Alexandre Ribeiro and Andre Galvao met 9 times on record, and it stayed close the whole way. Galvao holds a 5 to 4 edge across those meetings, with no draws. The rivalry ran from 2007 through 2017, spanning gi, no-gi, and mixed formats, and included repeated meetings at events like the 2007 World Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship and later the 2017 World Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship.

Style-wise these are two decorated finishers, but their meetings rarely got decided by a finish. Ribeiro, out of Six Blades Jiu-Jitsu, finishes 48% of his recorded wins and leans on the Armbar, his most frequent finish with 20 wins. Galvao, out of Atos Jiu Jitsu, finishes 43% of his recorded wins and favors the Gi Choke From Back, his top submission with 14 wins. Against each other, though, none of the 9 matches ended by submission.

What decided the series was margin, not the finish. The bulk of their meetings went to advantages or points, with Galvao taking most of the advantage-based decisions, including three separate quarter-final wins in 2017. Ribeiro's wins came earlier, on points and by decision in 2007 and 2009, and once by advantage in the 2012 San Diego Trials final. The head-to-head reflects two peers who knew each other's game well enough that scoring, not submission, settled it.