This week on the show Maine and Miranda recap F2W 181 and SUG 26

In the news section of the show we discuss the women's brackets for WNO championship; we looked at the Heavyweight bracket and the strawweight bracket for the event with $30,000 on the line for each bracket we discussed the front runners and who he thought had the best shot at taking the prize.

In the recap section of the show we discussed fight to win 181 headline by Lucas Pinheiro vs Gabriel Sousa, We discussed the great position of work from both Grapplers including some nice single leg x and x guard transitional work we also discussed how pleased we were both Grapplers were willing to concede position to continue working and not simply fight for a non-scoring sweep during the match we discussed the kneebar attempt from Gabriel  that ended up securing his decision win.

In our recap of Marcos Torregrosa vs Angel Lopez We talked about the finishing sequence Marcos hit on Lopez that included a great grip switch at the end of the lapel in order to secure the scarf hold choke.  We also discussed a number of variations for this choke and some names that we have heard it called by over the years.

In our discussion of Fellipe Andrew vs Max Gimenis We talked about the Ironclad positional work of Andrew from The Sweep to the maintenance of top mount and top position and generally being in control of the match from Bell to Bell. 

In our recap of submission underground 26 (SUG) We kicked it off of the discussion of the only submission in regulation on the card in Justin Renick defeating Phelan Carron via Armbar off of the cage, prefaced with some interesting commentary.  We gave our thoughts on the Tag Team Main event that seemed very exploitable due to the rules. 
We also briefly discussed Gabriel Checco victory over Danilo Marques, Gillian Robertson win over Katlyn Chookagian That saw her Implement an interesting overtime strategy going from the back to the arm triangle and keeping position.  Plus Andy Varela defeating Kevin Casey, In overtime after Casey defended a very deep rear-naked choke for much of the regulation.

In the outro section of the show Miranda discussed going up to Philadelphia to train with Josh Hinger, and Kristian Woodmansee; or a few days including training without air conditioning and some of the technical differences in the grapplers games. Maine Briefly discussed Physical Therapy progression and his thoughts on diversity of Josh's game.

Recorded 8-16-2021