With 34 competitors registered, the Featherweight division was the second-largest brown belt division at the 2022 IBJJF No-Gi World Championships. Art Of Jiu-Jitsu’s Zach Kaina worked his way through the division with five matches showing both his tenacity and technical prowess.

Though we are still in the early days of the registration period for the IBJJF 2022 World Championship, a quick scan of the competitor's list reveals that the black belt featherweight division is shaping up to be one of the toughest brackets of the tournament.

Gabriel Sousa will return to the Tezos WNO mats after a second-place run at the WNO Championship when he faces Keith Krikorian at the top of the free prelims card in Frisco, TX on March 25 for Tezos Who’s Number One: Musumeci vs Martinez presented by Fat Tire.