Category: BJJ Athletes

Pieter Buist is a professional MMA fighter from Breda, Netherlands. He is currently signed to the ONE promotion in Asia where he has won his first 3 fights and is […]

John Combs was born in Cleveland, but grew up in California and then went to college in Boulder Colorado. Although prominent in BJJ, he has a strong background in wrestling […]

Paul Ciatto is a BJJ black belt from Patterson, NY. He began training the gentle art aged 29 and received his black belt at age 43 under Rafael “Formiga” Barbosa. […]

Christopher Newman is a black belt from London, England who currently trains at Fightzone London under Marco Canha. He began training aged 25 and received his black belt at age […]

Arielson Ozama is a BJJ athlete and instructor from the port city Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil. Now living in Malaysia and training under his good friend Bruno “Bruninho” Barbosa, Ozama […]

Lloyd Cooper is a BJJ athlete from Yorkshire, UK. He is often referred to as the Yorkshire Gripper which is a name he was given under comical circumstances, “When training […]

Bruno Barbosa is a BJJ athlete from Petrópolis, north of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Barbosa started BJJ aged 16 years old and got into grappling when a friend invited […]

Ante Dzolic is a veteran BJJ practitioner from Cleveland, OH. He began training BJJ aged 23 back in 1999 and received his black belt at age 39. His reason for […]

Vlad Koulikov is a BJJ black belt who specialises in Sambo and originates from Moscow, Russia. He started training Sambo aged 9 in 1984 at Sambo 70 Academy under world […]

Arya Esfandmaz is a black belt from London who runs his own gym, Pure Jiu Jitsu. He originally got into BJJ aged around 17/18 but had done Judo from age […]