Talita Alencar

Ana Talita de Oliveira Alencar, born on 17 October 1990 in Carutapera, Brazil, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and black belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner who competes in the women's strawweight division of the UFC. Her family moved to Fortaleza when she was nine; she swam competitively, spent seven years in triathlon, also practised surfing, skateboarding and capoeira, and began jiu-jitsu at fourteen at Pirillo Roriz's Gracie Barra academy. She later trained at Academia Blec under Bruno Leandro and at Theodoro Canal's GFTeam Recreio in Rio de Janeiro, was promoted to black belt in 2016 after winning gold at the IBJJF World Championship, and in August 2016 moved to Los Angeles to join Alliance. A world champion in coloured belts in gi and no-gi, she is a three-time IBJJF World No-Gi champion, a two-time European No-Gi champion and a world and Pan American black belt champion; in 2017 she won the World Championship, the World No-Gi Championship and the Pan American Championship among other titles. She made her professional MMA debut in 2021 at Titan FC 70 in Miami.