Lucas Barbosa

Lucas Daniel Silva Barbosa, commonly known as Lucas Hulk Barbosa, born on 13 February 1992 in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist, submission grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor who has won nearly every major title in the sport, being a world and Pan American champion in gi and no-gi, a European Open and Asian IBJJF champion and a two-time ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship medalist. He took up martial arts at ten with taekwondo, then judo and Muay Thai, began Brazilian jiu-jitsu at fifteen under coaches including Diego Lopes, Cristiano Carioca and André Galvão, and trained at Márcio Rodrigues's academy in Rio, where training partners gave him the nickname Hulk. In 2015 he won the World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship and the Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship as a brown belt, then moved to San Diego to join Atos Jiu-Jitsu under André Galvão, and as a black belt he has won the World Championship and the World No-Gi Championship. He led Atos to team grappling wins at Subversiv 4 and Subversiv 5 and won the no gi grand prix at BJJ Bet 2 in August 2021.