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

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda Preview, every single card happening this weekend we preview the WNO 25, Fight Pass Invitational 9, One Championship, ADXC, and BJJ Stars Cards.

Kicking the show off we preview Who's Number One 25 headlined by 
Kaynan Duarte vs Roberto Jimenez at Heavyweight
Then we preview Pedro Marinho vs Izaak Michell for the WNO Men's Light Heavyweight Title
After that we preview Adele Fornarino vs Sophia Cassella for the WNO Women's Strawweight title
Then Felipe Pena vs Declan Moody in a Heavyweight generational crossover match
After that we look at Helena Crevar vs Leilani Bernales, Daniel Sathler vs Fabyury Khrysthyan, and Max Hanson vs Carlos Henrique

On the Fight Pass Invitational 9 card we preview 
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

On ADXC we preview the rematch of the 2022 sub of the year match between Roberto Cyborg vs Haisam Rida.

On One Championship we preview
Mayssa BastosVSDanielle Kelly
Shinya AokiVSCole Abate
Dante LeonVSBruno Pucci

On BJJ Stars we preview the Featherweight tournament featuring 
Kennedy Maciel, Kauã Gabriel,Meyram Maquine, Fabricio Andrey, Malachi Edmond
Diego Sodre, Israel Almeida, and Cleber Clandestino. Plue preview 
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. 

Recorded 12-1-2024

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda recap ADXC 7 Fight Night as well as talk about Mikey Musumeci exclusive, UFC Fight Pass Invitational deal and possible reality show tie in as a coach. 

In the news section of the show, we discussed some upcoming events, including all of the Eddie Bravo Invitational events taking place in Cancun in two weeks. Plus the upcoming UFC Fight Pass Invitational, WNO, and BJJ Stars 14. 

In the recap section of the show we recap ADXC 7 Fight Night. 

In Rodolfo Viera vs Derek Brunson,  we discuss Rudolph’s  take down and tripod pass to the head and arm choke, as well as some of the little details behind how he was able to make his takedown work and finish the arm triangle.

In Paulo Miyao vs Junior Righetti,  we talked about Paulo's positional work, and his new use of the cage for the match, leading to a decision to win for Paulo.

In Meyram Maquiné vs Sebastian Serpa,  we discussed the finishing sequence for Meyram that was a jumping  cartwheel over the guard, into a triangle armbar that he finishes as an armbar.

In Piter Frank vs Gesias Cavalcante,  we talked about the pacing from Cavalcante, and  an interesting takedown sequence in the third round of the match, playing off of a reaction and counter from Frank.

In Helena Crevar vs Sabrina de Sousa,  we discussed some of the continued stylistic tendencies from Helena and how top athletes are beginning to recognize the ranges that they can engage with her guard and game. Then we discuss the second round Heel Hook transition and finish win for Crevar.

We also recap Ana Carolina Vieira vs Aurelie Le Vern finishing by Le Vern winning a decision. Espen Mathiesen vs Lucas Valente a back and forth bolo battle ending in decision for Valente, and Henrique Ceconi vs Javier Zaruski with Ceconi winning a decision.

In the outro of the show, we discussed some upcoming events and plans to take a little bit of time off from training during the holidays.

Recorded 11-25-2024

This week on the show, Maine and Josh recap the 2024 IBJJF Crown.

In the news that section of the show, we discussed Mikey Musumeci's exclusive contract with UFC Fight Pass.  

In the recap section of the show, we break down every finals match from all of the divisions at the 2024 IBJJF Crown.

We kick off the recap discussing Erich Munis vs Marcus "Scooby" Ribeiro for the Men's Ultra Heavyweight final.  We talk about the Sweden game from Munis and his willingness to except the bottom position, repeatedly, knowing that he would be able to get a sweep at the end.  We discussed his wrestling and how he was able to go from bottom position to top position using great hip movement, then we discussed his Ezekiel choke finish to win the Crown back to back years. 

In Gabi Pessanha vs Melissa Cueto for the Women's Super Heavyweight final we talk about Gabi's guard game and what kind of a player it will take to be able to beat it. We also talked about her fantastic streak at black belt and also discussed her pathway to the back and rear naked choke finish to take back to back crown championships as well.

In Adam Wardzinski vs Gustavo Batista for the Men's Heavyweight crown.  We talked about Adams fantastic butterfly garden and his single leg X and half butterfly guard combo.  We also discussed how his game has evolved over the years, with the inclusion of more half guard, allowing him to deal with the pressure from Batista and score and advantage to win the crown.

