2017 ADCC World Championships

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• ▸ Across 113 recorded matchups at the 2017 ADCC World Championships, only 28 percent ended by submission. Points decided 48 matches, so if you trained for this event you were preparing for a positional battle more than a finishing race.
• ▸ The rear naked choke and the armbar tied as the most common finishes on record here, with 7 apiece. Everything else was rare by comparison, with the toe hold, guillotine, and heel hook each showing up only 2 times.
• ▸ Gordon Ryan, Marcus Almeida, and Felipe Pena all posted 7 wins, but the paths diverged: Ryan finished 5 of his by submission while Pena finished just 2. In the Absolute Division final it was Pena who took the decision on points over Ryan.
• ▸ Gordon Ryan, known for his leg attacks, actually closed the -88kg final over Keenan Cornelius with an arm-in guillotine. Sometimes the finish comes from where the scramble takes you, not from your reputation.
• ▸ Alexandre Ribeiro went 4 wins with 3 by submission, the same submission-win count as Almeida despite fewer total wins. That is a high finishing ratio for anyone at this level of competition.