É chegada a hora de conhecer os atletas da luta principal do próximo Who's Number One, evento organizado pela FloGrappling que será realizado no dia 10 de maio. Aguardado pelos fãs do grappling, Nicholas Meregali volta a encabeçar um card do WNO, e na edição 23 do evento Nicholas terá pela frente Vagner Rocha, em duelo sem kimono na divisão de pesos pesados que acontece no Texas, mais precisamente na cidade de Arlington.

The winners of the 2023 FloGrappling Awards, presented by Kingz Kimonos, are here! We honor athletes from five different categories, given to those who earned the most fan votes. The results are in and the following winners have emerged from the pools of worthy contenders.

Two former IBJJF World Champions are talking about a potential series of super fights, with Felipe Pena laying down the challenge to Nicholas Meregali on Instagram. After Meregali initially said he wanted a fight with Pena in the gi, Pena has responded wanting a match in BOTH gi and no-gi. Nicholas has already responded, saying he will respond to the offer when he feels like it.

Eight matches. Eight victories. Eight submissions. Roger Gracie’s 2005 ADCC tournament run is considered the greatest feat ever achieved in submission grappling. Roger did not only dominate great grapplers, he was able to submit three multiple-time ADCC champions in Xande Ribeiro, Fabricio Werdum, and the great Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Sousa.

Nicholas Meregali returned to the gi competition scene in style, winning double gold at the 2023 Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championships in dominating fashion. Meregali had stepped away from the gi to focus on no-gi, joining Professor John Danaher, Gordon Ryan, and the rest of the burgeoning New Wave team in Austin, TX and in short order won a bronze and silver medal at the 2022 ADCC World Championships. The urge to express his dominance in the gi returned though, and now Meregali has the benefit of being coached by Danaher, whom many consider among the great grappling minds on Earth.

Nicholas Meregali, one of the top Brazalian jiu-jitsu heavyweights in the world, will face Tezos WNO no-gi light heavyweight champion Pedro Marinho in the main event at WNO 18: Meregali vs. Marinho on May 18 at the Criterion in Oklahoma City.

The second major IBJJF tournament of the year goes down this week, with the 2023 IBJJF Pan Championship taking place in Kissimmee, Florida. The action kicks off on Wednesday, March 22nd and black belt finals will wrap it up on the evening of Sunday, March 26th. All of the matches will be available on FloGrappling.

A three-time IBJJF world champion and four-time Brasileiros champion has registered for the 2023 IBJJF Pan Championships, trying to add to his collection of major titles.

The main event of Tezos WNO in August left something to be desired. Not to worry; Gordon Ryan and Felipe Pena will take the mats for the main event at Tezos WNO once again in 2023 for the fourth installment of their storied rivalry.

Isaque Bahiense won the medium heavyweight IBJJF FloGrappling Grand Prix last night in Austin, TX, collecting the $10,000 prize and certifying his place at the top of the medium heavyweight rankings.

As the dust settles after the 2022 ADCC World Championships, ADCC has released the winners of their four prestigious awards given out at every ADCC Worlds. The awards are for best athlete, best takedown, best match and fastest submission.

Great news for the grappling world as Mo Jassim has been selected as the Head Organizer for the ADCC World Championships in 2024. This event will again be held in Las Vegas with a targeted date of September 2024, with trials kicking off at the East Coast Trials in November 2023.

The European trials have often been considered one of the "easiest" methods by which an athlete can earn entry to ADCC, especially compared to North American and South American trials.

Fourty-eight of the 96 competitors invited to ADCC this year had never previously competed on the biggest stage in submission wrestling. Those ADCC rookies came in numbers, and took the lionshare of the reward. Of the 24 available medals available across the eight divisions, half went to ADCC debutants, while two more went to ADCC veterans who had not previously won a medal.

Those who follow Amy Campo know that this season has been her breakout year, both in and out of the gi. In less than nine months, Campo racked up an outstanding victim list that brought her out of relative anonymity and increasingly into the competitive spotlight. She was runner-up at ADCC East Coast Trials (November 2021), brown belt double gold IBJJF World champion (December 2021), winner of ADCC West Trials (April 2022) and runner-up in the absolute division of her first IBJJF Worlds at Black Belt (June 2022).