Felipe Pena

Right.

Where do I begin? You should have beat Felipe Pena.

Did you think about fucking doing that, mate? George fucking made sure I thought about it, mate.

George, George.

And then the Open Class Final as well.

Felipe Pena vs. Roosevelt Souza.

An interesting fact for you, Matthew.

That is the first time there has been a submission in the Absolute Final since 2011, when Galvao submitted Pablo Popovic in the Open Class Final.

So

think about it just over the last few years.

Gordon, Dalvao, Yuri Samois, you know, Felipe Pena was an absolute winner back in 2017.

So all those guys went into the absolute and very few of them then go back to compete in the division.

Let's move into plus 99.

Let's talk about round of 16, Felipe Pena versus Bilal Trabatti.

Uh, Felipe subs Bilal at about seven minutes.

We have Nick Hartman versus Haisam Rita.

Uh, he's...

Ruslan subs in, like, nine minutes.

And then in the quarterfinals, we have Felipe Pena versus Nick Hartman.

Pena gets Nick Hartman's back, and, uh, rear naked chokes him.

The first, unsurprisingly, is the rear-naked choke, or RNC.

Helena Crevar, Luke Griffith, Mesa Bastos, Felipe Pena, they all secured gold or advanced using the RNC.

Because if the rules are dangling three points in front of you for taking the back, you are obviously gonna hunt for the back.

Exactly.

It was ridiculous because...

They couldn't work out whether or not Felipe Pena ghost tapped.

Oh, yeah.

For about fucking 15 minutes, bro.

Speaking about a couple of interesting results before we get into our ADCC predictions, because these are relevant to ADCC, I feel.

The first one was that the much-hyped match between Felipe Pena and Nicolas Maragalli ended up being one of the worst matches that we've seen in a long time.

It was a jiu-jitsu match with barely any jiu-jitsu.

So this was held at Spartan Fight Night.

And since then, look what he's done, you know? He's had amazing matches.

He's beaten Luke Griffith in an absolute match.

You know, he absolutely ragdolled Felipe Pena in CGI2.

You know, he beat Taylor Perlman in CGI2.

From in the under 65 kilo division.

And then we have Felipe Pena.

Yeah.

In plus 99 or under 99.