All About UFC Star Amanda Ribas’ Siblings Marcelly and Arthur Ribas

Amanda Ribas has had a mixed bag of outcomes in her last few fights, but this time, she’s in familiar territory. As she’ll kick off 2025 with a fight at UFC Vegas 101, the Brazilian will be butting heads in a rematch against fellow countrywoman Mackenzie Dern on January 11. The Brazilian said that if anyone had told her 5 years ago (when she was serving a 2-year ban) that she would be headlining, she wouldn’t have believed it! But Ribas has done that more than once now.

Ribas needed just six fights to garner Dana White and Co.’s attention to make her way into the world’s premiere MMA promotion. However, one of the important parts of her road to the UFC has been her family, many of whom are martial artists, like her elder brother, Arthur Ribas.

Is Amanda Ribas’ brother, Arthur, an MMA fighter?

Amanda Ribas took up martial arts at a very young age. The Brazilian’s father was a judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor and she trained under him until she was part of one of Brazil’s national judo youth teams. However, she and her father are not the only fighters as her elder brother, Arthur Ribas competed at welterweight. Arthur has been an integral part of Amanda’s martial arts career and is officially part of her team, serving as the conditioning coach for his sister.

The elder Ribas has a professional record of 6-1 and fought, for the most part, in Brazilian promotions. Arthur last fought in 2015, a Ground & Pound loss to Alvaro Correa, his 1st professional loss. The Brazilian has not fought since then. Although he expressed interest in returning to the cage in 2020 and even signed with Taura MMA, he has yet to debut for the Brazil-based promotion.

On the other hand, Amanda Ribas also has a female sibling, her sister Marcelly. Let’s have a look at that front.

Meet Marcelly, Amanda Ribas’ younger sister

Amanda Ribas’ sister, Marcelly, doesn’t seem to be affiliated with martial arts like her other two siblings. In fact, she’s not even a sportsperson at all because she’s an actress, but not much is known about her work. The only detail about Marcelly’s acting work can be found on IMDb, where it’s mentioned that she worked in a music video back in 2019 for the Brazilian Celtic folk metal band named Tuatha de Danann in a song named ‘Turn’.

Despite the lack of details about her work on the internet, it appears that Marcelly Ribas does have a considerable following on social media. As of December 2024, Amanda Ribas’ sister has over 41.9k followers on Instagram. Hence, she seems to be doing pretty well in her field, just like her sister in the UFC.

Coming back to the UFC strawweight contender, a lot depends on her next fight as she’s coming off a loss against Rose Namajunas. With a winning momentum on Mackenzie Dern’s side, who do you think will win in the bout on January 11?