Pereira Rewarded Brown Belt in BJJ

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Ariel Helwani shared a post on Instagram: "New UFC middleweight champ Alex Pereira was awarded his BJJ brown belt by his coach Plinio Cruz last night 🎥 @pliniocruzmma". Follow their account to see 6175 posts.

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“You guys don’t know, Alex once competed in jiu-jitsu back in the day,” Pereira’s coach, Plinio Cruz, said via an Instagram video embedded above. “He was being trained to submit every fight. As you guys know, he’s an MMA fighter, now the best fighter on the planet, beating one of the best fighters of all time. But, you guys know Alex’s been following jiu-jitsu, too. He’s showing improvement, he’s showing respect, he’s showing he’s hungry to learn because it’s mixed martial arts, not only kickboxing.

“So, with that said, if you guys saw that fight Saturday … takedowns, sweeps, leg locks, almost like a real jiu-jitsu guy,” he continued. “But the main part of jiu-jitsu is not about submitting. It’s not about winning. It’s about surviving. And under the most hard circumstance, he used jiu-jitsu to survive. He survived and in the end, he stood on his feet and knocked the guy out. That takes a very high-level guy in the head, in the heart, in the technique. Because of that, I believe and our coaches believe that we want to reward him with a brown belt.”

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Ummm

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The new Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight kingpin earned his biggest career win yet, defeating Israel Adesanya for the third time in combat sports at UFC 281 this past weekend (Nov. 12, 2022). Despite Pereira finishing the fight with his powerful punches in round five (watch highlights), the overall effort in the 20-plus minute affair was enough to see him promoted in his jiu-jitsu ranking by his team last night (Tues., Nov. 15, 2022).

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I knocked a guy out at the bar after he smacked my ex buttocks and received 3 stripes on my blue belt. My Sensei was the bartender.

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I’m no way shape or form is this a way for this coach to get attention

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Uhhhhhhhh

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His ground isnt brown belt level

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People in BJJ are constantly getting belts they don’t deserve. Belts used to actually mean something.

If you can’t eventually get a D1 wrestler’s back and choke him you aren’t a black belt.

Belts people don’t deserve and the constant leg locking in No-gi has made BJJ worthless .

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I think it’s a karate brown belt due to him winning with punches

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interestings

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Nobody can doubt the guy’s stand up skills but this just screams McDojo