Andre Galvao

Brazilian competitor and co-founder of Atos Jiu-Jitsu whose six ADCC titles and four superfight defences make him the most decorated competitor in the event's history. The longest-reigning ADCC superfight champion (2013–2022).

2007–2022Active years−88kg · AbsoluteWeight class2G · 1S · 1BMedals (this list)ADCC 2007–2022 · Atos eraEraADCC career · 6 golds, 9-year superfight reign

2011 double gold (−88kg + absolute)·4 superfight defences (2013/15/17/19)·Hall of Fame inductee

The most decorated ADCC competitor in the event's history. Six gold medals across weight class, absolute, and superfight; four consecutive successful superfight defences across nearly a decade; the longest single superfight reign in ADCC's record.

YearEventResult★2022ADCC Superfight · vs Gordon RyanLoss (RNC)End of the 9-year superfight reign★2019ADCC Superfight · vs Felipe PenaWin (points 2–0)Sixth ADCC title — record★2017ADCC Superfight · vs Claudio CalasansWin (decision)★2015ADCC Superfight · vs Roberto AbreuWin (points 6–0)★2013ADCC Superfight · vs Braulio EstimaWin (RNC)First superfight title; took the belt from the previous champion★2011ADCC World Championship · −88kgChampion (Gold)Defeated Rousimar Palhares in the final★2011ADCC World Championship · AbsoluteChampion (Gold)Defeated Pablo Popovitch in the final; double gold2009ADCC World Championship · −88kgBronze2007ADCC World Championship · −87kgSilverLost final to Pablo PopovitchOpening

is a Brazilian competitor, coach, and co-founder of Atos Jiu-Jitsu whose ADCC record — six gold medals across weight class, absolute, and superfight — places him as the most decorated competitor in the event’s history. His four consecutive successful superfight defences (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) and his nine-year reign as superfight champion before the 2022 loss to Gordon Ryan are the single longest period of sustained dominance in ADCC’s competitive record. He was inducted into the ADCC Hall of Fame in the inaugural 2021 class. The mechanical argument that organises this profile is that his game is the period’s clearest single empirical case for top-pressure-and-passing as a sustainable championship register at world level — a system built on structural loading at the top, body-lock and headquarters passing, and back-attack finishing — and that his coaching record at Atos, paired with his own competitive record, makes him simultaneously the most-decorated ADCC competitor and one of the most consequential coaches in the modern era.

ADCC 2011 — −88kg gold and absolute gold (double gold). Defeated Rousimar Palhares in the −88kg final and Pablo Popovitch in the absolute final. The double gold is the load-bearing single competitive achievement of his weight-class career.

ADCC superfight title — won 2013, defended 2015, 2017, 2019. Four consecutive superfight wins across nearly a decade. The 2013 win came against Braulio Estima by rear naked choke; the 2015 defence against Roberto Abreu on points (6–0); the 2017 defence against Claudio Calasans by decision; the 2019 defence against Felipe Pena on points (2–0). The 2019 win was, on the contemporaneous record, his sixth ADCC title.

ADCC 2022 — superfight loss to Gordon Ryan by rear naked choke. End of the nine-year reign. The most-cited single superfight result of the modern era and the institutional moment at which the superfight title transferred to the post-DDS-era generation.

ADCC 2007 — −87kg silver. Lost the final to Pablo Popovitch — the same opponent he would defeat for the absolute title four years later.

His IBJJF gi credentials are extensive — multiple Mundials titles in the late 2000s — and are referenced here as institutional context only.