mattandbenny

The ADCC Jui Jitsu Championships is this weekend, main contendors listed below:

-65kg: Rafael Mendes, Rubens Charles & Rani Yahya
-76kg:
Marcello Garcia, Claudio Calasans, Kron Gracie & Leo Viera. (Vagner Rocha also in it)
-87kg: Pablo Povetich, Andre Galvao, Sergio Moraes & Romulo Barral. (Rousimar Palhares, Paulo Filho & Gunnar Nelson also in it)
-98kg: Alexandre Ribeiro & Rodolfo Vieira. (Dean Lister also in it)
+99kg: Fabricio Werdum, Gabriel Vella, Vinny Magalhaes, Gerardi Rinaldi & Lucio Rodrigues. (Jeff Monson also in it)
Superfights: Braulio Estima v Jacare Souza, Renzo Gracie v Mario Sperry

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mattandbenny

Couple of good tournaments.

In the -98kg tournament, i nearly shit myself when i read Alexandre Ribeiro, Roger Gracie, Rodolfo Vieira & Robert Drysdale were in it - they would make the most amazing semi-finals ever, but Drysdale & Gracie have since pulled out :'( Riberio v Vieira should still be awesome though.

Also the -87 division look great - 2009 ADCC champ Povetich, 2009 ADCC runner up Galvao, this years world champ Moraes, and 2009 world champ Barral. Not to mention MMA fighters Palhares, Filho & Nelson.

And of course the superfight - Estima the 2009 Absolute champ against 5 time world champ Jacare Souza which should be great.

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Life B Ez

Still not happy Royler ducked Bravo.

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Toxic

Are you really shocked? Gracie's don't take risks they refuse to allow risking there legacy.

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The Toxic Terrors (FFL)

Georges St. Pierre*Sarra McMann*Pat Curran*Patricio Freire*Uriah Hall

NP FFL Team Toxic Challenge

Fabricio Werdum*Gilbert Melendez*Rick Hawn*John Dodson*Urijah Faber

Life B Ez

I didn't say I was shocked, just pissed haha. Eddie would have dismantled him. Beat him in an extremely close match when he was a brown belt with no real experience or system.

Not that I think that would have quieted any of Eddie's critics it just would be nice for people not to be able to say it was a fluke anymore.

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Sovereign

If anyone wants to watch, its gonna be streamming on budovideos.com.

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mattandbenny

Semi-Finalists, and who they beat to get there...


+99KG
Fabricio Werdum (Monson [sub], Trans [sub])
Vinny Magalhaes (Junior [sub], Costello [dec])
Cyborg Abreu (Texeira [pts], Hideki [sub])
Janne Pietilainen (Rinaldi [pts], Artilhiero [sub])

Werdum v Abreu
Magalhaes v Pietilainen

-98KG
Xande Riberio (Lagarto [sub], Peltola [sub])]
Rodolfo Vieira (Peinado [pts], Baize [sub])
Joao Assis (Neto [sub], Poupolo [sub])
Dean Lister (Brasco [sub], Ferrari [pts])

Riberio v Assis
Vieira v Lister

-87KG
Pablo Popvitch (Moraes [pts], Tyszka [pts])
Andre Galvao (Nelson [pts], Ortega [pts])
Rousimar Palhares (Avellan [sub], Schon [sub])
Rafael Lovato (Griffin [sub], Kwang [sub])

Popovitch v Galvao
Palhares v Lovato

-76KG
Marcelo Garcia (Estima [sub], Heart [sub])
Claudio Calasans (Mendes [pts], Strauss [sub])
Kron Gracie (Santana [pts], Manly [sub])
Leo Viera (Torres [pts], Coco [pts])

Garcia v Gracie
Calasans v Viera

-65KG
Rafael Mendes (Rader [sub], Frazzato [pts])
Rubens Cobrinha Charles (Yoshida [pts], Marinakis [sub])
Jeff Glover (Ramos [sub], Barlow [pts])
Robson Moura (Hall [pts], Forsel [pts])

Mendes v Moura
Cobrinha v Glover

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mattandbenny

Some great fights set up for tomorrow - my favourites are Werdum-Abreu, Riberio v Assis, Popovitch-Galvao and Garcia-Gracie.

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Sugar-Free_LizaG

Awesome to see Rosi Sexton (UK) in the Women's division. Hope she does well.

Interested in the Superfights for sure and look forward to seeing Palhares.

mattandbenny

Estima beat Souza in the first superfight, it was pretty dull though. Souza was on top defending for the most part, then Estima got a disputed 3pts to take it 3-0 on points. Massive anti-climax though.

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