Andreas Correa was born in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, on January 29, 1980. As his parents Alicia and Sverker divorced at an early age he was raised mostly by his mother but as both parents lived and still live in Stockholm he was able to spend time with both of them.

Andreas doesn’t have the typical Swedish look, being short (5”8), and not having blond hair and blue eyes. This is because his mother is from Argentina. She met Andreas’ father in Buenos Aires in the middle 70´s and she quickly decided to move to Sweden where she married him and they got Fredrik (1977) and Andreas (1980). Because Andreas´ father has been married three times including Andreas mother, he has four additional siblings, Magnus (1967), Marcus (1988), Sara (1991) and Emilie (1993).

Andreas has a very close contact with his brother Fredrik who works as a M.D in Sweden. Fredrik also trains MMA but is mostly into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. When their busy schedules allow it, Andreas and Fredrik likes to train together.

Andreas´ mother Alicia also trains martial arts after being introduced to Krav Maga by her son. They have been training together since 2004. Two years later she took her training to the next level by signing up for a membership at the Stockholm Krav Maga Academy, where she now holds a level P5 rank!

Andreas started his martial arts career with Karate at the age of 10. Later he also trained Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Krav Maga and WTF Taekwondo (black belt, 2001). Since age 10, Andreas had only two years without martial arts training. During these two years he took a break from that type of training and instead served his country in the Royal Swedish Amphibious Corps, Special Forces Unit. After his military service he first did some random martial arts training until he found Shootfighting in 2004. This was the first time Andreas experienced ground and submission fighting. In 2004 something really important happened, Andreas went to a seminar with Randy Couture in Stockholm. There he really got hooked and an idea of someday going to the source, the United States, started to grow inside of him. Two years later the idea became reality and he went for three months of hardcore training at Team Quest in Portland, Oregon. After going back and forth since 2006 Andreas finally decided to move to the United States in early 2008. Today, Andreas lives in beautiful Portland, Oregon where he enjoy living a very busy lifestyle.

Andreas is not only a successful cage fighter he is also a four time honor student with an average GPA of 3.7. He is enrolled in the Fitness Technology program at Portland Community College where he pursues a degree in fitness & health. After graduating from PCC, Andreas plans to pursue his Bachelors degree at Portland State University.

When Andreas is not busy working and training, he still finds time to coach his favorite physical activity, kettlebell training, at Elite Kettlebell Gym. The gym and its owner, Michael Skogg has been very important for Andreas success in, as well as outside the cage.

Andreas’ goal is nothing less than to one day become the best fighter in the world and a world class MMA coach.