2007 IBJJF Pan Championship

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• ▸ Across 25 recorded matchups at the 2007 Pan, submissions accounted for a 40 percent finish rate, with 10 wins by submission and 11 by points. That is a pretty even split between finishers and point players for the era.
• ▸ The armbar was the most common finish on record here with 3, followed by the gi choke from back at 2 and a straight choke at 2. Chokes and armbars were doing most of the work when matches ended early.
• ▸ Marcelo Garcia went 3 wins with 3 submission wins on record at this event, meaning every recorded win came by finish. In his Middleweight final he closed out Edson Diniz by choke.
• ▸ Rômulo Barral and Rubens Charles both posted 4 wins here, the most of any competitors on record, but they got there differently: Barral had 1 submission win while Charles had 0 and leaned on his points game, taking the Featherweight final over Mario Reis on points.
• ▸ Two of the finals on record were decided by advantage, including Barral over Tarsis Humphreys at Medium Heavyweight and Rodrigo Medeiros over Bruno Rodrigues Albuquerque at Ultra Heavyweight. When the biggest matches are that close, positional pressure and small edges decide gold.