Former World Jiu-Jitsu Champion André Galvão (5-2) is attempting to make the move from Strikeforce to the Ultimate Fighting Championship by earning a spot on the upcoming season of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality series.
Galvão competed with about 300 other participants at the open tryouts for “TUF 13″ in Las Vegas last week. The upcoming season was looking for fighters to compete in the welterweight and middleweight divisions.
It was pretty cool, there were many guys there, it was crowded. I don’t know, I think it’s a great opportunity of knowing who on these events, it was nice. We went through a test, we’ve shown some of our Jiu-Jitsu skills, they raffled some guys, and you had to do the grappling with the guy. I did it with an American, it was quick, about one and a half minute. Then we started to do gauntlet and then there was an interview. If you passed one test, they’d give you another one. On my group there were 20 people, and there were only 5 left for the interview. I was one of them, I was interview and they’ve approved me, but maybe they like other guy better on the interview… Now I don’t know if I made it or not. I’ll just have to wait for them to call me.
The BJJ champ is coming off a loss to Tyron Woodley in his last fight, having suffered a TKO loss at last months Strikeforce: San Jose event. The loss ended a two fight win streak that saw him compete at two other Strikeforce events, beating Jorge Pation by TKO in August of this year, and Luke Stewart by split decision in March.
Check out the entire interview with André Galvão at Tatame.com.