Mraz Avdoyan trains every Saturday at Casa De Luta Saarbrücken

June 05, 2022

Mraz Avdoyan trains every Saturday at Casa De Luta Saarbrücken

Abel Simon (abelbjj) and Meraz Avdoyan

Mraz Avdoyan was born in Armenia and his ethnicity is Yezidi. 2019 ADCC European Champion and current Ares Fighting Championship Fighter, lives in Kaiserslautern, Germany and grapples at Matrix BJJ Kaiserlautern with Rene Becker and MMA coach Tabeth Aga. Every Saturday Meraz visits Casa De Luta Saarbrücken to complete his trainings and preparation for his upcoming fights with Abel Simon (abelbjj). However, he was 20 when he first started Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and mentions his entry into the world of grappling: “Once I met a bodybuilder guy with my friend in our gym. He talked about BJJ, and I thought it is something like Aikido. So we got into a bet with my mate. He said if I will do more chin ups you go to try BJJ. So l lost the bet and went to try it. And after I got to BJJ class, I got tapped by a small guy who was my coach. So, I decided to stay and try to tap him. So, from this I ended up in BJJ”.

Abel Simon (abelbjj) and Mraz Avdoyan

after their training sesssion

His favourite positions in BJJ are the half guard when playing on the bottom and uses the sumi gaeshi shoulder crunch sweep to get to the top, amd his favourite submission is from the crucifix position. Typically competing at 97.9KG, Avdoyan made a name for himself at the ADCC European Trials where he achieved the gold medal in 2019 and says he learnt his old school style at his gym in Germany.

Mraz has a background in Rugby and talked about the reason why Rugby players may not always translate to grapplers even with some similarities, he says “I played professional Rugby in the Russian federation Junior Team and for the German professional adults. Because Rugby is a group team sport and grappling is one man fight”

Below you can see a training session between Abel Simon (abelbjj) and Meraz Avdoyan as they prepare for their next fight: