Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events

This week on the show Maine and Emil recap the 2019 IBJJF Pan American championships in California that happened this week.  We talk about every single finals match for the black belt adults, and highlight some of our favorite standout performances and techniques for the event. Plus we talk about a few other matches we thought deserved attention for the event.  Maine shares his thoughts on closeou...

On this weeks show we recap Polaris 9 headlines by Raphael Lovato Jr. and Jake Shields, and featuring matchups with Vagner Rocha, and Ffion Davies.  We recap Fight to Win 105 in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Gilbert Burns vs. Gleison Tibau on Titan FC 53. Plus all the weeks professional BJJ news and top stories affecting the world of professional Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.  The biggest news being that the IBJJF h...

This week on the Grappling Rewind Podcast we talk about the weeks news, and as always recap the weeks professional BJJ events; and preview the upcoming weeks events    This week in news we talk about Patrick Gaudio announced for the IBJJF HW GP, Kamaru Usman earning his black belt in BJJ after defeating Tyron Woodly.   Polaris Pro 9 has announced that sport betting for the event is live and that y...

This week on the Grappling Rewind Podcast Maine and Emil, recap the weeks pro BJJ and Jiu Jisu events.  We start off the show with the week’s news and generally what’s hot in the world of professional Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and what’s’ hot is one thing this week; who got invited to the 2019 ADCC event in California.  As the invites list gets longer we see many of the staples of ADCC get their slot to...

On this weeks show we have a packed news section as Maine and Josh kick the show off really professional.  Both the hosts this week are running on very little sleep due to the action packed weekend of events; so this episode you get lots of raw and unfiltered podcast hosts letting loose.  After the news section we get into the recaps kicking the show off with our recap of the craziness that was BJ...

On this weeks show we recaps Fight to Win 102 in Albuquerque, NM, where we saw Mahamed Aly take on Max Gimenis for the Super heavyweight title in the Gi, as well as F2W Judo second match ever; and some other exciting matchups.  After that we preview Combat Jiu jitsu Fight Night, featuring a 4 man absolute bracket of competitors.  The we preview one of the biggest Superfight cards of recent history...

This week on the show Maine and Emil recap the amazing final matches and some other ADCC West Coast Trials action that took place this weekend.  We talk about each final match for every mens and woman's division 66kg, 77kg, 88kg, 99kg, and +99kg.  There is a lot to talk about with 6 out of the 7 finals matches ending in a submission.  We go through a little play by play of each of the matches...

This week on the show we have Josh back in the studio with Maine.  After Josh berates Maine about potentially having a broken back we recap Quintet Fight Night 2 with its action, flash submissions, and team battle format.  We also get into Kazushi Sakurabas pro wrestling super fight match on the card and more.  After that we get into Kasai Super Series in Dallas Texas, with Gordon Ryan, Tex Jhonso...

This week on the show we talk about the weeks Pro BJJ news, who was announced for the IBJJF Heavyweight GP, and AJ Agazarm with his Bellator debut. The we get into the recap section of the show recapping Fight to Win 99 in Scottsdale Arizona headlined by the first two matches of 2019 to make the Rewind Recommends list.  After that we get into a preview of Kasai Pro Super Series in Dallas, an event...

On this weeks show Maine and Emil recap the 2019 IBJJF European Championship that took place at an amazingly difficult timezone to watch live for us here in the USA.  We recap some of the best black belt finals matches of the event, and break down some of the most interesting technical details we saw from the event.  After that we recap Fight to Win 98 in San Jose California, headlines by Jake Shi...

This week we get back to our standard schedule we kick the show off with some news, the biggest news being that Gordon Ryan and Andre Galvao had beef on the Internet, and Caio Terra also decided to throw his hat in the ring. To top it all off a match originally slated to 50,000 dollars moved up to 300,000 dollars and Andre said 1 million or bust. After that we get into non-speculative news with Fi...

On this Bonus show Maine and Emil talk about what it takes to be an outlier, the level one step above that of elite competitor.  The criteria for domination and who the biggest outlier athletes to ever put a Gi on are in the modern era of sport BJJ.  We talk about the biggest and baddest men to ever win an IBJJF world title in the Gi.  Then after that we switch gear and talk about our favorite rul...

