Em sua terceira luta de MMA, Gabi lutava para manter sua invencibilidade contra a americana Destanie Yarbrough. Com pouco mais de dois minutos de combate, Gabi conseguiu estabilizar o combate por cima no solo, chegou ao cem-quilos, vislumbrou um braço perdido de Destaine e não teve dúvidas, atacou no braço e finalizou numa brutal americana da montada.

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O atleta Ariel Sexton, costa-riquenho da Daniel Gracie Team, pegou Anvar Aalizhanov num complicado triângulo invertido. Se ele apertou para asfixiar? Nada disso. Ariel viu o braço sobrando no embolo e resolveu torcer para finalizar na chave. Uma diferente americana do triângulo invertido foi o golpe que liquidou a fatura.

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Herbert Burns attacks in the featherweight final of the 2012 Brazilian No-Gi Nationals. Photo by Gustavo Aragão/GRACIEMAG.com.

In winning the featherweight division at the Brazilian No-Gi Nationals last weekend in Rio, Herbert Burns had the perfect campaign.

The brother of world champion “Durinho”, Herbert tapped out both his opponents to win the title for the second year in a row. “I feel I’m managing to let my game flow, to show that Jiu-Jitsu the people who train with me know. This time I managed to put it to practice at the Brazilian Nationals,” Herbert told GRACIEMAG.com, showing he is maturing and gaining refinement as a competitor.

Burns stated that his success hinged on managing to impose his game in the two matches he was in.

“In the first one, my opponent attacked with a takedown right at the moment I pulled guard. He then landed in my omoplata. I switched to the triangle and finished with a Kimura from within the triangle,” he explained. “Now in the final, Richard Flood pulled guard on me, and I passed. I tried mounting; he defended. I stayed in half-mount, and that’s where I came up with the keylock. I switched to armbar and then to the triangle, but he held out. So I swept with a triangle in place and finally got the tapout,” he recalled.

According to Herbert, versatility is his path to finishing more efficiently.

“My Jiu-Jitsu is quite versatile, forward-moving. I get takedowns; play top position, bottom position; and I’m always gunning for the tapout, which is Jiu-Jitsu’s essence. The key is to keep in continuous motion, since that’s when you open up holes for the finish and scoring, too. To me, the main thing in a match is movement,” he asserted, before turning his thoughts to his other commitments.

“I had an MMA fight in Asia early this year. I finished with a triangle in just 27 seconds. I’ve been training MMA every day with Durinho, with Professor Casquinha overseeing us. If I don’t get another fight signed I’ll do the CBJJ Brasília Open and then the South American Championship in Florianopolis,” said the black belt, who only isn’t heading to the Worlds No-Gi because he’s waiting on his US visa. Next year he’ll be there, though.

Jon Jones feels the pressure from Vitor Belfort’s armbar. UFC publicity photo.

The moment a UFC event ends, that’s when the television debates, forum chatter and speculation on future winners and losers begin.

Now GRACIEMAG has been keeping up with the UFC ever since some of the earliest events, and has opted to take a more technical and analytical approach to the fights. Predominantly composed of Jiu-Jitsu practitioners (to the tune of 95%), the team at our news outlet understands that what goes on in the octagon comes down to minor technical details and absurd amounts of physical and mental prowess.

That’s why we respect the fighters and like analyzing the bouts from within—which is what we endeavored to demonstrate in GRACIEMAG #188, coming up in this next month’s, by putting the late-September fight between Jon Jones and Vitor Belfort under the microscope.

There, at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, the Carlson Gracie black belt nearly rattled the MMA world’s foundations with an unexpected armbar from guard in the first round. For the first time ever, the dreaded light heavyweight champ looked human, leaving the ring injured, his arm in a sling.

So what could Jones have done to escape the hold safely? What could Vitor have done to win?

We spoke with Gilbert “Durinho” Burns, Vitor’s Jiu-Jitsu coach, who was there, and he relayed to us everything that went on before, during and after the showdown.

And Durinho goes one further in teaching us in the article: “One of my favorite ways of getting out of an armbar is by using the ‘Marcio Feitosa brace’, as we call it. Remember how he defended against Cobrinha at the 2006 Worlds? When you stick your arm in there behind your triceps, the pressure on the elbow magically goes away. Your arm doesn’t stretch anymore,” he explained.

Durinho also teaches how to defend against the keylock, and block Jon Jones’s signature elbows. Better tune in, Chael Sonnen and Anderson Silva; it would behoove you to read it.

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Jon Jones sends a heel into Vitor Belfort’s gut at the UFC in Toronto. Photo by Josh Hedges/UFC

Vitor Belfort slipped onto the UFC 152 card at the last minute to give champion Jon Jones a worthy opponent after the ill-fated UFC 151 was a no-go.

It was by a hair, though, that the fight that fell from the heavens into Vitor’s lap didn’t end up nosediving to hell.

Vitor by no means wanted put his fans and bosses through any more frustrations. And after the fight, he tried to keep mum about it to not sound like he was coming up with excuses. But it happened nonetheless:

About two weeks before the fight, Belfort was at his Florida training camp at Blackzilians team, working with some wrestlers to get him up to speed to handle the light heavyweight king’s takedowns.

So Vitor got clutched around the waist, tried defending but succumbed to a picture-perfect supplex. The Brazilian tried landing as best he could but felt something pop out of place. The pain that followed signaled something was amiss.

Following immediate medical attention, the verdict: Vitor had cracked a rib.

It’s nothing unusual, as his nemesis Wanderlei Silva tends to say, for a UFC fighter to do combat while nursing some injury or another. The main issue wasn’t the damaged rib, which happened to get worse when he tried for the armbar and when Jon Jones landed a foot to his abdomen.

What really made it rough on Victor was that he had to go seven days without training. The challenger, who only had three weeks of preparations to begin with, had to sit out the second week of his training camp. So he winged it. He started shadow boxing all the time and sweating it up on the stationary bike. A little over a week later, once his body let him, he went back to hitting the mitts but avoided doing much contact training. And he never got back to the Jiu-Jitsu and guard attacks he’d been practicing before getting hurt (and which he put to use in the first round, with the now famous armbar).

In no way does any of this take any credit from Jon Jones, who put away the valiant challenger in the fourth round—despite the damage to his arm. But it does show that Victor, who earned points with his boss Dana White, deserves his fair share of credit too.