Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events

This week on the show Maine and Josh recap the 2025 IBJJF World Championship, and preview WNO 28. We recap all the all the action from the Mundials 2025. Breaking down all the black belt finals matches. We discuss Adam Wardziński winning his second world title to complete the jiu jitsu Grand Slam before retiring on the podium. We talk about his influence on our games and the joys we have had covering him over the years.  We talk about Mia Funegra making history as the youngest female black belt champ with a dominant 12-0 performance in the 53kg final. We also talk about where both Tainan Dalpra's continued dominance at middleweight, and where he potentially goes from here. Discussing his possible move to No-Gi. We talk about  Joao 'Bisnaga' Mendes's underdog win at featherweight from the 22 seed slot and, and another absolute division victory for Gabrieli Pessanha. In the preview section of the show we preview the WNO 28. The main evented by Jonnatas Gracie defending his middleweight title against the highly aggressive Mica Galvão. We breakdown of this matchup, contrasting Gracie's tactical pressure and somewhat methodical pace and control against Galvão's explosive submission entries and creative scrambles.  In the co-main event, we talk about the return of Xande Ribeiro on back to back cards taking on also un-retired Kit Dale in a clash of styles.  We discuss Lucas "Hulk" Barbosa, known for his physicality and dominant top game vs Dory Aoun.  Plus we also preview the rest of the main card, including a light heavyweight bout between submission artist Fellipe Andrew and B-Teams Declan Moody, and a welterweight bout between the unorthodox style of 10th Planet's Kyle Chambers against Victor Silverio. In the outro we discussed cornering our teammate at his fight this weekend.  Recorded 7-8-2025

This week on the main Zak recap Ffion Davies vs Adele Fornarino on FPI 11.  In the news section of the show we talk about why we decided to push the recap of the IBJJF 2025 world championships into next week. Giving us more time to recap the fight pass invitational. In the recap section we discussed Ffion Davies defeating Adele Fornarino by split decision. We discussed some of the dynamics of the match across all three rounds and addressed some of our frustrations with the closed scoring used under the unified rules. We discussed potentially how difficult it would be for Adele to win in this rule at given her preference for playing from the bottom essentially in our eyes, making it a requirement to submit to win given her style. We talked about a potential rematch happening as the women's super fight at the 2026 ADCC world championships and how much we would love to see the rematch take place under those rules.  In Ana Carolina Vieira win over Raquel Canuto by unanimous decision we discussed some of the takedowns and guillotine attempts that were able to win in Carolina the match.  We broke down William Tackett submission over Achilles Rocha using an unorthodox takedown sequence into a rear naked choke finish. In Mason Fowler vs Christiano Troisi we talked about the submission a near Iminari choke from the omaplata after a quick rubber guard transition from Fowler. We also briefly discussed that Mason may be the best rubber guard player in the sport right now.  We discussed the draw that took place between Francisco Lo and Enrico Beltran. We broke down the attacking sequences in Alex Enriquez vs Shye Lilly that saw Alex take the match with a great armbar transition in round 2.  We discussed Keven Carrasco Teepee Choke submission win in round 1 over Sebastian Oyervidez  Plus discussed João Assonitis counter heel hook win over Daniel Maira after countering a toe hold attempt.  In the outro, we discussed recapping the world championships next week. Recorded 6-1-2025

This week on the show, Maine and Cory preview the 2025 IBJJF Worlds, and UFC Fight Pass invitational 11 headlined by Ffion Davies vs Adele Fornarino 2. We also recap Fury Pro Grappling 13.  In the recap section of the show we broke down the main card of Fury Pro Grappling 13. we discussed the four woman tournament. Some of the scoring and rules of the event and both of the title fights on the card. In the preview of FPI 11 we discussed the rematch between Ffion and Adele, we discussed the dynamics of their first matchup three years ago, and how the guard play of Adele was going to potentially play into the top pressure and knee cut passing game of Ffion. We also discussed the overhook Armbar series that Adele uses as a potential pathway to victory.  In the preview of the 2025 IBJJF Worlds we reviewed all of the brackets and discussed all of the front runners in each division for the entire tournament. Plus, discussed some of our more anticipated, match ups and divisions. Recorded 5-26-2025

This week on the show, Maine and Corey preview Fury 13.  In the recap section of the show, Maine discusses doing commentary with Josh at Fight to Win 281 in Washington DC. We discussed the main event of Elijah Dorsey vs Overstreet, we also discuss the Finishers open 20 with the winner, winning a spot at the upcoming WNO card. We discussed the finals for the tournament. With Sean Yadimarco punching his ticket. In the preview section of the show we discussed Fury 13 headlined by Patrick Sabatini vs. Joe Solecki for the welterweight title. Kevin Dantzler vs. Junny Ocasio for the bantamweight title, plus we discuss the 4-Woman 125lb $5,000 Bracket featuring Trinity Pun out of New Wave, now Kingsway, Taylor Hishaw out of B-Team Amanda Bruse out of Atos, and Cindy Ung out of Balance. We discussed some of the recent matches between some of the women in the bracket and how we hoped the bracketing will work out. Also on the card we previewed Chris Weidman vs. Pat Downey discussing the wrestling credentials of both athletes and how we think stylistically the match will play out. We also previewed Daishi Goto vs. Devhonte Johnson. Recorded 5-18-2025

This week on the show Maine and Austin recap the Giles Trials for CJI 1 the Team Australia 6 man bracket and 16 man qualifier event.  We talk about the entire event and the team with Declan and Belal winning there slot on the team. Wildcard at -66kg Fabricio Andrey announced at the event CJI 1 finalist and stand out announced at -77kg Levi Jones-Leary Big CJI 1 dark horse at -88kg Lucas Kanard with the -99kg Trials winner Declan Moody and the +99kg Trials winner Belal Etiabari All coached by Lachlan Giles Recorded 5-12-2025