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James Head Earns First Victory Inside the Octagon at UFC Sweden!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Team Lovato MMA fighter, James Head, made a victorious Welterweight debut at UFC Sweden this past weekend! James Head dominated Papy Abedi, rocking him on the feet and securing top position on the ground and finishing him off with a beautiful RNC submission in the first round! Ja read more »

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Team Lovato MMA fighter, Rob Wood, Wins Again!!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Monday, March 19, 2012

Rob Wood with Professor Rafael Lovato Jr. & Team Lovato UFC fighter, James Head Lovato's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt and up & coming MMA fighter, Rob Wood, continues his first round submission streak winning his Pro debut at King of the Cage event last Saturday night in N read more »

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Video of BJJ Legend, Master Saulo Ribeiro Teaching & Training at Lovato's!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Monday, January 16, 2012

Check out this awesome video of 6x World Champion, 2x ADCC Champion, No-Gi World Champion, & author of Jiu-Jitsu University, Master Saulo Ribeiro, teaching and training at Lovato's BJJ! Saulo Ribeiro is one of most decorated Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Grappling Champions of all times and it is read more »

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Martial Arts To Overcome Disabilities!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Friday, January 13, 2012

Lovato's recently had a very special guest stop by for some training. Matt Marcinek, of www.disabledgrappler.com (http://www.disabledgrappler.com), got on the mats at Lovato's and did some training and afterwards shared some very moving words to the students of Lovato's. Matt read more »

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Lovato's School of BJJ & MMA Voted Best Martial Arts School in OKC!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Wednesday, January 11, 2012

We are very proud to announce the Lovato's School of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts has been recognized by the US Commerce as the Best of Oklahoma City in the category of Martial Arts Training!!! View the press release (https://www.commerceaward.com/PressReleaseUsca. read more »

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New Year's specials at Lovato's right now!!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Tuesday, January 03, 2012

First off, Happy New Year to everyone! This year is no doubt going to be the biggest and best year Lovato's School of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA has ever seen with alot of great and really exciting stuff in the works for this coming year. This month only as a special insentive to jump start read more »

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Jared Hess Bellator 50 results

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Saturday, September 24, 2011

Jared fought very valiantly last weekend at Bellator 50! Jared nearly finished his opponent in the first round with a rear naked choke, but his opponent fought hard and managed to escape. Jared was visibly fatigued after fighting so hard for the choke and his opponent rallied back to read more »

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Watch Professors Lovato Jr and Justin Rader compete this week in England!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Wednesday, September 21, 2011

This week in England is a special week, it is the 2011 installment of the ADCC which happens to be the absolute most prestigious submission wrestling tournament in the entire World with the top grapplers in the World fighting only through earning a spot through one of the trial read more »

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Team Lovato wins 17 medals with 17 competitors this past weekend!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Monday, August 15, 2011

This past weekend in Dallas, TX, was the World Grappling Circut Europa Supershow Grappling World Championships held at the Dallas Convention Center. Team Lovato put on an incredibly, impressive performance winning 17 medals, with 17 adult competitors and 2 children! From white belt to b read more »

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Rafael Lovato Jr featured in Gracie Mag about his win in Abu Dhabi

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Sunday, April 10, 2011

Rafael Lovato Jr is featured yet again online at GracieMag. Check out the article! Rafael Lovato Wins in Abu Dhabi (http://www.graciemag.com/en/2011/04/world-no-gi-pro-saturday-in-abu-dhabi/) read more »

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