# Fellipe Trovo

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## Overview

**Name:** Fellipe Trovo


## Bio

Fellipe Trovo was born on February 9, 1995, in Ribeirão Preto – a municipality located in the northeastern region of São Paulo state, Brazil where he grew up.

Throughout his childhood and pre-adolescence, Fellipe’s life was embedded in more traditional sporting activities such as football (soccer) and swimming, however, he had never heard of jiu-jitsu. In his mid-teens Trovo heard of a BJJ academy located in his neighborhood and decided to give it a try, enjoying the martial art from his very first class.

André Ushirobira ‘s gym was where Fellipe started, which by coincidence was organizing its yearly internal tournament on the week that he joined. Being a natural-born competitor Trovo signed on to the competition, and although he only had one week to prepare, he ended up winning his belt/weight class – an achievement that further galvanized Trovo’s interest in grappling.

From the very start, Fellipe’s focus in developing his jiu-jitsu skills was unrivaled at the gym, training regularly 5 to 6 hours per day. His hard work was always well supported by his instructor, coach Ushirobira who was tireless in providing support to the young athlete.

Trovo climbed the ranks of jiu-jitsu while earning numerous medals at a state, national and international level. The work led him to his black belt, earned in December 2017 after 3 hard-fought years in the brown belt division.

After receiving his black belt Fellipe Trovo felt that in order to be successful in the sport’s toughest division, he needed to exceed his limits. Something that was very hard to achieve if training at a small gym such as Andre Ushirobira’s academy. The young black belt was a great fan of  Rômulo Barral , both his game as an athlete and his work as a coach at  Gracie Barra Northridge . Believing his gym would be the perfect environment to push him towards his goals, Trovo decided to swap teams in 2018, and again in 2020 to Atos in San Diego.

Fellipe Trovo vs Cleyton Rafael

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**Last Updated:** March 21, 2026

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