“There was some pressure coming into the fight because it was my first fight in the US, but I trained hard for it and I was very comfortable and confident in the ring. I wanted to fight stand-up with him but I knew he would go for the clinch. I didn’t want to give him [...]

After a week of bad news, we finally have some positive information to pass along.
Strikeforce today announced that it has salvaged the dynamite light heavyweight showdown between Renato Sobral and Gegard Mousasi, which appeared to be scrapped when Affliction MMA closed its doors just one week prior to “Trilogy” on Aug. 1, 2009.
It gets better: [...]

With all the recent chaos let’s not forget about this outstanding 205-pound match up:

“Sobral is so tough. When he comes, he comes to fight. It will be a good test for me. With Sobral, I will try to fight (my) stand-up game. If it goes to the ground, I will take top position and work him over with my ground and pound. Sobral will have to watch out [...]

“I just had a baby two weeks ago so I was unable to fight on the Strikeforce show. My family is very important to me and Strikeforce was great with that. I’d like to apologize to Rafael ‘Feijao’ for not being able to fight him. I would love to fight him in the future and [...]

It appears that a failure to agree on an appropriate weight class has shelved the rumored bout between Gegard Mousasi and Vitor Belfort at the Affliction: ‘Trilogy’ event, as M-1 Global today reports that Mousasi instead will remain at light heavyweight to challenge current Strikeforce 205-pound champion Renato Sobral on August 1.
Mousasi surrendered his DREAM [...]

Renato “Babalu” Sobral is expecting to soon have another baby, forcing him to withdraw from his first-ever light heavyweight title defense against former Elite XC superstar, Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante, on the next major Strikeforce event slated for the the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo., on June 6.
The good news is that the fight is [...]

Strikeforce officially announced today that light heavyweight champion Renato “Babalu” Sobral (32-7) has agreed to defend his title for the first time against former Elite XC superstar Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante (7-1) on the June 6 card set to air live on Showtime from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Feijao — a training partner of [...]