1999 ADCC World Championship

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• ▸ Across 100 recorded matchups at the 1999 ADCC World Championship, only 1 ended by submission, an armbar. This was the early ADCC era where wrestlers set the pace and most matches went to points or decision.
• ▸ Roberto Traven led all competitors with 5 recorded wins at the event, and every one of them came without a submission.
• ▸ Mark Kerr, Jean Jacques Machado, and Royler Gracie each had 4 recorded wins, and none of the three finished an opponent by submission at this event. That tells you how tightly contested and control-oriented the matches were.
• ▸ The only recorded submission of the tournament belonged to Baret Yoshida, who took out Wellington Dias by armbar in the Round of 64 at Featherweight.
• ▸ Baret Yoshida shows up on both sides of the results here: he won by armbar in the Round of 64, then dropped points decisions to Garth Taylor in the Absolute Division and to Sasha Palvski in the Featherweight Quarter-Finals.