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

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda discuss Mikey Musumeci being stripped of his One Championship Flyweight ttle, after a complicated series, events involving a weight cut a change of opponent, and the One Championship hydration rules. We talk about his hospitalization and him being stripped of the belt, and potentially some of the financial drivers that are taking place at One Championship.

In the recap section of the show, we break down all of the main card matches on Polaris 29, including some of the controversial scoring in the number of the matches.

In Diego Pato Oliveira vs Ashley Williams we talk about the top passing from Pato and in his Decision win over Ash and how it was great to see Ash in the Gi.

In Jacob Rodriguez vs Mohammed Avtarhanov we discussed some of the potentially controversial scoring that led to the split decision win for Mo and talk about the 10 point must system versus the straight round system in scoring.

In Tainan Dalpra vs Tarik Hopstock we discussed Tainan week of change of opponent, and how Tainan and seemed hell-bent on the Tarikolplata even continuing to go for it after hop stock tapped to the Kimura.

In Cole Abate vs Sam McNally we talked about how great it was to see Cole again after a long layoff due to injury and how it was nice to see him shake the rust off.

In Davis Asare vs George Pearse we talked again about the scoring system at Polaris, and how, although Davis looked good at the beginning, he seemingly completely gassed in the last period of the match, allowing for a phenomenal amount of offense and sub attempts from George late in the match that Davis weathered to win the decision.

In Jed Hue vs Julian Espinosa we talked about Jed, finally being the bigger guy in a match, potentially allowing him to work on some wrestling and stand up in the early part of the match, and then playing a great counter game late in the match to take a decision.

We also talk about a few upcoming Keith Krikorian matches this coming week.

Recorded 9-8-2024

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda preview the one championship super fight matchup between Kade Ruotolo vs. Mikey Musumeci We also preview the main card for Polaris 29.

In the One Championship preview of Kade Ruotolo vs. Mikey Musumeci, we discuss how similar of the style matchup is to that that we just saw at CJI versus Levi Jones Leary, we discuss the potential passing strategies and activity strategies that Kade is likely to implement so close to the Craig Jones invitational with a similar style matchup. We also discussed the catch system used for determining the winner when it goes to judges decision. We discuss some of the tactics that Mikey might use playing from the guard and staying active with his leg attacks in order to score catches, and potentially when a decision.

In our preview of Polaris 29 we discuss the rematch of Ash Williams vs Pato, Cole Abate vs Sam MaNally, Jay Rodriguez va Momammed Avtarhanov, Tainan Dalpra vs Max Lindblad, Jed Hue vs Julian Espinosa, and Felipe Andrew vs Arya Esfandmaz.

Recorded 8-26-2024

This week Maine and Miranda recap every big non finals moment from the world championships.


Recorded 8-26-2024

Special live show at ADCC 2024 and CJI in Las Vegas after the event.

Recorded 7-18-2024

This week on the show, Maine and Cory preview the entire CJI 1 Million Dollar Bracket. We previewed the over 80 kg bracket and the under 80 kg bracket including discussing the super fight between Ffionn Davies and Mackenzie Dern and Gabbi Garcia versus Craig Jones.

We run through both brackets in their entirety, discussing all of the first round matchups and potential semifinal and final match ups for each of the thermos discussing a potential he is going to walk away with the largest cash prize ever in professional of $1 million per division.

Recorded 8-11-2024

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda recap BJJ Stars 13 headlined by Mica Galvão vs Davi Ramos. We also recap ADXC 5, and One Championship Mayssa Bastos vs Danielle Kelly.

In the news section of the show, we discussed some of the athlete movement between CJI and ADCC. With Achilles Rocha replacing Lucas Kanard in ADCC at 88KG with Kanard moving to CJI to replace the injured Mason Fowler.

In the recap section of the show, we discuss BJJ Stars 13 with Mica taking a dominant decision victory over Ramos with Ramos displaying fantastic world level defense in a old guard versus New guard matchup.

We discuss Diogo Reis vs Felipe Machado with Baby Shark wining with a takedown, showing off his fantastic timing and pace.

In Fellipe Andrew vs Anderson Munis we talk about the athlete history wth Felipe being 4-0 ahead of this matchup and winning in commanding fashion with a Katagatame arm triangle from the mount.

In Andy Murasaki vs Pedro Maia we talk about the wild SLX and X Guard sweep that Andy hit on Pedro and his use of both the pant and sleeve grip to secure the sweep to win 2×0 on points.

In Isaque Bahiense vs Alexandre Jesus we talk about the ever present guillotine threat of Braz finishing Jesus with a Guillotine.

In Gabriel Galvao Vs Francisco Lo we talk about Galvao who made his black belt debut after winning worlds at Brown belt via taking the even match on a decision with tied score.

In One Championship Mayssa Bastos vs Danielle Kelly we talk about a grappling title changing hands for the first time in One Championship with Bastos taking the match by decision 2 catches to 1 we talk about the strategy from Bastos and her counter of the Estima lock to her own entries into the legs.

In ADXC 5 we discuss Urijah Faber vs Bibiano Fernandes with Urijah taking a Decision.
Rayron Gracie submittingMarcos Carrozzino with a Canto Choke
Chad Mendes defeats Diego Brandao by Decision
Pedro Ramalho vs Max Lindblad via Decision with a split decision for Pedro
Pouya Rahmani submitting Hamdy Abdelwahab with a short choke int he first round, and Jonnatas Gracie vs Burak Sarman with Gracie taking the Decision win.

In the outro we talk about the ADCC 2024 preview show next and and previewing CJI brackets.

Recorded 8-5-2024

This week on the show, Maine and Josh explaining Craig Jones, invitational rules and some of the nuances regarding the sloped pit format. We also preview ADXC 5, and BJJ Stars Vikings, plus recap Pit Submission.

In the news section of the show, we discuss Mason Fowler, dropping out of the Craig Jones, invitational and potentially who he will be replaced by. We also discussed Craig Jones versus Gabby Garcia. Potentially now being for a $1 million prize.

In the breakdown section of the show, we discuss, the most recent matches that have taken place in the karate combat kit, submission format, and potentially some of the strength and weaknesses that come with playing along the wall. We also run through the entire public rule set that has been announced for CJI, including how the rounds are structured the format for the scoring decisions, penalties installing as well as the initiation criteria, and other factors that go into decisions and Judge scoring.

In the recap section of the show, we discuss Aljamain Sterling versus Jay Jay Wilson, Roosevelt Susa versus Alexander Romanoff, and Patrick Gaudio's match on the card.

I Preview section of the show we discuss the upcoming ADXC 5 event headlined by Uriah Faber vs Bibiano Fernandes, Chad Mendes vs Kevin Lee , and Ruan Alvarenga vs AJ Agazarm.

In our preview of BJJ Stars Vikings we discuss the stylistic matchup in the main event of Davi Ramos vs Mica Galvao taking place in no-gi. The hitly anticipate rematch from IBJJF worlds of Francisco Lo vs Tainan Dalpra in the Gi. An ineresting matchup inAnderson Munis vs Fellipe Andrew, Pedro Maia vs Andy Murasaki, Felipe Machado vs Diogo "Baby Shark" Reis, and Lucas Barbosa vs Isaque Bahiense.

In the outro section of the show we discuss preparing for ADCC and CJI in Vegas and the equipment needed in Las Vegas for those events.

Recorded 7-28-2024