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1. Adele M. Fornarino’s Details
Name |
Adele M. Fornarino |
Nickname |
N/A |
Birth Place |
Melbourne, Australia |
Date of Birth |
September 17, 1999 |
Weight Division |
Featherweight/ 53.5kg / 118 lbs |
Last Weight in |
N/A |
Height |
N/A |
Disclosed Career Earnings |
N/A |
College |
N/A |
Rank |
N/A |
Last Fight |
N/A |
Favorite Position |
Armbar |
Head Coach |
David Hart |
Lineage |
Carlos Gracie > Helio Gracie > Carlos Gracie Junior > Jean Jacques Machado / Rigan Machado > John Will > David Hart > Adele Fornarino |
Fighting out of |
N/A |
Team Association |
Dominance MMA Team |
2. Adele M. Fornarino’s Biography
Adele Fornarino is a top Australian Black belt champion associated with the Dominance MMA Team under coach, David Hart. She is the number one N0-Gi black belt fighter in her division in the world. She won several gold medals in the IBJJF World, Pan Championship, European Championship, ADCC Trails, and many other international BJJ tournaments . She received her black belt in December 2022. She is the first woman in Australia to have participated and won several international gold medals.
2.1. Adele M. Fornarino’s Childhood
Adele Fornarino is a top Australian Black belt champion associated with the Dominance MMA Team under coach, David Hart. She is the number one N0-Gi black belt fighter in her division in the world. She won several gold medals in the IBJJF World, Pan Championship, European Championship, ADCC Trails, and many other international BJJ tournaments . She received her black belt in December 2022. She is the first woman in Australia to have participated and won several international gold medals.
“Anything my brother did, I tended to do. "If my brother played soccer, I wanted to play soccer.”
By following the footsteps of her brother, she started playing football at the age of 7 and was good at it.
2.2. Adele M. Fornarino’s First Martial Art Class
Adele Fornarino continued playing football at the age of 10. Adele Fornarino took her first Jiu-Jitsu class by chance. At the age of ten, she was deciding what she wanted to be in the future. After thorough searching, she decided that she was going to be a Police Officer. To sharpen her skills she started searching for some martial arts schools near her school. Finally, she picked a gym and started going for Jiu-Jitsu training. She said in an interview about her emergence in the Jiu-Jitsu world,
“When I got to be about nine or ten years old, I made the executive decision, ‘ I'm gonna be a police officer.’ I thought doing a martial art would help, so one day I Googled something like martial arts near me. I saw a gym, and the gym happened to do jiu-jitsu. If there had been a karate gym closer, I would have done karate, but it just happened to be a jiu-jitsu gym, and I happened to kind of fall into it. The rest is history.”
2.3. Adele M. Fornarino’s First Coach
Adele M. Fornarino's first coach was David Hart at the Dominance MMA Team. Though Adele Fornarino joined this team to improve her skills so that they would be beneficial in her future job but it was David Hart who motivated and trained her and made her fall in love with this game. She said in an interview that she knew nothing about this martial art and used to ask stupid questions all the time.
“[He] is an excellent kids coach, and he was good at keeping us all interested, playing lots of games. He was a really big part of why I loved it so much from a young age. Christopher also had a big role in keeping her focused: “I was always ‘that kid,’ asking things like, ‘So when are we gonna start hitting things? When are we going to start throwing punches?’ [David] was like, it's not quite that. It’s a little bit different. I’d be like, ‘Yeah, but what are we gonna start punching people?’ It took me a while to understand what was going on.”
2.4. Adele M. Fornarino’s Jiu-Jitsu Journey
Adele Fornarino started her Jiu-Jitsu journey when she was 10 years old. At the age of 12, she competed in her first Jiu-jitsu competition and defeated two boys, winning her first gold medal. After this competition, she left an urge to be perfect in jiu-jitsu and took her training seriously after that.
“I was motivated by beating up guys at the time. Because I had done soccer and I'd done it with guys and girls, I'd always wanted to compete with the guys to make sure that I was just as strong, just as fast. When I started jiu-jitsu and I was one of the only girls, I wanted to get good enough at jiu-jitsu to be just as good if not better than all the boys in the class. And then when I was competing, I was like, ‘I just want to beat up all the boys.”
After that, as she grew up, the brackets changed, and she was forced to compete in the white belt.
2.5. Adele M. Fornarino’s Promotion To Blue Belt
Till the age of 15 Adele Fornarino was a white belt champion. In 2015, she won her first Blue belt at the Pan Pacific Championship. The Championship was held in December 2015 and Adele Fornarino played the fastest submission ever in the whole competition.
