Coach Andre ‘Dida’ Refutes Charles Oliveira’s UFC 317 Undoing Based on Aggression

According to a man who truly embodied the Chute Boxe “aggression at all costs” mentality, Charles Oliveira did not lose because of that strategy.

Oliveira suffered his first clean knockout at 155 pounds at the hands of Ilia Topuria on top of UFC 317. Some attribute UFC great Oliveira’s reckless approach to why he was stopped in half a round. Count Coach Andre Amado, a longtime member of Chute Boxe and now the chief of the Brazilian TKO team, among those that suggest that might not be the case. “Dida” spoke to Sherdog on Wednesday about Oliveira’s tactics, and how his team will prepare for upcoming opponents.

“I totally disagree with that,” Amado said about Oliveira’s “move forward no matter what” style costing him the fight. “The Chute Boxe style is what Anderson Silva, Rafael Cordeiro, [Israel] Adesanya or Jon Jones do. Maybe it’s a style more adapted to Chute Boxe Sao Paulo branch, but back in the days in our time in Curitiba, Chute Boxe style was more volume, movement, freestyle, we didn’t count too much on the forearm shield.”

Per the vaunted coach, it was actually Oliveira's overreliance on his defensive posture that resulted in him getting starched.

“Charles’ mistake is always believing a lot on his forearm shield, [which] is dangerous with small gloves when you face an opponent with KO power like Topuria,” the coach analyzed. “The biggest proof of that is that he always suffers some knockdown. The opponents that feared his ground, he was able to turn the fight, but the ones who didn’t, he ended up losing. That’s why I always tell my athletes in Brazilian TKO, never count only with the shield.”

'Dida' Predicts Knockouts for Brazilian TKO Athletes

With his fighters Brunno Ferreira and Brendson Ribeiro scheduled to return to the Octagon in July and September, respectively, “Dida” is working hard running both camps.

“I believe both fights will be good for my athletes,” the coach boasted. “Brendson will face Oumar Sy, a Frenchman who is pretty well-rounded with a similar size as Brendson. But he doesn’t like to be pressured with punches to the face. And Brendson is pretty good in that game. I think he has everything to turn this guy off.”

According to “Dida,” the opponent change from Ikram Aliskerov to newcomer Jackson McVey will not be a problem for Ferreira. “The Hulk” squares off against a fighter who has never fought past the first round as a pro, with McVey celebrating three knockouts and three submissions on his 6-0 ledger.

“When the Russian withdrew, we started to negotiate an American fighter in a catchweight, but the guy gave up. I got Jackson’s name last Tuesday and started to study some of his fights. The guy is a southpaw. He is coming from good results, but I don’t see him very good in any place. ‘Hulk’ will be a problem to him. He is my athlete who trains the most and is really motivated [for] that fight. ‘Hulk’ will smash again,” the Brazilian trainer concluded.