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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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Rafael Lovato Jr wins the Abu Dhabi World Pro No-Gi Championships

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Sunday, April 10, 2011

Head Instructor of Lovato's Mixed Martial Arts, Rafael Lovato Jr was in Abu Dhabi this past weekend for the Abu Dhabi Pro World No-Gi Championships. Rafael fought very well defeating 3 opponents including the Absolute champion, Rodolfo Viera 4 x 2 and 2010 World Champion, Bernardo Faria. Goo read more »

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Rafael Lovato Jr headed to Abu Dhabi for the Professional World Cup

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Rafael Lovato Jr headed to the Abu Dhabi World Pro Cup Lovato's head instructor is headed to Abu Dhabi to compete in the World Pro Cup. This weekend he will be competing in a no-gi tournament and will stay another week to compete in the Gi tournament. Rafael has trained hard for these competitions read more »

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Lovato's School of BJJ & MMA is Expanding!!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Saturday, March 26, 2011

We are happy to announce that this summer, Lovato's School of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts will be expanding! Lovato's started off more than 15 years ago in a small facility and a dream to offer the best in Martial Arts training to the Oklahoma City area. Years later, after achieving read more »

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Lovato Jiu-Jitsu One of the Top Ten Teams of the Decade!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Saturday, March 26, 2011

Grapplers Quest is the #1 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Grappling Circuit in North America. Grapplers Quest has been holding events since 1999 all over the country and during that time they have been calculating all of the results, from every event, and recently they announced which teams won the most po read more »

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Justin Rader highlighted as one of the top non-Brazilian BJJ competitors!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Saturday, March 26, 2011

Recently, Gracie Magazine pointed out some of the top non-Brazilian BJJ competitors to keep an eye out for leading up to this years Pan-American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships. Newly promoted Black Belt and recent 2010 No-Gi World Champion, Justin Rader, was one of the competitors mentioned. Lo read more »

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Team Lovato has another representative at ADCC!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Saturday, March 12, 2011

The ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championships is the most prestigious grappling event in the world! Every two years, 16 of the best grapplers on the planet come together to battle for the world title in 5 different weight classes. There are only three different ways to get into the tournament, read more »

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Rob Wood Victorious in his MMA Debut!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Saturday, February 19, 2011

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt, Rob Wood, made his MMA debut at Battle Royale II in Bricktown. It took Rob only 1 minute to take his opponent down, get his back, and apply a rear naked choke. Rob worked hard in preparing for his bout and we are proud of his performance. Congrats Rob!! Stay tun read more »

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NAGA Results!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Wednesday, December 22, 2010

A few members of Team Lovato made the trip to Dallas, Texas last weekend to compete at the NAGA tournament. The results were great with the Team picking up 7 medals with just 4 competitors. JP Taylor won his blue belt gi division! Cole Osbourne took third place in his no-gi division in his very f read more »

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Rafael Lovato Jr Featured on GracieMag!

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Friday, November 12, 2010

Head Instructor and owner of Lovato's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Rafael Lovato Jr (http://lovatojr.com) was featured on GracieMag.com (http://www.graciemag.com/en/?s=rafael+lovato+jr&x=0&y=0). From GracieMag: Rafael Lavato, a Saulo and Xande Ribeiro team black belt, overcame heavyweight opponents read more »

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