2021 IBJJF World No-Gi Championship

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• ▸ The 2021 IBJJF World No-Gi Championship at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, TX was the first time heel-hooks and twisting leg-locks were legal under the IBJJF ruleset at the World Championships. The data backs up the shift: the Inside Heel Hook already shows up 9 times as a finishing submission.
• ▸ Across 206 recorded matchups, 83 ended by submission for a submission rate of 40 percent. Points were close behind with 73 wins, so this was an event where you needed both a passing game and a finishing threat.
• ▸ The Rear Naked Choke was the most common finish with 15 on record, tied with an equal number of unrecorded finishes. The next most common was the Inside Heel Hook at 9, which tells you how quickly the new leg-lock rules were adopted.
• ▸ Pedro Marinho led all competitors with 8 recorded wins, taking double gold. He beat Vagner Rocha on points in the Heavyweight final, then went through Adam Wardziński in the Absolute semis and Roberto Abreu in the Absolute final by decision.
• ▸ Dante Leon and Ffion Davies both finished with 4 recorded wins and 3 by submission, the highest finish ratio among the top performers. Compare that to Marinho's 8 wins with only 2 submissions, a decision-heavy path to double gold.