UFC Welterweight Yan Cabral Robbed at Gunpoint Near Nova Uniao Gym


(Photo via Getty)

Crappy story coming out of Rio today, ‘Taters. Yan Cabral, the teammate of UFC champs Jose Aldo and Renan Barao who made an impressive debut for the promotion Wednesday night at UFC Fight Night 29, was robbed at gunpoint just two days later near his Nova Uniao gym in Rio. MMA Fighting‘s Guilherme Cruz first reported this story in the states.

The robbers either got real lucky or were following Cabral for some time as the undefeated Brazilian welterweight was coming from the bank where he had taken out money to pay manager and head coach Andre Pederneiras. Two men with guns pulled up on motorcycle, pointed a gun at Cabral’s head and took his backpack, containing his training gear and cash. Fortunately, Cabral was not injured during the robbery.

“I’ve lived in Rio 15 years and this never happened,” Cabral told O Dia. “It was a big shock.”


(Photo via Getty)

Crappy story coming out of Rio today, ‘Taters. Yan Cabral, the teammate of UFC champs Jose Aldo and Renan Barao who made an impressive debut for the promotion Wednesday night at UFC Fight Night 29, was robbed at gunpoint just two days later near his Nova Uniao gym in Rio. MMA Fighting‘s Guilherme Cruz first reported this story in the states.

The robbers either got real lucky or were following Cabral for some time as the undefeated Brazilian welterweight was coming from the bank where he had taken out money to pay manager and head coach Andre Pederneiras. Two men with guns pulled up on motorcycle, pointed a gun at Cabral’s head and took his backpack, containing his training gear and cash. Fortunately, Cabral was not injured during the robbery.

“I’ve lived in Rio 15 years and this never happened,” Cabral told O Dia. “It was a big shock.”

The TUF: Brazil 2 cast-member had been without a professional fight for nearly two years — dating back to his submission win against Kazushi Sakuraba at DREAM 17 in September 2011 — in part because of a broken hand. He finally made a successful UFC debut in his home country, only to be robbed of some of the earnings of that win only days later near his own gym in his own city.

Hopefully the UFC goes above and beyond with Cabral and sends a little extra cash the guy’s way so he can pay his manager and trainer.

Elias Cepeda

Kazushi Sakuraba Returns to Meet Nova Uniao’s Yan Cabral at DREAM.17

Filed under: DREAM, News, JapanDREAM’s first large-scale event for for the year got it’s tenth bout on Thursday afternoon as MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba has signed to fight DREAM newcomer and Nova Uniao submission ace Yan Cabral at DREAM.17 on Sept. 24…

Filed under: , ,

DREAM’s first large-scale event for for the year got it’s tenth bout on Thursday afternoon as MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba has signed to fight DREAM newcomer and Nova Uniao submission ace Yan Cabral at DREAM.17 on Sept. 24 at Saitama Super Arena, Tokyo, Japan.

Sakuraba has not competed since his heavily cauliflowered ear was partially torn off in his Dec. 31, 2010 bout with DREAM welterweight champion Marius Zaromskis. The gruesome ear injury continued a run of losses for Sakuraba; the “Gracie Hunter” also falling to the much less experienced Ralek Gracie and suffering a submission loss to Jason “Mayhem” Miller.

Yan Cabral, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt who first trained with Carlson Gracie before joining the highly respected Nova Uniao camp, comes into the bout with a perfect 9-0 record with every victory coming by way of submission. Cabral is particularly adept at the arm-triangle choke — a submission that has brought him victory on four occasions and also gave Kazushi Sakuraba the only submission losses of his career.

DREAM.17 – September 24, 2011 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan

Shinya Aoki vs. “Razor” Rob McCullough
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Yan Cabral
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Willamy “Chiquerim” Freire
Caol Uno vs. “Lion” Takeshi Inoue
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Joachim Hansen
Gerald Harris vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura

Bantamweight World GP Opening Round
Hideo Tokoro vs. Antonio Banuelos
Bibiano Fernandes vs. Takafumi Otsuka
Masakazu Imanari vs. Abel Cullum
Yusup Saadulaev vs. Rodolfo Marques Diniz

 

Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments