The Aguilar brothers — Alonzo Lucas and Andreas Lucho — are starting to create their own career paths in different sporting fields.

The Aguilars pose for a photo after the UWW Asian Grappling World Championships in Astana Kazakhstan recently. (From left) Alvin Aguilar, sons Lucho and Lukie, Maybelline Aguilar, and kids Aleia Aielle Aguilar and baby Axelia.

Alonzo Lucas, also known as Lukie, is a football player, wrestler, and jiu-jitsu practitioner. The younger Andreas Lucho, meanwhile, is focusing on jiu-jitsu as he strives to become a national athlete someday.

Despite having different interests, the sons of mixed martial arts legend Alvin Aguilar are determined to make a name for themselves.

“I am in love with jiu-jitsu, wrestling and football, but I haven’t decided yet what I want to be in the future,” the 17-year-old Grade 12 Lukie said, adding that he is working to improve his striking and boxing skills.

Lukie is sporting a blue belt in jiu-jitsu.

“Training in jiu-jitsu and wrestling is what I am doing every day. There’s also football that I’d like to be a part of, maybe become a member of the Philippine football team someday,” the elder Aguilar added. “But combat sports is a part of me that I just can’t let go.”

Speaking of combat sports, Lukie has already captured two silvers in the recent Under-17 -63kg class of the United World Wrestling (UWW) Asian Grappling Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan together with two Filipino gold winners Fierre Afan and Maria Aisa Ratcliff.

He was also a bronze medalist in an elite jiu-jitsu tournament in both no-gi and gi in Ufa, Russia in 2019.

Lucho, 15, on the other hand, is pursuing to become a successful national jiu-jitsu athlete and in the future win gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games, Asian Games, World Games and World Championships.

“My goal is to become the best jiu-jitsu black belt athlete and I want to bring home glory for our country by means of jiu-jitsu— the [combat] sport which my family loves most,” Lucho said. “But I have to improve my wrestling and grappling skills.”

Just like his brother, Lucho also earned a medal in the last UWW Asian Grappling Championships where he got a silver and bronze in the U-15 -58 kg classes.

“Jiu-jitsu is my life. I do not know what to do if there’s no jiu-jitsu. I dedicated my life, my friends are there,” Lucho, who is holding a green belt, said. “My biggest goal is to become a world champion in jiu-jitsu. I want to be the best in the world.”

Their biggest influence in embracing martial arts is their father Alvin — who is the founder of the longest running Philippine MMA promotion Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC).

Alvin Aguilar, 49, is known for his wide martial arts background where he trained systematically in his entire life in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, wrestling, Shotokan karate, Yaw-Yan, Pekiti-Tirsia kali and arnis.