It looks like Ashton Kutcher has been promoted to purple belt by Rigan Machado.

Back in February 2014 he was a promoted straight to a ‘2 stripe blue belt’ by Machado.

World famous Actor Ashton Kutcher grew up in Iowa which is a hotbed for wrestling. Like most Iowans, he wrestled all throughout his chilhood. He started training under coral belt Rigan Machado in California about two years ago. While on trips abroad he has trained namely at Ricardo De La Riva’s in Rio de Janeiro and Roger Gracie academy in London. After daily private lessons for a year, he was promoted to BJJ blue belt (2 stripes) under Rigan Machado in February 2014.

During the Craig Ferguson show, Kutcher talked about his new passion for Jiu-Jitsu and the reasons why he started training: