Lloyd Irvin

Lloyd Emory Irvin Jr., born on 17 May 1969, is a mixed martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt practitioner and coach and the founder of Team Lloyd Irvin, the first non-Brazilian team to take a world team title. He trained in boxing and wrestling from 1983, then began Brazilian jiu-jitsu at a gym in Rockville, Maryland, under Mario Yamasaki and Leo Dalla after watching Royce Gracie in the UFC, earned his blue belt after a month and opened his own academy. In 2008 and 2012 he won the Master 2 World No-Gi Championship in the super heavy division. His team in the Mid-Atlantic States earned medals at prestigious championships and counted grapplers such as Mike Fowler, JT Torres and Ryan Hall among those who trained there. The article also reports that after two of his students were arrested in January 2013 he faced misconduct allegations, and that most of the team senior competitors, including Keenan Cornelius, left.