Kron in the mount at Euro Open 2009 / Photo: GRACIEMAG archive

Kron Gracie is set to face Yan Cabral in Italy in one of the superfights penned in for the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Professional Cup. They’ve faced each other before, in the final of the European Open 2009 – and Kron took the cake via submission. The rematch condition of the match adds some spice to the occasion.

“It’s good… (that he will be in top shape) because I will be in shape. For me every fight is a different fight and I have to be better prepared than last time…” remarks the Gracie. Check out the interview in the video below.

The BJJ Professional Cup set to begin May 13 in Biella, Italy, will hand out a total of 60 thousand euros in prizes. Another mathup on the event program is the superfight between Bernardo Faria and Raphael Abi-Rihan. Sign-ups end May 5. To participate and obtain further information click here.

They faced each other once before, in the ultraheavyweight brown belt division of the 2008 European Open Jiu-Jitsu Championship. Karol Bedorf took it that time.

Now, Rogent Lloret wants revenge – but in a bout of MMA, at Polish event KSW 15, this Saturday, March 19 in Warsaw.

The crowd will surely be on the side of Bedorf (6w, 1l), who is known to more attentive ADCC fans. But he won’t have it easy. MMA champion Lloret (9w, 2l, 1d), a Spaniard from Barcelona, is also good on the ground: at the 2009 European Open he won the brown belt ultraheavyweight division.

It will be a bout of fisticuffs between two gentle art black belts with over 200 pounds on either side. And it’s not even the evening’s main event, as you can see below. The value of the fight to each of them, though, is priceless: both dream of making it to the top, ie. make it to the UFC.

KSW15
Warsaw, Poland
March 19, 2011

Rameau Sokoudjou vs. Jan Blachowicz
James Irvin vs. Mamed Khalidov
Gregory Babene vs. Michal Materla
Niko Puhakka vs. Maciej Gorski
Rogen Lloret vs. Karol Bedorf
Toni Valtonen vs. Lukasz Jurkowski
James Zikic vs. Antoni Chmielewski
Marcin Rozalski vs. Marcin Bartkiewicz
Aslambek Saidv vs. Ruben Crawford