In the same year, another best thing happened in the Grappling Tournament Australia where Adele Fornarino brilliantly won and along with the prize money also got a free ticket to the IBJJF World Championship 2016. In the next year, she went to California with her coach and realized how big the Jiu-Jitsu world is.
“David Hart came with me and he guided me through that process, explaining ‘This is how big jiu-jitsu is. Like you saw it in Australia, but this is actually how big it is. There's thousands of people here, and there's these people that do it professionally.’ It opened up my eyes to how big jiu-jitsu was.”
2.6. Adele M. Fornarino’s Promotion To Purple Belt
In June 2018, when Adele was 18 years old, she participated in the IBJJF World Championship held in Los Angeles. She won bronze in the Featherweight Purple belt No-Gi Championship. She won the first three matches by submissions but unfortunately could not win the semi-final and secured bronze in the Purple belt.
2.8. Adele M. Fornarino’s First Brown Belt
Adele became the first ever Female Brown belt in Australia in July 2018, at the age of 18 years. She was the youngest brown belt in Australia in the jiu-jitsu World. After achieving the Brown belt, the golden period of her life started. She won gold medals in the IBJJF World Gi, No-Gi, European Gi, No-Gi, Pan American, and Adcc trials.
2.9. Adele M. Fornarino’s Black Promotion
Adele Fornarino competed at the international level for about 4 years as a Brown belt. After winning all the matches at the IBJJF World No-Gi Championship 2022 for the Brown belt in the Featherweight, Adele Fornarino was promoted to Black belt in December 2022 by her long-time coach, David Hart.
After achieving her black belt in the last month of 2022, Adele had a mixed feeling of doubt and pride.
“Black belt kind of snuck up on me. All of a sudden I was a black belt, and then all of a sudden I was in these black belt divisions with all these people that I've been watching and studying and looking up to for so many years. When you watch these girls, you put them so far ahead of you. At the time it felt unattainable to get anywhere close to them, like it's gonna take years and years. Then I’m there and I’m like, ‘Oh wait for a second. I can do this. I can get there. I'm there. I can get this done.”
2.10. Adele M. Fornarino’s Routine
After becoming a black belt, Adele Fornarino started training even harder than it was before. She wanted to get the title of Gi in the IBJJF Worlds Championship. Shortly after, she won a GI championship and became the first Australian woman to get a GI title in the IBJJF World Championship.
After that, she participated in the ADCC Trails and won gold medals. In short, Adele Fornarino made her training tougher after promotion to black belt. She said in an interview sometimes it gets tough to travel from one continent to the other to participate in international events and sometimes they get overlooked as well.
“As an Australian, it can be really difficult–obviously the travel is difficult, flights and accommodation can be tough, and sometimes we may get a little bit overlooked for those reasons. But I want to get my foot in the door on those major fight cards because I think I can have some really good matches with current belt holders and I think I can draw a whole new audience to some of these events as well.”
3. Adele M. Fornarino’s Top Fighting History
3.1. Adele Fornarino Vs Amanda Iraha
In the final round of Sydney Open 2023 for the Balck belt category in absolute weight, Adele Fornarino competed with a top fighter, Amanda Iraha. Both the fighters demonstrated their best defense throughout the fight. The whole fight lasted for almost 5 minutes and neither of the players secured any points. At last, Adele Fornarino won the match by Armbar submission.
Year | Event | Opponent | W/L/D | Method | Stage | Weight Class |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | Sydney Open | Amanda Iraha | Win | Armbar | Final | Absolute weight |
3.2. Adele Fornarino Vs Vitoria Assis
In the final stage of Pan No-Gi Championship 2023 for the Black belt category in Featherweight, Adele Fornarino fought with Vitoria Assis. It was a very short and exciting fight. In the beginning, noth the fighters tried to take down each other. But they did not succeed and secure any points. Shortly after, Adele Fornarino applied for Armbar submission and won the match. The whole fight just lasted for almost 2 minutes.
Year | Event | Opponent | W/L/D | Method | Stage | Weight Class |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | Pan Championship No-Gi | Vitoria Assis | Win | Armbar | Final | Featherweight |
3.3. Adele Fornarino Vs Kaimana Newman
In the final stage of the Santa Cruz Open No-Gi Championship 2023 for the Black belt category in Featherweight division, Adele Fornarino Confronted Kaimana Newman. In the beginning, Newman tried to take down Fornarino but in no vain. After that, Adele Fornarino applied triangle submission which was brilliantly sustained by the Newman for a quite long time. In the 8th minute of the fight, Newman tapped out and Fornarino won the fight by Triangle submission.
