Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Fighter Wiki, All their history from their favorite techniques to the meaning behind their Portuguese nicknames as well as fight videos and techniques. Learn more about your favorite Jiu Jitsu figures on this section.
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Denilson Pimenta, a prolific Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitor training out of GTF Team, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Jean Kleber is the head coach of Kimura BJJ Boston and one of the best Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belts to have come out of the Kimura Nova Uniao camp in Natal-RN, Brazil. A fantastic coach with experience teaching in 3 different continents (Brazil, Europe and the USA).
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One of the best fighters of his generation and founder of the great Brazilian Top Team, one of BJJ’s most recognizable figures and an embassador of the sport
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Roberto Abreu AKA “Cyborg” is a Brazilian born Jiu Jitsu fighter and instructor from the Nova Geracao Team, now residing in the US. Since moving to the US, Cyborg has been blowing people’s minds with his unique and revolutionary Jiu Jitsu style. His trademark position, the Tornado Guard, made famous in many fights and is one of the most coveted positions in BJJ.
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Bruno Amorim, the Draculino Magalhaes Black Belt from Gracie Barra is a fierce competitor in BJJ with several titles.
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Rogerio is the head BJJ instructor for all of the Tatu BJJ academies throughout the east coast of the United States. He studied in Brazil under Prof. Paulo Guimaraes and Master Jorge Pereira.
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A Law enforcer and Black Belt under Tatu BJJ School, David Hertzog is one of the main instructors at the academy.
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Marcello Salazar, The Barbarian. An experienced BJJ fighter who has ventured through the MMA realm. A Black belt under Murilo Bustamante.
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Mestre Julio Cesar Pereira is a highly regarded BJJ instructor and a 6 grau black belt (6th dan), a former main men at the famous Gama Filho Jiu Jitsu academy and a founder of the GFTeam (Grapple Fight Team) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Today he is still seen as one of the main figures of Jiu Jitsu in Rio.
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Robson Moura, also known as “Robinho”, is one of the greatest competitors in jiu jitsu’s super featherweight division, a weight class he dominated for years achieving 6 world titles in his career. After retiring (unofficially) from his competitive career, Robson Moura dedicated his full attention to his career as a grappling coach in the United States where he developed his own association RMNU (Robson Moura – Nova Uniao).
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A BJJ fighter, Competing under Rodrigo Medeiros, Rafael Dallinha is an excellent coach and a avid competitor in the USA West Coast
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Augusto Mendes, commonly known as “Tanquinho”, is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt under Master Francisco Mansur, being also one of the big names …
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One of the best female BJJ competitors in the world, meet Hillary “Duff” Williams, the girl from Arkansas with a vast BJJ curriculum.
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Rafael Mendes is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt world champion under the illustrious coach Ramon Lemos. Considered a BJJ phenom since his late teens, and acclaimed as “the king of the featherweight division” by many BJJ enthusiasts, Rafael was also one of the fighters that brought recognition to 50-50 Guard, a game he used to de-throne the former 5x world champion Rubens Charles. Rafael Mendes is also the brother of another Jiu Jitsu World Champion, Guilherme Mendes.
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An ADCC World Champion and BJJ fighter, now competing in MMA, with fights in the WEC and other prestigeous orgs. Get to know Rany through this fighter Bio
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an amazing fighter with numerous BJJ titles, Brazilian Bruno Frazatto is an acomplished Black Belt which has recently started fighting in MMA
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Cristiano Marcello, the former Chute Boxe coach and Royler Gracie Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. His story throughout BJJ and more
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Rubens Charles, also known as “Cobrinha” – Little Snake – is a 5 time World Jiu Jitsu Champion with the longuest reign in the featherweigh division’s history. This Brazilian competitor from the town of Londrina, is famed for his agressive game inside the matted arena, but he is also an acomplished instructor as he has shown teaching at Team Alliance’s HQ in Atlanta.
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Andre Galvao is one of the most accomplished jiu jitsu competitors in the history of the sport, having won important tournaments such as the ADCC, the world championship, the Pan American championship, world cup, world pro championship among many other tournaments. Galvao also had a short spell competing in MMA.
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A member of the reality show, The Ultimate Fighter – Brazil (2012),Sergio Moraes is an accomplished MMA fighter and BJJ black belt with 4 world jiu jitsu titles to his name. He was revealed to jiu jitsu’s main stream at the 2008 World Championships after his submission victory over fan favourite Kron Gracie, he would later win that same tournament. Serginho Moraes has since then cemented his name as one of the great Jiu Jitsu fighters of his generation with several other important titles in the Jiu Jitsu competitive circuit.
