Charles Oliveira, born in 1989 in the Vicente de Carvalho favela of Guaruja, Sao Paulo, is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and fourth degree black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Diagnosed with a heart murmur and rheumatic fever at seven, he was introduced at twelve to a free jiu-jitsu gym and became Sao Paulo champion two months after starting. He won multiple jiu-jitsu titles before turning to mixed martial arts in 2007. In the UFC lightweight division he is a former champion and the symbolic BMF titleholder, and he holds the organization's records for most submission wins with seventeen, most finishes with twenty-one and most bonuses with twenty-one.
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is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and fourth degree black belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner
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His family helped fund his future training by selling street snacks and discarded cardboard.
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is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and fourth degree black belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner
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fourth degree black belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner
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is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist
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Oliveira currently competes in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
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