Charles the Bronx is scheduled to fight against Eric Wisely in the UFC On Fox 2 in 28th January and will debut in the featherweight category, since he had been fighting in the lightweight. In the previous weight division, the Brazilian started well in the organization, submitting Darren Elkins in just 41 seconds in his fight debut. However, accumulated negative results in the last three fights, losing two and getting a No-Contest. Now, in the category up to 66 pounds, the Jiu-Jitsu black belt faces the next fight as the most important in his career.

"This will be the fight of my life, I will not have rush to anything. Will be the usual Charles, aggressive, moving forward, but without hurry. If I can knock out, amen, if I can submit, amen, and if it go for the judges and I win, amen too", told Charles do Bronx.

Besides changing the weightdivision, the fighter said he also changed the whole preparation, and will not give more emphasis on his backgroundmartial art anymore. "Everyone knows I come from Jiu-Jitsu, but I'm improving my stand up game, but when guys used wrestling to put me down I accepted easily and when I tried to takedown was not working very well. So I'm training a lot of takedowm defenses and attacks as well. I'm training to takedown not only using the Jiu-Jitsu, but also the wrestling. "

Regarding the strategy, the Bronx's Gold Team athlete was quite straight. "My strategy will be fighting stand in the first round takedown in the second and work in the ground", said Charles, and according to him, the preparation is going smoothly. "The preparation is going extremely well, one hundred percent, taking advantage of Macaco presence after four years away from Brazil. We are focused, practicing a bit of everything, and I intend to reach 100 percent, always moving forward and show everyone that this is my category. "

The athlete also revealed who he thinks is his greatest opponent in the new category, and is not a renowned fighter or something. "The hardest part is stay without food, we Brazilian like food at the right time. I think this fight will be good because I'm cutting weight, because when I was in the category above I did not cut much weight, only two or three kilos. Now the difference is that I'll cut a lot of weight too, I can fight on equal terms. In 70 (kg) everyone saw that I fought well, did not avoid anybody, but the guys were always stronger than me. "

Charles do Bronx comes from three negative results: two defeats and one no-contest, which despite the Brazilian having won Nick Lentz with a rear naked choke, the result was changed due to a knee struck in the face of the opponent when he was on the ground. Despite the setbacks, do Bronx is not overly concerned. "I do not feel any pressure. I'm sure the UFC like me, I've been doing a good job, despite I'm coming off a loss and I'm sure this result will change in 28 days, and the only pressure comes from myself, I want this win more than anyone else. "

Now in the featherweight, the fighter who has 14 wins in 17 fights analyzed the difficulties that must find in the new challenge. "Everyone is top for being there, starting with the owner of the belt Jose Aldo. I'm always fast, always have a good cardio .. The difficulties are the athletes who are right there, because I did not change the weight division because there are weak fighters, no, I changed because of tough guys there, you can testify by the belt owner, still has Yuri Marajó, Felipe Sertanejo, among others. We'll have good fights but the difficulty is to lose weight and no matter who I fight I will find it tough".

Charles do Bronx is black belt under the experienced Jorge Patino Macaco, who after years of training in the United States, returned to Brazil. Macaco, who is 38 years old, owns a broad curriculum in MMA, with titles of Jungle Fight, MECA, Cage Rage, among others, and also fought in Pride and UFC. "The Return of Macaco is an honor that we have to train with a big name guy who, with his age is still fighting, owns the Legacy belt, is our grandfather, because he's always pushing us and always say 'while we are training here, up there we will thank, saying we love Him, because we will always have a good result.' And we will take this chance, because I'm always going out there, but the kids do not have the chance to go out, have to take this chance to train with him. He shows that with his age, he is alive, not dead. "

With the return of his master, do Bronx do not have to go train in the United States, and enjoyed being able to do all his preparation here in Brazil. "what Change is that I will continue training with my family, I like the kids, won't have to travel outside Brazil to train with the Americans, so that's good, he'll be here, we will prepare with the good kids we have here", celebrated.