Jackson Sousa dos Santos, born on 24 January 1990 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu and grappling competitor and instructor who holds a black belt under Ricardo Vieira and trains with the CheckMat team. He started at the age of ten, joined CheckMat at sixteen, and as a coloured belt won the IBJJF World and European championships and the CBJJ Brazilian Nationals, including the 2012 IBJJF European Championship in Lisbon as a brown belt. After four unsuccessful US visa applications he first competed in America in 2013, winning gold in the heavyweight division and bronze in the absolute at the IBJJF World Championship. He was awarded his black belt in October 2013 and won the IBJJF World No-Gi Championship, and he is now a black belt World No-Gi champion, a two-time European champion in gi and no-gi and a three-time Pan No-Gi champion who has also competed at Absolute Championship Berkut, Polaris Pro Grappling and Metamoris.
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Sousa is a black belt World No-Gi champion, a 2 x European champion (in Gi and No-Gi) and a 3 x Pan No-Gi champion.
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was born on 24 January 1990 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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A BJJ black belt under Ricardo Vieira
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At the 2013 IBJJF World Championship Sousa won gold in the heavyweight division and bronze in the absolute division
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