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Place of Birth: Provo, Utah, United States
About Robert Drysdale
- Robert Lewis Drysdale (born October 5, 1981 in Provo, Utah) is an American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and retired mixed martial artist.
- Drysdale is the former Legacy Fighting Championship Light Heavyweight Champion.
- Born in the United States to a Brazilian mother and American father, he moved to Brazil with his family in 1987 at the age of six. As a young man, he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to begin college.
- While in the United States, following his growing interest in martial arts, he began training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with Lewis-Perderneiras in 1998 and carried out a submission victory over Marcelo Garcia in 2007.
- Drysdale also made a successful MMA debut defeating Bastien Huveneers via arm triangle choke. Vice magazine: "america's jiu-jitsu superhero" Bjj heros: "Regarded as the most accomplished American Grappler of his generation"[1]
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