It caught up to him at UFC 124 in late 2010, where "do Bronx" suffered his first career loss via kneebar submission at the hands of Jim Miller. Oliveira seasons he has already been pegged as a possible titleīut Oliveira - born 1989 - was also young, and despite an undefeated record built mainly in smaller promotions in Brazil, relatively inexperienced. The more dangerous submission games in the lightweight division. That is little surprise as he also sports one of His first win was at an amateur MMA tournament in Brazil called the “Circuito de Vale Tudo Amador” which he won by armbar.Īn immensely talented athlete with a carefree style, Oliveira throwsįreely on the feet with rangy kicks and punches and shows little regardįor getting taken down. This succession of good results in sport jiu jitsu stayed alive until 2007 when Charles started pointing his career towards MMA. He continued winning important competitions year by year, such as 3 stages of the Sao Paulo State Championships in 2004, the Copa Nação Jiu Jitsu in 2005 and an amazing run in 2006 with 16 medals in important tournaments at both his weight class and the open weight division. In BJJ, his first big win was as a white belt in 2003, winning the Sao Paulo State Championship in the Junior Division. Charles would later earn his black belt from Jorge Patino after moving to "Macaco's gold team", to professionalise his MMA game. Oliveira started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu with Roger Coelho, the coach that awarded him all his belts until his brown. When Charles was around 12 years old, he was invited by those same kids to come and train at a local academy and although the Oliveira family could not afford Charles’s tuition, Charles’s uncle, Paulo, knew the instructor and intervened on his behalf so Charles could be free to train without the fees. It was through this line of work that he met and made friends with a few kids that trained jiu jitsu. Having a deprived childhood led him to start work very early, helping his mother sell cheese salads from a trailer. He was raised in poverty at the burg of Guaruja in the state of Sao Paulo. He lived in a Favela (slums) which is sometimes playfully nicknamed “Bronx” and the gym where he first started was also called Bronx, so some of the guys at the gyms started calling him “Charles do Bronx” which translates to “Charles of the Bronx”. With those two victories, and the in-cage panache and youthful exuberance Oliveira displayed in securing them, a potential star was born.Ĭharles started being called “do Bronx” when he moved to Macaco Gold Team. Oliveira stopped both men inside the distance with Submission of the Night-earning performances, Elkins with a polished triangle choke / armbar combination from guard and Escudero with a standing RNC. The charismatic and remarkably talented "do Bronx" Charles Oliveira burst onto the scene in 2010, where he was arguably the UFCs breakthrough fighter of the year after scintillating back-to-back wins over Darren Elkins and the heavily favored Efrain Escudero.
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