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Video: Jiu-Jitsu Wizard Rodrigo “Comprido” Medeiros Promotes Brock Lesnar To Blue Belt

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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.

Join us here at MMANews.com on 7/9 for live coverage of the UFC 200 pay-per-view event!

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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.

Join us here at MMANews.com on 7/9 for live coverage of the UFC 200 pay-per-view event!

The War on Drugs Wages On: ‘Comprido’ says “Eddie Bravo is an Idiot”

(Video via MMANuts.com)

A few short days ago Dave Herman was yanked from his upcoming bout against Mike Russow following a failed drug test, and before the smoke had cleared a lively debate had sparked between our readers about marijuana’s place in the sport. We thought we’d hashed it all out and come to an understanding, but now Rodrigo “Comprido” Medeiros has weighed in on the matter with a very special PSA. According to the heavily decorated BJJ champion, those of you who lobbied in favor of mixing grass and grappling are stupid and suffer from low self-esteem. To be fair, Comprido, pretty much everyone here at the Potato Nation is stupid and suffers from low self-esteem; it’s kind of our “thing”.

“[I] just want to make this very clear: Eddie Bravo is an idiot. Ok? Using drugs don’t improve the performance of a fighter. If you want to build your self-confidence, you’re going to do sports, do martial arts, but never use drugs.”

There’s more buzz-kill after the jump.

(Video via MMANuts.com)

A few short days ago Dave Herman was yanked from his upcoming bout against Mike Russow following a failed drug test, and before the smoke had cleared a lively debate had sparked between our readers about marijuana’s place in the sport. We thought we’d hashed it all out and come to an understanding, but now Rodrigo “Comprido” Medeiros has weighed in on the matter with a very special PSA. According to the heavily decorated BJJ champion, those of you who lobbied in favor of mixing grass and grappling are stupid and suffer from low self-esteem. To be fair, Comprido, pretty much everyone here at the Potato Nation is stupid and suffers from low self-esteem; it’s kind of our “thing”.

“[I] just want to make this very clear: Eddie Bravo is an idiot. Ok? Using drugs don’t improve the performance of a fighter. If you want to build your self-confidence, you’re going to do sports, do martial arts, but never use drugs.”

“If you choke when you talk with a girl, you should go to the gym, and train, and build your self-confidence. Not use a fake medicine, or use a fake drug, to feel better than you should.” (Seriously, it’s like he knows us. What’s his screen name?)

“It’s a shame that a guy who teach in martial arts, who been involved with competitions—even if he’s not competing—talk using marijuana is good for jiu jitsu. That’s bullshit. That’s probably why he’s thinking, he’s ten years ago come [up] with something [taught] by his teacher Jean Jacques Machado and he call himself an innovator. That was ten years ago. If you are a coward, you will be a coward using marijuana or not.”

Rodrigo Medeiros: not a fan of drugs, and clearly not a fan of Eddie Bravo. We could start talking now about a grudge match at ADCC, but we’ve been there before and it’s exhausting. Until someone sets up a “Stoner vs. Straight Edge” tournament, we’ll just have to settle for bickering amongst ourselves.