MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Rodolfo Vieira will become one of the greatest jiu-jitsu competitors to ever enter the Octagon when he faces middleweight Oskar Piechota at Saturday night’s UFC Uruguay. He has gone through a lot despite what his short MMA career might indicate.
A five-time jiu-jitsu world champion and one-time ADCC gold medalist, Vieira made the transition to MMA in 2017 and racked up a perfect 5-0 record in the sport in just 28 months. He admits he didn’t expect to become a UFC fighter so quickly, but credits his glorious career in jiu-jitsu for the push to the eight-sided cage.