Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events

This week on the show Maine and Adam preview the ADCC +99kg division. 

We run through all the athletes in the division talking about each athlete and their pathway to the world championships and previous matches. 

We talk about Felipe Pena (Returning Champion) | Brazil
Mark MacQueen (1st European, African, & Middle East Trials Winner) | Scotland
Brandon Reed (1st North American Trials Winner) | Canada
Tito John...

This week on the show, Maine and Josh preview the upcoming 2026 ADCC world championship roster scheduled for Poland in a few months. We discussed some of the notable competitors as well as the lack of returning champions for the 2026 world championships.

We take a look at every single men's and women's division and briefly touch on how all of the competitors and athletes got there and with the landscape of the tournament looks like ...

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda recap the Polaris 38 Welterweight GP, plus the Womens Bantamweight title match. 

In the news section of the show we discuss ADCC entrants and the missing champions in the 2026 event. 

In the recap section of the show, we discussed every single match in the men's Welterweight GP. 

In the Quarterfinals we broke down Mateusz Szczecinski vs. Deandre Corbe with Szczecinski taking the ...

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda preview the Polaris 38 Welterweight GP as well as the Women's Bantamweight title fight. 

In the news section of the show, we discussed some upcoming matches, including Vagner Rocha Vs Jay Rod, and discuss the recent dropouts from ADCC, speculate on why and discuss some of the people that have been confirmed for the event.

In the preview of the Welterweight GP, we discussed the bracketing ...

This week on the show, Maine and Rachael recap Polaris 37 team Polaris versus Team BJJ Stars. We also discussed Helena Crevar vs Amanda Pamela Nicole for the lightweight title.

We kick off the show discussing the lightweight title match between Helena Crevar and Amanda Pamela Nicole, we talked about the pacing of Helena and her transition to the rear, naked choke finish in the second round. 

In our recap of the squads event team...

This we on the show Maine and Adam recap the UFC BJJ 9. 

We run through every single matchup on the card and discuss how many first round finishes took place and overall the general matchmaking that led to that outcome. 

We kick it off recapping the Light Heavyweight title Mason Fowler vs Devhonte Johnson that had mason Fowler win via Rear-Naked Choke after a single arm drag in the first round. 

In the Co-main e...

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda recap the 2026 IBJJF worlds. 

We recap every single black belt finals match for both the men's and the women's divisions, including the absolute and open class. 

We take off the recap discussing the men's division starting with the rooster weight division all the way up through the divisions into the men's absolute. 

After that, we recap the women's divisions and finish with the ...

This week on the show, Maine and Austin discuss a grappler pick em, and run through a grappler character creator selecting who they think has the best skills of any grapple or in any individual area using each grapple or only one time for their best attribute. 

An image of the criteria and play along sheet is present in the YouTube video near the start of the video if you would like to take a look at it yourself as as well as o...

This week Maine and Miranda take a look back at Brazilian Jiu-jitsu history and discuss every single move named after a guy or person in the sport of BJJ. 

This is a special one off show that we put together while Maine is out of the country on his honeymoon regular shows will return next week.

This week we take a look and do a historical deep dive, going through some of the history and notable matches behind every single move i...

This week on the show, Maine and Corey recap the UFC BJJ 8 headlined by  the Bantamweight Title fight Mikey Musumeci vs Kevin Dantzler. 

In the recap section of the show, we kick it off, talking about the third defense of the bantamweight title by Mikey Musumeci we discussed the lead to the match and be very quick leg lock sequence that Mikey hit to win. We then discuss some possible opponents or potentially Mikey moving u...

This week on the show, Maine and Adam preview the UFC BJJ 8 card headlined by Bantamweight Title fight between Mikey Musumeci vs Kevin Dantzler.

In the preview section of the show, we discussed the Bantamweight title we talk about Mikey's recent interest in top pressure and passing and how he has stated that he wants to showcase more of that smash in recent interviews. We discussed the leg lock game and some comment opponents, and a...

This week on the show Maine and Corey recap the 2026 IBJJF Brasileiro Championship.

In the recap section of the show, we run through both the men's and the women's adult black belt divisions, discussing select finals match as well as the open class for both the men's and women's divisions.

In our recap of the men's divisions, We talk about Rerisson Gabriel's win over Diego "Pato" Oliveira Batista in the light-featherweight division b...

This week on the show Maine and Miranda recap Main Character Jiu Jitsu 9 and all the title fights on the card as well as some of the other compelling matchups on the rest of the card

We kick off the recap with the Men's Lightweight title we Gianni Grippo vs Reese LaFever, we talked about the outside passing off of outside Ashi against LaFever. As well as the sweep game from the bottom as well as the defensive chops of LaFever in esc...

This week on the show Maine and Josh preview Main Character Jiu Jitsu 9 and all the title fights on the card as well as some of the other compelling matchups on the rest of the card

We kick off the preview, take a look at every single title fight, starting off with the Women's Bantamweight match which is a rematch between Amanda Bruse vs Jasmine Rocha.  We discussed their most recent matchup at WNO and how the late finish from ...

This week on the show, Maine and Adam recap the 2026 ADCC West Coast trials.

In the recap section of the show we kicked off discussing the -66 kg finals matchup between Gianni Grippo vs Dominic Mejia, we talk about the early regulation back toke that Dominic nearly scored and the phenomenal understanding of the rules and the gamesmanship that Gianni implemented to avoid the score then we discussed the wild overtime that Grippo was a...

This week on the show, Maine and Cory recap the one championship match between Dante Leon and Kenta Iwamoto. Plus, we recap the second North American ADCC West Coast trials for the 2026 season.

In the recap section of the show we discuss the welterweight out between Dante Leo and Kenta Iwamoto we talk about the fantastic pacing of the match with the passing from Kenta coupled with some of the best play in the world from Dante. We al...

This week on the show, Maine and Josh recap the UFC BJJ 7 and WNO 32. 

In the recap section of the show, we discussed the lightweight tournament for the WNO title at 155 pounds we discussed Dorian Olivarez and his various improvements since 2023 leading to two ADCC trials victories, and we discussed how his wrestling in passing game have evolved to be an absolute nightmare for everyone in the -66 kg division. 

We also discu...

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda recap the 2026 IBJJF pan championships. 

We recap every single black belt, adult finals match, including the open class for both the men's and women's divisions. 

We kick off the recap with the men's Roosterweight Division with Marcos Gomes vs Bebeto Oliveira. Discussing Marcos Gomes belly down ankle lock win.

In the Light-Featherweight Division Diego "Pato" Oliveira vs Shoya ...

The Maine and Corey recap both ADCC South American trials for ADCC 2026. 

We kick off the show recapping the Rio de Janeiro trials that we may have called São Paulo trials accidentally in Brazil, after that we recap the trials in Indaiatuba, Brazil.

We recap every single finals match across all of the divisions for both events. We discuss the non-qualifying women's finals in Rio de Janeiro as well as the qualifying event in Inda...