#307 Gordon Ryan Vs Patrick Gaudio WNO Night of Champions, Polaris 25 GP Recap

Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events

This week on the show Maine and Miranda recap the Polaris absolute GP and WNO Night of Champions that featured a men's 145 lb bracket, a men's 170 lb bracket and two women's title fights along with a title fight for the men's heavyweight belt featuring Gordon Ryan and Patrick Gaudio.
In the news section of the show we discussed the IBJJF No-Gi Pans and some of the finals matches over the weekend. As well as discuss Dante Leone going up 40 to 50 lb to compete in the super heavyweight division and winning gold despite giving up the weight.
In the recap section of the show we take a look at One FC the Atomweight title between Danielle Kelly and Jessa Kahn. We talk about the decision as well as some of the cage craft and cage work that Danielle Kelly implemented in order to take the inaugural women's Atomweight title.
In the recap of the Polaris absolute GP we discuss Fabricio Andre's fantastic Judo versus Owen Livesey and Kaynan Duarte putting on a pace that we have not seen him put on before scoring points in the opening seconds of each one of his three matches during the Grand Prix. We discussed the fantastic and potential match of the year candidate match between ADCC -88 kg Champion Giancarlo Bodoni and Fabricio Andrey; with Fabricio being able to take the victory despite giving up over 11 kg in both his first round and second round matches. We also discussed some other matches on the card including Rosa Walsh black belt debut kneebar submission.
In the recap of WNO Night of Champions we discussed all of the exciting matches in the men's featherweight and welterweight tournaments we talked about Keith Krikorian taking on Baby Shark Diogo Reis and a phenomenal match we also discussed Jay Rodriguez taking on Mica Galvão and Jay Rodriguez's fantastic armbar defense being on display again. We discussed the match between Andrew Tackett and PJ Barch in a master class in how to use pace as a weapon, and the unfortunate injury that Andrew suffered that took him out of the finals match. We also discussed the finals match featuring late replacement PJ Barch taking on Micael Galvão and the unfortunate headbutt flash knockout that Barch suffered followed by a flying armbar from Galvão. We discussed the rematch between Elizabeth Clay vs Brianna Set Marie in a phenomenal women's featherweight title fight, as well as the women's heavyweight title being on the line and being won by Nathiely de Jesus vs Rafaela Guedes.
We also recap the main event between Gordon Ryan versus Patrick Gaudio in a phenomenal display of positional control and passing. We also discussed the very interesting grip break that Gordon used to finish the arm bar and the arm bar instructional that he dropped as part of his marketing campaign associated with the match.
In the outro for the show we briefly discussed ADCC North American Trials 2023 and doing some event coverage associated with the event.
Recorded 10-2-2023