Ana Laura Cordeiro

Ana Laura Cordeiro is a Brazilian submission grappler, 3rd-degree black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and coach, raised in Minas Gerais. She started training at seventeen and, to compete, travelled three hours by bus to the Gracie Barra academy in Brasilia, where she trained under Carlos Gracie Jr. After her blue belt she became world champion in 2006, won double gold at the worlds as a purple belt the next year, and won the world title for a fourth time as a brown belt in 2008. The article calls her a three-time black belt world champion, two-time no-gi world champion, two-time Pan champion and ADCC Submission Fighting World Champion, famously undefeated at one time with a record of 65-0, and quotes descriptions of her as one of the greatest female grapplers of the sport.