Top heavyweight grappler Victor Hugo spoke to Grappling Insider about how he developed his trademark ‘Big Man Flow’ style. Victor Hugo is widely recognized as one of the best heavyweight gi and no-gi submission grappling competitors in the world – but he grapples nothing like a typical heavyweight. Standing at
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Check out the full card line-up and preview for WNO 22: Rodriguez vs Hugo, set for Friday, February 9. FloGrappling’s Who’s Number One (WNO) returns to action this Friday, February 9, with a stacked card headlined by top heavyweight contenders. The co-main event features a welterweight title bout between fan
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A pivotal heavyweight tilt between Nick Rodriguez and Victor Hugo will serve as the main event for WNO 22 on February 9. The full main card for Who’s Number One (WNO) 22 on February 9 has been released, and the card will feature a headlining match between top heavyweights Nick
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Check out the full tournament line-up for the IBJJF Absolute GP, featuring Nicholas Meregali and Victor Hugo. This Friday, September 1, eight elite gi jiu-jitsu competitors will square off in the IBJJF Absolute Grand Prix with a $40,000 cash purse on the line. Competing in the tournament will be reigning
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The fallout from Nicholas Meregali’s disciplinary disqualification from the 2021 IBJJF Worlds continues. Victor Hugo — the man that Meregali was facing when he gave the finger to someone in the audience — didn’t take kindly to Meregali’s reaction to the disqualification and is now offering to face Meregali in
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On Saturday, November 13 at the IBJJF’s Jiu-Jitsu Con, eight elite jiu-jitsu players — four middleweights and four heavyweights — competed in mini tournaments, each with a $20,000 purse on the line. Rookie black belt Tainan Dalpra took home the gold at middleweight, while Victor Hugo won the heavyweight division.
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The 2021 IBJJF no-gi Worlds take place on October 7-10, with black belts competing on Saturday and Sunday. The men’s ultra-heavyweight division is the smallest adult black belt division, but potentially includes one of the events most anticipated matches. After going 1-1 against each other at the 2019 no-gi Worlds,
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Two weeks ago, Third Coast Grappling held a star-studded eight-man absolute tournament with $20,000 in prize money on the line. One of those competitors, jiu-jitsu phenom William Tackett, has released mat-side video of his first-round match with Victor Hugo. Check out that video below. As the video says, William Tackett
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On Saturday, March 20, Fight to Win returned to action with a card headlined by one of the sport’s most talented big men, Victor Hugo. Lower on the card, Pedro Marinho made his black belt debut, and multiple-time world champion Osvaldo “Queixinho” Moizinho clashed with Gabriel Sousa. In the main
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The Third Coast Grappling eight-man grand prix is now set. The promotion has announced the eighth and final competitor in the one-night tournament will be no-gi absolute world champion Victor Hugo. The event will take place on April 3. The announcement was made via Third Coast’s Instagram. View this post
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