(UPDATE: Marcelo will be fighting on October 28th in Hero’s Korea against Dae Won Kim) Marcelo loses after dominating the the first round, but in the beginning of the first round he caught a couple of punches then a knee that opened up a cut too severe for the fight to continue.

The moment that Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fans have waited for is here. BJJ will officially be brought back to life in the MMA world much like Royce Gracie did in MMA’s earliest days. The BJJ legend Marcelo Garcia is going to fight in MMA now. This is going to be epic to see an extremely good BJJ guy go into MMA. There have been a lot of guys go into MMA that have as the commentators like to say, “A Strong Jiu Jitsu Background”. This guy doesn’t just have a strong BJJ background, he has dominated the BJJ world so much in fact that in my opinion he is probably going into MMA for a new challenge. He has won The BJJ World Championships five times and the Abu Dhabi Submission Championships three years. That’s not even counting all his Absolute accomplishments he has racked up over the years. Some of the big names he has beaten that currently compete in MMA are people like Renzo Gracie(where he just flat dominated 0-9), Renato Babalu, Ricco Rodriguez, Kurt Pellegrino and Diego Sanchez. 

Garcia is scheduled to debut with K-1 this September. This guy is a grappling phenomenon. That word is often misused, but in his case it just is not. Marcelo Garcia is planning to fight at 170 pounds. Oh yeah, he is only 25 years old.

Here is the article on Sherdog.com about his new contract
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=7812

Here is his Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Garcia