Giancarlo Bodoni and Lucas Barbosa have met 6 times on record, and the series is dead even at 3 wins apiece with no draws. The meetings span 2020 through 2023 and were almost all nogi, running through IBJJF Pan No-Gi brackets, a SUBVERSIV final, an ADCC final, and a WNO card. When two grapplers trade wins this evenly across formats and years, you are usually looking at a genuine stylistic standoff rather than one athlete owning the other.

Decisions and points settled most of these matches. Barbosa took his wins by points at the 2020 IBJJF Pan No-Gi Championship and again at the 2021 IBJJF Pan No-Gi Championship semi-final, plus a decision in the 2022 SUBVERSIV 7 final. Bodoni answered with the Pan No-Gi final that same 2021 event and a later decision at WNO 21: Pedro Marinho vs Rafael Lovato Jr.. The one clean finish in the series is the big one: Bodoni closed the 2022 ADCC World Championship final with a Rear Naked Choke, the same submission that leads his recorded wins with 8.

The wider profiles differ in shape. Barbosa has a much larger recorded body of work at 213 matches with a 79% win rate, while Bodoni sits at 81 recorded matches and a 68% win rate. Bodoni finishes a higher share of his wins, with a 49% submission rate of wins against Barbosa's 38%, which fits a rivalry where the back take and choke was Bodoni's most decisive tool.