2019 IBJJF Pan Championship

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• ▸ Across 268 recorded matchups at the 2019 Pan Championship, only 8 percent ended in submission. If you train expecting to finish, this is a reminder that at the top level most matches go the distance.
• ▸ When submissions did land, the choke led the way with 7 recorded finishes, well ahead of the armbar at 3. Toe holds and ezekiel chokes each showed up twice, so the finishing picture was heavily strangle-driven.
• ▸ Gabi Garcia and Lucas Barbosa each posted 6 wins with 2 by submission, the highest submission counts among the top performers. Ronaldo Junior, Victor Hugo, and Gabriel Henrique Oliveira also went 6 wins, but got there without a single recorded submission.
• ▸ Lucas Barbosa beat Leandro Lo by split decision in the Absolute Division final, one of only 2 recorded matches decided that way at the event. Barbosa had already taken an advantage win over Gutemberg Pereira in the semi-finals to get there.
• ▸ Several finals came down to the smallest margins, with Kaynan Duarte edging Adam Wardziński on advantage in the Heavyweight final. Only 11 recorded matches at the event were settled by advantage, so those finals landed in a narrow slice of the outcomes.