#366 The IBJJF Crown 2024 Recap

Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events

This week on the show, Maine and Josh recap the 2024 IBJJF Crown.
In the news that section of the show, we discussed Mikey Musumeci's exclusive contract with UFC Fight Pass.
In the recap section of the show, we break down every finals match from all of the divisions at the 2024 IBJJF Crown.
We kick off the recap discussing Erich Munis vs Marcus "Scooby" Ribeiro for the Men's Ultra Heavyweight final. We talk about the Sweden game from Munis and his willingness to except the bottom position, repeatedly, knowing that he would be able to get a sweep at the end. We discussed his wrestling and how he was able to go from bottom position to top position using great hip movement, then we discussed his Ezekiel choke finish to win the Crown back to back years.
In Gabi Pessanha vs Melissa Cueto for the Women's Super Heavyweight final we talk about Gabi's guard game and what kind of a player it will take to be able to beat it. We also talked about her fantastic streak at black belt and also discussed her pathway to the back and rear naked choke finish to take back to back crown championships as well.
In Adam Wardzinski vs Gustavo Batista for the Men's Heavyweight crown. We talked about Adams fantastic butterfly garden and his single leg X and half butterfly guard combo. We also discussed how his game has evolved over the years, with the inclusion of more half guard, allowing him to deal with the pressure from Batista and score and advantage to win the crown.
We discussed Andy Murasaki walkover of Tainan Dalpra due to a broken hand in the Men's Middleweight division.
In Janaina Maia vs Brianna Ste-Marie for the Women's Lightweight crown
We discusses Brianna Ste-Marie's counter guard play and game and how she uses it to score at small margins, as well as her submission and positional work that allowed her to score 2 advantages to Maia one. We also discussed our thoughts on the straight ankle lock advantage rule in IBJJF and how inconsistent advantage for submission attempts are scored.
In Diego Pato vs Joao Mendes for the Men's Featherweight crown we discussed the slow pacing of the match, initially, followed by Diego, picking up the pace working towards the back and being able to finish Joao Mendes with a collar, choke by the tips of his fingers to take the crown.
In the outro section of the show, we discussed the ongoing work on the podcast set.
Recorded 11-17-2024