Noted no-gi grappler Gordon Ryan is known for turning heads with his savage heel hooks and crushing chokes. Throughout 2017, the 22-year-old ADCC champion's physique competed for attention with his incredible achievements. 

Gordon Ryan's amazing physical transformation has had many members of the jiu-jitsu community asking, "how was that possible?". Many believed that Ryan was a skinny lightweight all along, but the truth is quite different. 

Standing at a lanky 6'2", Ryan is naturally long and lean. He has cut incredible amounts of weight in the past, dropping his natural walk-around from in the region of 185lb down to as low as 160lb for a same-day weigh-in. 

This last year Ryan has been on a serious bulking project. He's been lifting and eating with the objective of getting – to use the technical term – fricking hench. 

At the weigh-ins for Fight To Win Pro 34 in May, Ryan hit a huge 213lb. He dropped back down to 88kg (194lb) for ADCC in September, and on Dec 3 at EBI 14 he tipped the scales at 220.6lb. 

Ryan has a match scheduled for KASAI Pro on Saturday Dec 9 against ADCC 99kg (218lb) champ Yuri Simoes where Gordon may even be the bigger man. 

Take a look at Ryan's physical transformation over the last two years below.