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Pan winners’ first words
The 2011 Pan crowned Rodolfo Vieira the grand champion. In winning both his weight group and the absolute, the GFTeam...
Pan: black belt division pics
With all the finalists defined for the female brown and black and the male black belt finals, it’s time to take a loo...
Pan Blog: find out who faces who in the finals
The black belt finals at the Jiu-Jitsu Pan have taken shape in Irvine. Some of final results have even come in alread...
The day Rafael Mendes tapped his ex-coach
In the finals of the South American qualifiers for ADCC 2007 then-purple belt Rafael Mendes lost to Bruno Frazatto by...
Who will make the finals at the Worlds? Bráulio gives his predictions
One of the winners at this January’s European Open championship, Bráulio Estima is still recovering from spinal surge...
Mendes brothers out to take over America
After a brilliant campaign in Lisbon at the European Open 2011, brothers Rafael and Guilherme Mendes are now getting ...
Frazatto and Atos featherweight squad
Check out a session at the academy between Frazatto and another featherweight force on the team, Rafael Mendes.
An absolute-fighting featherweight: Rafa Mendes to brave rougher waters
Rafael and Guilherme Mendes didn’t want to hear about just doing the European Open Championship. After winning at the...
Gui Mendes: “Now it’ll be like this: us both competing at featherweight together”
The brothers Guilherme and Rafael Mendes dominated the featherweight division at the 2011 European Open with the powe...
From Las Vegas, an X-ray of challenger Vitor Belfort
It was a laid back trip to Las Vegas with Anderson Silva and Co. (read about it here). During the nine-hour wait afte...
European Open: black belt finals
Check out the gallery with pics from the European Open black belt finals: [flickr set=72157625814592469] Check out th...
Watch Sérgio Moraes against Cavaca at the Euro Open
The Alliance ace had to get past the giant Rodrigo Cavaca to make it to the absolute final of the European Open 2011....