Fabrício Morango fights in May at Strikeforce

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Fabrício Morango fights in May at Strikeforce Tuesday 07th of April 2009 10:39 AM

By Guilherme Cruz

Photo courtesy EliteXC

After winning five fights in a row, the last three in the first round, Fabrício "Morango" Camões was looking forward a titleshot at EliteXC, until he saw the event shut down. Without fighting since August of 2008, Morango trained until appear an opportunity and finally his waiting will end. On May 15th, the fighter will return to the octagon in Strikeforce.

"I'll go after the belt of the category, like was what I was doing on EliteXC until it shut down ", said Morango, who signed a contract for one fight, but hopes to fight well to extend his contract for three more fights, as in EteliXC. "They wanted to continue Elite’s contract, but my manager preferred to do this fight and then we will try to sign a three fights contract ", says the black belt of Jiu-Jitsu, who is living in San Diego, where he trains at the gym of Xande and Saulo Ribeiro and at Brandon Vera’s team.

"I'm at the gym The Arena, of Xande, which has many tough guys, as a fighter who is going for the reality show The Ultimate Fighter, one that will fight in Bellator, there are strong guys here... I’ll train at Brandon Vera’s gym too, where are very tough guys, like Diego Sanchez, who is training for this fight with Clay Guida... We are here with 30 guys on the MMA trainings, at all weights. It is super fun to do this training here", said.

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