(Courtesy of PerformanceMMA.com)
Age: 29
Height: 6’ 0”
Weight: 185
Hometown: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (currently resides in Palm Beach, Florida)
Nickname: “Isn’t Igor good enough?”
MMA Record: 10-0 (5-0 Amateur, 5-0 Professional)
A perfect MMA record is hard to come by. Finishing all your opponents in the first round is even more difficult. Winning all ten fights, all in the first round, all by submission… now that’s impressive!
That is exactly what Igor Almeida has done.
Almeida was born in Boston, Massachusetts but raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was in Brazil, at the age of 14, that Almeida started his Jiu-Jitsu training under Sergio Souza and Brazilian Top Team co-founder Murilo Bustamante. In 2001, he had his first MMA fight in a local promotion; he was hooked.
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