Lytes Out Deep Dive: Jiu Jitsu Joe Moreira

Joe Moreira was one of the first Jiu Jitsu black belts to arrive in the United States.

Joe Moreira takes us through his start with Reylson Gracie to his transition to instructing Marco Ruas at Kings MMA.

There is very little public documentation about Joe Moreira and this interview goes DEEP

Special Thank You to Bernard Magalhaes and Fred Hammer for helping land this historic interview.

Premiers New Years Day
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Lytes out intro 0:19 guest introduction 0:40 interview start 0:42 starting Judo at 5 years old 2:55 George Medi conflict with the Gracie’s 4:13 training with Carlson Gracie and Rolls Gracie 7:38 training with Reylson Gracie 8:40 moving to the United States 10:09 meeting Cab Garrett 15:26 Joe Moreira vs Rickson Gracie 20:02 impressing Hélio Gracie 22:12 relationship with Reylson Gracie 24:00 Francisco Mansor and Georges Mehdi 26:41 training with Marco Ruas 27:40 Marco Ruas challenging Rickson Gracie 29:00 relationship with Allan Góes 31:06 Allan Góes not being invited to ADCC 32:03 relationship with Carlson Gracie 35:29 Ricardo Libório 37:13 Atlantico Sul Cup BJJ tournament 38:48 influence from Francisco Mansur 41:47 organizing the early Pan Americans 45:54 getting into the UFC 50:19 Joe Moreira vs Zane Frazier 51:52 Joe Moreira vs Paul Varlens 54:41 Meeting Marco Ruas and Eugenio Tadeu 57:11 Marco Ruas beating up Pedro Rizzo 59:15 training Tank Abbott 1:01:39 Tank Abbott and Allan Goes crowd fight 1:05:09 Kimo Leopoldo saving Joe Moreira 1:09:30 secretly training with Marco Ruas 1:11:12 Joe Moreira International Open 1997 1:15:47 Rockson Gracie Vs Many Gamburyan issues 1:16:44 relationship with son 1:19:39 Joe Moreira vs Uri Vaulin 1:21:53 promoting Marco Ruas to black belt 1:24:44 Kimo Leopoldo contract for Royce Gracie fight 1:27:02 backlash from the Gracie’s 1:28:56 Carlson Gracie training Marco Ruas 1:31:39 being the only black belt without Gracie name at one time 1:33:55 training Tito Ortiz for ADCC 1:35:30 Tito Ortiz vs Wanderlei Silva 1:37:26 Joe Moreira vs Joe Son 1:39:39 Joe Moreira vs Paul Herrera 1:43:10 Marc Laimon student 1:44:39 Joe Moreira vs Royler Gracie 1:46:35 Rhadi Ferguson 1:48:00 no one wanting to fight Cafe Dantas 1:49:49 Rolls Gracie 1:51:06 Ricardo Teixeira 1:51:31 Randy Bloom 1:52:04 Anderson Goncalves 1:52:53 Michael Jen 1:53:37 interview wrap up 1:55:20 outro/ final thoughts

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I remember watching this fight live.

I like to talk about me so I had to throw this in there.

Started in Judo

  • George Medi??

Age 9 started training with Carlson Gracie and Rolls Gracie

  • they shared office space

Then trained with Reylson

Received BB in 1984 - won

  • Copa Company,
  • Copa Lightning Bolts
  • Copa Cantao

Went to a 30 minute draw with Rickson???

