Several years ago in Brazil at the Nova Uniao main academy, Marcos Galvao and Eduardo Dantas were teammates. They became friends and trained together constantly, but in the back of each other’s heads, the two knew that someday their paths would inevitably cross in the throes of real combat, not just in the gym.
That belief became a reality on Valentine’s Day 2013 at Bellator 89. In that matchup, Dantas was the better man as he knocked out Galvao with a crushing right uppercut followed by a few hammerfists in the second round. Galvao was knocked completely out, and Dantas was able to retain his Bellator bantamweight title.