Gianni Grippo and Marcio Andre met 5 times on record, and the ledger favors the Nova Uniao man. Andre holds 3 wins to Grippo's 1, with 1 of their meetings scored as a draw in a round robin. Both compete at Peso Pena (70kg/154lbs), so weight was never the story here. What decided most of these matches was margin: two of Andre's wins came on advantages at the 2015 IBJJF European Jiu Jitsu Open Championship and the 2016 World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi IBJJF Championship, and a third came on points at the 2018 European Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship final.

Grippo's lone win in the series was also his most decisive result of the five. At the 2018 World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship final he finished Andre by Rear Naked Choke, the only submission in the rivalry. That fits Grippo's back-attack game more broadly, since his most frequent recorded finish is the Gi Choke From Back with 15 wins.

The wider records show two accomplished featherweights. Grippo carries a 73% win rate across 296 recorded matches, Andre a 69% win rate across 108. Neither is a high-percentage finisher against this level of opposition, with 27% of Grippo's wins and 20% of Andre's coming by submission, which lines up with how their meetings kept coming down to points and advantages.