Bibiano Fernandes
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Bibiano Fernandes hoisting his DREAM Featherweight Grand Prix championship belt.
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| Born |
March 30, 1980 Manaus, Brazil |
| Other names | The Flash |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Weight | 135 lb (61 kg; 9.6 st) |
| Division |
Bantamweight Featherweight |
| Fighting out of | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Team | Revolution Gym/Carlson Gracie Team Canada AMC Pankration |
| Rank | black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 23 |
| Wins | 20 |
| By knockout | 2 |
| By submission | 7 |
| By decision | 11 |
| Losses | 3 |
| By knockout | 1 |
| By decision | 2 |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
Bibiano Fernandes (born March 30, 1980) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who has competed for K-1, DREAM, ONE Championship and King of the Cage. He was the first DREAM Featherweight Champion and DREAM Bantamweight Champion, and currently the ONE Bantamweight Champion. He is currently ranked as the #5 Bantamweight in the world by MMA Weekly and Fight Matrix as well as the #1 bantamweight outside of the UFC He is the main sparring partner of UFC Flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson.
During a difficult childhood, Bibiano was unable to pay for BJJ training. His instructor said he‘d continue to train him, as long as he cleaned the gym after the class. This gave Bibiano a profound respect and gratitude for the gym and what it taught. Bibiano says that he‘d say to himself when he was a child "good job! You held your ground and believed what you believed."
Fernandes fought against world-class competition early in his MMA career. In his second professional fight, Fernandes lost due to a doctor's stoppage to Urijah Faber in a King of the Cage event in Nevada. After dominating the first 2 minutes of the round, even taking Faber's back, he was reversed and received a barrage of elbows that opened up a deep cut on his forehead. Though the fight was officially ruled a doctor stoppage, it was actually stopped by the referee, due to the cut. In his very next fight, Fernandes lost to Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto at a K-1 Hero's event in Japan. After losing to Faber and Yamamoto, Fernandes won four consecutive fights before entering into the DREAM Featherweight Grand Prix.
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