I'm gonna dump this here because it seems the appropriate place. Today BJJEE put out an article detailing 10 UFC fighters that supposedly skipped the BJJ belt system and went straight to black belt.
http://www.bjjee.com/articles/10-ufc...lack-belt-bjj/
You will notice that Mark Schultz is listed as one of these people.
However, about a year ago BJJEE put out another article about Mark Schultz and his promotion to black belt:
http://www.bjjee.com/bjj-news/wrestl...y-pedro-sauer/
Mark Schultz has a match with Rickson Gracie in 1993, takes up BJJ after that, in 2016(23yrs later) gets promoted to black belt, and somehow he jumped straight to black? I mean I guess it is possible that he was a 23yr white belt, or he just trained private sessions and so never worried about rank, but it is a bit misleading to put it forth like he didn't put in mat time.
http://www.bjjee.com/articles/10-ufc...lack-belt-bjj/
You will notice that Mark Schultz is listed as one of these people.
However, about a year ago BJJEE put out another article about Mark Schultz and his promotion to black belt:
http://www.bjjee.com/bjj-news/wrestl...y-pedro-sauer/
Mark Schultz has a match with Rickson Gracie in 1993, takes up BJJ after that, in 2016(23yrs later) gets promoted to black belt, and somehow he jumped straight to black? I mean I guess it is possible that he was a 23yr white belt, or he just trained private sessions and so never worried about rank, but it is a bit misleading to put it forth like he didn't put in mat time.
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