Foto: Divulgação

Com pouco menos de um mês para a realização de seu novo card de lutas casadas, no BJJBet 2: Who’s Next, dia 1º de agosto, a organização já está com tudo pronto para anunciar as estrelas do evento.

Entre os destaques, temos o consagrado Leandro Lo, o fenômeno da faixa-marrom Mica Galvão e o ex-atleta do UFC e rei dos leglocks Rousimar Palhares, o Toquinho. O evento será apresentado via pay-per-view, no portal BJJBet.com.

Se antes continha apenas lutas casadas, o BJJBet volta ao cenário competitivo com um card misto: além dos duelos um contra um, haverá ainda um GP de Jiu-Jitsu sem kimono, que dará uma premiação de 15 mil dólares ao campeão.

Vale lembrar que os assinantes cadastrados na plataforma do BJJBet, seja para a primeira edição ou para o GP Selection, terão a oportunidade de comprar seu ppv na pré-venda, com 50% de desconto, em três tipos de ingresso, com vantagens na hora de palpitar no card e concorrer a prêmios.

GRACIEMAG buscou fontes ligadas à organização e conseguiu alguns dos nomes escalados para o evento, que serão distribuídos entre o GP e as lutas casadas ao longo da semana, além das duas lutas femininas agendadas para o card.

Confira o card parcial na lista abaixo e poste nos comentários quem deve integrar o GP, quem deve encarar quem e quais nomes deveriam integrar o já galáctico card do BJJBet 2: Who’s Next !

Lutas Casadas:

Tayane Porfírio x Gabi Pessanha
Duda Tozoni x Sayuri Toledo

Atletas confirmados (a serem divididos entre o GP e as lutas casadas)

Leandro Lo
Samuel Nagai
Rousimar Palhares “Toquinho”
Pedro Machado
Mica Galvão
Murilo Amaral
Caio BBG
Vagner Rocha
Lucas Hulk
Luan Carvalho
Nicholas Meregali
William Tacket
Matheus Onda
Matheus Gabriel
Jorge Michelan
Meyram Maquine
Rafael Paganini
Felipe Preguiça
Léo Lara

Polaris 3 delivered a evening of thrills this Saturday in Poole, England.

The main card featured 8 matches with some of the best in the grappling world today.

There were a lot of thrills in each of the matches, but no submission was achieved by none of the fighters.

The main card kicked with a gi match between João Miyao and Yukinori Sasa. Miyao was more active throughout the entire 15 minutes, reaching side control and taking the back. Sasa was efficient in defending his neck to earn a draw.

Then it was time Geo Martinez and last minute replacement Luiz Tosta, in a nog-i battle. As expected, Martinez went right on to heel hook attacks, but Tota was able to resist and keep the fight going until time ran out for the 2nd draw of the evening.

Back in the gi, Darragh O’ Connail and Jonathan Satava had a exciting match in the third battle of the main card. Satava started out strong and made his way to side control and full mount, but could not finish. Darragh recovered in the end and was able to have an even match by the time the fight ended in another draw.

Gezary Matuda and Laurence Fouillat kept the gi on and also put on a great show in the fourth match of the day. The Brazilian put a lot of pressure on her French opponent and even got to a near back take with a hook in as she attacked the kneck. At the end, another draw.

Gianni Grippo also fought in the gi against Bruno Frazzatto for another 15 minutes of Jiu-Jitsu. The match didn’t see a lot of action and Gianni had the best moments with a near back take and a foot lock before time ran out for another draw.

Augusto Tanquinho and Ed Cummings had the much anticipated rematch of their 2015 ADCC -66kg quarterfinal, when Tanquinho won by one point. Cummings kept to his known game of heel hooks and had Tanquinho in trouble several times, but the 2013 featherweight world champion had his defense in place and resisted well until time ran out. Result, a draw.

The co-main event was the most heated encounter of the main card. AJ Agazarm and Jake Shields were on each other’s faces for the whole match, even going over the limit with slaps, head butts and more. Despite that, Shields had a dominant performance throughout the 15 minutes, reaching side control and full mount several times to attack katagatames and an armbar. AJ was brave in his efforts to defend and managed to come out with a draw.

