AJ Agazarm

AJ Agazarm is an American submission grappler and mixed martial artist born in Florida, of Armenian descent. He began wrestling as a high school sophomore, won a wrestling scholarship to the University of the Cumberlands and then transferred to Ohio State, graduating summa cum laude as an Academic All-American. He was awarded his Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt in 2013 by Eduardo de Lima and Carlos Gracie Jr., and that year placed third at the Pan No-Gi Championship in the open weight division and first in the lightweight division. The article calls him a black belt world no-gi champion, Pan American no-gi champion, Brazilian national no-gi champion and European no-gi champion, and an ADCC World Championship runner-up after a silver medal at 66 kg in 2017. He began a professional mixed martial arts career with Bellator in 2019.