"You're crazy" - Diogo Reis tells story of how brother fumbled his training footage with Marcelo Garcia

Brazilian jiu-jitsu superstar Diogo Reis got a once-in-a-lifetime training session with arguably the greatest submission grappler ever—and his brother somewhat wasted it.

The newly crowned ONE flyweight submission grappling world champion shared a hilarious story during his post-fight interview with Nick Atkin about training with Marcelo Garcia, revealing how his filmmaker brother failed to document his entire grappling exchange with the multi-time BJJ world champion.

"Marcelo won everything in jiu-jitsu, and he's a legend. He's really humble, really simple guy. But also training with him—and having this opportunity to feel the pressure, to feel the things, is crazy. And my brother, he's my filmmaker, you know. He flew with me now. And in the beginning, he was filming for five minutes, and then he turned off the recording," Diogo Reis told Atkin.

Annoyed, 'Baby Shark' then questioned his brother.

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"Then, I told him, bro, why did you stop filming? And he said, 'Because you guys in the beginning was on flow, you know, you want to do the things. Also, you're going to fight.' I think he didn't know the person. I said, bro, if you train with a legend like that, you need to film the whole spot to the end. It's like, when am I going to train with Marcelo again? You know, never. You're crazy," he continued.

However, the 23-year-old Melqui Galvao student concedes he isn't entirely angry with his brother because he didn't know rolling with 'Marcelinho' is every grappler's dream.

"Because my brother's a blue belt, but I didn't know. I think he didn't know, they didn't mention Marcelo in jiu-jitsu. He just like, 'Oh, they don't want to kill each other, so I'm not going to film that.' And bro, I told him you're crazy. Like 30 minutes with Marcelo. Who does 30 minutes with Marcelo? You're crazy," Diogo Reis added.

Diogo Reis, though, understood exactly what training with Garcia meant—30 minutes rolling with one of the sport's greatest competitors, feeling his legendary butterfly guard pressure, experiencing the technical perfection that revolutionized modern BJJ.

Watch his full interview with Atkin below:

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Diogo Reis claims gold, Marcelo beaten by Giles at ONE Fight Night 38

Perhaps rolling with a warrior widely recognized as the greatest BJJ competitor allowed Reis to tap into new techniques that polished his already fundamentally strong arsenal when he faced Daiki Yonekura at ONE Fight Night 38.

'Baby Shark' dished out a strong display of guard passes, leg locks, and positioning to see off the Japanese challenger on his way to becoming the new ONE flyweight submission grappling world champion.

Garcia, unfortunately, went down to Australian BJJ icon Lachlan Giles in their lightweight submission grappling tiff.

North American fight fans who missed any of the action from ONE Fight Night 38: Andrade vs. Baatarkhuu can watch the full event replay on Amazon Prime Video.

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Edited by Aziel Karthak