Steve's BJJ Blog » arm collector http://www.stevebjj.com The ups and downs of a middle aged martial artist. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:22:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 YES! Giva ‘The Arm Collector’ Santana joins Bellator’s season-six middleweight tourney http://www.stevebjj.com/2012/01/11/yes-giva-the-arm-collector-santana-joins-bellators-season-six-middleweight-tourney/ http://www.stevebjj.com/2012/01/11/yes-giva-the-arm-collector-santana-joins-bellators-season-six-middleweight-tourney/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:21:27 +0000 Steve http://www.stevebjj.com/?p=795 [...]]]> Giva SantanaGiva Santana is joining the next Bellator middleweight tournament. Giva is 17-1 with one win in Bellator. He’s a scary looking guy, but he’s one of the nicest people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in BJJ and his jiu jitsu is at an elite level.

He won the Pan Ams in 2004 in field that included Damian Maia. He’s very good.

I’m definitely pulling for him! Go Giva. Oss!

Full news release can be found over at MMA Junkie.

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I was so excited to run across these videos. He’s attacking the entire time. There’s a great take down and some really cool transitions as he moves from guard to back control to mount to armbar.

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