Wielding his notorious reverse triangle, Bráulio Estima captured under-88kg gold at the 2009 ADCC. The submission hold got him featured on the cover of GRACIEMAG and made him the poster boy of the last chapter of the event, in Barcelona. Two years on, Bráulio is focused on winning his supermatch against Ronaldo Jacaré and won’t be there to defend his title. That leaves the under-88kg division looking like a town without a sheriff, a true no man’s land. And the handful of “strangers” who will be dueling it out for the gold medal are awesome. However, not one of them can be tipped as firm favorite.

Head over to the GRACIEMAG at the ADCC Blog to find out who looks likely to see a happy ending in Nottingham, England, this coming weekend.

Robert Drysdale is out.

Drysdale was set to compete in the under-99kg division, the very one in which Xande and Rodolfo Vieira will compete and where Roger would have competed.

GRACIEMAG.com is trying to contact Drysdale to find out the reason his desistance.

And don’t forget to keep up with the GRACIEMAG at the ADCC blog for complete coverage of the 2011 ADCC.

However, Bráulio Estima and Ronaldo Jacaré have already set about kindling the fire of a rivalry from way back, from their Jiu-Jitsu days.

While there are still two weeks to go till they exchange their first shoves and pummels, the verbal battle has already begun.

Rush to the GRACIEMAG at ADCC Blog to get up to date on all the commotion in the build-up to the ADCC 2011 supermatch.