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12th , 2003: |
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Master
Lloyd promotes his very first Black Belt
in BJJ.
Jared
Weiner becomes the very
first student to receive a Black
Belt in BJJ under Master Lloyd
Irvin. Jared received this great
honor on September 6, 2003 in
front of all of his Team Members
from around the East Coast and
5 other Black Belts. We're sure
he'll continue to represent like
he's always done CONGRATS JARED!
Jared
highlighted and finished his
Brown Belt days becoming the
American National Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Champion winning the first ever
American National BJJ tournament
in California.
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Just
weeks ago Jared fought in a Brown belt
superfight against a Brazilian Top Team
student under Jorge Gurgel winning 9*0.
Once again congrats Jared. This is a HUGE accomplishment.
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Lloyd
Irvin's Martial Arts accomplishes a remarkable
feat only done by 2 schools in the WORLD
ever! LIMAA sent members of it's competition
to the Worlds most grueling Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Competition in Rio, the Mundials. After
the World Championships had concluded student Rhadi Ferguson
emerged with the Silver medal in his perspective
belt division.
Team
Lloyd Irvin and American Top Team Tie for first
place to
decide who is the best team on the East Coast.
1st
Place (TIE):
Team
Lloyd Irvin and American Top Team
3rd
Place:
Freestyle
Fighting Academy
4th
Place:
Team
Renzo Gracie
The
following match by match results were posted by
Puma of ATT, I think he explained everything completely,
thank you Puma!:
First
Round:
Ives
vs. Weiner- Ives wins 4-2
Parrumpinha
vs. Cardosa- Parrumpinha wins 8-0
Popovitch
vs. Avellan- Popovitch wins 4-2
D'arce
vs. Dalla- Dalla wins 0-0
JD
Boca vs. Ruiz- Boca wins 0-0
JD
Irvin vs. Mordente- Irvin knocks himself out going
for a flying triangle.
Bitetti
vs. Avellan- Avellan wins 6-4
Ferguson
vs. Alvarez- Furguson wins 0-0 JD
Monson
vs. Hernandez- Monson wins 4-0
Total
For First Round: ATT wins 4-1 over FFA
Irvin
wins 3-2 over Renzo's
Second
Round
Ives
vs. Cardosa- Cardosa wins 0-0 JD
Parrumpinha
vs. Weiner- Parrumpinha wins JD
Avellan
vs. Williams- Avellan wins 2-0
Ruiz
vs. D'arce- D'arce wins 2-1
Boca
vs. Dalla- Dalla wins 2-2 JD
Avellan
vs. Mordente- Avellan wins 6-0 (Not 100% on point
total).
Monson
vs. Ferguson- Monson wins 2-0
Alvarez
vs. Hernandez- Alvarez by keylock
FFA
takes third place beating Renzo's 3-2.
After
4 matches ATT and Lloyd Irvin are tied 2-2. The
Irvin Amaury match was skipped due to Lloyds injury.
Because the prize money was substantial ($5000
for 1st and $2500 for 2nd) Lloyd asked to fight.
The doctor refused his request.
After
discussing the situation, ATT fighters and coaches
refused a victory by forfeit and offered to split
the first place and the prize money. We have nothing
but respect for a guy who is in his first competition
since breaking his neck last year and still wants
to fight despite being unconscious an hour earlier.
We do not want Lloyd's warrior spirit to get in
the way of common sense and lead to injury. Irvin's
team accepted ATT's offer and in a show of gratitude,
Lloyd handed the first place trophy to Liborio
and ATT at the award ceremony.
One
other note. Just want to mention the sportmanship
displayed by Jared Weiner of Irvin's team. His
match with Parrumpinha ended 0-0. Parrumpinha
controlled the match and hit a takedown that the
referee later admitted he missed and wasn't awarded
points for the mount position b/c the ref did
not believe he held position long enough. No criticsm
of the reffing it is a thankless job and its impossible
to get it perfect. Anyway, there was a long discussion
amongst the 3 sets of judges b/c one claimed he
didn't want to decide against Weiner out of freindship
even though if pressed for a decision, he would
give it to Parrumpinha. When Weiner saw what was
happening he immediately told Kipp Kollar that
he clearly lost the fight and took it out of the
judges hands. You do not see that type of honor
in any sport very often and we were happy to return
the favor when the issue later arose concerning
Lloyd's condition. Congrats to everyone who competed.
It was a great event.
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Lloyd
Irvin's winning program has caught the attention
of people around the world, and has most recently
been featured in an article in Grappling
magazine. 
The
week of June 17-21 Shreveport LA saw the top fighters
in the world come to compete in the AAU Sombo,
Greco Roman and Freestyle National Championships.
Teams from America, France, Venezuela, Virgin
Islands, Bulgaria and Iran all were going for
the GOLD. After a weeks worth of competition 2
of Lloyd Irvin's Martial art's students walked
away with medals. 
