Gym Tour and Fight Highlights

This second post is a lot shorter than the first but... it has THREE videos!

Pretty cosy, eh? OK, time to recap. Two weekends ago (March 13th) three of the guys, Mario, Bruno, and Marcão, had MMA fights. The day before the fight, a lot of us went downtown to see the weigh-ins. We had some time to kill beforehand so we got some drinks and chilled outside, keeping catcalls to a minimum.

Downtown Curitiba

The weigh-in was held in a hotel and was exactly like what you see on TV--a bunch of starved, grumpy fighters squaring off in front of the press. Bruno and Marcão only dropped about 5 kilos but Mario shed at least 10. No wonder that guy was uptight all week. Afterwards, while the guys were waiting to be interviewed we all just hung out in the lobby helping ourselves to the free espresso. Someone also found a pot of candy that was empty minutes later. I'm sure the Sheraton staff loved it. ha!

A classy bunch

OK, on to the fights! Three fights, three wins--all in the first round, all by knockout or submission. Here's a highlight video Andrew made of the weigh-in, the guys warming up before the fight, and the fights themselves. In the video, Bruno is the one with the tattoos and black trunks, Mario's the tall one wearing camo trunks, and Marcão is the dark one with the blue boxing shorts.

Pretty bad ass, eh? If you want to see a fight in its entirety click on a link: Mario, Bruno, Marcão.

If you remember Gustavo from my previous posting, he was up to his old tricks at this event too. He somehow invited himself ringside and spent the duration of the fight chatting up one of the ring girls. I took a picture but it didn't turn out well. However, I did get a picture of another guy, Renato, standing with them after the fights. Im not sure how Gustavo does it but the blonde on Renato's left was sneaking around the gym at like 3 in the morning.

Reading is for suckers so to end this post here's another video. Some background for the first clip: Bruno's in the yellow shirt talking to the brunette, his girlfriend's the blonde sitting in the front row looking back.