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Tito's BJJ coach expected a submission
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Guilherme Cruz: What are your thoughts about the fight between Tito Ortiz and Ryan Bader?
Ricardo Demente: It couldn’t have been better… A win by submission, a Jiu-Jitsu coup, and really well trained by us.
GC: Did you hope it’d come that fast?
RD: It’s hard to guess in MMA, because anything can happen at any time. I was pretty confident and positive about it, but I wasn’t hoping it’d be that fast.
GC: Did you trained a lot that position or was it a surprise for you that he finished the fight with a guillotine choke?
RD: Yeah, we’re trained a lot this and another two positions. I’ve picked the positions that would fit his game, positions that he’d get quickly and could be effective when the time comes. You can’t predict a MMA fight, but I was hoping he’d try to use he’d go for the submission. I wasn’t that surprised because we’ve trained a lot, so anything could happen.
GC: He didn’t win since 2006. How was he coming to this fight? Did he seem nervous or anxious?
RD: He was cool, a little bit anxious but it’s normal, but it didn’t felt like he was under a lot of pressure. Many people talked to him, pushed him, making him on the right track and not putting much pressure about this fight. Me, Jason Parillo (Boxing coach) and Michael Giovanni (physical trainer), always tell him good things.
GC: He said that the camp had five people on it. How was this work like?
RD: That was exactly it, five people. Jason Parillo (Boxing), Michael Giovanni (physical trainer), me (Jiu-Jitsu, Grappling and sparring), and two other guys who helped him on sparring trainings. It was a small crew, but we brought a great technical level to the trainings.
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