2018 Iron Brown Belt Europe

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• ▸ Across 22 recorded matchups at the 2018 Iron Brown Belt Europe, 12 ended by submission, giving the bracket a 55 percent submission rate. That tells you this was a finishing crowd, not a points-management crowd.
• ▸ Tarik Hopstock of Frontline Academy led the event with 5 wins on record, and he did it while fighting through a severe foot injury to take the title in his home country of Norway.
• ▸ Yusef Kaddur got the better of eventual winner Tarik Hopstock in the group stage, edging him by 3 advantages in a match that came down to the smallest margins.
• ▸ Kaddur backed up his forward-thinking reputation on the mat, closing out both Alan Ciku in the group stage and Bryn Jenkins in the tie breaker by submission.
• ▸ Marcus Phelan and Flavien Martin met twice: Phelan took the first eliminatory meeting on points at 4-0, then finished the rematch by submission in the second eliminatory round.