Siblings and Families in MMA (UPDATED Sep. 22)

jeicex said:
Jon Anik last night said that Chris and his debuting brother Brian marked the *sixteenth set of brothers to compete inside the Octagon. Can you name them all? I'll get a list started:

1) Matt and Mark Hughes, behind the barn
2) Nate and Nick Diaz
3) Rogerio (little) and Rodrigo (big) Nogueira
4) Frank and Ken Shamrock (adopted but fine)
5) Anthony and Sergio Pettis
6) Jim and Dan Miller
7) Joe and Dan Lauzon
8) Matt and Nick Serra
9) Clay and Jason Guida (Jason was on TUF 8)
10) Jake and Jared Rosholt
11) Erick and Augusto Montano
12) Junior and Raphael Assuncao
13) Iuri/Yuri and Ildemar Alcantara
14) Junie and Rob Browning (Rob was on TUF 9)
15) Rashad and Lance Evans (Lance was on TUF 8)
16) Jake and Joe Ellenberger
17) Chris and Brian Camozzi
18) Yuri and Danillo Villefort

Rolles and Roger Gracie - are they brothers? How are they related?

There have been several other brother teams to compete in MMA, but not both in the UFC.

Fedor and Aleksander Emelianenko
Alistair and Valentijn Overeem
Mauricio and Murilo Rua (Murilo was only in Pride)
Chuck and Sean Liddell
Cole and Micah Miller (Micah competed in WEC but not UFC)
Khabib and Abubakar Nurmagomedov (cousins, and adopted brother)
Lyoto and Chinzo Machida (Chinzo competes in Bellator)
Caros and Ben Fodor (Phoenix Jones) are adopted brothers
BJ and Reagan Penn
Gilbert and Herbert Burns (Herbert competes in One)
Jeremy Horn and Matt Anderson are half-brothers
Anthony and Chidi Njokuani (Chidi competes in Bellator)
Patricky and Patricio Frierre
Chris and Andreas Spang (Andreas competed in Bellator)
Michael and Brad McDonald
Douglas and Dhiego Lima (Douglas competes in Bellator)
Pat and Ryan Healy (Ryan competed in Bellator and others)

Royce, Renzo and Roger Gracie are cousins
Pat and Jeff Curran are cousins
Rodrigo and Carina Damm are brother and sister. Don't know other brother-sister teams out there.
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About brother-sister teams there is also: Cristiane Justino & Rafael Justino, Christian Lee & Angela Lee, Mizuki Inoue & Naoki Inoue, Freddy Arteaga & Veta Arteaga, Norifumi Yamamoto & Miyuu Yamamoto, Sage Northcutt & Colbey Northcutt. Info taken from this thread http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/update-the-mma-brothers-list.2730869/
 
Thread has been updated to include Daniel Teymur's UFC debut, joining his brother David who recently won a FOTN battle over Lando Vannata.
 
Matt Brown, Mike Brown and Travis Brown are the only triplets in MMA


What do i win?

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jeicex said:
Rolles and Roger Gracie - are they brothers? How are they related?
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Rolles is the son of Rolls Gracie. Rolls is the biological son of Carlos Gracie Sr.

Roger is the son of Reila Gracie. Reila is the daughter of Carlos Gracie Sr.

So I think that makes them... cousins? half cousins.
 
chunglii said:
So I think that makes them... cousins? half cousins.
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Yeah, like I mentioned, the tree is crazy, and I don't even think this one is complete.

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I'm technically cheating here because one only does Muay Thai and hasn't done MMA in a while, but what about the Shevchenko sisters, Antonina and Valentina?
 
CanMMAfan84 said:
I'm technically cheating here because one only does Muay Thai and hasn't done MMA in a while, but what about the Shevchenko sisters, Antonina and Valentina?
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It's not technically cheating at all, Antonina took an MMA fight in 2005 in South Korea and won. I'll put it on the list.
 
chunglii said:
Rolles is the son of Rolls Gracie. Rolls is the biological son of Carlos Gracie Sr.

Roger is the son of Reila Gracie. Reila is the daughter of Carlos Gracie Sr.

So I think that makes them... cousins? half cousins.
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They are first cousins.
Sharing a single grandparent is enough to be first cousin by law.

Anyway Rogers father was one of the very few black belt under Rolls so they basically bros.
 
still waiting on father/son and mother/daughter. good we finally got sister/brother. now we just need sisters, a gay couple, and surprisingly we haven't had active fighters married to one another
 
Them Silva boys from Brazil have a pretty big family
 
Micah Miller was on TUF 14, so he and Cole should be moved to the first list.

Excellent thread by the way.
 
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