2017 Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship

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• ▸ Across 53 recorded matchups at the event, points decided the most bouts with 25, while submissions accounted for 19 and the submission rate sat at 36 percent. That split lines up with what you see in high-level gi competition, where a lot of finals come down to positional control rather than a finish.
• ▸ The most common recorded submission was the gi choke from back with 4 finishes, well ahead of the next most frequent methods. If you train the back, this is a reminder that the collar strangle remains one of the highest-percentage finishes under this ruleset.
• ▸ Isaac Doederlein went 3 for 3 by submission on record here, meaning every one of his recorded wins came by finish. That is the kind of clean run that stands out even among the other top performers who leaned more on points.
• ▸ Felipe Pena closed out the 94kgs final over Adam Wardziński by gi choke from back. Taking a division final by submission rather than riding a lead says a lot about the pressure Pena applied from the back.
• ▸ Two of the recorded finals ended by gi choke from back, including Rodnei Junior over Masaaki Todokoro at 56kgs. At the lighter end of the bracket where finishes can be harder to come by, closing a final with a strangle is worth noting.