Luis Gustavo ‘Guga’ Campos
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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About Us
Luis Gustavo was born on June 5, 1985, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, starting his jiu-jitsu training at age 12 under the tuition of Muzio de Angelis with whom he remained up until he received his blue belt. After that, he decided to seek a different challenge in his life and moved teams to train under another very prestigious coach in Rafael Abi Rihan.
With Abi Rihan, Guga truly developed as a Jiu-Jitsu competitor, and it was training with the Manimal black belt that Luis Gustavo found his calling in BJJ. Luis graduated as a purple belt and brown belt winning several important tournaments in the process. Guga switched camps as a brown belt when looking for a more competition-driven academy, finding what he was looking for at the Fightzone academy with Ricardo Vieira.
It was with Rico Vieira that Gustavo reached the pinnacle of the brown belt division by winning his first world title (2007) after which he was promoted to black belt. After a few years under the Checkmat / FightZone banner, on August 2011 Campos started training at the Alliance gym in Rio de Janeiro with Alexandre Paiva.
In 2018, Guga Campos was sponsored by César Gracie, then becoming affiliated to the prestigious coach and his gym’s franchise.
