Bruno Frazatto, campeão do Europeu Sem Kimono. Foto: Divulgação

Bruno Frazatto adicionou mais uma medalha de ouro na sua vasta coleção. No último fim de semana, na Itália, o faixa-preta saiu vitorioso no Europeu Sem Kimono da IBJJF, ao finalizar Ilke Bulut (Icon Jiu-Jitsu) no mata-leão, na final do peso-pena.

Ele ainda vencera o peso leve no Roma Open, desta vez de kimono.

“A janela de uma luta para outra no MMA é muito grande e a gente fica muito tempo sem competir. A melhor preparação, dentro do camp é a competição”, ensina Frazatto.

Após a vitória nos torneios, Bruno (6v, 2d) volta a focar no MMA e já tem compromisso no RFA, no dia 5 de junho, em Denver, nos Estados Unidos. O nome do adversário ainda não foi divulgado.

From its beginning in 2011, the IBJJF London International Open has grown each year to become one of the premier events of the European BJJ scene. This was particularly evident this year when the demand was so great that the gi event had to close registration early because the competition was simply filled to capacity with entrants from all over Europe. Competitors from the United Kingdom and Ireland were out in force, but there were entries from Brazil, USA, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden and Romania to name just a few of the countries whose nationals had travelled to be part of the event.

With a wave of newer European black belts looking to secure qualification points for the Worlds in Long Beach next year as well as test the shark-infested waters of the black belt division, there was a mixture of both established talents and up-and-comers jostling for the places on the medal podium.

In the male light featherweight division, Marcel Oliveira of Frateri Lateri finished British black belt Mark Stephenson with a footlock in less than a minute of their bout and secured the first black belt title of the day.

In the featherweight division, Oxford-based Maximiliano Campos defeated Spaniard Sergio Calderon to claim the gold.

The lightweight division was one of the more competitive of the competition, with Switzerland-based Ilke Bulut defeating the UK’s Oliver Geddes in the final by three advantage points to one. Ilke’s route to the final took him past France’s Douglas Barcellos (by submission) and Brazil’s Italo Lins (by 4-2 on points), whilst Oliver overcame GFTeam’s Gabriel Rainho with a quick footlock.

Within Europe, the rivalries at middleweight are well established and usually tested at every competition within the circuit. This time around, Ireland’s Darragh O’Connaill defeated Italy’s Luca Anacoreta by 2 points to zero. Luca had managed to secure a guard pass towards the end of the match, but Darragh fought hard to prevent the three points and then managed to defend his lead until time expired.

Middle-heavyweight saw three competitors battling it out: France’s Julien Cazier, Poland’s Piotr Wojtkowski and another UK-based Polish fighter, Dominik Debiec. In the first bout, Piotr defeated Dominik by advantages. Dominik in turn defeated Julien to set up a revenge match in the final. Despite his best efforts, Piotr was able to place and keep hooks from the back to earn 4 points, more than enough to take the match and with it the gold medal.

The heavyweight division was won by Johannes Weith, a student of the Ribeiro brothers based in Germany. He defeated Checkmat’s Chico Mendes in the final with a choke from the back, leaving Norway-based Renato Tavares and Switzerland’s Karim Khalifa to collect their bronze medals and round out the division.

Finally, the ultra-heavyweight division saw Antonio Henrique Junior of Roger Gracie Team finish Christophe Levy by submission early in their ten-minute final match.

Italian Roosterweight Andrea Verdemare and British Super-Heavyweight Christopher Bowe were both alone in their divisions, readying themselves instead for the absolute.

Luca Anacoreta didn’t let his disappointment at his result in his division hold him back from putting on an impressive result in the absolute. After several matches, he faced off against Braulio Estima student Christopher Bowe in the openweight final. Christopher had defeated Sergio Calderon with a choke from the back and Renato Tavares on points on his side of the bracket, whilst Luca had defeated Alex Cabanes of Calasans BJJ in his semi-final. Although the fight itself was extremely competitive throughout, Luca eventually took the victory and the absolute title by the slimmest of margins, a referee decision.

