The class lasted five hours, and the Iranian combatants were left satisfied with their newly learned skills. “It went so great and smoothly that I didn’t even realize it was time to wrap up,” said the native of the Brazilian state of Ceará.

The local media was there to register the event, with two TV stations filming the activities and interviewing the former trainer to Thiago “Pitbull” and Gabriel “Napão”. Evilázio Feitoza then went on to hold another two seminars, for which a total of 270 fighters turned up. Check out the coverage of the first day’s activities on Iranian TV in the video below: