Diego Sanchez got his brown belt

"Yesterday, I became an official Saulo Ribeiro Brown Belt. I am honored to finally be a part of REAL Gracie BJJ after Royler Gracie tied my brown belt after Saulo promoted me. The icing on the cake was that my hero Rickson Gracie was there watching me and congratulated me!!!"

pretty sweet, IIRC he only started in the gi not too long ago? post TUF?

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 Saulo, Royler and Rickson... thats BJJ Royalty

Kick ass

Nice.

I thought he was a black belt?

I'm sure Rickson saw many holes in Diego's game that he could easily exploit in an MMA fight.

Hopefully he will take his next fight to the ground so we can see all this improvement in action.

Hopefully he chokes out Guida.

congrats to him on that. super cool to have Rickson at your belt ceremony.

Skillrules -  Saulo, Royler and Rickson... thats BJJ Royalty

It was only a couple of years ago that he started with Saulo. I am guessing they gave him some credit based on his ability to roll and be very technical. Very cool!

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Awesome job. He has no doubt progressed much quicker simply because he is a very very good grappler that is extremely technical despite never putting on the gi before Saulo. It's extremely rare, but it does happen occasionally that someone who has never been in a gi is still technically very sound. No doubt Diego has been on the black belt level for quite some time.

Sweet.

Congrats. He's really moving fast up the ranks...

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Good for him. Diego is a good guy and he works his ass off to make sure he improves every fight.

Great accomplishment.

Brown Belt promotion = Stevia

Diego,

I don't know if you remember be or not, I cornered Jake Short when you two fought in the King of the Cage in Albuquerque. In addition, I trained with Saulo when he was in Ohio – eventually, he took over my gym when I moved to Philadelphia. Having Saulo, Royler, and now Rickson - overseeing your training spells big trouble for the 155lb division.

Best of luck in the future,

Dave