Tekken

Namco invited Mestre Marcelo out to Japan and digitized his movements. These movements were used for Eddy Gordo, Tiger and Christie Monteiro in the Namco hit games Tekken 3, Tekken Tag and Tekken 4 Tekken 5 and now Tekken 6. Therefore, Eddy Gordo, Tiger and Christie Montero are the digital incarnation of Mestre Marcelo himself. With few exceptions, all of their movements are authentic Capoeira, as practiced by Mestre Marcelo.

Strangely, the English names of the moves have been changed for the US version of the game. In the Japanese version of Tekken 3, the Brazilian names that were given by Mestre Marcelo were used, but with minor mistakes in pronunciation and naming. 

Why the name Eddy Gordo and does Eddy have a capoeira nickname?
The original real name suggested by mestre Marcelo to Namco was Tony Bamba* (©) and not Eddy Godo.

Eddy's second costume has the word, "Faisca" on it. Faisca means 'spark' in Brazilian Portuguese. This is Eddy's Capoeira nick name given by Mestre Marcelo.

What color is his belt?
In the second costume Eddy has a blue and white cordão.  Not bad for a 27 year old! A blue and white cordão is considered a master of third degree by the Capoeira Federation System and usually takes at least 25 years to achieve...after being graduated in Capoeira what could take from 7 to 10 years or more. Originally mestre Marcelo's suggestion to Namco was that Eddy had a cordão trançado (four colors belt of a Professor or now called "Contra-mestre" (green-yellow-blue-white)

Where did the gymnastics flare come from?
We know that Namco wanted to use the troca é pião move for the flair since that is what the move is called in Tekken 3. Mestre Marcelo thinks Namco lost the motion capture for troca and pião and hired a gymnast to do the flare or used some computer data to do it.

What is Eddy's most effective move?
According to mestre Marcelo, he told Namco that the cabeçada should be a fast and deadly move.  Indeed, the strongest Eddy players agree that the cabeçada is their bread and butter ground game move.

In a tribute to his Mestre, Mestre Marcelo suggested a combinação Suassuna:  two mid-cabeçadas followed by a cabeçada uppercut to the jaw.  Regrettably, Namco chose not to include this deadly sequence. However many moves were captured and not used right away (according to Namco) in order to be released in the future versions of Tekken as we have been seeing it.