 Carvalho's coach, Antônio "Mestre da Morte" Lacerda, declared himself prideful of his trainee's act and actually paraded through the city with the bloody gi jacket of Ismail.Carlson Gracie, who was teaching in United States at the time, returned to Brazil and attacked Lacerda in a public meeting, challenging him to a fight, but nothing came from it.Ismail claims that Edson's brother Ricardo Carvalho intervened actively in the brawl and that it became a 2-on-1, but Mehdi himself dismissed this version and assured that the fight was fair.