[5] Under Boi's training, Borges started freestyle wrestling, in 2002 she joined a workgroup led by Alejo Morales.

[1] In 2005 she joined ATT (American Top Team) moving to the U.S. to train under Ricardo Liborio as well as Jason Kelly a wrestling coach.

Borges was invited to compete at ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship in the very first female division in May 2005;[8] after defeating Hannette Staack,[3] Megumi Yabushita[9] and Stacy Cartwright she won the +60 kg division,[10] she then defeated Kizma Button, Alessandra Vieira and Tara LaTosa to win the first Women Absolute (openweight).

[11] Two weeks after ADCC she competed in a mixed gender[d] NAGA (Expert division) championship, winning gold.

In 2009 she won bronze at the IBJJF World Championship after losing to Kyra Gracie in the semi-final.