The main event was a crowd pleaser and once again Garry Tonon showed why he is considered one of the most exciting and popular athletes today. Against a much heavier and apparently stronger Rousimar Touquinho, Tonon feared nothing and went after the submission he had promised to get. Heel hooks, foot locks, twisters, chokes from the back and even banana splits were tried. Toquinho tired out as time moved on and could not do anything more than defend himself and eventually flip Tonon over on his back. Time ran out  with no submission, but the crowd was happy with what they had watched.

The third edition of the Polaris Jiu-Jitsu Invitational is ready to go this Saturday, in Poole, England.

This Friday, April 1, all athletes on the card faced the scale and made weight for their matches.

The event kicks off at 4PM (London time) with the undercard and then the main card at 6:30PM.

If you are on the USA, the start times are: undercard (11AM/8AM ET/PT), main card (1:30PM/10:30AM ET/PT).

Here is the complete card for Polaris 3.

PRELIMINARY CARD
4:00PM GMT (UK TIME)
Free Stream
10 Minutes – Submission Only

Alain Pozo vs. Micah Atkinson (NO GI)
Vinicius de Castrovs. Greg Creel (GI)
Keith McKenzie vs. Jeff Lawson (GI)
Adam Adshead vs. Phil Harris (NO GI)
Travis Newaza vs. Ben Dyson (NO GI)

MAIN CARD
Pay Per View
6:30PM (UK TIME)
15 Minutes – Submission Only

Joao Miyao vs. Yukinori Sasa (GI)
Geo Martinez vs. Dan Covel (NO GI)
Darragh O Conaill vs. Jon Satava (GI)
Gezary Matuda vs. Laurence Fouillat (GI)
Bruno Frazatto vs. Gianni Grippo (GI)
Augusto Tanquinho vs. Eddie Cummings (NO GI)
AJ Agazarm vs. Jake Shields (NO GI)
Rousimar Palhares vs. Garry Tonon (NO GI)

You can watch the preliminary card here.

You can buy the PPV for the main card here.

Polaris 3

The third edition of Polaris Professional Jiu-Jitsu invitational will take place April 2, in Poole, UK.

The all-star card has Garry Tonon vs. Rousimar Palhares as the main event and several other great matches

The card includes: Jake Shields vs. AJ Agazarm; Augusto Tanquinho vs. Eddie Cummings; Darragh O Connall vs. Jon Satava; Gezary Matuda vs. Laurence Foillat; Bruno Frazzatto vs. Gianni Grippo; Geo Martinez vs. Dan Covel; João Miyao vs. Yukinori Sasa.

Click here to know more and also how to watch the matches.

Ex-atleta do UFC e do WSOF, o faixa-preta de Jiu-Jitsu fera nos leglocks puxava um treininho de quedas e movimentação, e nós pegamos um ótimo detalhe para você surpreender o adversário que tenta derrubar no double-leg.

Confira o “pulo do gato” no vídeo abaixo e tenha sempre mais uma carta na sua manga!

Photos Dan Rod, John Lamonica

Garry Tonon broke the news earlier today that he’s going to be facing Rousimar Palhares at Polaris 3.

The event is scheduled April 2, in Poole, UK.

The match between the two heel hook artists will for sure be a sight to see.

The reaction on social media was instantaneous, with people siding up with the Brazilian or the American.

Here are two highlights with Garry and Toquinho.

Who do you got?

Toquinho foi afastado do MMA por dois anos.. Foto: Carlos Arthur Jr.

Mais uma vez, Rousimar Toquinho se vê em maus lençóis por conta de suas poderosas finalizações. A bola da vez é referente a kimura aplicada sobre Jake Shields, no WSOF 22, em agosto passado. O atleta foi julgado pela Comissão Atlética de Nevada, por ter segurado por muito tempo o golpe, e acabou suspenso por dois anos, mais a aplicação de uma multa de 40 mil dólares.