Not content to let the male competitors have all the fun, there was plenty of action in the female divisions, too. Multiple-time world champion Luanna Alzuguir of Alliance took on three-time world bronze medallist Shanti Abelha of Checkmat in the middleweight division. Despite Shanti initially displaying a strong top game, an omoplata eventually lead to a sweep that gave Luanna the victory by 2 points to zero.

At featherweight, meanwhile, the first European black belt world champion, Laurence Cousin of France, faced Yasmine Wilson of Roger Gracie London. Even though no points were scored during the course of the ten minute match, Laurence was able to advance and secure the half guard of Yasmine three times to earn the three advantages required to give her the victory and with it the London Open title.

With no one else within her weight class, Victor Estima student Gretchen Zoeller had to content herself by waiting for the absolute division.

Although Luanna decided to sit out of the absolute this time around, the remaining four ladies were still very much in pursuit of the absolute title they wanted. Shanti defeated Yasmine by a single advantage in the first semi-final, whilst Laurence defeated Gretchen. The absolute final came down, then, to Laurence against Shanti, and after ten minutes of hard-fought action, Laurence was the victor and female absolute champion of the London Open.

See the full results here: http://static.ibjjfdb.com/Campeonato/000315/en-US/Results.pdf

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O cobiçado cinturão do absoluto, em Abu Dhabi. Foto: UAE Jiu Jitsu/ Divulgação

Abu Dhabi, a capital dos Emirados Árabes, já se prepara receber o charmoso WPJJC, campeonato profissional de Jiu-Jitsu com polpuda premiação em dinheiro. A competição rola neste fim de semana, nos dias 13 e 14 de abril.

As crianças lutam nessa quarta-feira. A pesagem dos atletas, da faixa-branca à preta, será no dia 11 de abril.

A concorrência está acirrada, com direito a superastros da atualidade. De olho na lista de inscritos e nas diferentes categorias de peso, divulgada pela organização, o GracieMag traz os principais nomes da competição.

Confira e dê seu palpite:

Faixa-preta até 64kg: Cleber Costa, Richard Ávila , Erick Buthsombat, Leonardo Lopes, Thiago Marques, Bruno Lopes.

Até 70kg: Rubens Cobrinha, Theodoro Canal, Gilson Oliveira, Augusto Mendes, João Cunha.

Até 76kg: Lucas Lepri, Jonathan Torres, Roberto Satoshi, Rodrigo Caporal, Leandro Lo, Vinicius Marinho, Vitor Oliveira, Oliver Geddes.

Até 82kg: Claudio Calasans, Guto Campos, Alan Finfou, Victor Estima, Renato Cardoso, DJ Jackson.

Até 88kg: André Galvão, Tarsis Humphreys, Romulo Barral, Rodrigo Di Blazio, Vitor Toledo.

Até 94kg: Rodolfo Vieira, Manoel Neto, Roberto Tussa, Nilson Braga.

Até 100kg: Luiz Panza, Braga Neto, Leonardo Peçanha, João Gabriel Rocha.

+100kg: Marcus Buchecha, Rodrigo Cavaca, Alexander Trans, Roberto Cyborg, Ricardo Evangelista.

Feminino: Gabi Garcia, Luiza Monteiro, Mackenzie Dern, Thaysa Ramos, Beatriz Mesquita, Fernanda Mazzelli, Jessica Oliveira, Tammy Griego, Sijara Eubanks, Caroline De Lazzer.

Faixa-marrom: Keenan Cornelius, Paulo e João Miyao, Gianni Grippo, Ilke Bulut, Victor Silvério.

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Victor Estima earned his way to Abu Dhabi by winning the under-83kg division at the tryouts in Portugal. Personal archive photo.

Yesterday in the city of Cascais, Portugal, the latest leg of the Abu Dhabi WPJJC Trials went down. Promoted by black belts Sergio Vita and Ze Marcello, the tournament featured over a hundred European competitors with their eyes on the all-expenses-paid travel to Abu Dhabi for next April’s main event.

It was a close race in the brown/black belt division but there was no absolute. The winners of the brown/black weight classes and the blue and purple belt absolutes earned free travel and board to compete in the United Arab Emirates.