On this weeks show Maine and Emil get into previews of the weeks upcoming events, this show is a bit shorter than normal as the BJJ professional events tend to be less frequent during the holidays.  We preview the Third Coast Grappling in Texas. Fight to Win 97 in Sacramento California, UAEJJF Grand Slam Abu Dhabi, and the 2019 Abu Dhabi King of Mats.   Recorded 1-3-2019

In this year-end recap show we have Maine, Josh and Emil in a first ever 3 mic show.  Then we get into some news and promotions then year end point totals for IBJJF for the Gi.  Followed by a run through of the 2018 FloGrappling Awards, while sharing our thoughts on the selections.  In a shocking turn of events we don’t agree with all the nominations.  After that we get into discussion of the 2018...

On this special end of the year/ holiday show we recap the entire year in just under an hour taking a look at the top 10 matches of 2018, as well as hand full of highlight reel submissions from 2018.  We also talk about some watershed moments from this year.  Then to top it all off Maine and Emil talk about their best and worst grappling moments of 2018.   Overall it was a great year for the show...

This week on the show Maine and Ryan Stark break down and that is a term being used loosely this week the 2018 IBJJF No Gi worlds, a championship given special recognition on non ADCC years.  This event was really tough to cover, not goanna lie.  Maine blew his knee out this weekend, was super sick as well.  Flo shows 12 mats at a time, and then the finals, its really really hard to recap the even...

On this weeks show Maine and Emil recap Polaris Pro 8, headlined by Craig Jones Vs Keenan Cornelius.  We talked about the entire main card including Vagner Rocha Vs Benson Henderson.  After that we move into the Eddie Bravo Invitational 18, where we saw the Female strawweights compete for a shot at the inaugural 115 title.   Then we recapped Onnit Invitational 10 and the 135, and 205 pound tournam...

On this weeks show we have a two-part episode all in one, we start the show with returning host Josh Weinstock talking about his recent promotion to Black Belt.  Then we get into news and boy is there a lot of it.  John Danaher and Gordon Ryan have DVD’s coming out, and people once again have beef with Gordon, tons of competitors, and commentators were promoted to black belt over the weekend.  ADC...

On this weeks show Maine and Emil talk BJJ news (and lack there of) then get into an exciting recap of GrappleFest 3, in what looked to be the comfiest venue available for a professional grappling event.  We talk about the title match between Ross Nichols, and Gianni Grippo.  Then get into recapping the big guys in Dan Straus, Vs Mateus Diniz.  Plus even more exciting matches.  After that we jump...

On this weeks show Maine and Emil kick the news section off with a recap of the most recent shit talking in grappling and a reminder of where BJJ comes from.  Prompted by Keenan’s, Cyborg, and Gordon Ryan’s recent comments.   Then we have big news, with the announcement of Josh Weinstock upcoming Black Belt Promotion.  After that we get into the breakdown of the weekends events.  We recap King of...

We try something different out and learn from our mistakes. In this somewhat abbreviated half episode of the Grappling Rewind we preview Fight to Win 94, King of The Mat 4, and Gamblers Invitational 1 (perviously Sapateiro Invitational 18). We remote record special guest host Matt Saucier, for the first time on the show and have some audio issues with the recording.  A big reason as to why this is...

On this weeks episode of the show we recap KASAI Pro 4 in New York and talk about the loaded 145-pound bracket.  We talk about all the superfights, Mateus, and his north south choke.  We also get into various stylistic matchups in the bracket and how strange brackets get when someone is injured in the first round.  After that we talk about Fight to Win 93, and some exciting title defenses, Submiss...

On this week we recap the first ADCC North American Trials the east coast trials.  After that we look at the current divisions for ADCC 2019.  The we get into a recap of Spyder Korea Finals, and look at the over 76 kg and under 76 kg division, as well as the superfights on the card.  After all that we recap F2W 92 in Denver Colorado.  Then we move into the previews section of the show taking a loo...

On this weeks show Maine and Emil talk about doing commentary over the weekend for Submission Arena Grappling Competition (SAGC) 7.  Then redact much of the shit we have talked over the years about event commentary.  We recap the entire event, talk about the title matches, the SAGC endurance format, and event rule set.  We also briefly recap Fight to Win 91 in New Jersey, the highlight matches fro...

On this weeks show Maine and Emil talk about their experience going to Fight to Win 90 live in Philly.  Watching guys like JT Torres, Baret Yoshida, Kristian Woodmansee, David Porter and John Battle was a blast.  We talk about that stand out performances from the event, and how friendly the entire BJJ community is.  After that we get into the inaugural Black Belt CBD Invitational, where we saw thr...