Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events

This week on the show Maine and Emil recap the weeks professional events including the UFC and some wild matches from F2W 171.  In the news section of the show we discussed the crazy title changes that took place this weekend in the UFC Chris Weidman's leg folding like a lawn chair in whatever crazy MMA God situation demanded such irony.  After that was and move into the BJJ show. In the reca...

This week on the show Maine Josh and Zak recap the week's professional submission grappling action including fight2win 170 headlined by Josh Hinger versus Raphael Formiga Barbosa, we also preview Submission Underground 22 (SUG) with Mason Fowler defending his absolute title; and preview fight2win 170 headlined by William Tackett vs. Vagner Rocha In the news section of the show we discuss Keit...

This week on the show Maine and Zak recap Fight to Win 169 headline by Josh Cisneros vs. Kennedy Maciel,the Abu Dhabi World Pro 2020, that happened in 2021, the Emerald City Invitational 170 lb bracket, and preview Fight to Win 170. In the recap section of the show we kick it off talking about the biggest comeback of the year in our discussion of Josh Cisneros vs. Kennedy Maciel Cobrina jr.   We t...

This week on the show Maine and Josh recap Third Coast Grappling 6 the Heavyweight GP,  and EUG inaugural 8 man bracket.   We also preview Fight to Win 169 and the Emerald City Invitational,  plus briefly discuss Abu Dhabi World Pro. In the news section of this week we run through the recently-announced matchups on the Who is Number One Craig Jones vs Tye Ruotolo card In the recap of Third Coast G...

This week on the show Maine and Zak recap Who is Number One Gordon Ryan vs. Vagner Rocha we also recap Fight to Win 168 the third all women's event and Submission Underground (SUG) 21 in the preview section we preview a Third Coast Grappling heavyweight GP and EUG  promotions 160 lb bracket. In the news section we discuss the Craig Jones vs Gabi Garcia match being postponed we discussed Willi...

This week on the show Maine and Josh preview Gordon Ryan vs. Vagner Rocha on Who is Number One (WNO) and recap fight2win 167 we also preview fight to win 168. In the news section of the show we discuss some upcoming cards including the release of the Third Coast grappling heavyweight GP bracket, and EUG inaugural event. In our recap of Fight to Win 167 we discuss Victor Hugo heel hook victory over...

This week on the show Maine and Josh recap fight2win 166 Quintet Fight Night 6 the second all-women's Quintet and preview fight2win 167. In the news section of the show we talked about Third Coast Grappling Nogi heavyweight lineup  for their upcoming GP.  We discuss the Emerald City invitationals 170-pound welterweight tournament,  and EUG promotions upcoming featherweight tournament. In the...

This week on the grappling rewind Maine and Emil talk about ADCC 2022 superfight and potential replacements that will Face Gordon Ryan if Andre Galvao does not choose to defend his title. We discussed the history of the ADCC superfight and talked a little bit about the various replacements and changes throughout the events history that have led to what we see now.  We also go in-depth on the rival...

This week on the show Maine and Josh recap the craziness that was Who’s Number One featuring an altercation between Gordon Ryan and Andre Galvao and headlined by Craig Jones vs Ronaldo Jr, plus Gordon Ryan Vs Roberto Jiminez we also recap the second all-female fight2win card headlined by Elizabeth Clay versus Maria Malyjasiak. In the news section of the show we discuss the backstage altercation th...

This week on the show Maine and Zak recap fight2win 164 headlined by Vagner Rocha vs Yuri Simoes preview WNO Craig Jones vs Ronaldo Jr , and Gordon Ryan Vs Roberto Jimenez and preview Fight To Win 165 the second all Women's Card.  In the news section of the show we discuss some upcoming events and matchup announcements.  In The recap of Fight to Win 164 we discuss Vagner Rocha vs Yuri Simoes...

This week on the show Maine and Austin recap fight2win 163 and preview fight2win 164.   In the news section we discuss Rodolfo Vieira submission loss in the UFC due to arm in Guillotine choke, and we also discuss the recently-announced matchup between Gordon Ryan and Roberto Jimenez on who is number one taking place February 26th.  We talk about Robertos changes in his game and how Gordon has a su...

This week on the show Maine and Emil recap BJJ Stars V the Heavyweights and preview fight2win 163 headlined by Kennedy Maciel vs Diego Oliveira for the 155lb Gi Title In the news section of the show we discuss the some recently-announced matchups On fight to Win on the second all women's fight night, and Who's Number One including a match between PJ Barch and Andrew Wiltse. In the recap...

