Amy Campo - ADCC Submission Fighting World champion

Amy Campo is a BJJ Black Belt under Eduardo Mori. She is a member of Zenith BJJ. She gained fame in the Color Belt Divisions of IBJJF. She is the IBJJF Gi, No-Gi, and ADCC Champion.

Amy Campo is a very aggressive and technical BJJ fighter. She became the ADCC World Champion when she took down the former ADCC Champion and IBJJF Hall of Famer, Gabi Garcia. This is one of the remarkable fights of Amy Campo.

She actively takes part in podcasts and talks about her fighting style and her early life. She has won the IBJJF World Championship while still being a Brown Belt.

Amy Campo was born on 30 January 2000 in Utah, United States. She grew up near Ogden, Utah in the Sunset and Riverdale cities.

She was interested in sports from a young age but due to financial problems she could not get into any sport professionally. Though her family was able to enroll her in dancing classes. Unfortunately, it was for a short period.

With time, her family was able to overcome some of those financial problems. Her family was able to afford her 6-year-old brother Ryder Compo’s enrollment in martial arts classes.

One day Amy’s father took her to watch Ryder’s martial arts classes. She was 13 years old at that time. Her father asked her if she would like to join the classes like her brother. She was already interested in Jiu-Jitsu and that’s how her BJJ journey started.

She practiced different forms of martial arts like Kickboxing and MMA along with BJJ. She practiced BJJ under Eduardo Mori. After that, she got more interested in BJJ and decided to pursue BJJ as her career.

Amy received her Purple and Brown Belts from her coach Eduardo Mori. She was awarded the Black Belt by coach Eduardo Mori when she secured 1st place in the IBJJF World Championship in 2021. She earned double gold in the tournament held on 15 December 2021.

She earned first place in the IBJJF World Championship in 2021 while being a Brown Belt.

She got the title of IBJJF No-Gi Champion in 2018 while being a Purple Belt.

She was the IBJJF Salt Lake City International Open Champion in 2022.

Amy talked about her early life and how she got into BJJ. She was an enthusiastic child and wanted to learn new things. So, when her father enrolled her in the BJJ classes, she started showing interest in it from the very first day.

She also talked about the differences between rolling with men in the gym and fighting with women in the match. She said that women tend to use more techniques and gameplay techniques.

In this podcast, Amy talked about her training. She said that training hard is not very realistic. Even in the hard training sessions, there are moments when it goes a little slow. It is because normal training is not an option at Zenith. So hard training can be replaced with good speed and agility. In this way, the fighter can balance his hard training.

She explained about her earlier defeat in the ADCC. She said that she learned a lot from that. And only because of that she was able to defeat Gabi Gracia in the next fight.

She also talked about her family dynamics and how she got into BJJ.

This was the epic fight of the tournament. IBJJF Hall of Famer Gabi Garcia, who is the 3rd-degree BJJ Black Belt under Fabio Gurgel was defeated by the recent BJJ Black Belt Amy Campo. Amy took out the ADCC Legend Gabi in only 1 minute. She took Gabi by securing points against her.

In the fight with Brianna, Amy won by securing points. Firstly, Amy secured 3 points by passing the guard. She was dominant throughout the fight. The leg locks by Amy did not let Brianna gain the dominant position.

The fight between Amy Campo and Michelle Marques was a short fight. It did not take long for Amy to win the fight. At the start of the match, Amy got the dominant position and secured 2 points from the sweep from the guard position.

Then she gained 3 more points by passing the guard. She submitted her opponent, Michelle, by applying the Cross Collar Choke From the back. She won the match in 1 minute and 47 seconds.

In the Boise No-Gi Open, Amy Campo competed with Maria Ruffato in the open class weight category. She won the fight in only 1 minute and 16 seconds. She submitted Maria by Kneebar.

Amy Campos defeated Rafaela Guedes in the ADCC Finals. Guedes secured 2 points early in the match. Amy tried to apply for the RNC but her opponent got out of it. It almost looked like Guedes was going to win but in the last minute, Amy secured the Back Mount with both hooks and kept the position for 3 seconds and gained 3 points. She then won the match.

Pure Madness! Amy Campo Takes Out ADCC Legend Gabi Garcia

Amy Campo v Kira Sung / Denver open 2022

Amy Campo v Michelle Marques / American National 2021

Amy Campo v Maria Ruffatto / Boise Open NoGi 2021

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