão pronto pro Strikeforce

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Sem lutar desde as finais do GP do Dream, André Galvão está ansioso para fazer sua estreia no Strikeforce. Durante uma visita ao centro de treinamento da X-Gym, o faixa-preta concedeu uma entrevista exclusiva à TATAME TV e falou sobre a oportunidade nos Estados Unidos. “Tudo indica que vou lutar no dia 30 (de janeiro), mas estou no aguardo. Eles já estão me segurando há um tempo, estou pronto pra lutar há muito tempo... Está acontecendo uma evolução, vocês vão notar a diferença”, garante, deixando claro o interesse em participar do Mundial de Jiu-Jitsu deste ano, caso não tenha luta de MMA marcada na mesma época. Confira abaixo o bate-papo exclusivo com Galvão.