This week on the show, Maine and Miranda discuss the Craig Jones invitational 2. That is now being billed as a eight team event with five grappler per team. We also discussed the recent One Championship signing of Giancarlo Bodoni and who he may face in his debut plus we discuss Pit Submission 10.

In the news section of the show, we discussed the recent announcement that the Craig Jones invitational 2, is going to be a quintet team battle style event. We talk about some of the potential teams that are listed as possibilities in the press release and some of the other possibilities of team format surrounding the event, as well as talk about some other events that utilize the team battle format.

In the recap section of the show, we discussed Pit Submission 10 Roosevelt Souza vs Daishi Goto. That saw Roosevelt be able to win with a rear naked choke in the second round.

In the preview section of the show we discussed fury pro grappling 12 talking about the top three matches build on the card and a few of the other Maine card matchups scheduled for later this month.

Recorded 12-23-2024

This week on the show Maine and Miranda recap the IBJJF 2024 No-Gi World, and talk about Gordon Ryan's landmark public discussion of his steroid usage during his championship runs. We also talk about Pat Downey's disqualification in his blue belt world's final match.

In the news section of the show, we discussed Gordon Ryan's statements regarding steroid use in the sport and his own performance enhancing drug usage across his competition career spanning from 2016 onward. We discussed the generally unregulated and untested nature of the sport. And discuss some of the reasons he provided for why he chose to take PEDs being sparked by his desire to move out of his coach and teammate Garry Tonon's weight class.

In the recap of IBJJF 2024 No-Gi Worlds we discussed Pat Downey and his finals match disqualification as well as some of the specific rules that most likely led to the disqualification even prior to the fight that took place after the match.

We also discussed some of the standout colored belt performances at the tournament and some of the more impressive runs from people we are already familiar with, from other major competitions who won colored belt world titles at the event.

In the recap section of the show we run through both the men's and the women's adult black belt divisions, discussing every finals match as well as the open class for both the men's and women's division. We talk about some of the standout finishes and discuss some of the context behind some of the wins for the matches.

Recorded 12-16-2024

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda Recap, WNO 25, Fight Pass Invitational 9, One Championship, ADXC, and BJJ Stars Cards.

Kicking the show off we recap On the Fight Pass Invitational 9 card we recap
Mikey Musumeci vs Felipe Machado with Mikey making his FPI debut on an exclusive contract.
Jason Nolf vs Renato Canuto
Nick Mataya vs Ronaldo Junior
Kyle Chambers vs Jonnatas Gracie
Raquel Canuto vs Michele Oliveira
Ryan Aitken vs Gabriel Almeida
Maggie Grindatti Lira vs Giovanna Carneiro
Damien Anderson vs Sandrey Silva
Michael Pixley vs Luccas Lira

We recap the entire Who's Number One 25 main card headlined by
Kaynan Duarte vs Roberto Jimenez at Heavyweight
Then Pedro Marinho vs Izaak Michell for the WNO Men's Light Heavyweight Title
After that we recap Adele Fornarino vs Sophia Cassella for the WNO Women's Strawweight title
Then recap Felipe Pena vs Declan Moody
We also recap Helena Crevar vs Leilani Bernales, Daniel Sathler vs Fabyury Khrysthyan, and Max Hanson vs Carlos Henrique

On One Championship we recap
Mayssa Bastos Vs Danielle Kelly
Shinya Aoki Vs Cole Abate
Dante Leon Vs Bruno Pucci

On ADXC we recap the rematch of Roberto Cyborg vs Haisam Rida.

On BJJ Stars we recap the Featherweight tournament featuring
with Fabricio taking the title.
Plus recap The Master's Middleweight title bout between Jaime Canuto vs Piter Frank, The Medium Heavyweight title between Jansen Gomes vs Fellipe Andrew
and Giovanna Jara vs Tayane Porfirio.

We also discuss IBJJG NoGI Worlds 2024 this coming week, the CJJ Lightweights, Medusa, and EBI.

Recorded 12-9-2024