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

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. A 4th degree

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black belt under

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as well as a

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black belt, Galvão is one of the most decorated athletes ever, having won most major international tournaments multiple times. Galvão is the co-founder and head coach of

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, one of the most successful BJJ 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 June 2022 Galvão was inducted into the IBJJF Hall of Fame & in September 2022, he was inducted into the ADCC Hall of Fame.

Submission grappling

Galvão has won the 2011 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship (''weight and absolute'') Brazilian National Championship,

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and

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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 Rousimar Palhares 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 via points (6-0) at the 2015 ADCC Superfight. At ADCC 2017, Galvão defeated Claudio Calasans via decision. At ADCC 2019, Galvão defeated Felipe Pena 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.

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 Strikeforce. 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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Vinny Magalhães Vinicius "Vinny" de Magalhães (; born July 2, 1984) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the Light heavyweight division. A professional competitor since 2006, he was a finalist in '' The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team M ...

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Antônio Braga Neto Antônio Braga Neto (born October 29, 1987) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and grappler. He competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a gold medalist in both the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship and Pan American Cham ...

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David Avellan David Avellan is an American grappler and professional mixed martial artist who has fought for World Extreme Cagefighting and Bodog Fight promotions. Past opponents include French journeyman Antony Rea and UFC contender Aaron Simpso ...

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Rodolfo Vieira Rodolfo Vieira Srour (born September 25, 1989 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist currently signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he competes in the middleweight division. Vie ...

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Mark Bocek Mark Andrew Bocek ( cs, Boček; born October 24, 1981) is a Canadian retired mixed martial artist who competed in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor for ten years from 2004 to 2014, Bocek has ...

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Rafael dos Anjos Rafael Souza dos Anjos (; born October 26, 1984) is a Brazilian American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight and Lightweight divisions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a former UFC Light ...

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Instructor lineage

Mitsuyo "Count Koma" Maeda →

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 an ...

, Sr. →

Helio Gracie Helio may refer to: * Helio AU-24 Stallion * Helio (wireless carrier), a defunct American wireless communications provider (2005–2010); originally a joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink, purchased by Virgin Mobile USA in 2008 * ...

→ Rolls Gracie → Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti → Alexandre Paiva →

→ André Galvao

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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