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Palhares: ‘It’ll be weird’ to fight friend Cacareco

The boss told us to fight, so we’ll have to do it, but I don’t like facing a Brazilian, specially…

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Chris Palmquist
January 5, 2011 · 1 min read

The boss told us to fight, so we’ll have to do it, but I don’t like facing a Brazilian, specially when it’s a friend of mine, like Cacareco.”

It’ll be weird to see him on the other side of the octagon ready to fight me. We’ve trained together for many time, we’ve helped each other a lot… I really like him, I consider him a good friend and training partner. As I see it, it won’t change our friendship one bit, and I hope he sees it that way too.”

I don’t know how it’ll be like, but we both will going for the ground game.

BTT co founder Murilo Bustamante was firm when he said: I don’t worry about it, I just go there and fight.

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Palhares and Cacareco were training partners at Brazilian Top Team.The latter is now a member of Chute Boxe. The two meet at UFC on Versus 3 on March 3 in Louisville, Kentucky. Both fighters are coming off losses; another loss could lead to being cut by the UFC.

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