Gilbert Durinho celebrates MMA win with Belfort family in the cage. Publicity photo.
Gilberto “Durinho” Burns made his professional MMA debut last Saturday at Crown Fighting Championship 5, in Saint George, Utah, USA. The current Jiu-Jitsu world champion of the lightweight division put his slick submission skills to work and tapped out the dangerous José Salgado with a first-round rear-naked choke.
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The black belt from Rio de Janeiro State won his amateur MMA debut last July. On the occasion he celebrated victory with a post on Twitter: “I did well, thank God. I kept cool. The guy was really good at wrestling, but I took his back and subbed him. It was awesome!”
