Exclusive: ADCC athletes ranking

Four days from the star of the 2009 event in Barcelona, the GRACIEMAG.com ADCC 2009 Blog offers up a ranking of the athletes in the tournament’s overall history. In putting it together, we lay out all the results since the first installment of the competition and attribute points according to the importance of each position [...]

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The Jiu-Jitsu stars absent from the ADCC 2009

Nine days from the start of the competition in Barcelona, nearly all the categories are filled. At the moment, only the under-99kg division awaits its last three names. The list of stars to shine in Spain is immense, with beasts like Robert Drysdale and Ronaldo Jacare; Saulo Ribeiro and Jeff Monson; Alexandre Ribeiro and Márcio [...]

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Xande Ribeiro: “It will be my weekend”

Xande Ribeiro has already beaten two ADCC absolute champions… but at weight. In 2003, he scored 8 to 0 over Dean Lister. Four years later, he overcame Robert Drysdale with a takedown. In the open weight category, though, he didn’t have the same luck the two times he participated. In 2005 he took fourth after [...]

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Pe de Pano ready to take off

Marcio “Pe de Pano” Cruz’s story in the ADCC can be divided into trips to heaven and those to hell. Ever since his first time in the event in 2001, the two-time absolute world champion of Jiu-Jitsu (2002, 2003) alternated between good and bad moments. He was over-99kg champion in 2003, in Brazil, without a [...]

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What they’ve said – Part 1

Spot-on chokes, clinical armbars, sure-fire guards, acrobatic takedowns and sharp tongues. Beyond their infallible holds, the monsters of the ADCC filled the seven installments of the event with timeless phrases. Among the most inspired are Renzo Gracie, Marcio “Pe de Pano” Cruz, Nino Schembri and Saulo Ribeiro. The seven issues GRACIEMAG dedicated to the ADCC [...]

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ADCC’s non-Brazilian champions

It’s hard to deny that Brazilians make up the greater part of the history of the ADCC. Brazil has by far the greatest number of titles (41*) and nearly all of the event’s legends are Brazilian. However, recognition must be paid where recognition is due to the non-Brazilians who have shone in the seven installments [...]

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Galvao all set for ADCC

Andre Galvao has dedicated the last 12 months of his life to MMA. Since August 2008 he’s had four fights, winning three by submission and suffering one split (and controversial) decision loss, at Dream. Now the two-time Jiu-Jitsu world champion (2005, 2008) and runner-up (2006 and 2007) is back in the grappling game. The Fernando [...]

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The criteria behind the replacement

It may seem strange, but it actually makes all sense Ronaldo Jacaré to be chosen to face Robert Drysdale in the 2009 superfight. And it has already happened before, exactly like this, in the 2005 superfight. When Ricardo Arona couldn’t face Dean Lister in the 2005 ADCC (by the way, they fought each other in [...]

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And so the replacement speaks

Jacare talks to GRACIEMAG.com

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Jacare will replace Roger, says Kid Peligro

The ADCC committee has just announced that Ronaldo Jacare will replace injured Roger Gracie in the superfight of ADCC 2009 against Robert Drysdale.

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Drysdale: “I trained two years to face Roger”

Robert Drysdale doesn’t pretend to hide his frustration. The absolute champion of the ADCC 2007 was in his final stages of training for the supermatch in this year’s edition when he was surprised by the news his adversary would be unable to compete. “At first, I was saddened. After all, I’ve trained for two years [...]

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Speak, Roger

Roger Gracie conceded to GRACIEMAG.com’s Gabriel Menezes his first interview since we broke news that he is out of the ADCC 2009. He comments on the wave of injuries that kept him from taking part in the event, and predicts how the match that will no longer take place would go. Check it out here.

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When the underdog has his way

The under 66kg category of the ADCC was owned by the same guy since 1999. Without false modesty, shortly after taking his third, in 2001, Royler Gracie remarked: “Few have had the pleasure of being Jiu-Jitsu world champion four times in a row, as I have, and now three times in Abu Dhabi. This is [...]

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Meet the stars

With less than two weeks to go till ADCC Barcelona 2009, we took roll to find out who will be sweating up the mats of the Badalona Municipal Sports Pavilion. Of course there will be last-minute changes and you will be able to keep up with all the flip-flops in names till the first exchange [...]

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ADCC, I was in it…

Do you know that Minotauro competed at the ADCC? What about Tito Ortiz, Vitor Belfort or Matt Hughes? Do you remember? Ever since 1998, the ADCC and its big-money prizes have drawn in a slew of different grappling styles styles, nationalities from the world over and athletes representing all the world’s major fighting events. Some [...]

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Breaking News: Roger is out

I promised I would be more present in the comments section than posting. But I had to compromise that to release one important and urgent piece of  information: Roger Gracie dropped out of ADCC 2009. I’d been following Roger’s struggle to be part of the event for quite a while. He would face current ADCC [...]

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