Year | Event | Opponent | W/L/D | Method | Stage | Weight Class |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | Santa Cruz Open No-Gi | Kaimana Newman | Win | Triangle | Final | Featherweight |
4. Adele M. Fornarino’s National and International Achievements
Year | Event | Medal/ Position | Weight Division |
---|---|---|---|
2023 | IBJJF Pan Championship | Gold | Featherweight |
2023 | IBJJF European Championship NOGI | Gold | Featherweight |
2023 | ADCC Oceania & Asia Trials | Gold | Featherweight |
2023 | GrappleFest U60KG Champion | Gold | Featherweight |
2023 | IBJJF World Championship NOGI | Silver | Featherweight |
2023 | CBJJ Brazilian Nationals | Silver | Featherweight |
2023 | Santa Cruz No-Gi Open | Gold | Featherweight |
2022 | ADCC Oceania & Asia Trials | Gold | Featherweight |
2022 | IBJJF World Championship NOGI | Gold | Featherweight |
2022 | IBJJF European Open NOGI | Gold | Featherweight |
2022 | Paris Fall International Open | Gold | Featherweight |
2022 | Paris Fall International Open | Gold | Absolute weight |
2021 | SGT Round Robin Gi Tournament | Gold | Light Featherweight |
2021 | SGT Round Robin No-Gi Tournament | Gold | Light Featherweight |
2020 | AJP Oceania Continental Pro Gi | Gold | Featherweight |
2020 | AJP Oceania Continental Pro No-Gi | Gold | Featherweight |
2020 | Abu Dhabi National Pro Gi | Gold | Featherweight |
2020 | Abu Dhabi National Pro Gi-Open | Gold | Absolute weight |
2019 | IBJJF Pan Pacific Championship | Gold | Featherweight |
2019 | IBJJF Pan Pacific Championship | Gold | Absolute weight |
2019 | IBJJF Pan Pacific Championship NOGI | Gold | Featherweight |
2019 | AJP Australia National Pro | Gold | Heavyweight |
2019 | AJP Australia National Pro No-Gi | Gold | Heavyweight |
2019 | AJP Australia National Pro Gi-Open | Gold | Absolute weight |
2019 | IBJJF Pan Championship | Silver | Featherweight |
2019 | Victorian State Championship Gi | Gold | Featherweight |
2019 | Victorian State Championship No-Gi | Gold | Light Featherweight |
2019 | Victorian State Championship Female Absolute Gi | Gold | Absolute weight |
2019 | Victorian State Championship Female Absolute No-Gi | Gold | Absolute weight |
2019 | IBJJF Asian Open | Silver | Featherweight |
2018 | Oceania Continental Pro | Gold | Featherweight |
2018 | Australia National Pro | Gold | Featherweight |
2018 | Australia National Pro | Silver | Absolute weight |
2018 | ADCC Melbourne Open | Bronze | Light Featherweight |
2018 | ADCC Melbourne Open | Gold | Absolute weight |
2018 | Queensland State Championship | Gold | Featherweight |
2016 | IBJJF World Championship, Juvenile | Gold | Light Featherweight |
5. Adele M. Fornarino’s Main Achievements
Year | Event | Belt | Position |
---|---|---|---|
2023 | IBJJF Pan Championship | Black | 1st |
2023 | IBJJF European Championship NOGI | Black | 1st |
2023 | ADCC Oceania & Asia Trials | Black | 1st |
2023 | GrappleFest U60KG Champion | Black | 1st |
2023 | IBJJF World Championship NOGI | Black | 2nd |
2023 | CBJJ Brazilian Nationals | Black | 2nd |
2022 | ADCC Oceania & Asia Trials | Black | 1st |
5.1. Adele M. Fornarino’s Main Achievements (Colored Belt)
Year | Event | Belt | Position |
---|---|---|---|
2022 | IBJJF World Championship NOGI | Brown | 1st |
2022 | IBJJF European Open NOGI | Brown | 1st |
2021 | SGT Round Robin Gi Tournament | Brown | 1st |
2021 | SGT Round Robin No-Gi Tournament | Brown | 1st |