Check out who placed at the top in each division:

Black belt

Under 65kg – Luis Lopes (Icon Jiu-Jitsu) defeated Cristofer Martin (Icon Jiu-Jitsu)

Under 74kg – Ilke Bulut (Icon Jiu-Jitsu) defeated Maxime Oliver (CheckMat)

Under 83kg – Victor Estima (Gracie Barra) defeated Mathias Fernandes (Alliance)

Under 92 kg – Marcelo Bernardo (United BJJ) defeated Boualem Benaissa (Nice Jiu-Jitsu)

Over 92 kg – Julien Genin (Nova União) defeated Sergio Anjos (Unidet BJJ)

Purple belt

Purple belt under-74kg absolute – Rui Alexandre (Nova União) defeated Daniel Svensson

Purple belt over-74kg absolute – Danny Feliz (Icon Jiu-Jitsu) defeated João Paulo (Unidet BJJ)

Under 74kg – Daniel Svensson (Prana Mascarenhas) defeated Rui Alexandre

Under 83kg – João Paulo Bonfim (Unidet BJJ) defeated Flilip Sadowski (Drysdale Jiu-Jitsu)

Under 92kg – Laurent Melinard (CheckMat) tapped out Edivaldo Gomes (Gracie Lisboa)

Over 92kg – Ruben Fonseca (Gracie Barra) defeated Kambe Toledo (Icon Jiu-Jitsu)

Blue belt

Under-74kg absolute – John Sheridan (East Cost Jiu-Jitsu) defeated Bruno Borges ( Unidet BJJ)

Over-74kg absolute – Gerard Labinski (Copacabana) defeated Gabriel Almeida ( Icon Jiu-Jitsu)

Under-65kg – Pedro Ramalho (Nova União) defeated Marco Cairo (PRBJJ)

Under-74kg – John Sheridan ( East Cost Jiu-Jitsu) tapped out Bruno Borges (Unidet BJJ)

Under-83kg – Gerard Labinski (Copacabana) defeated Gabriel Almeida (Icon Jiu-Jitsu)

Under-92kg – Luis Ramos (Gracie Barra) defeated Nelson Marta (Romana Jiu-Jitsu).

Over-92kg – Duarte Fonseca (Unidet BJJ) tapped outIsaac Almeida (Gracie Lisboa)

Victor Estima conquistou a vaga para Abu Dhabi na categoria até 83kg, na seletiva em Portugal. Foto: Arquivo Pessoal

Ontem a cidade de Cascais, em Portugal, recebeu mais uma seletiva para o WPJJC de Abu Dhabi. Com organização dos faixas-pretas Sergio Vita e Zé Marcello, o torneio recebeu mais de cem competidores europeus, de olho nos pacotes para viajar com tudo pago para Abu Dhabi, para o torneio principal em abril próximo.  O ginásio Pavilhão dos Lombos foi o palco de uma bela apresentação de Jiu-Jitsu.

As disputas foram acirradas entre os pretas e marrons, mas não houve absoluto. Os campeões na preta e marrom e os vencedores no absoluto roxa e azul vão aos Emirados com tudo pago pelos organizadores.

Confira quem levou a melhor nas finais de cada categoria:

Faixa-preta

Até 65kg – Luis Lopes (Icon Jiu-Jitsu) venceu Cristofer Martin (Icon Jiu-Jitsu)

Até 74kg –  Ilke Bulut (Icon Jiu-Jitsu) venceu Maxime Oliver (CheckMat)

Até 83kg – Victor Estima (Gracie Barra) venceu Mathias Fernandes (Alliance)

Até 92 kg – Marcelo Bernardo (United BJJ) venceu Boualem Benaissa (Nice Jiu-Jitsu)

Acima de 92 kg – Julien Genin (Nova União) venceu Sergio Anjos (Unidet BJJ)

Faixa-roxa

Absoluto faixa-roxa – 74kg – Rui Alexandre (Nova União) venceu Daniel Svensson

Absoluto roxa + 74kg – Danny Feliz (Icon Jiu-Jitsu) venceu João Paulo (Unidet BJJ)

