Chris Weidman earns his black belt
Two-time Div I All American and UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman was awarded his BJJ black belt on Monday by Renzo Gracie and Matt Serra.
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Two-time Div I All American and UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman was awarded his BJJ black belt on Monday by Renzo Gracie and Matt Serra. ‘The All American’ has been practicing BJJ since 2008, when Gabriel ‘Monsta’ Toribio invited him to come over the Serra BJJ.
Within a year of training he won the ADCC East Coast Trials, making the 2009 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship, where he lost in the quarter finals to André Galvão. That same year he started competing in MMA, and four years later was the champion of the world.
