Gilbert Burns’ Ethnicity, Nationality, and Parents: Where Is the UFC Star From?

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Well, we have enough knowledge about his professional life However, ‘Druinho’s personal life is something that many fight fans don’t know about. Today, let’s dive in to understand everything about Burns’s personal life. So without any further ado, let’s get started.

What is Gilbert Burns’s ethnicity?

Gilbert Burns was born in Niterói in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He had early exposure to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as he went and trained with his older brothers at the Academia Associação Oriente. While he was born in Brazil, his ethnicity is a bit different.

Burns is of mixed Portuguese and African descent. However, Brazil has lent a lot to Burns when it comes to his mixed-martial-arts career. He started training under Welton Ribeiro and won several Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships before deciding to join the UFC.

He achieved a 3rd-degree black belt in BJJ under Rafael ‘Fofitio’ Barros. He’s won multiple championships as a brown belt as well as has secured first position in the N0-Gi championship back in 2010, right before winning the world title the following year.

Clearly, he comes from a family of great fighters. In fact, it was because of the influence of his family that he started getting himself indulged in the art of martial arts. Well, regardless, let’s have a closer look at the Gilbert Burns family.

All we know about Burns’ parents and family

Gilbert Burns’s family embodies a warrior mindset through and through. ‘Durinho’s MMA journey started when his parents (Herbert and Tania Burns) found out about his chronic bronchitis during his childhood. This disease forced Burns to take Adrenaline shots to function properly. As the shots were pretty expensive, his parents encouraged the kid to take martial arts as his hobby to get in shape.

Jiu-Jitsu was introduced to Gilbert Burns and his brothers(Herbert Burns and Frederick Burns) back when they discovered a kimono in a car left in their father’s workshop. The owner of the car, Master Luiz Carlos, agreed on a barter system for his car’s retirement. In return for the work, he would sponsor each boy in the Burns family for a three-month-long martial arts session. Gilbert Burns’s father assured his boys to be the best in the academy as he was not financially stable enough to pay for the academy fees beyond the quarter.

Well, the lessons worked like miracles for the brothers as all of them have found success in martial arts with Herbert Burns and Gilbert Burs beckoning the household name of their respective UFC divisions. The fighter has been doing his best to make sure that the world remembers him as a boy, who was pretty close to death but became one of the best in the welterweight division.