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10/5/2009
Pan NO GI Jiu Jitsu - NYC

Held at the City College in Manhattan,NYC the second edition of the Pan NO GI has hundreds of athletes. BTT sent several athletes and all of them got medals. Dawson Daninelli ( Blue), Carlos " Peixe" Fernandes ( Blue) and Weverson Cordeiro ( Purple) managed to get the silver while Dalmon Silva ( Blue), Michael Zenga ( Purple) and Marcus Signorelli got bronze. BTT teacher Daniel Gazoni was present to coach and was happy with the overall result.

9/28/2009
World Championship Fighting 8

Word Championship Fighting returned to the Shriner's Auditorium in Wilmington/MA on saturday, september 28th to its 8th edition.The event had thousands of people attending incluinding a guest appearance made by youtube legend and Ultimate Fighter participant Kimbo Slice. Brazilian Top Team fighter Annis "El Hahhajy" faced Brent Reed ( American Top Team) on his birthday and his hard work has paid off, he won via hear naked choke at R2. Annis, Joấo Amaral's pupil has conquerend his second consecutive win at WCF and he has been tranining with coaches Daniel Gazoni and Jeff Burger since João's departure to California to teach and train with MUrilo Bustamante. Congratulations to Annis and for those who helped at his training.

9/21/2009
European Jiu Jitsu Championship / CBJJE



The first European Jiu Jitsu Championship orgazined by CBJJE was held in Morges, Switzerland last weekend . Atheletes from BTT Geneva ( Anderson Pereira) and BTT England ( Zé Marcello and Xandinho Izidro) team up and did a great job dominating the juvenil category and coming in third place overall. Congrats to all !



9/15/2009
Toquinho out of ADCC 2009

Rousimar "Toquinho" Palhares will not be disputing the under 88kg division at ADCC 2009. He is recovering from the fracture suffering while training to face Alessio Sakara during the month of May and the doctor has not yet release him to train hard. Leader of the team, Murilo Bustamante said : "He would show up improperly trained and would further run the risk of injuring himself again. That is why we decided he should not dispute the ADCC but Milton Vieira will be there representing BTT ". Miltinho will dispute the under 76.9 kg, one of the toughest with big names like Marcelo Garcia, Kron Gracie, Pablo Popovitch but our athlete is up to the challenge and it is training hard. The ADCC is the most prestigious submission tournament in the world and will take place on September 26th and 27th in Barcelona, Spain.

9/14/2009
Lots of medals at American Nationals 2009

Photo : Alicia Photos

The American National Jiu-Jitsu Championship was held in Carson, California last weekend and BTT had over 50 athletes representing the team and they did really well : David Cho ,Angelo Lago ,Nick Gerasimou , Gerome Uy, Khunvanary Vong, Douglas Martinez, John J. Antognol, Joe Chavez, Sak Pidech, Gabriel Procopio, Jennifer Petterson, Carl Herman, John Oor, Brett Coolins, Tom Vandakan and Leonardo Saggioro all got medals. The overall result was excellent and BTT is getting back strong at Gi tournaments. Congratulations to all who competed and to Marcelo Perdomo and João Amaral for the coaching.

09/13/2009
Milton Vieira wins at Bitetti Combat 4

Photo: Portal das Lutas

The Bitetti Combat event was held last saturday at Maracanazinho and had a lot of public and world class athletes. Milton Vieira represented Brazilian Top Team and fought against Luciano Azevedo. Milton dominated the first round but couldn't submit Azevedo. In the end the BTT athlete won by split decision. Congrats to him and those who helped during his training for the fight.

9/8/2009
Angelo Araujo at MMA Vendetta

Last saturday our fighter Angelo Araujo (9-2) stepped into the cage at the MMA Vendetta held at the Renaissance Resort & Casino in Aruba. Facing Aaron Stark , Angelo won the first round but broke his hand in round 2. He managed to end the fight but his opponent won by decision. Best of luck to Angelo in his recover.



8/31/2009
Weekend of Seminars







Marcelo Perdomo / Marcello Salazar / Adriano Nasal

In order to provide uniformity and keep a high level of jiu jitsu at all btt schools, we had 5 of our senior black belts teaching seminars all over US las weekend. Head coach and co-founder Master Murilo Bustamante taught a seminar in Chicago while João Amaral went to Boston. Zé Marcelo came from Europe to teach in New Hampshire and Marcello Salazar hosted a seminar at his new gym in San Antonio , Texas and had Marcelo Perdomo ( BTT Long Beach) over to teach some techniques. Contact us if you want to host a seminar with one of our black belts at Brazilian Top Team

8/30/2009
Train with Murilo Bustamante at new BTT locations



Brazilian Top Team is expanding and inked a agreement with two gyms in CA : Bodies in Motion in Los Angeles and No Limits, in Santa Ana. The latter it's around 70000 square feet the biggest MMA facility in the world and has a official size octagon, three official boxing rings, weigh-lifting, 400 sq meters of mats, sauna, shops, etc. Come and train at the new BTT locations with our coachs: world renowned, World Heavyweight Jiu Jitsu Champion and former UFC Champion Murilo Bustamante, João Amaral and Darrel Gholar .

8/12/2009
Palhares is back at UFC

Rousimar "Toquinho" Palhares (9-2) finally will face Alessio Sakara (14-7, 1 NC) at the Ultimate Fighter Season 10 finale , december 5th. Scheduled for UFC 101, the bout didn't happen due Palhares's injury during practice.



7/14/2009
BTT Long Beach at the Top



Without a doubt ,Prof. Marcelo Perdomo ( BTT Long Beach) has a very strong team in California. Here is the proof :

* At the 2009 Worlds Jiu Jitsu Championship which is the most prestigious BJJ tournament in the world and attract thousands of competitors , the blue belt Rogério Roma won his weight class and the absolute division.
* At Copa Pacífica 2009 which had 700 + competitors, the Adult Team managed to get the 2nd place overall.
* At the 2009 South Bay Open, one of the biggest tournaments of southern CA which had 600 + competitors, the Kids Team got the 1 st place overall and the Adults got the 4th place.
Keep it up the good work !

07/2009
BTT Florida Excelled at Naga US Open

The BTT Florida did a great job at the NAGA US Open during 4th of July BJJ competition which happened in Orlando, Florida. Fourteen athletes won gold medals and many others won silver medals. BTT Florida is becoming nationwide known, thanks to its great competition team and and its very dedicated head instructor Edgar Dutra. Congratulations !

5/12/2009
Toquinho injured in Rio

Called up to face Alessio Sakara at UFC 101, Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares suffered a serious training injury at BTT headquarters. According to information on the site In the Guard, the fighter fractured his tibia and was operated upon immediately, at a hospital near the team headquarters.
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4/22/2009
BTT at the NYC Open International 2009









Once again, NYC has been a good place for the Brazilian Top Team. After a successful overall performance at the 2008 Pan No Gi, the academy had some excellent results at the first edition of the NYC Open International 2009.
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4/20/2009
BTT loaded with gold medals

The BTT team did great at the NYC Open BJJ, last weekend, in Manhattan. Five athletes conquered six gold medals, in important divisions of the dispute. Thayse Nascimento won the brown/black female adult open class as well as the featherweight division.
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3/17/2009
Massachusetts Federation News Brazilian JJ Lattes

Renan Borges BTT Black Belt 154.5 Lb Boston represented the State of Massachusetts very well in 15th of March 2009 At Massachusetts X Connecticut Challenge.
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