Arthur Virgílio Neto

Brazil

Also known as

Arthur Virgílio

Description

Brazilian politician (mayor of Manaus, federal deputy and senator for Amazonas) and jiu-jitsu red belt, one of Carlson Gracie's oldest students; he was in Carlson's corner with Rolls Gracie for Carlson's last fight, against Waldemar Santana in 1970.

Teachers (3)

  • Reyson Gracie
    sports_martial_artsBrazilian jiu-jitsu Probable
    Probable
    His own account only.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    (1962)
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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    fact_check
    His own account only.
    visibilityFirst-hand
    “By 1962, I was training with Reyson Gracie.”
    — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info
  • Carlson Gracie
    sports_martial_artsBrazilian jiu-jitsu Probable
    Probable
    His own account only.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    (1965)
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
    1 source expand_more
    fact_check
    His own account only.
    visibilityFirst-hand
    “After, around 1965 or 1966 I began training with Carlson.”
    — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info
  • Osvaldo Alves
    sports_martial_artsBrazilian jiu-jitsu Probable
    Probable
    His own account only.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    (1959)
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
    1 source expand_more
    fact_check
    His own account only.
    visibilityFirst-hand
    “I began around 1959 with Haroldo Brito who taught judo but had also been a student of Helio’s so he also taught jiu-jitsu, even though I didn’t know we were doing jiu-jitsu, they just called it ne-waza then. I trained with Oswaldo Alves there who was a student of Brito.”
    — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info

Lineage

Sources

“He was also in Carlson’s corner next to Rolls for the last fight of Carlson’s career against Waldemar Santana in December 1970.”
— Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M5H6E6RG3ZKKD0TYFBHECNJ6
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Arthur Virgílio Neto. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5H6E6RG3ZKKD0TYFBHECNJ6 - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M5H6E6RG3ZKKD0TYFBHECNJ6, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Arthur Virgílio Neto}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M5H6E6RG3ZKKD0TYFBHECNJ6}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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