Alliance Jiu Jitsu
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Alliance is one of the most prominent Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
associations, and the current, defending World team champions, having won the team title at the World Championships
in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. They also won the World Championships back to back in 1998 and 1999. Alliance was founded by Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti
and his students Fabio Gurgel
, Alexandre Paiva and Fernando Gurgel. Alliance Global headquarters is in Atlanta, Georgia
at the Alliance Martial Arts Academy, where "Jacare" is the head instructor. Fabio Gurgel
, also called the "General" is the co-leader of Alliance and the head instructor at Alliance Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Alexandre "Gigi" Paiva heads the third main Alliance academy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Alliance won all major competitions in 2010, winning the European Championship
, Pan American Championship, and the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship
in the same year, an accomplishment which has never been achieved by any other team in history.
Main Titles:
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art, combat sport, and a self defense system that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting...
associations, and the current, defending World team champions, having won the team title at the World Championships
World Jiu-Jitsu Championship
The World Jiu-Jitsu Championship is the most prestigious Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in the world. They are hosted annually by the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation. The first Mundial tournament to be held outside of Brazil was in 2007 at the California State University in Long...
in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. They also won the World Championships back to back in 1998 and 1999. Alliance was founded by Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti
Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti
Romero Cavalcanti , nicknamed Jacaré, is a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and the founder-head coach of the prestigious Alliance Jiu-Jitsu Team. He is one of the six people to have been promoted to Black Belt by the famous Rolls Gracie prior to his death in a hang gliding accident...
and his students Fabio Gurgel
Fabio Gurgel
Fabio Duca Gurgel do Amaral is an 8 time Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World champion. He has been practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu since the age of 13. He received his black belt at the age of 19 from Romero "Jacaré" Cavalcanti...
, Alexandre Paiva and Fernando Gurgel. Alliance Global headquarters is in Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
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at the Alliance Martial Arts Academy, where "Jacare" is the head instructor. Fabio Gurgel
Fabio Gurgel
Fabio Duca Gurgel do Amaral is an 8 time Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World champion. He has been practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu since the age of 13. He received his black belt at the age of 19 from Romero "Jacaré" Cavalcanti...
, also called the "General" is the co-leader of Alliance and the head instructor at Alliance Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Alexandre "Gigi" Paiva heads the third main Alliance academy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Alliance won all major competitions in 2010, winning the European Championship
European Championship (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu)
The European Championship is the most prestigious and largest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament held in Europe by the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation.This championship has been held since 2004 in January, in Lisbon, Portugal.-See also:...
, Pan American Championship, and the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship
World Jiu-Jitsu Championship
The World Jiu-Jitsu Championship is the most prestigious Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in the world. They are hosted annually by the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation. The first Mundial tournament to be held outside of Brazil was in 2007 at the California State University in Long...
in the same year, an accomplishment which has never been achieved by any other team in history.
History of Alliance
Alliance was founded in 1993, by Romero Jacaré Cavalcanti, Fabio Gurgel, Alexandre Paiva and Fernando Gurgel.Main Titles:
- Six times World Championship Team - 1998, 1999, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
- National brazilian champion in 2011
- National brazilian champion in 2009
- Two times champion rio open in 2008 and 2009
- European champion 2010 and 2011
Alliance Black Belts
- Romero "Jacare" CavalcantiRomero "Jacare" CavalcantiRomero Cavalcanti , nicknamed Jacaré, is a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and the founder-head coach of the prestigious Alliance Jiu-Jitsu Team. He is one of the six people to have been promoted to Black Belt by the famous Rolls Gracie prior to his death in a hang gliding accident...
- Founder & one of six Rolls GracieRolls GracieRolls Gracie was a notable practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a member of the Gracie family.- Biography :...
black belts - Fabio "General" GurgelFabio GurgelFabio Duca Gurgel do Amaral is an 8 time Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World champion. He has been practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu since the age of 13. He received his black belt at the age of 19 from Romero "Jacaré" Cavalcanti...
- Founder & 4x IBJJF WorldWorld Jiu-Jitsu ChampionshipThe World Jiu-Jitsu Championship is the most prestigious Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in the world. They are hosted annually by the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation. The first Mundial tournament to be held outside of Brazil was in 2007 at the California State University in Long...
Heavyweight Champion - Alexandre "Gigi" Paiva - Founder & IBJJF WorldWorld Jiu-Jitsu ChampionshipThe World Jiu-Jitsu Championship is the most prestigious Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in the world. They are hosted annually by the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation. The first Mundial tournament to be held outside of Brazil was in 2007 at the California State University in Long...
Middleweight Champion - Fernando "Terere" AugustoFernando "Terere" AugustoFernando Augusto da Silva is a former Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor, mixed martial arts fighter, and submission grappler. He is a black belt under professor Alexandre Paiva of Team Alliance. Tererê is a two-time World Champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in black belt division...
- 2x IBJJF World Middleweight Champion - Rubens "Cobrinha" Charles Maciel - 4x IBJJF World Featherweight Champion
- Marcelo "Marcelinho" Garcia - 5x IBJJF World Middleweight Champion
- Fernando "Soluço" di Piero
- Sergio "Serginho" MoraesSergio MoraesSergio Moraes is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt and a professional mixed martial artist. He most known in MMA for his 1-0 stint in Bellator Fighting Championships....
- 1x IBJJF World Middleweight Champion - Felipe "Zicró" NetoFelipe "Zicró" NetoLuiz Felipe "Zicró" Neto is a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and is the head instructor of the Alliance Tallahassee Team, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school in Tallahassee, Florida....
- 2x Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Florida State Champion - Bernardo Faria - 1x IBJJF World Heavyweight Champion
- Alex Monsalve
- Jorge Luis Ortega BarrosGraduated to black belt by Fernando di Piero .Ecuadorian BJJ BB
- Roger Brooking - Panamerican Champion, 2x European Champion
- Lucio LinharesLucio LinharesLucio Linhares is a Brazilian-Finnish professional mixed martial artist and M-1 Global veteran who has fought for Shooto. Linhares most notable win is over former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Sean Salmon. Linhares is a former member of the M-1 Mixfight Team Finland...
- Darjush Saniee-Ghomi "Beijaflor" 2x IBJJF EUROPEAN Light-Feather CHAMPION (Founder GHOMI JIU-JITSU) Germany
- Tarsis HumphreysTarsis HumphreysTarsis Humphrey is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. He has been practising Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu since the age of 13. At age 23 He became a Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt under Fabio Gurgel, the co-founder of the Alliance Jiu Jitsu Team.Tarsis is one of Alliance’s heavy hitter Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitors...
- 1x IBJJF World Medium/Heavy Champion - Lucas Lepri - 1x IBJJF World Lightweight Champion/2x No Gi World Champion
- Michael Langhi - 2x IBJJF World Lightweight Champion
- Bruno Malfacine - 4x IBJJF World Roosterweight Champion
- Joseph D. Shelley 2x IBJJF Medium/Heavy World No Gi Champion
- Mitch Coats
- Jeff Joslin
- Sebastian Słowek
- Demian MaiaDemian MaiaDemian Maia Baptista is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. He currently fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Maia is currently ranked the #6 middleweight in the world by Sherdog and Yahoo! Sports., and the #8 middleweight fighter in the world by...
- Dragan Konjevic
- Markku Juntunen The first Finnish BJJ black belt
- Tommy Malmberg The first non-Brazilian to be graduated to black belt by Fabio Gurgel
- Leonardo Iturralde Graduated to black belt by Fernando di Piero . First Ecuadorian BJJ BB
- Fabio "Bolivia" Suzuki
- Luciano "Casquinha" Nucci
- Matt LarsenMatt LarsenMatt Larsen is a United States Army Ranger and Combatives instructor known as "The Father of Modern Combatives" for creating the United States Army's modern combatives doctrine and establishing the U.S. Army Combatives School...
Creator of the US Army CombativesCombativesCombatives is a United States Army term for hand-to-hand combat training and techniques.-History:Militaries have long taught unarmed combat, both as physical conditioning and as a supplement to armed combat. Among the samurai of Japan, such combatives were known as Bujutsu...
Program - Radek Turek - EUROPEAN ADCC 2007 & 2009 CHAMPION, ADCC Competitor
- Juan Miguel Iturralde
- Ulf Ehlert
- Henry Navorra
- Mario Reis -World Champion
- Ian McPherson
- Gabrielle Garcia -3x World Champion
- Luanna Alzuguir -2x World Champion
- Leonardo Nogueira -1x World Champion
- Fabbio "Monstrinho" Passos
- Michel Langhi
- Chris "Cabecão" Moriarty
- D.J. Farmer
- Humberto Borges
- Gabriel Goulart
- Tatiana Tognini Garcia
- Henrique Rezende
- Antonio "Batista" Peinado
- Davi Dimopoulos Said
- Ed Kennedy
- Fabio Clemente
- Rafael dos Santos
- Babs Olusanmokun
- Willie Rodriguez
- Damian Key
- Stephen "Pesadelo" Hall
- Alexandre Britto