"I did everything I needed to do. I'm going to fight as though it were my first championship. I'm really well prepared," guaranteed the Allliance star.
Champion last year without suffering a single advantage point, Cobrinha doesn't the featherweight division gets its fair shake: "You can't overlook anyone who's signed up. All of them are great athletes and sometimes you look at the most well-known and they don't end up making it to the end," he analyzed.
Gracie Magazine 135 cover, as an example of motivation, Cobrinha was excited to hear how every competitor in the World Championship received a copy of the magazine: "This photo was really cool, eh?" smiled the two-time world champion who is also two-time pan-american champion and no-gi world champion, who later posed for the photo along with the issue.