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\nicons gathered in Rio de Janeiro to honor Murilo Bustamante. | \ud83d\udcf7:
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Murilo The former Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bustamante’s promotion was witnessed by major figures from both the Among those in attendance were Antonio Each of the guests took the opportunity to speak at the event, \u201cI’m proud to say that in the biggest battles of my career, I had Bustamante is a Carlson Gracie black belt, former UFC champion and BJJ icons gathered in Rio de Janeiro to honor Murilo Bustamante. | \ud83d\udcf7: Marcelo Alonso\/Sherdog Murilo Bustamante\u2019s latest Brazilian jiu-jitsu milestone became a gathering of the sport\u2019s past, present and future. The former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion and longtime BJJ figure was promoted to 8th-degree black belt, receiving the red-and-white coral belt. This was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBustamante<\/a>\u2019s latest Brazilian jiu-jitsu milestone became a
\ngathering of the sport\u2019s past, present and future.<\/p>\n
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> middleweight champion and
\nlongtime BJJ figure was promoted to 8th-degree black belt,
\nreceiving the red-and-white coral belt. This was celebrated at the
\nAABB club in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, with many legends in
\nattendance.<\/p>\nSeveral Brazilian legends attended Murilo Bustamante\u2019s belt
\npromotion<\/h2>\n
\ngrappling and mixed martial arts world.<\/p>\n
\nRodrigo Nogueira<\/a>, Ricardo
\nArona<\/a>, Ricardo
\nLiborio<\/a>, Ricardo De La Riva, Fernando
\nPinduka<\/a>, Carlos Rosado and Bebeo
\nDuarte<\/a>. Former rivals from other academies also gathered to
\nhonor Bustamante, including Ralph Gracie<\/a>,
\nLeonardo
\nCastello Branco<\/a>, Sergio Zveiter, H\u00e9lio Soneca and Vini
\nCampello.<\/p>\n
\nhighlighting Bustamante’s enormous influence on the history of
\nBrazilian jiu-jitsu, vale tudo and mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n
\nmy idol and master by my side,\u201d Rodrigo Nogueira said. \u201cHe was a
\nworld jiu-jitsu champion and the first Brazilian to become the
\nundisputed UFC category champion. His greatness is reflected in
\nthis incredible gathering of masters from different generations and
\ndifferent teams. This is a true tribute to jiu-jitsu.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nco-founder of Brazilian Top Team. A multiple-time BJJ world
\nchampion, he helped shape the early days of vale tudo and mixed
\nmartial arts before becoming one of the sport\u2019s most respected
\nfigures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"