A jiu-jitsu champ, this American Top Team fighter to make his MMA debut for ONE Championship

Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida of American Top Team in Coconut Creek is making his MMA debut on Friday during ONE Championship Revolution in Singapore.

In his MMA debut, the 31-year-old Almeida fights Anderson (not Spider) Silva in a match-up of Brazilian heavyweights.

In my video interview with Almeida, he discusses ONE Championship, the fight, his opponent, American Top Team, living in California and moving to South Florida, ATT coaches and fighters, Hollywood movies, Santiago Ponzinibbio, Argentina vs. Brazil soccer, Dan Lambert and ATT fighters on AEW, and more.

Almeida, a 13-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion, is a solid 6-foot-3, 220-pounds.

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Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription