Servio Tulio

Servio Tulio Junqueira is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Felipe ‘Preguiça’ Pena, having also worked extensively with coaches Rômulo Barral, Claudio ‘Caloquinha’ Matos, Sergio Benini and Marcelo ‘Uirapuru’ Azevedo at Gracie Barra Belo Horizonte (GB – BH). Servio is also regarded as one of the top grapplers of his generation, a reputation he earned while competing in the brown belt division of the sport when he conquered numerous accolades in the sport’s international circuit.

Servio Tulio Jiu Jitsu

Full Name: Servio Tulio C. Guimarães Junqueira

Nickname: N/A

Lineage: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Helio Gracie > Carlos Gracie Junior > Vinicius Magalhães (Draculino) > Marcelo Azevedo (Uirapuru) > Felipe Pena (Preguiça) > Servio Tulio

Main Achievements:

• 1st Place ADCC Brazil Trials (2019)
• 1st Place IBJJF Salvador Open (2019)
• 1st Place IBJJF Floripa Fall Open (2018)
• 1st Place IBJJF Belo Horizonte Winter Open (2018)
• 1st Place IBJJF Rio Open (2018)

Main Achievements (Colored Belts):

• 1st Place ACBJJ World Championship (2017 brown)
• 1st Place IBJJF World Championship No-Gi (2017 brown)
• 1st Place ACBJJ World Championship No-Gi (2017 brown)
• 1st Place IBJJF Brazilian Team Nationals (2016 brown)
• 1st Place Marianas Grand Prix Champion (2017* brown)
• 1st Place UAEJJF Grand Slam, RJ No-Gi (2016 brown)
• 1st Place IBJJF Belo Horizonte Open (2017/2016 brown)
• 1st Place IBJJF Belo Horizonte Open No-Gi (2017**/2016 brown)
• 2nd Place IBJJF World Championship No-Gi(2015 purple)
• 2nd Place ACBJJ World Championship (2017* brown)
• 2nd Place CBJJ Brazilian Nationals No-Gi (2016 brown, 2015 purple)

Favorite Position/Technique: Single Leg X

Weight Division: Peso Médio (82,30 kg / 181.5 lbs)

Team/Association: Gracie Barra

Servio Tulio Biography

Servio Tulio was born on November 21, 1993, in Belo Horizonte – the capital city of southeastern Brazil’s Minas Gerais state.

While growing up Servio picked up a range of extra-curricular activities, from football (soccer), to judo, swimming as well as tennis a sport in which he competed at a high level from the age of 8 to 16, reaching #10 in the Brazilian national ranking for a short period.

On May 2009 Tulio finally reached out for jiu-jitsu, a martial art he started by the influence of his older brother (Onofre), someone Servio had always looked up to and who already trained BJJ. At the time Servio joined a gym under the pretext of lifting weights and returning to swimming, but he soon got bored of both and switched his membership to grappling at Gracie Barra Belo Horizonte.

After a little over 1.5 years of jiu-jitsu training, shortly after receiving his blue belt, Servio moved to Australia on a student exchange program, staying in The Land Down Under for 6 months. Upon his return to Belo Horizonte, Tulio picked up training again and decided to compete more often in BJJ’s national and international circuits.

Given that his fellow teammate and townsman Felipe Pena (Preguiça) was one of the most active athletes in the sport, and since Servio already knew Felipe having been a classmate of his brother (Fernando), Tulio started interacting with Pena. The traveled and competed together regularly and with time Tulio became a part of Preguiça’s classroom as much as of GB – BH.

As time went by Pena became incumbent of Servio’s promotions, which included his purple, brown and black belts. The latter of which took place in December 2017.

Servio Tulio @ACB JJ (2017)