Rani Yahya is MMA’s King of the Submission Jungle. Although the man with the memorable name ability still be alien to some MMA admirers out there, the acceptability of San Diego MMA fighter and Jiu Jitsu ace Rani Yahya is rapidly growing. Currently training and teaching at The Arena, the Premier MMA gym in San Diego, Yahya is a 135 batter fighter in the WEC, the MMA alignment endemic by the ancestor aggregation of the UFC. Yahya has the accomplished acquiescence allotment of any ranked fighter in the MMA world. With a almanac of 15-4, an amazing 14 of his wins accept been by submission.
This absurd 93% acquiescence amount is due to Yahya’s Jiu Jitsu skills, which accept aswell landed him 3 Jiu Jitsu World titles as able-bodied as the 2007 ADCC failing championship (the ADCC is the a lot of celebrated acquiescence grappling clash in the world). Since signing with the WEC in 2007, Yahya has submitted 4 out of his 5 opponents in the aboriginal round. His endure 3 fights accept anniversary becoming him Submission of the Night awards, a almanac not akin by any added fighter in MMA.
So how did Yahya get so good? And why does his Jiu Jitsu plan so able-bodied for MMA if other, added acclaimed Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champions haven’t appear abutting to analogous Yahya’s acquiescence amount in MMA? To acknowledgment these questions, it’s all-important to acquisition the antecedent of Yahya’s Jiu Jitsu. In award that source, a adventure is baldheaded that could accept been accounting for Hollywood, instead of fatigued from absolute life.
Born in 1984 in Brasilia, the basic of Brazil, Yahya started training in Judo by the age of 4. A accustomed athlete, Yahya was on his way to acceptable a Judo best if fate intervened in the anatomy of a abreast baleful snake chaw at the age of 11. Rushed to the hospital, Yahya was abutting to afterlife until a man accepted artlessly as Ataide came to save him, bringing the anti-venom Yahya bare to stop the poisoning. Fortunately for Yahya, Ataide is the Head of the Reptile Dept. of the Brasilia Zoo. A man accepted by some as the “Crocodile Dundee” of Brazil, Ataide is one of the foremost experts in the apple on baleful reptiles. But Ataide is an able in addition across as well, Jiu Jitsu.
Like Yahya, Ataide accomplished in aggressive arts back he was 4, acquirements from one of the 5 aboriginal Red Belts (Jiu Jitsu’s accomplished rank) of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Because of his acute abstraction of snakes, Ataide eventually adapted the appearance of Jiu Jitsu he was accomplished into his own appropriate system, which appearance snake-like chokes and strangles. Thus was complete Ataide’s Constrictor Jiu Jitsu.
Constrictor Jiu Jitsu’s practitioners asphyxiate their casualty just like the snakes that Ataide still handles daily. This appearance is decidedly able for MMA because it doesn’t await on angry from the aback like abounding Jiu Jitsu fighters do. Because of this, Constrictor Jiu Jitsu fighters are not as affected to arena and batter and can bound abrogate opponents who accomplish the aberration of traveling to the arena with a Constrictor fighter. Besides Yahya and abounding others in Brazil, UFC fighter Paulo Thiago (who defeated Josh Koscheck in Thiago’s 2009 UFC debut) is aswell a apprentice of Ataide.
When Ataide adored Rani Yahya’s life, he accustomed something appropriate in the adolescent boy, and adopted him as his aggressive arts son, teaching him the secrets of Constrictor Jiu Jitsu. Because of this influence, Yahya developed a affection for snakes as his coach Ataide did. Like a modern-day Spiderman, Yahya feels the snake that bit him aswell adapted him, giving him appropriate admiral alternating the way. Since that aboriginal chaw 14 years ago, Yahya has never been sick. Incredibly, if addition poisonous snake bit him several years later, it had about no effect.
Today, Yahya has larboard the absolute boscage and concentrates on a altered one in the MMA world. He lives, trains and teaches in San Diego, area he is the Head Instructor of No Gi Jiu Jitsu for The Arena in San Diego, the acclaimed San Diego MMA gym area fighters like UFC standout Diego Sanchez train.
Besides his abilities as a fighter, Yahya aswell possesses a abundant adeptness for teaching, administration the Constrictor techniques with acceptance who are analytic for a acquiescence grappling arrangement that works able-bodied for both MMA and Jiu Jitsu. At The Arena, Yahya is establishing the roots of the Constrictor arrangement in San Diego and eventually the blow of the U.S., as added humans apprentice about this abundantly able Submission Grappling style.
Whatever happens for Yahya in the future, one affair is certain. Whoever he faces next in the WEC bigger accompany their A game. Because if they don’t, Yahya will bang as fast as the snake that originally bit him, earning yet addition achievement for MMA’s King of the Submission Jungle.
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