On record this is a short but lopsided rivalry. Garry Tonon and JT Torres have met 2 times, both at the ADCC World Championships, and Torres won both. Neither meeting ended by submission, which is notable given how both men built their names. Their first bout came at the 2017 ADCC World Championships in the semi-finals, decided by decision, and they ran it back at the 2019 ADCC World Championships, again in the semi-finals, this time on points.

The styles point at why these went the distance. Tonon is a no-gi submission hunter with a 69% submission rate among his wins and 13 of those coming by Heel Hook. Torres wins at a similar clip overall, a 70% win rate against Tonon's 74%, but only 43% of his wins come by submission, and his most frequent finish is the Gi Choke From Back with 10. Against a leg-lock threat like Tonon, a positional grappler who does not need to submit you to win is a hard matchup, and both meetings bear that out.

Both men have found their biggest wins at ADCC. Torres took ADCC World titles in 2017 and 2019, the same two events where he beat Tonon, while Tonon took 3rd at the 2019 ADCC World Championship. That backdrop is worth keeping in mind: Torres beat Tonon on his way to gold in both of the years he won it.