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Roy "Dakroubovic" Dakroub is the only Lebanese gold medal decorated martial artist in 5 different combat sports, with a higher academic degree. Being one of the first Lebanese fighters to ever compete in the sport of MMA in 2011, Roy Dakroub has been able to snatch gold in all Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiujitsu, Freestyle Wrestling, Combat Sambo and Boxing Sanda.

Coming from an athletic family, Roy Dakroub started his martial arts career in 2007, after being a footballer who played in the Lebanese B league. His first martial arts experience was when he joined the Shogun Muay Thai club under Grand Master Sami Kiblawi, to later join the Lebanese national team just 3 years later and winning the national championship 6 times. Roy Dakroub also represented Lebanon in both wrestling and Brazilian jiujitsu teams, participating in several international tournaments and standing on the podiums, including the UAEJJ Abu Dhabi World Pro.

In 2013, Roy Dakroub appeared in DesertForce's first-ever Al Academia reality show, in which he featured as the red team's grappling coach that consisted of 8 Arab amateur MMA fighters that was aired on MBC Action. Roy is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu purple belt under professor Andre Campos from Gracie Barra, after training with professor Renato Rodrigues in Rome.

In 2015, Roy Dakroub immigrated from his hometown Beirut to Rennes, France to pursue his Ph.D. in sports marketing and got awarded his doctoral degree from Rennes Business School in 2020 to become the first-ever Lebanese multiple-sports decorated martial artist with a doctorate and double masters degrees. During his stay in France, Roy won the French grappling and Brazilian Jiujitsu nationals in 2017 but has been inactive since then due to his work as a marketing professor. Roy moved to Paris in 2020 and resumed training in 2020 to recompete in IBJJF competitions.