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Team Alpha Male

Martial arts gym in Sacramento, California

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Team Alpha Male is a martial arts gym based in Sacramento, California, United States. It is one of the pioneering schools of mixed martial arts (MMA) among the lower weight classes. It has produced three UFC Champions: T.J. Dillashaw, Cody Garbrandt and Deiveson Figueiredo.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Team Alpha Male” is martial arts gym in Sacramento, California. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Team, Alpha and Male, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 44-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Team, Alpha and Male is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 7, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Team Alpha Male” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.