What changed in your fighting game from the first fight against Ricardo Arona (at the Pride GP Middleweight 2005, won by Arona) to this one? Everything changed. I respected him too much in that first fight. He is a great fighter, but he didnÂ’t deserve it. Besides, I improved my Wrestling skills a lot, training hard the take-down blocks. In fact, I didnÂ’t take a vacation after that fight. I didnÂ’t accept losing that like I did and so I prepared myself a lot for this one. (Mauricio) Shogun also helped me, giving me some advice during the last days before the fight, in Japan. You never know everything and he taught me a lot.
