This week on the show Maine and Josh preview Gordon Ryan versus Patrick Gaudio for the Heavyweight Championship on WNO 20 Night of Champions  Plus we preview the Polaris Absolute GP and recap Enigma Invitational 13.

We kick off the show with the previews discussing The previous match between Gordon Ryan and Patrick gaudio back in 2018 and why it's probably not that relevant nowadays anyway we discussed some of the recent activity of Gordon  contrasted with that of gaudio in No-Gi  we also discuss the small margin of victory during the first matchup in the IBJJF  prior to heel hooks being added to the organization many years ago we discussed some potential strategies that could be employed during the match and possibly some strategies Gordon might decide to implement based on interviews he's done the leading up to the rematch. 

In the preview of Rafaela Guedes vs Nathiely de Jesus for the Women's Heavyweight Championship we discuss both women's major victories and possible avenues for Rafaela to retain the title.

In Brianna Ste-Marie vs Elisabeth Clay for the Women's 145 lbs Championship,  we talk about their previous match back in 2019 when they were both purple belts and how much like in the main event that's probably not that relevant to this matchup we discussed some of the tactics that clay may use including repeated leg lock attempts that contrasted with Brianna's passing and back taking ability.

We also discussed the fantastic men's tournaments, a 170 lb men's welterweight bracket of four featuring some of the most exciting and top-level Grapplers in the sport Mica Galvao, PJ Barch, Andrew Tackett, and Jay Rodriguez.  We talked about Mica  potentially having the most pressure on him going into this and being the one to beat plus we talked about how all of these Grapplers have that something special and ability to turn it on when needed and upset anyone in the bracket.   We talked about everyone's ability to capitalize on very small mistakes and turn anything into a major victory.

In the men's 145 lb bracket we talked about some of the rematches that are possible in the tournament we also discussed some of the seating with current ADCC -66kg champion Diogo Reis, Certainly in the FrontRunner position as he takes on Ash Williams, Keith Krikorian, and Gabriel Sousa.  We discussed the recent match between Ash and Keith as well as the match between Keith and Gabriel.  

In our preview of Polaris 25 the absolute we discussed The men who have been announced for the bracket including Kaynan Duarte, giancarlo Bodoni, Izaak Mitchell, Jason Rau, Roberto Jimenez, and Fabricio Andre, We discussed some of the first round matchups and possible matchups and broke down why current -99 KG ADCC champion Kaynan may have to be on his toes in his first round matchup vs Rau.  We also discussed some of the announced undercard Grapplers including ADCC European Trials champion Owen Jones. 

We also reviewed how Deandre Corbre ran through Enigma Invitational and how he used the triangle from the back and armbar combination to finish most of his matches.

In the outro section Maine  talks about taking some time off to heal injuries.

Recorded 9-25-2023