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Abu Dhabi Pro, Sydney Cup, IBJJF results

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SPMA Concord had a fantastic perofrmance in BJJ (Brazilian Jiu jItsu) competions across Sydney in February and March.

SPMA Concord had 7 students compete at the BJJ pro gi trials on Sunday 19th February in Sydney. They won 3 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals. Frances Bavaro, Jeshua McPhail and Natasha Iacono won gold medals, Guy Vaccaro and Amelia Roufas won silver medals and Frances Bavaro (Triple) and Damian Iacono won bronze medals. Extra big congrats to Frances Bavaro who won 1 gold and 3 bronze medals in 4 divisions after 8 wins and 3 losses! A stella performance!

SPMA Concord’s team of 21 students won 6 gold, 8 silver and 7 bronze medals at the Sydney BJJ Cup on 4th March in Sutherland. Stefania Boitana (double gold), Guy Vaccaro, Michael Ali, Kyzar Jing and Kobe Harb won gold. Steve Rudic, Ante Jaksic, Joseph Frangos Young, John Biona, Nelson Mayan, Amelia Roufas, Kobe Harb and Sam Cassaniti won Silver medals. Jeremiah Diestro, Natasha Iacono, Damian Iacono, Axl Howie, Anthony Roufas, Emma Hunt and James Hunt won Bronze medals.

SPMA Concord had 4 students win 2 gold and 1 bronze medals at the IBJJF Sydney Open on 26th March. Frances Bavaro won gold in her weight division and bronze in the open blue belt division. Rebecca Beuk won gold in her white belt weight division.

Well done to all the competitors!

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Grappling Industries Sydney 12th February

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A big day of BJJ (Brazilian Jiu JItsu) competition at the Grappling Industries Competition on Sunday 12th February. SPMA Concord students had over 90 matches in total. They won 4 Gold, 5 Silver and 9 Bronze medals. Gold to Steve Rudic, Jeshua McPhail, Stef Boitano and Guy Vaccaro. Silver to Jeshua McPhail, Rebecca Beuk, Nobby Kuandyk and Anthony Roufas (Double). Bronze to Nobby Kuandyk, Steve Rudic, Hayden McKay, Ante Jaksic, John Biona (Double), Leo Yang, Damian Iacono and Axl Howie. Big congrats to all the competitors!

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Events BJJ Competition in Sydney

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The first BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) competition of the year was held in Sydney on 29th January at the Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre.

SPMA Concord’s team of 26 competitors won 5 gold, 13 silver and 4 bronze medals. The team had 16 adults and 10 kids compete and out of the 16 adults 10 of them were coloured belts! A good start to the year. Here are the results.

In the adults divisions Jeshua McPhail, Michael Ryan, Hayden McKay, Michael Su and Guy Vacarro won gold, Phil Ferraro (Double), Sam Senan, Michael Ali (Triple), Brandon Dizon, Michael Ryan and Jeremiah Diestro won Silver and Hayden McKay and Sam Senan won bronze.

In the kids divisions Amelia Roufas, Natasha Iacono (Double), Anthony Roufas (Double) and Jayda Lafleur won silver and Jake Herrera (Double), Amelia Roufas, Damian Iacono, Keegan Lafleur, Emma Hunt (Double) and James Hunt won bronze.

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Tyson Pedro wins in his MMA debut!

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Well done to Tyson Pedro on his win in his UFC debut in Melbourne! I got to train a session with him before his fight. Got to train with fellow UFC veteran James Te Huna too. Thanks to Shaun Sullivan from Lions High Performance Centre for inviting me to do some BJJ wirh him.

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Top 25 UFC Walk out songs

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My walkout song of 25 my mma fights made the Top 25 list of UFC fighter walk out songs.  Check out the link!

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A history of RCJ Machado BJJ in Australia

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All of my BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) students in my Sydney gym SPMA Concord must know the following brief history. It is very important to know where you came from.

Look at that photo from the BJJ competition and seminar on the 10th-11th September in Melbourne! Rigan Machado is in the middle and is a BJJ 8th Degree Coral Belt. On his left is John Will (5th degree), on his right is myself (4th degree) and on John’s left is Elvis (3rd degree). Everyone else are BJJ black belts under John Will.

John Will is the first BJJ black belt to be promoted by one of the Machado brothers. Rigan Machado promoted John to the rank of black belt. John then started the Will-Machado BJJ Australia Association.

Rigan’s brother Carlos Machado promoted both myself to the rank of black belt. I started my BJJ career under Anthony Lange (3rd degree) who teaches in Manly.

