Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events

#357 Ocean BJJ Pro Preview Finishers Recap

Grappling Rewind Staff Episode 357

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda recap the Finishers Zack Edwards, memorial show, preview Ocean BJJ Pro, and discuss everyone who popped for steroids at the most recent IBJJF events.

In the news section, we discuss a recent matchup on the Fight Pass Invitational that will be headline by Nick Rodriguez versus Michael Pixley. Also, in use, we discuss all of the athletes who were stripped of major IBJJF titles. 

Recap section of the show, we discuss finishers moving to the CJI rule set, the introduction of open scoring across all of the rounds. We recap Keith Krikorian vs Matthew Masch that goes the way of unanimous decision for Keith after all three rounds.

We discuss the intro and title belt between Molli Zborowski vs Ansley Cox 
That ends after a fantastic gogoplata to omoplata to sweep to mount, and a seatbelt to back- fall off belly down armlock for the interm title for Molli. 

We talk Steve Joachim quick victory over Colin Gironda by Belly down straight ankle lock in the first round. 

In the recap of Nick Willey vs Frankie Rodriguez we discussed nicks, consistent attacking and passing on top and his 90 to 76 points win. 

In the preview of Ocean BJJ Pro we discuss the qualifying format and wild card entrance into the event, and all of the invited athletes in the +80 kg division and under 80 kg division. Including some of the resumes of the invited athletes that will make up the top seeds of the brackets in -80kg Tarik Hopstock, Marcin Held, Fabyury Khrysthyan, Espen Mathiesen

And in the +80KG
Manuel Pilato, Sebastian Rodriguez, Luccas Lira, and Tommy Langaker. 

In the outer of the show, we discussed being unable to find a stream of fight circus over the weekend. 

Recorded 9-16-2024