This week on the show Maine and Josh recap fight2win 162 the all women's event for Fight to Win and preview BJJ Stars 5 In the news section of the show we discuss the who's number one matchups between Craig Jones and Ronaldo we discuss Juny versus Geo, Gabi Garcia versus deJesus and Nicky Ryan vs. Roberto Jimenez, we also discuss a few other upcoming events. In the recap of fight to win...

This week on the show Maine and Josh recap Fight to Win 161 Cyborg vs Tim Spriggs and preview F2W 162 the first All Female Card in the promotions history. In the news section of the show we discuss some of the upcoming cards including BJJ Stars five and Third Coast grappling moving to fite TV In the recap section of the show we discuss Roberto cyborg Abreu vs. Tim Spriggs for the super heavyweight...

This week on the show Main and Zak recap Fight to Win 160 headlined by William Tackett versus John Combs and preview Fight2win 161 headlined by Cyborg vs Tim Spriggs we also talked about BJJ Stars V Heavyweights and a little bit about Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar. In the news section of the show we discuss the lineup for BJJ Stars v that takes place in February this stacked heavyweight event feat...

This week on the show Main and Emil recap The 2020 Flograppling Award nominations and preview Fight 2 Win 160 headline by William Tackett versus John Combs. In the news section of the show we talk about the first three ADCC trials that have been announced and rescheduled for 2021 In the recap of the Flograppling nominations we discuss our thoughts on all of the nominations, and what our picks are...

This week on the show Maine and Josh recap the week's events including Submission Underground 20 featuring Craig Jones Mason Fowler Ryan Bader & Satoshi ishii as well as discuss the 2021 IBJJF implementation of heel hooks for brown and black belts. In the news section of the show we discussed one of the upcoming Fight to Win 160 matchups between Vagner Rocha and William Tackett that shoul...

On this special end of the year recap show we talked about the top 10 BJJ matches of 2020 and preview Submission Underground 20.  Plus as tradition the highlights and lowlights of the year for the hosts. This week on the show Maine and Zac take a look back at the best matches of the year our top 10 of 2020 plus the year in retrospect. We discuss the best Prospect matches which grappler had the bes...

This week on the show Maine and Zak recap Third Coast Grappling 5 headline by William Tackett versus Fellipe Andrew and Submission Underground 19 (SUG) we also tease our end-of-the-year show and top 10 of 2020. In the news segment of the show we talked about the upcoming American Jiu-Jitsu story some combat Jiu-Jitsu news as well as other items in the community. In the recap for 3rd Coast Grapplin...

This week's on the show Maine and Josh recap Who's Number One headlined by Kaynan Duarte vs Rodolfo Vieira, we recap Fight 2 Win 159, we preview Third Coast Grappling 5 and Submission Underground 19. In the news section of the show we discuss Mikey Musumeci being recognized with the fastest submission in IBJJF we talked about our upcoming top 10 of 2020 show, and touch on a little bit of...

This week on the grappling rewind podcast Maine and Josh recap Fight to Win 158 headlined by Elizabeth Clay and Rafaela Guedes we talked about the week's BJJ news including some MMA grappling and preview who's number one headlined by Kaynan Duarte vs Rodolfo Vieira. In the news section of the show we talk about some MMA grappling including Gary Tonons most recent fight in One FC, and som...

This week on the show Maine and Zak recap slapsgiving the Combat Jiu-Jitsu Worlds 2020 Lightweight tournament; as well as discuss Who's Number Ones upcoming event, and the IBJJF American Nationals taking place next weekend. In the news section of the show we talked about Andre Galvao’s potential return to MMA after nearly a decade out of the sport. We also discuss his possible motivations and...

This week on the show Maine and Josh recap the 2020 IBJJF NoGi Pans we also preview Spyder Korea taking place in the desert of California. In the recap of the 2020 IBJJF NoGi Pans we talked about all of the black belt final results. including numerous Closeouts and the overall attendance of the event. We talked about Kaynan Duarte versus Tex Johnson and his newly-implemented reverse triangle game...

This week on the show Maine and Emil recap BJJ Stars the middleweight GP and fight to win 157 headlined by Tom deblass, and Vagner Rocha. In the news section of the show we talked about the cancelling of the IBJJF Worlds again as well as some other professional BJJ news including the MMA debut of Yuri simoes in One FC. In our recap of BJJ Stars middleweight GP we talked about Isaque Bahiense and h...

This week on the show Maine and Emil recap Polaris Squads 2 in the Gi, and F2W 156, we also preview F2W 157 and BJJ Stars Middleweight GP.  In the news section of the show we talk about upcoming matchups on SUG, 3CG, Spyder Korea, and WHO.  We discuss Yuri Simoes upcoming One FC fight, we talk about Mahamed Aly and steroids.   In the recap section we kick it off with a recap of Polaris Squads 2 Gi...