2014 No-Gi World Jiu Jitsu Championship

Did you know?

• ▸ Across 50 recorded matchups at this event, 27 were decided by points and only 14 by submission, which lines up with a submission rate of 28 percent. If you trained here, you needed a points game as much as a finish.
• ▸ The armbar was the most common finish on record with 4, ahead of the rear naked choke and toe hold at 2 each. Nothing exotic dominated. The classics did the work.
• ▸ Yuri Simoes led all competitors with 5 wins on record, taking both the Ultra Heavy and Absolute titles. Only 1 of those recorded wins came by submission, so he was grinding out results on points and control.
• ▸ Keenan Cornelius went 4 wins deep and put up his loudest scoreline in the semi-final, beating Garry Tonon 23 to 2. That is a runaway margin between two names most people came to watch.
• ▸ Yuri Simoes got through the bracket the hard way, beating Tim Spriggs 8 to 2 in the quarter-final before closing out the final over Ricardo Rezende 2 to 0. Two very different scorelines on the road to gold.