Every year in September is the South Pacific BJJ Championships of all Will-Machado schools around Australia and New Zealand. The competition (and whole weekend) is known as “The Gathering”.

The photo was taken the day after the competition at the Rigan Machado seminar. Rigan is teaching a BJJ seminar at SPMA Concord this weekend. See the other related Facebook post about it. Don’t miss out!

When SPMA Concord students register with the AFBJJ to compete they choose the team Will-Machado.

I would love to see a big turn out of SPMA Concord students next year in Melbourne at The Gathering.

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A retirement gift from the UFC

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Yesterday I received this gift from the UFC! It was a great and fun ride to fight and win in the UFC. Thanks to Tom Wright, Peter Kloczko and everyone at the UFC and UFC Australia. I miss it already but now I will concentrate on teaching and helping my students fulfill their goals!

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I am retiring from MMA fighting

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I’m retiring from fighting in MMA. I‘ve had a great career in MMA spanning 12 years, 25 fights, 15 wins & 5 wins in the UFC all by stoppage and 3 by Rear Naked Choke. I always went out for the win by stoppage and I am proud of what I have achieved in my career.

I am 43 years old (young!) and I told myself I would retire if I either couldn’t keep up with the training, didn’t want it anymore or if I lost more than I won. The last fight camps were hard on me physically and mentally. I didn’t get the win and I knew straight after my last fight that I had had enough. I’m finishing with a UFC record of 5 wins and 4 losses in the Light Heavyweight division.

On the bright side I am retiring with all my mental bearings and apart from the usual wear and tear I am physically fit!

The next goal is focussing on my two MMA gyms with 650 students and MMA and BJJ competition teams. I am very proud of all of my students and can’t wait to put all of my time in to them and see them get better and succeed. I hope to be back in the UFC even more than before but this time walking behind my students who make it to the UFC as their coach and corner.

I have learnt a lot in my time in the UFC. You need to surround yourself with good people such as coaches and training partners and avoid the naysayers and haters. Have a dream, train hard and believe in yourself and you will get what you want.

The UFC have been nothing but good to me. Thank you to Dana White, Lorenzo Feritta, Joe Silva and Tom Wright for the opportunity to fight so many times for the biggest and best MMA organisation in the world. And a big thank you to Peter Kloczko and all of the support staff at the UFC who made my life a lot easier doing PR and all the paperwork!

I want to thank Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn and the entire team from Jackson-Wink MMA gym in Albuquerque for taking me in and coaching and training me for my last 3 fights. You all made me feel very welcome and looked after my best interests all the time and really cared about seeing me improve. I am in your team for life!

I want to thank all of my students and training partners from my MMA gym SPMA, my Australian coaches Steve Rudic, Shaun Sullivan and Denis Roberts. Extra big thanks to Steve Rudic for being my first striking coach and being in my corner in all 9 of my UFC Light Heavyweight fights. Thanks to my brother John for being my extra corner in my 3 international fights.

Thanks to Paul Dallow for helping with my sponsors and all the UFC paperwork in my first 8 UFC fights and thanks to Reebok for their sponsorship in my last fight.

Finally, I could not have done it without the unconditional and continuous support over the years of my family, friends and fans. You really make it easier to keep on doing what fighters do best which is fight! Thank you.

See you all soon!

Anthony Perosh

“The Hippo”

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UFC 193 Melbourne results

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I didn’t get the win today. I am physically OK but disappointed. A big thank you to Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn and everyone at JacksonWink MMA for coaching and supporting me. A big thank you to Shaun Sullivan and Steven Rudic for coaching me and being in my corner. Big thanks to Alicia Martinez and Beau Hightower from ELITE-OSM for keeping me together. And big thanks to my family and friends and students from SPMA Concord Gym – Sydney MMA, BJJ, Kickboxing and SPMA Moorebank Gym – Sydney MMA, BJJ, Kickboxing. And a big congratulations to my team mates Kyle Noke on his win and to the new World UFC Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm!

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My next fight is at UFC 193 in Melbourne

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I am fighting Gian Villante on UFC 193 on 15th November at Etihad stadium in Melbourne. This is teh first UFC ev ent in Melboiurne and they arte going all out to break the UFC attendance record of 55,000. UFC 193 has a lot of the top Aussies fighting on it including Kyle Noke and Robert Whittaker and has a welterweight title match between champion Robbie Lawler and challenger Carlos Condit. Check out the UFC website for full details.

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