Fabio Gurgel - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Fabio Duca Gurgel do Amaral (born January 18, 1970 in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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, Brazil

Brazil

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) is an 8 time Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World champion. He has been practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art, combat sport, and a self defense system that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting...

(BJJ) since the age of 13. He received his black belt at the age of 19 from Romero "Jacaré" Cavalcanti. Along with Cavalcanti he is co-founder of the Alliance Jiu Jitsu

Alliance Jiu Jitsu

Alliance is one of the most prominent Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu associations, and the current, defending World team champions, having won the team title at the World Championships in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. They also won the World Championships back to back in 1998 and 1999...

Team.

He is the teacher of BJJ and ADCC World Champion Marcelo Garcia. He is President of the Brazil based Professional League of Jiu Jitsu

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Awards and achievements:

1986 - Awarded purple belt
1988 - Awarded brown belt
1989 - Awarded black belt
1993 - Founded Alliance
1994 - Brazilian National Champion
1995 - Brazilian National Champion
1996 - Brazilian National Champion, World Champion
1997 - World Champion
1999 - Brazilian National Champion
2000 - World Champion
2001 - World Champion
2007 - European Champion
2008 - Awarded 5th Degree black belt by CBJJ, Pan-Am Champion
2009 - European Champion
2010 - European Champion

Instructor Lineage

Mitsuyo "Count Koma" Maeda

Mitsuyo Maeda

,a Brazilian naturalized as Otávio Maeda,was a Japanese judōka and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions. He was also known as Count Combat or Conde Koma in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, a nickname he picked up in Spain in 1908...

→ Carlos Gracie, Sr.

Carlos Gracie

Carlos Gracie was the first Gracie to learn Judo from Otávio Mitsuyo Maeda. Based on this judo training, Carlos and his brothers founded the martial art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu...

→ Helio Gracie

Hélio Gracie

Hélio Gracie was a Brazilian martial artist who, together with his brother Carlos Gracie, founded the martial art of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, known internationally as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu...

→ Rolls Gracie

Rolls Gracie

Rolls Gracie was a notable practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a member of the Gracie family.- Biography :...

→ Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti

Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti

Romero Cavalcanti , nicknamed Jacaré, is a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and the founder-head coach of the prestigious Alliance Jiu-Jitsu Team. He is one of the six people to have been promoted to Black Belt by the famous Rolls Gracie prior to his death in a hang gliding accident...

→ Fabio Gurgel

Books

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Advanced Techniques (2007)
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Basic Techniques (2007)

Mixed martial arts record

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Mark Kerr
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World Vale Tudo Championship

The World Vale Tudo Championship, or WVC, was a no holds barred-style MMA fighting promotion based in Brazil. The promotion was founded by Brazilian promoter Frederico Lapenda...

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Brazil

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Michael Pacholik
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World Vale Tudo Championship

The World Vale Tudo Championship, or WVC, was a no holds barred-style MMA fighting promotion based in Brazil. The promotion was founded by Brazilian promoter Frederico Lapenda...

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Brazil

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Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith (fighter)

Patrick Smith is a retired American kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist. He started his mixed martial arts career by participating in the first two Ultimate Fighting Championship events....

|Submission (Fan Interference)
|World Vale Tudo Championship

World Vale Tudo Championship

The World Vale Tudo Championship, or WVC, was a no holds barred-style MMA fighting promotion based in Brazil. The promotion was founded by Brazilian promoter Frederico Lapenda...

3
|January 19, 1997
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Brazil

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Jerry Bohlander

Jerry Bohlander is an American former mixed martial artist. He is most notable for his UFC appearances and was a former UFC champion, winning the first lightweight tournament at UFC 12. He was a member of the legendary fight team the Lion's Den alongside other notable fighters such as Ken...

|Decision (Unanimous)
|UFC 11

UFC 11

UFC 11: The Proving Ground was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on September 20th, 1996, at the Augusta Civic Center in Augusta, Georgia...

Augusta, Georgia

Augusta is a consolidated city in the U.S. state of Georgia, located along the Savannah River. As of the 2010 census, the Augusta–Richmond County population was 195,844 not counting the unconsolidated cities of Hephzibah and Blythe.Augusta is the principal city of the Augusta-Richmond County...

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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