Até 74kg – Daniel Svensson (Prana Mascarenhas) venceu Rui Alexandre

Até 83kg – João Paulo Bonfim (Unidet BJJ) venceu Flilip Sadowski (Drysdale Jiu-Jitsu)

Até 92kg – Laurent Melinard (CheckMat) bateu Edivaldo Gomes (Gracie Barra)

Acima de 92kg – Ruben Fonseca (Gracie Barra) venceu Kambe Toledo (Icon Jiu-Jitsu)

Faixa-azul

Absoluto – 74kg – John Sheridan (East Cost Jiu-Jitsu) venceu Bruno Borges ( Unidet BJJ)

Absoluto + 74kg, Gerard Labinski (Copacabana) venceu Gabriel Almeida ( Icon Jiu-Jitsu)

Até 65kg – Pedro Ramalho (Nova União) venceu Marco Cairo (PRBJJ)

Até 74kg – John Sheridan ( East Cost Jiu-Jitsu) bateu Bruno Borges (Unidet BJJ)

Até 83kg – Gerard Labinski (Copacabana) venceu Gabriel Almeida (Icon Jiu-Jitsu)

Até 92kg – Luis Ramos (Gracie Barra) venceu Nelson Marta (Romana Jiu-Jitsu).

Acima de 92kg – Duarte Fonseca (Unidet BJJ) bateu Isaac Almeida (Gracie Barra)

Feminino faixa-branca/azul

Absoluto – Maria de La Concepcion (Icon Jiu-Jitsu) venceu Mille Pedersen (CheckMat)

Até 63kg – Mie Lundborg (Mascarenhas Team) bateu Anisia Garcia (Unidet BJJ)

Acima de 63kg – Mille Pedersen (CheckMat) venceu Maria de La Concepcion (Icon Jiu-Jitsu)

Até 63kg – Lilo Asensi ( Climent Club) bateu Elisabete Sousa (Romana Jiu-Jitsu)

Acima de 63kg – Olga Lyashevska (Carlson Gracie) venceu Paula Almeida (Gracie Lisboa)

Marcin Held in one of his matches against Geddes / Photo: Carlos Ozório

The BJJ Professional Cup kicked off this Saturday in Biella, Italy’s Lauretana Forum gymnasium, and plenty more action is in store for Sunday.

The big name to arise from the first day was Poland’s Marcin Held, a Gracie Barra Poland brown belt who also fights professionally in MMA, fighting at the American Bellator event. The fighter won the lightweight and light absolute categories after facing hard-nosed Englishman and Roger Gracie student Oliver Geddes in both finals, thus taking the cash prize.

Gareth Neale gets the finish. Photo: Carlos Ozório.

Another Gracie Barra brown belt met with similar success. Gareth Neale won both the medium heavyweight and heavy absolute divisions, overcoming Marcello Daflon (Carlson Gracie) in the decider.

The standouts at purple belt were Ilke Bulut (Icon), winner of the light absolute, and Genin Julien (Fight Club), who won the heavy absolute.

André Perez (Batata JJ) was the big winner of the absolute blue.

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Marcin Held numa das lutas contra Geddes. Foto: Carlos Ozório.

As disputas da BJJ Professional Cup começaram neste sábado no Lauretana Fórum, em Biella, Itália. O domingo promete muitas emoções com as superlutas e todas as disputas da faixa-preta.

Mas quem mandou bem neste primeiro dia de lutas foi o polonês Marcin Held, faixa-marrom da Gracie Barra Polônia que também combate no MMA, atleta do evento americano Bellator. A fera venceu no peso leve e no absoluto leve para embolsar a premiação em dinheiro, com duas vitórias sobre Oliver Geddes, inglês pedreira, aluno de Roger Gracie.

Gareth Neale finaliza. Foto: Carlos Ozório.

Também na faixa-marrom foi bem Gareth Neale (Gracie Barra), campeão no meio-pesado e absoluto pesado, tendo finalizado Marcello Daflon (Carlson Gracie) na disputa pelo ouro.

Na faixa-roxa, se destacaram Ilke Bulut (Icon), campeão do absoluto leve, e Genin Julien (Fight Club), vencedor no absoluto pesado.

André Perez (Batata JJ) foi o grande campeão do absoluto faixa-azul.

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