O resultado do combate em questão foi declarado no contest (sem resultado) e o cinturão dos meio-médios definitivamente deixa de ser do brasileiro. Toquinho não pode estar presente, mas participou do julgamento por videoconferência, ao lado do empresário Alex Davis.

Toquinho e Alex contestaram a posição do árbitro, Steve Mazzagatti, no momento da finalização. A comissão foi irredutível, e manteve a pena.

Por meio de nota, Toquinho comentou a punição:

“Não concordo com a punição, tanto com a suspensão quanto com a multa. Muitas inverdades foram proferidas. Não levaram em consideração o erro óbvio cometido pelo árbitro Steve Mazzagatti, que estava posicionado de forma totalmente inadequada no momento da finalização. Tivesse o juiz na posição correta, talvez nada disso tivesse ocorrido.

Infelizmente, terei que acatar esta decisão injusta, cumprindo a suspensão e efetuando o pagamento da multa. Refletirei sobre todos esses acontecimentos e, junto com meu manager Alex Davis, tomarei a melhor decisão para o prosseguimento da minha carreira.”

E para você, amigo leitor, Toquinho deveria, de fato, receber uma punição severa? Comente conosco!

Galvão celebrates his triumph at the 2011 ADCC

The fact is you never know what that guy or girl went through to get to that point when he or she reaches the final victory.

Take Andre Galvão, the 2011 ADCC +88kg and open class champion.

What we all knew was that he had one of the best performances of his career.

In his eight matches in Nottingham, UK, on September 24-25, he defeated Don Ortega, Gunnar Nelson, Pablo Popovitch (twice), Rousimar Palhares, Shinsho Anzai, Sergio Moraes and Murilo Santana.

First he ruled over his weight division, beating Ortega, Gunnar, Popovitch and Palhares.

The final match against Toquinho was later on chosen the best one of the entire competition.

Until that point, Palhares had three heel hooks on his record, against Dan Schon, David Avelan and Rafael Lovato Jr.

Asked afterwards if he feared for his knees and ankles during the final against Toquinho, Galvão answered with the confidence of champions: “Jiu-Jitsu for Jiu-Jitsu I knew mine was better.”

Despite the confidence, the fact is Palhares managed to attack Galvão’s leg .

Andre told GRACIEMAG’s Marcelo Dunlop at the time how he kept his cool not to tap to such a violent force: “I started to spin to the wrong side. Then I thought, damn I going to stay put. He tried two more times but  I noticed he was getting tired.”

After neutralizing his opponent’s most dangerous weapon, Galvão put his game to work.

After a takedown, Toquinho turned on all fours and Andre went for the back take.

In the end, the 8-3 lead earned Galvão his first ever ADCC gold medal.

Watch the match here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-jQxNWvt9Q

So it was time for the open class division, the icing on the cake.

After all he had gone through, as we’re going to know about further along this story, there was no way Galvão would not compete in that too.

First he choked Japanese Anzai with a RNC, then beat Sergio Moraes by points and made it to the final after a tough win over Murilo Santana.

The final match would be against Pablo Popovitch, but it didn’t last much.

In only 3:15, Galvão managed to have a toe hold in place and get the tap to become once and for all the standout of the event.

The celebration included some capoeira moves.

Watch the match here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFJ-ad_BurQ

Now, going back to the first sentence of this story, here’s what you didn’t know about Galvão’s campaign at the 2011 ADCC.

Up until the moment he disembarked in England, he had no clue if he was going to be allowed in the country.

He told people why on a post on Facebook some time after the event: “I was training without knowing if I was going to get in. In 2009, I was deported from the UK back to Brazil. Also, I was in the middle of my Green Card process and I was not allowed to leave the US. The authorization to travel came three weeks before the 2011 ADCC.”

The uncertainty haunted Galvão all throughout his camp, as he wrote about: “Sometimes, during the sessions while I was training so hard and sweating so much, I was thinking: ‘why am I doing all this. They will never let me in there again or maybe I can’t even go there.”

