The new blue belt! @BrockLesnar promoted by @compridobjj @ufc pic.twitter.com/qNcZ6ioAgs
— Ana Hissa (@AnaHissa) June 16, 2016
Ahead of his Octagon comeback at UFC 200 next month, Brock Lesnar continues to make headlines with nearly every public step he takes.
Embedded above is video footage of the WWE Superstar and former UFC Heavyweight Champion receiving his blue belt in jiu-jitsu from his instructor, Rodrigo “Comprido” Medeiros, during a ceremony held on Thursday at Lesnar’s private training facility in Minnesota.
After the presentation, Medeiros spoke with FloGrappling.com about promoting Lesnar to the rank of blue belt:
“I’ve been working with Brock now for eight years. The training went down a notch when he went back to WWE and retired, but I still work with him, Cole Konrad and Marty Morgan – NCAA wrestling champions – and they’re at a level way higher than that of a blue belt. But we can’t jump the belts, right? We were always worried about no-gi in the fight camp, we never had chance for this. So now we had a little more time we did some training in the gi, I decided to give them the belts.”
For those unfamiliar with the belt system in jiu-jitsu, a blue belt is the first of four common ranks in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ranking system. Those practicing jiu-jitsu are immediately white belt status and as time goes on and their skills improve, at the discresion of the instructor, they will be promoted to blue belt, then purple belt, brown belt and black belt, in that order.
Lesnar may need to put his jiu-jitsu skills to the test when he makes his Octagon return against devastating knockout artist Mark Hunt in the co-main event of the landmark UFC 200 pay-per-view event.
UFC 200 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, July 9, 2016 from the brand new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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