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As the Gracie’s needed someone to fill up the vacant coach’s position while Royce dedicated his full attention to training, Fabio Santos decided to stay and help out. When he arrived, Royce Gracie was preparing to compete in the first UFC. He immediately contacted them and travelled to stay with the Gracies. It was through a magazine article that Fabio discovered his old friends Rorion and Royce Gracie were settled in California. Fabio then found out that Pedro Sauer was in Utah, and he would travel there to train and keep active with his jiu jitsu. Working there, he had a chance to start training a little with judokas and wrestlers to maintain his fitness levels. The adventure in New York was short lived Fabio Santos did not adapt to NYC’s agitated life style and decided to move to Salt Lake City.
He had just finished his degree in Physical Education and became a personal trainer at a gym there. In the mid 1980’s Fabio Santos decided to travel to the United States, settling for a while in New York. Like many of Rolls Gracie’s students, Fabio Santos then started training with another Gracie family member, Rickson, who would later award Fabio Santos his black belt.
Santos stayed at the academy until tragedy struck the Gracie family and Rolls Gracie passed away due to a fall in a paragliding accident (1983). Fabio Santos often fought against members of the Carlson, Rorion and even Helio Gracie schools.įabio Santos stayed alongside Rolls Gracie and started his career as an assistant coach at the academy when he was a purple belt. During this era of jiu jitsu, competition was scarce and internal tournaments were the only way to progress and find the competitive drive. Many members of the Gracie family, especially those that were teenagers at the time, trained at that same gym, and so Fabio Santos had classes alongside Royce, Royler and many other important figures in BJJ of years to come. He started practicing jiu jitsu when he was still a child with a student of Grand Master Helio Gracie named “Bernardo”, though he did not take his training all that seriously until after his 15th birthday, when Fabio started practising jiu jitsu at Rolls Gracie‘s academy, the famous venue shared between Rolls and his brother Carlson. Team/Association: Fabio Santos BJJ Fabio Santos Biographyįabio Santos was born on the 4th of April, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Weight Division: Peso Médio (88kg/181lbs)
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Black Belt Pro Am Superfight Champion (2003).Pan American Champion (1996 Senior, 2004 Senior 3).International Masters & Seniors Champion (2000 Senior 2).Lineage: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Helio Gracie > Rickson Gracie > Fabio Santos Master Fabio Santos is also a veteran competitor with several important titles under his belt, who was still actively competing when in his 50’s. A former student of the legendary Rolls Gracie, Fabio Santos was also one of the first BJJ black belts to come to the United States of America, in the 1980’s, after travelling around the US, he settled in San Diego – California where established one of the most respected BJJ academies in the country. Fabio Santos is a 7th degree (7º grau) jiu jitsu coral belt (black & red) awarded by Relson Gracie, having graduated as a black belt under Rickson Gracie.
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