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

This week on the show Maine and Miranda recap PGF Season 7 the Light Heavyweights, Midwest Finishers the Mens 155 bracket and Women's 125 Title. plus we preview the IBJJF Crown, Main Character BJJ 5, ADXC 7, and Pit Submission.

In the news section, we discuss the return of Marcelo Garcia to One Championship. After nearly 13 years away from competition Marcello Garcia has announced that he is returning and has signed with One Championship. We discuss some of Marcello' s history, and some of his possible opponents, and some opponents we would potentially like to see him make his return against.

In the recap section of the shower, we discuss the final day of the PGF season 7. We also discuss the team winners and some of the highlights from the entire tournament. We discussed Ryan Aiken and he is overtime victories to clean the $20,000 cash prize. Plus Polish stand out Marcin Maciulewicz, and Paul Ardilla.

Recap of Midwest finishers, we talked about both main event titles on the line with Layla Watkins vs Emily Rosalynn ending in an armbar win for Layla Watkins becoming the New 125 pound champion

In Andrew McGraff vs Lucas Jones for the Mens 155 pound Lightweight title we talked about Andrew's choi bar set up and tarikoplata transition for the finish to take the title.

In the preview of the IBJJF Crown we talk about all of the divisions, front runners, including Tainan Dalpra, Eric Munis, Gabrieli Pessanha, Adam Wardzinski, Gustavo Batista, Diego Pato, and Cobrina Jr.

Main Character BJJ 5 we discuss the women's 135 pound qualifier, the winner of which will take on Mo Black, and the main event superfight Geo Martinez vs Gianni Grippo.

We preview the entire ADXC 7 stacked card main evented by Rodolfo Viera vs Derek Brunson, with a co-main of Paulo Miyao vs Junior Righetti, plus we talk about Ana Carolina Vieira vs Aurelie Le Vern, Espen Mathiesen vs Lucas Valente in the gi, and Helena Crevar vs Sabrina de Sousa.

In the outro we discussed the gyms new grand opening this coming weekend.

Recorded 11-11-2024

This week on the show Maine and Miranda recap Polaris 30, the 2024 IBJJF No-Gi Pans, and preview PGF Season 7 draft.

In the news section of the show. We discuss One Championship signing, Dante, Leon and Cole Abate. Plus Mikey Musumeci leaving One.

In the recap section of the show, we break down the full main card on Polaris 30, and a few of the notable undercard matches.

We recap Michael ‘Venom’ Page vs Carlos Condit that saw MVP take a decision

In the recap of Helena Crevar vs Nia Blackman we talk about the attacks of Crevars game and how Nia came in with a great strategy to stifle the attacks and work her passing game ending with a decision win for Crevar to retain her lightweight title.

In Keith Krikorian vs Jed Hue we talked about Keiths back take and back control and how his game has changed over the years, plus his post match call out of
Ash Williams
In Dante Leon vs Ellis Younger we talked about the R Guard of Dante and how his guard work is an often under-looked part of his champion winning game

In Eoghan O’Flanagan vs Philippe Geyer we discussed the submission pace of Eoghan vs the passing of Geyer leading to a decision win for Eoghan.

We recapped the finals results for IBJJF No-Gi pans and the most stand out moments and performances including Cole Abate first major Black Belt NoGi win, Elizebeth Clay returning after becoming a mother 17 weeks ago to double gold, Raphael Lovato Jr winning another adult tile at 41 years old.

In the PGF Season 7 preview for the 205 pound season we talked about the draft.

On team Roger Gracie – 1st Phorm
Paul Ardila, Adam Bradley, Kyle Chambers, Kyle Boehm (Nashville Qualifier winner), Dory Aoun , Alternates, Deyvson Souza, and Sam Schwartzapfel

On team Dean Lister – Constellation Network
Kemoy Anderson, Sebastian Attard, Marcin Maciulewicz, Fedor Nikolov, Chris Wojcik, Alternates, Drew Dyer, Jack Bidwell

On team Pedro Sauer – New Hope Regeneration
Travis Thomas, Bradley Schneider Ernesto Rivera, Cameron Hurd, Ryan Aitken, Alternates, Christos Papadelos, Jacob Howarth

On team Carlos Machado – Intrana
Elijah Carlton, Davis Asare, Nathan Haddad, Andre Porfirio, Caleb Crump, Alternates, Abraham La Montagne, Kris Olivo

In the outro we discussed Maine's gym getting a pit wall.

Recorded 11-4-2024