Sherdog.com Exclusive: Popo's Trainer Talks Wanderlei, Shogun
Nov 30, -1
CURITIBA, Brazil - As if Wanderlei Silva (Pictures) or Mauricio Rua (Pictures) needed help knocking people out.
Ulisses Pereira, one of Brazil's finest boxing trainers who gets former WBO lightweight champion Acelino "Popo" Freitas
ready for his fights, traveled to the Chute Boxe gym to prepare both men for their PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix fights
Sunday in Tokyo.
In this Sherdog.com video interview, Pereira talks about adapting his boxing techniques for mixed martial arts,
how Silva and Rua stack up as champions and what he thinks about the family atmosphere of the Chute Boxe academy.
