I'm a little bit drunk right now, but I'll attempt to explain what I think happened. Yes he eventually ended up training at the Pit in SLO, but I think it was way after the fact. I'm only jokingly saying that he's Simco-trained. I pretty sure that at some point early in his BJJ career, however, he was either training at NYMAG (New York Martial Arts Gym owned and operated by Gene Simco) or was at least going there fairly-frequently. It's possible that this is where the Greg Davis/Johnny Bombs (John Carlo) thing that AP is talking about comes from (I think they were both training BJJ there at the time as well).
At any rate, Teixeira realized that he was a beast of a monster in a tiny pond and had to find a bigger pond to do more hardcore monster stuff in. I recall doing a photoshop of "Gloversaurus Tex" back in like 2003, but was not able to find it via google image.
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