Romero Cavalcanti

Romero Cavalcanti (born October 22, 1952) is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu master and the founder of Alliance Jiu Jitsu.

He is one of the six men who were promoted to black belt by Rolls Gracie prior to his fatal 1982 hang gliding accident.

[3] Romero began training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at age 11.

He was nicknamed Jacaré because he used to wear Lacoste polo shirts in his youth.

Romero had studied in New York in the 1970s, and in 1995 he moved back to the US with his family and opened a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu school in Miami.