We discussed Andy Murasaki walkover of Tainan Dalpra due to a broken hand in the Men's Middleweight division.  

In Janaina Maia vs Brianna Ste-Marie for the Women's Lightweight crown
We discusses Brianna Ste-Marie's counter guard play and game and how she uses it to score at small margins, as well as her submission and positional work that allowed her to score 2 advantages to Maia one.  We also discussed our thoughts on the straight ankle lock advantage rule in IBJJF and how inconsistent advantage for submission attempts are scored. 

In Diego Pato vs Joao Mendes for the Men's Featherweight crown we discussed the slow pacing of the match, initially, followed by Diego, picking up the pace working towards the back and being able to finish Joao Mendes with a collar, choke by the tips of his fingers to take the crown.

In the outro section of the show, we discussed the ongoing work on the podcast set. 

Recorded 11-17-2024

This week on the show Maine and Miranda recap PGF Season 7 the Light Heavyweights, Midwest Finishers the Mens 155 bracket and Women's 125 Title. plus we preview the IBJJF Crown, Main Character BJJ 5,  ADXC 7, and Pit Submission. 

In the news section, we discuss the return of Marcelo Garcia to One Championship. After nearly 13 years away from competition Marcello Garcia has announced that he is returning and has signed with One Championship. We discuss some of Marcello' s history, and some of his possible opponents, and some opponents we would potentially like to see him make his return against. 

In the recap section of the shower, we discuss the final day of the PGF season 7. We also discuss the team winners and some of the highlights from the entire tournament. We discussed Ryan Aiken and he is overtime victories to clean the $20,000 cash prize. Plus Polish stand out Marcin Maciulewicz, and Paul Ardilla. 

Recap of Midwest finishers, we talked about both main event titles on the line with Layla Watkins vs Emily Rosalynn ending in an armbar win for Layla Watkins becoming the New 125 pound champion

In Andrew McGraff vs Lucas Jones for the Mens 155 pound Lightweight title we talked about Andrew's choi bar set up and tarikoplata transition for the finish to take the title. 

In the preview of the IBJJF Crown we talk about all of the divisions, front runners, including Tainan Dalpra, Eric Munis, Gabrieli Pessanha, Adam Wardzinski, Gustavo Batista, Diego Pato, and Cobrina Jr. 
 
Main Character BJJ 5 we discuss the women's 135 pound qualifier, the winner of which will take on Mo Black, and the main event superfight Geo Martinez vs Gianni Grippo.

We preview the entire ADXC 7 stacked card main evented by Rodolfo Viera vs Derek Brunson, with a co-main of Paulo Miyao vs Junior Righetti, plus we talk about Ana Carolina Vieira vs Aurelie Le Vern, Espen Mathiesen vs Lucas Valente in the gi, and Helena Crevar vs Sabrina de Sousa.

In the outro we discussed the gyms new grand opening this coming weekend. 

Recorded 11-11-2024

This week on the show Maine and Miranda recap Polaris 30, the 2024 IBJJF No-Gi Pans, and preview PGF Season 7 draft. 

In the news section of the show. We discuss One Championship signing, Dante, Leon and Cole Abate. Plus Mikey Musumeci leaving One. 

In the recap section of the show, we break down the full main card on Polaris 30, and a few of the notable undercard matches.

We recap Michael ‘Venom’ Page vs Carlos Condit that saw MVP take a decision 

In the recap of Helena Crevar vs Nia Blackman we talk about the attacks of Crevars game and how Nia came in with a great strategy to stifle the attacks and work her passing game ending with a decision win for Crevar to retain her  lightweight title.  

In Keith Krikorian vs Jed Hue we talked about Keiths back take and back control and how his game has changed over the years, plus his post match call out of
Ash Williams
In Dante Leon vs Ellis Younger we talked about the R Guard of Dante and how his guard work is an often under-looked part of his champion winning game

In Eoghan O’Flanagan vs Philippe Geyer we discussed the submission pace of Eoghan vs the passing of Geyer leading to a decision win for Eoghan.

We recapped the finals results for IBJJF No-Gi pans and the most stand out moments and performances including Cole Abate first major Black Belt NoGi win, Elizebeth Clay returning after becoming a mother 17 weeks ago to double gold, Raphael Lovato Jr winning another adult tile at 41 years old. 

In the PGF Season 7 preview for the 205 pound season we talked about the draft. 