  • or they went 2x same tournament and was submitted both times
  • I read that he lost by 1 point in a match 10-9
  • Gracie mag claimed that R via sub x2

Also in second match JM escaped arm bar

  • cross choke was over his lip and tapped from pain

Moved to Japan to train at Terri University - 4 months with Olympic team

Made BJJ Tournament

Atlantico Sul Cup

  • Renzo, Ryan & Ralph

1992 Reylson convinced JM to sell everything and move to California

Met Cab Garrett (Carrington Garrett Enterprises) opened

BB under Francisco Mansur

  • after Reylson split
  • FM was shot 9x

Started Joe Moreira Cup BJJ tournament and organized the early Pan Americans for Carlos Gracie

  • when does JM and Reylson forgive one another

Allan Goes Moved to states in 1994

  • Joe Moreira helped AG adjust to the states

Getting the invite to the UFC

  • BJJ Heros claim the BJM got him there - BJM under Royce???
  • Fought closed door fight against Zane Frazier in front of Art Davie to get contract

Feb 16 1996

UFC 8

Paul Varlens 6’8 300

  • UFC 7 finalist

JM 12-0

corner Allan Goes

Tank Abbott and Allan Goes fought in crowd

Met Marco Ruas and Eugenio Tadeu at event

Kimo vs Ken DATE???

Kimo gave the arm up intentionally

Started training Kimo

  • this at the time shocked the Jiu Jitsu world - JM considered a traitor

July 1997

Joe Moreira International Open

Jiu Jitsu Junction

Burns events Center

  • Irvine

62 kilo weight class Blue Belt Division

  • Rickson, Royce, Machado, Conan, Ruas

Finals

Rockson Vs Many Gamburyan

  • referee discretion on who wins
  • Armenians on one side - Brazilians on the other
  • A riot took place

July 27 1997

UFC 14

Uri Vaulin W Dec

  • Latvia boxer (Olympic ladder)

JM trained with Marco Ruas

  • this was done in secret
  • Gave Marco Ruas a BB in BJJ - this shocked the JJ community - Ruas was the face of the enemy for BJJ

Corner

JM Allan Goes

Joe Moreira gave Marco Ruas a black belt

  • Carlson Gracie was offended by this & changed his belt to dark blue

Apr 12 2002

Xtreme Pankration

Joe Son W via terror

  • Joe Son paid Randy Ziegler to do privates with Rickson and then show Kimo everything that he learned - Chris Brennan

Nov 9 2002

Hitman Fight Production 2

Paul Herrera L Dec

Marc Laimon left JM after getting purple belt

Lost to Royler by arm bar

  • claimed that it was a demo

2007 Gi Superfight

Adilson De Souza W mounted choke - under 2:00

Rhadi Ferguson said that there was only two people that tooled him Liborio & JM

Cafe Dantas

  • JM had tight Armbar CD used illegal slam to get out of it

Trained Tito Ortiz for ADCC

Rolls Gracie

Carlson Gracie

Nino Schembri

Murilo Bustamonte

Jean Jacques Machado

Allan Goes

BB Ricardo Teixeira

  • Gave David & Marcos Avlllan

BB Adam Laclair

BB Randy Bloom

BB Roy Harris

BB Michael Jen

BB Anderson Goncalves

  • Team Punishment Ortiz & Rampage

Eddy Millis

  • trained Gary Goodridge and Mighty Moe - had questionable belt status under JM

Joao Marco Pierini

  • sex offender

Hideki Frazier

  • BB under Reylson and left for JM

Fred Hanmer

Bernard Magalhaes

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Ooooh yeeeaaah!

@williepep
I got a verbal from Lamon Brewster

Bro, his career is pretty incredible

It sent me on a Felix Savon rabbit hole

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Look forward to listening to this. Thanks

Amazing podcast guys.

Now we’ll learn if he was paid by a sponsor to have one of the most boring UFC fights.

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Can’t wait for this one! I’ve met Joe, he looked like a gorilla in a gi.

Can you do JJ Machado and Mario Sperry later?

Can tell by the summary mucho items I was not aware of / in the loop on.

Hey OP

It is not working man I have tried 4 times

Fix this

Does this have something to do with the recent change ?

Op TOP me fix this we need the interview

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Ok ok yes of course I read the release date

Look forward to it

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I have sent messages to a bunch of old school BJJ instructors

If they get back to me I do them

I am trying to get Andre Pederneiras

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