Did you know?

• ▸ Across 28 recorded matches, AJ Sousa has 18 wins and 10 losses, with 9 of those wins coming by submission.
• ▸ Sousa's submission win rate on record sits at 50 percent, ahead of the site average of 40 percent, so when he wins he is finishing about as often as he is going to the scorecards.
• ▸ The armbar is clearly his go-to finish, accounting for 6 of his submission wins, well ahead of the gi choke from back at 2 and the omoplata at 1.
• ▸ At the 2016 Copa Podio Lightweights GP, one of his most frequent events with 5 appearances, Sousa beat both Felipe Cesar Silva and Lucas Lepri on points.
• ▸ In 2015, his busiest year on record with 10 matches, Sousa hit armbars on Alex Cabanes at the IBJJF World Championship and Vitor Schlosser at the BJJL Challenge.