2020 | AJP Oceania Continental Pro | Brown | 1st |
2019 | IBJJF Pan Pacific Championship | Brown | 1st |
2019 | IBJJF Pan Pacific Championship NOGI | Brown | 1st |
2019 | AJP Australia National Pro Gi | Brown | 1st |
2019 | AJP Australia National Pro No-Gi | Brown | 1st |
2019 | AJP Australia National Pro Open Class | Brown | 1st |
2019 | IBJJF Pan Championship | Brown | 2nd |
2019 | IBJJF Asian Open | Brown | 2nd |
2019 | Victorian State Championship Gi | Brown | 1st |
2019 | Victorian State Championship No-Gi | Brown | 1st |
2019 | Victorian State Championship Female Absolute Gi | Brown | 1st |
2019 | Victorian State Championship Female Absolute No-Gi | Brown | 1st |
2018 | Oceania Continental Pro | Purple | 1st |
2018 | Australia National Pro | Purple | 1st |
2018 | Australia National Pro | Purple | 2nd |
2016 | IBJJF World Championship, Juvenile | Purple | 1st |
6. Adele M. Fornarino’s Professional Record Breakdown
28 Matches | 23 Wins | 5 losses |
---|---|---|
By Points | 2 | 1 |
By Advantages | 0 | 2 |
By Submission | 18 | 2 |
BY Decision | 1 | 0 |
By Penalties | 0 | 0 |
By DQ | 0 | 0 |
By Walkover | 2 | 0 |
6.1. Method of Submission W/L
Method | 18 Win | 2 Losses |
---|---|---|
Armbar | 11 | 1 |
Toe Hold | 1 | 0 |
Straight Ankle Lock | 1 | 0 |
Triangle Armbar | 1 | 0 |
Triangle | 1 | 0 |
Outside Heel Hook | 1 | 0 |
Inside Heel Hook | 1 | 0 |
Armlock | 1 | 0 |
RNC | 0 | 1 |
7. Adele M. Fornarino’s Top Fight History
Opponent | W/L | Method | Competition | Weight | Stage | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Enriquez | L | Pts: 2x2, Adv | No-Gi World | 56KG | F | 2023 |
Alexa Yanes | W | Toe hold | World Champ. | 53KG | 8F | 2023 |
Amanda Iraha | W | Armbar | Sydney Open | ABS | F | 2023 |
Andreza Costa | W | Armbar | Brasileiro | 53KG | SF | 2023 |
Ashley Bendle | W | Armbar | European No-Gi | 55KG | F | 2023 |
Emily Nicholson | W | Armbar | No-Gi Pan | 56KG | SF | 2023 |
Emily Nicholson | W | Triangle armbar | No-Gi World | 56KG | 4F | 2023 |
Ffion Davies | L | RNC | ADCC | 60KG | 4F | 2022 |
Georgia Balthazar | W | Armbar | ADCC AUS Trials | 60KG | SF | 2022 |
Heather Morgan | W | Armbar | Santa Cruz O | 58KG | F | 2023 |
Janice Yee | W | Armbar | ADCC AUS Trials | 60KG | R1 | 2022 |
Jessa Khan | L | Armbar | World Champ. | 53KG | 4F | 2023 |
Jessica Crane | W | Armlock | No-Gi World | 56KG | SF | 2023 |
Joyce Ip | W | Inside heel hook | ADCC Trials AO | 55KG | SF | 2023 |
Kaimana Newman | W | Triangle | S. Cruz NGO | 55KG | F | 2023 |
Kanae Yamada | W | Armbar | ADCC Trials AO | 55KG | F | 2023 |
Mayssa Bastos | L | Pts: 3x0 | Pan American | 53KG | 4F | 2023 |
Mayssa Bastos | L | Pts: 6x6, Adv | Brasileiro | 53KG | F | 2023 |
N. Gomes | W | Armbar | Brasileiro | 53KG | 4F | 2023 |
Nadia Frankland | W | Pts: 3x1 | ADCC AUS Trials | 60KG | F | 2022 |
Nadia Frankland | W | Points | Boa Super 8 | NA | SPF | 2022 |
Olivia Ukmar | W | Armbar | ADCC AUS Trials | 60KG | 4F | 2022 |
Raquel Silva | W | Outside heel hook | European No-Gi | 55KG | SF | 2023 |
Soojin Hong | W | Straight ankle lock | ADCC Trials AO | 55KG | 4F | 2023 |
Vanessa English | W | Referee Decision | Grappler Fest 16 | NA | SPF | 2023 |
Vitoria Assis | W | Armbar | No-Gi Pan | 56KG | F | 2023 |
8. Adele M. Fornarino’s Top Fights
Adele Fornarino v Amanda Iraha / Sydney Open 2023
Adele Fornarino vs Vitória Assis / Pan Championship No-Gi 2023
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