The 2015 World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship is just around the corner.

Now a five-day event, this years edition is scheduled April 20-25.

Once again, the biggest names of Jiu-Jitsu will gather in Abu Dhabi to fight for medals and the money prizes offered by the event.

Even it’s impossible to know who’s going to be the standout in 2015, it’s pretty easy to know that we are going to witness epic battles and hair-raising thrills, just like in the five past editions.

GRACIEMAG was present in all five installments held since 2009 and we bring you some of the best images our photographers captured.

Relive the emotions and choose your favorite moments.

Pictures: Ivan Trindade, Luca Atalla, Dan Rod, Gustavo Aragão

Rodolfo Vieira arrived in Abu Dhabi in 2013 seeking his third gi open class title

The brackets for the brown belt and black belt divisions at the 2014 WPJJC will be publicly drawn right after the athletes weigh in.

The event’s organizers announced today that no pre-separation of athletes will be made, which means athletes from the same team can be paired up even in their first match.

The action is taken to prevent close-outs in the finals.

The open drawing takes place April 16, at 7:30pm (Abu Dhabi time).

In the black belt open class divisions, Rodolfo Vieira and Marcus Almeida Buchecha in the male competition and Gabi Garcia in the female competition will have the right of place in the bracket as champions of the previous years.

The WPJJC also released the schedule for this year’s edition.

The 2014 WPJJC takes place on April 15 – 19.

Click here for the full schedule.

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Like GMA member Rubens Cobrinha, we wish you a merry Christmas

If 2009 was a year of imense growth for our network of Jiu-Jitsu dissemination with the GMA reaching almost 300 members around the world, 2010 will, no doubt, be even better.

In these last days of the year, we can only ask for more hard work, a lot of good health, peace and a bit of success.

Have a good and safe Hollidays and log on back here for the latest news on our dear members.