Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 hr 30 min · 12 segments
This week on the show, Maine and Austin recap the entirety of ADCC 2026. We discussed every single match in every single division and breakdown all the top moments across the entirety of the 2026…
Overall thoughts, let's lead off with that.
Yeah, sure.
Um, this ADCC was a ton of fun.
It was really early, and that kind of almost, for me, almost added to it because you felt like-
Mm
... you were like, "Man, I'm making a real effort to watch this event." Like, I woke up, we made coffee at 4:30 in the morning, and, like, had coffee and, like, watched these matches, and I got to get up, and it was a very submission-heavy ADCC.
Mm.
And overall, I liked, um...
Like, the match-ups I thought were very good.
There's definitely s- e- again, every ADCC has bad match-ups where it's like, "Ooh,-
Yeah
...
this was not a good match." But overall, I think every division has a couple of matches that are like, "Wow, that was absolutely phenomenal." Every round had one or two matches that were like, "Wow, that was an incredible match-up-
Sure
... between these two guys, an incredible moment." We didn't have ever, aside from the finals, big pieces on the TV when, with three matches going, where there wasn't one match that we were all keyed into, like, "Oh, this is a really good match," and we were all talking about it, and like, "Oh, flip to that match."
Right.
It was o-overall a really, really great experience, and, like, it was, it was one of the best ADCCs I think we've had since 2019.
At least...
And this is with ro- rose-colored glasses on the weekend-
Sure
... being less than 24 hou- hours out of the event.
Um, I really, really enjoyed what we saw from this ADCC.
Yeah, I think one thing about ADCC in general, and you can even look at this historically, it kind of sets the precedent for what the new no gi meta's gonna be for the next couple of years until there's another ADCC World Championship.
Yeah.
So it's really interesting to see, uh, what submissions happen, um, what new technology's out there for-
Overall thoughts, let's lead off with that.
Yeah, sure.
Um, this ADCC was a ton of fun.
It was really early, and that kind of almost, for me, almost added to it because you felt like-
Mm
... you were like, "Man, I'm making a real effort to watch this event." Like, I woke up, we made coffee at 4:30 in the morning, and, like, had coffee and, like, watched these matches, and I got to get up, and it was a very submission-heavy ADCC.
Mm.
And overall, I liked, um...
Like, the match-ups I thought were very good.
There's definitely s- e- again, every ADCC has bad match-ups where it's like, "Ooh,-
Yeah
...
this was not a good match." But overall, I think every division has a couple of matches that are like, "Wow, that was absolutely phenomenal." Every round had one or two matches that were like, "Wow, that was an incredible match-up-
Sure
... between these two guys, an incredible moment." We didn't have ever, aside from the finals, big pieces on the TV when, with three matches going, where there wasn't one match that we were all keyed into, like, "Oh, this is a really good match," and we were all talking about it, and like, "Oh, flip to that match."
Right.
It was o-overall a really, really great experience, and, like, it was, it was one of the best ADCCs I think we've had since 2019.
At least...
And this is with ro- rose-colored glasses on the weekend-
Sure
... being less than 24 hou- hours out of the event.
Um, I really, really enjoyed what we saw from this ADCC.
Yeah, I think one thing about ADCC in general, and you can even look at this historically, it kind of sets the precedent for what the new no gi meta's gonna be for the next couple of years until there's another ADCC World Championship.
Yeah.
So it's really interesting to see, uh, what submissions happen, um, what new technology's out there for-
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