Tony DeSouza

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Tony DeSouza

Statistics
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Born	July 26, 1974 (1974-07-26) (age 33)
Town of birth	Lima, Peru
Fighting style	Wrestling
Mixed martial arts record
Wins	10
By knockout	1
By submission	6
Losses	4
Draws	0

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Amtun Nicolas De Souza (Tony) (born July 26, 1974) is a Peruvian professional mixed martial arts fighter and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt. He grew comfortably in a relative calmness (period of his youth in which even there was activity of the terrorist revolutionary group Sendero Luminoso) of the middle class in Lima, Surquillo, lived blissfully among friends and his family up to the age of 11 years, when his family decided to move to Los Angeles, California in the United States of America in search of wide horizons.

1 Early life
2 Wrestling in high school
3 Fighting career
4 External links

[edit] Early life

Tony de Souza is a Peruvian professional fighter acclaimed for cholitzu, his unique style of fighting derived from jiu-jitsu which he has applied in the competition of mixed martial arts. Combining his precedents of a fighter in high-school and his studies in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Tony has developed an elegant style of submission that has led him to compete stage of the world in the martial mixed arts and submission. In recent years he has dedicated his time and energy to teach and to promote the sport in his mother land.

The provocations of his stares and his challenging nature resulted in many controversies in which his only resource was the small knowledge of judo which his uncle passed to him. Both his sense of justice and the promise of turns as a fighter appeared in the first hour when he in an incident, at the age of 12, having defended the sister of his friend of three students, he turned out to be seriously struck for intervening. In the weeks that continued, Tony would demand justice, levelling the field catching each of his aggressors finally defeating them all.

Something similar was Tony de Souza's resolution when in search of revenge he almost gave a heart attack to his mother, this happened when he finally saw the last aggressor in his list travelling street below, having gone in car with his mother. When the thin and bony Latin person saw his aggressor, he shouted: "Mother, stop the car." His mother was shocked did it in the insistence of the rough child. For her horror, his son left the car and promptly attacked an innocent child walking along the sidewalk. After the shock of seeing the aggression of her nevertheless, the certainty that the aggressor deserved, since people that they know Tony know that he is never takes part in acts of violence with the intention to hurt someone. For his abundance of life, the determination and the desire to defending himself from the hostile environment of the public school of the United States, is so clear that this qualities took him the route of turning into a professional fighter, as many many people often get confused on having discovered that this calmed world traveler in fact strikes people to live. There was a person who saw the potential of the Peruvian lanky child as a fighter, probably credited by the success of the career of DeSouza.

[edit] Wrestling in high school

The trainer Tom Cote needed a fighter to fill a place in the category of 98 pounds of the team of fight of the school. The young man Tony de Souza seemed for the perfect candidate in filling the place; The child had good balance of judo, competitive fierce spirit, and was exactly the sufficiently annoyed to fill him with urine and vinegar, with such that this level means very much in a squall carried away about who competed.

"I witnessed Tony since his freshman year at Chaffey High School in Ontario, CA. I wrestled for the cross-town rival Montclair High. From year to year, Tony got infinitely better. By the time we were all seniors, he was already a legend. His team was pretty amazing, I'm sure largely in part by Tony's intensity." -Alvin Gregorio MHS c/o '92

[edit] Fighting career

He appeared on The Ultimate Fighter 5, the fifth season of the Ultimate Fighting Championship produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. On the show DeSouza was an assistant coach with Team Penn, the team coached by former UFC Welterweight champion BJ Penn.

His style of fighting is a blend of freestyle wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. De Souza competed in wrestling throughout his high school and college years in Los Angeles. He learned Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under John Lewis and Andre Pederneiras.

To date, DeSouza has a professional mixed martial arts record of ten wins and four losses.

His most recent fight at UFC 79 yielded a loss to Roan Carneiro by TKO in the second round.