Galvão vs. Popovitch at the 2011 ADCC

The moment of truth came at the airport: “When I was on the plane ready to arrive in the UK I just thought they were going to kick me out again. What was I doing there. In fact they did give me a hard time, but eventually let me in. They gave me only four days to stay and I had to leave the country on September 29th, the day of my birthday. So as soon as I got my bags I thought: ‘I want to fight so hard now. I want to win it’.”

So, in he went and after four days he flew back home with two gold medals and proud of knowing his name was forever linked to the history of the 2011 ADCC.

To do that, he had to beat the British immigration and eight tough guys. Andre knew where the strength to do it came from: “When you are loyal, God is loyal. So whatever I do I will do for Him. Because He is my power and my strength.”

After 2011, Galvão fought at the 2013 ADCC, in China, where he got back at Braulio Estima for the famous inverted triangle defeat in 2009. In Beijing, Andre won the superfight with a rear-naked choke.

He’s now getting ready for his second superfight against Roberto Cyborg.

If he wins, he’ll join José Mario Sperry (1999, 2000) as the two men with two ADCC superfights victories in a row.

The 2015 ADCC takes place in São Paulo, Brazil, on August 29-30.

Rousimar Palhares

Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares released a statement this Wednesday addressing the controversy involving his fight against Jake Shields at WSOF 22, last Saturday.

Initially declared the winner of the match by submission in the 3rd round, Rousimar had the welterweight belt stripped and has been suspended indefinitely by the promotion.

After reviewing the fight, a conclusion was made by the event that Toquinho eye-gouged Shields and delayed the release of the kimura lock on purpose after the opponent tapped.

Toquinho says in the statement that he is not and has never been a dirty fighter. He also says that what he consider lack of professionalism are the statements Shields made to the press before the fight saying he was going to seriously injury Palhares.

“In my opinion, my opponent was the one displaying no fair play when he punched me on purpose after the fight was over,” wrote Toquinho on his Facebook page.

The Brazilian fighter also tried to explain the accusations of eye-gouging.

“If my fingers hit his eyes, it was never on purpose. He also hit my eyes with his chin several times and that is part of the game. We were fighting for every inch of space out there. At no point during the match, Shields asked for medical treatment. If he had done that, the fight could have ended as a no contest.”

Palhares moved on to the most controversial moment of the fight, the alleged late release of the kimura lock.

“I’m not an evil person. If I was, I could have broken Shields’ arm. Only 1,06s after the referee made contact with me, I released the lock and went on to celebrate my victory. It’s clear in the video that I did not crank the lock further after the referee intervened. I just released the lock.”

Toquinho also said that the media needs a bad guy in every story.

“Some media outlets need a vilain. It could be the loudmouth or that person labeled as mean, evil, just like in the movies. I’m not that character. I’m merely a guy that loves Jiu-Jitsu. Unfortunately the fact that I don’t speak English prevents me from explaining my side of the story to deconstruct this image that in no way represents the values I hold dear.”

Finally, Toquinho said that he does not agree with the decision of stripping him from his belt, but accepts the sanction. He finishes the statement with a harsh message to Jake Shields.

“It’s not necessary to creat all this drama to get a rematch. I accept any challenge against you. This time, I won’t give you any chance to complain about anything. I’ll knock you out!”

Watch the controversial moment here.

It seems Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares is destined to attract controversies to his MMA career.

After being fired from the UFC in 2013 for having cranked a heel hook for too long after Mike Pierce had tapped, the Brazilian fighter has done it again.

Last Saturday, he defeated Jake Shields by submission on the 3rd round with a kimura lock in the main event of WSOF 22.

The problem came when Toquinho cranked the kimura further more for a few seconds after Shields tapped and the referee stepped in to stop the fight.

He was also accused of eye-gouging Shields during the three rounds.

Today, the WSOF released its decision of stripping Toquinho of his welterweight belt and suspending him.

In the past two days, many fighters reacted in social media to the images of the fight and some of them asked for a life-ban on Toquinho, arguing he is a repeat offender in cases like that.

Toquinho pegou as costas mas não conseguiu estrangular. Ao invés de insistir, girou dali mesmo e partiu para o braço, obrigando Miller a batucar. Confira!