On team Roger Gracie – 1st Phorm
Paul Ardila, Adam Bradley, Kyle Chambers, Kyle Boehm (Nashville Qualifier winner), Dory Aoun , Alternates, Deyvson Souza, and Sam Schwartzapfel

On team Dean Lister – Constellation Network
Kemoy Anderson, Sebastian Attard, Marcin Maciulewicz, Fedor Nikolov, Chris Wojcik, Alternates, Drew Dyer, Jack Bidwell

On team Pedro Sauer – New Hope Regeneration
Travis Thomas, Bradley Schneider Ernesto Rivera, Cameron Hurd, Ryan Aitken, Alternates, Christos Papadelos, Jacob Howarth

On team Carlos Machado – Intrana
Elijah Carlton, Davis Asare, Nathan Haddad, Andre Porfirio, Caleb Crump, Alternates, Abraham La Montagne, Kris Olivo

In the outro we discussed Maine's gym getting a pit wall. 

Recorded 11-4-2024

This week on the show Maine and Miranda Preview Polaris 30

Recorded 10-28-2024

This week on the show, Maine and Miranda recap Finishers Night of Champions 2 and AIGA US Qualifier Recaps. 

In the News section of the show we Mo Jassim stepping down as the ADCC World Champion Coordinator. 

We also discussed a few of the names that were at the IBJJF No-Gi European Championship. 

In the recap section of the show we talked about Finishers Night of Champions 2 Title Fights Starting with Cindy Ung vs. Taylor Ellis for the 125 Pound title. We discussed how the open scoring and round structure of the event led to Taylor, really changing her tactics in the later rounds in order to take a decision victory.

In the recap of Alex Nguyen vs Cathryn Discanni for the 115 pound title, we talk about the leg lock exchanges and the Armbar that Alex Nguyen hit to retain her title. 

In the main event we talk about the rematch between Pat Shangholi vs Cody Gamble and the false reap entry from the guard that Pat hits for the heel hook to retain his title and avenge his ADCC trials loss. 

We discuss Checkmat winning the AIGA qualifier and team 10th planet also earning a slot as well. 

In the outro we discuss commentary for Fight to Win 264 in Baltimore that Maine and Miranda worked. 

Recorded 10-21-2024 

This week on the show, Maine and Corey recap Nick Rodriguez versus Michael Pixley that took place on the Fight Pass Invitational 8 as the main event. We also recap the rest of the card, and recap Pit Submission 8.

In the news section we talk about Kody Steele on Dana Whites Contender Series and him winning a UFC contract this week.

In the recap section of the show, we break down all of the main card matchups on the Fight Pass Invitational 8 and talk about the headline main event between Nick Rodriguez, and Michael Pixley.  We discussed Pixley's strategy during the match and the negatives that he received during the match. We talked about how Rodriguez's was able to leverage his speed and wrestling game, to get Pixley down in both the regulation and overtime. In the overtime we broke down the finishing takedown and Rodriguez's passing and back taking finishing with the RNC.

In the recapo of the Co-Main Event we talk about the rubber match and rematch between Renato Canuto vs PJ Barch.  We discuss Canutos pace vs barch and his flying scissor leg takedown to the heel hook that won him the match.

In Andy Varela vs Dante Leon we discuss the penalty that Andy received for striking and how Dante was able to counter the blast double to finish as arm in guillotine.

In Gabriel Sousa vs Josh Cisneros we talked about Cisneros leveraging his game but giving up 2 points in overtime and being unable to come back leading to Sousa winning on points.

We also discuss Raquel Canuto vs Gabrielle McComb, with Raquel putting on her best preformance in a long time submitting McComb. Plus we recap Isaque Bahiense vs Ronaldo Souza Junior with Souza finishing an interesting anaconda choke in the match.

In the recap of Pit Submission 8 we talk about the beef between Vagner Rocha and Calon Sabino that ended with Vagner putting on a 3 round clinic over Sabino then capping it off with a Triangle Choke Armbar Combo from the back with 15 seconds left in round 3 to make a statement.

We also talk about the pace that AJ Agazarm put on vs Piter Frank taking a clean Decision win in their match and showing off more of his wrestling than we have seen in years. 

We talk about Paulo Miyao vs Pablo Mantovani, and Daniel Sathler vs Matheus Costa that Sathler was able to win with a highlight reel Flying Triangle Armbar off of the pit wall to cap off the recaps.

Recorded 10-13-2024