Jared Dopp is an American born Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt under Rafael Lovato Junior, who has been regarded as one of the top athletes in the sport since the 2013 edition of the ADCC, where he beat the former champion Vinny Magalhaes and other seasoned competitors while being “just” a purple belt, (placing 4th overall) in the world’s most prestigious submission grappling tournament. As a brown belt Dopp improved on his previous ADCC mark, reaching a silver medal (2015) while also winning the World No-Gi and Pan American Championship. Dopp’s achievements are even more remarkable considering he reached all of these training 2-3x per week while maintaining a position as a chemical engineer. Read full bio on BJJ Heroes.
Jared took second place at the world cup of submission wrestling: ADCC 2013
Dopp is part of the list of most educated grapplers:
Dopp recently shared his opinion on why he thinks that young BJJ players should not drop everything for BJJ:
I’ve had people ask me why they should continue going to college instead of dropping everything to be a full-time BJJ athlete. This is a long video but it only covers a portion of the reasons. I tried to focus on the reasons that I felt like would appeal to the college age BJJ athlete.
