André Luiz Leite Galvão (; born September 29, 1982) is a Brazilian grappler and professional

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. A 4th degree Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under

Fernando "Tererê" Augusto Fernando Augusto da Silva (born 15 November 1979) is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor, mixed martial arts fighter, and submission grappler. He is a black belt under professor Alexandre Paiva of Team Alliance. Tererê is a two-time World Champ ...

as well as a

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black belt, Galvão is one of the most decorated BJJ athletes ever, having won most major international tournaments multiple times. Galvão is the co-founder and head coach of Atos Jiu Jitsu, one of the most successful grappling teams in competitive sport, and a coach to numerous world champions. He is the author of the martial arts book ''Drill to Win: One Year to Better Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu''. In 2022, Galvão was inducted into the IBJJF Hall of Fame and the

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Submission grappling

Galvão has won the 2011

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(weight and absolute) Brazilian National Championship,

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and Pan American Championships multiple times and has also taken third place in the 2007 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship at both -77 kg and openweight. Despite his frequent competition success, Galvao has stated that he only began to learn

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as an adult after he moved to America in 2008. Galvão was a competitor in the 2009 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship in

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where he placed second in the -88 kg class. More recently, Galvao had a standout performance in 2011, first by winning the Ultimate Absolute NYC by defeating standouts

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, and Rustam Cshiev. At the 2011 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship Galvão captured gold in both the -88 kg and absolute weight classes defeating

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and Pablo Popovitch, in each respective finals. Galvão defeated

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by rear naked choke in their Superfight at the 2013 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship. Galvão faced

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at Metamoris IV on August 9, 2014. He won the bout via a rear-naked choke submission. On August 30, 2015, he defeated

Roberto Abreu Roberto de Abreu Filho (commonly known as "Cyborg" Abreu) is a Brazilian Submission grappling, submission grappler and instructor. A seven-time World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship, World No-Gi Champion, Abreu is known for the "tornado guard" ...

via points (6–0) at the 2015 ADCC Superfight. At ADCC 2017, Galvão defeated Claudio Calasans via decision. At ADCC 2019, Galvão defeated

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via points (2–0). Despite initially going back and forth on whether or not to retire from the sport altogether, Galvao confirmed in 2021 that he will be returning at least one more time to defend his ADCC superfight championships at the 2022 World Championship event. In November 2021, Galvao became part of the inaugural class of the ADCC Hall of Fame thanks to his records as the longest-serving superfight champion and most decorated competitor. At ADCC 2022, Galvão lost his superfight title to Gordon Ryan, being submitted by a rear-naked choke.

Instructor lineage

Mitsuyo Maeda naturalized as Otávio Maeda (),Virgílio, p. 9 was a Japanese people, Japanese-born judo, ''judōka'' and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions. He was known as Count Combat or ''Conde Koma'' in Spanish and Portuguese, a nickname he pi ...

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Carlos Gracie Carlos Gracie (September 14, 1902October 7, 1994) was a Brazilian martial artist who is credited with being one of the primary developers of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Along with his younger brother Hélio Gracie and fellow students Luis França a ...

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Rolls Gracie Rolls Gracie (; 1951–1982) was a Brazilian martial artist. He was a prominent member of the Gracie family known for their founding of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and considered by some the family's best ever fighter. He was teacher of Rickson Gracie, ...

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Romero Cavalcanti Romero Cavalcanti (born October 22, 1952) is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu master and the founder of Alliance Jiu Jitsu. He is one of the six men who were promoted to black belt by Rolls Gracie prior to his fatal 1982 hang gliding accident.

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Alexandre Paiva Alexandre "Gigi" Paiva (born March 4, 1967, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a long standing figure, having been involved in Jiu Jitsu since the early 1980s, in the Brazilian jiu-jitsu community who has made a number of important contributio ...

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Mixed martial arts

Galvão made his mixed martial arts debut in 2008, and in 2009 he entered

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's 2009 Welterweight Tournament. Since completing the tournament, Galvão fought in

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. He earned a record of 2 wins and 1 loss in the promotion before retiring from the sport. Despite being retired from MMA for over a decade, Galvão revealed on November 30, 2020, that he was planning on making a return to professional MMA competition at some point in 2021. On November 8, 2021, it was announced that Galvão had signed a multi-fight contract with

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. He made his promotional debut in a grappling match against ONE Middleweight and ONE Light Heavyweight Champion Reinier de Ridder at ONE: X on March 26, 2022. They grappled to a draw after 12 minutes after neither could find the submission.

Mixed martial arts record

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Submission grappling record

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Published works

* ''Drill to Win: One Year to Better Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu'' (Victory Belt Publishing, 2010). The book focuses on "learning the transitional skills of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and submission wrestling through proper diet, calisthenics, and technical drills".

References

External links

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Submission grappling

Instructor lineage

Mixed martial arts

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See also

References

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