Gianni Grippo and Paulo Miyao have met 6 times on record, all of them in finals. Miyao holds the edge at 4 wins to 2. Every one of those meetings went to the judges: three were decided on points and three on advantages. Nobody finished the other, which tells you plenty about how tight these matches were.

The timeline splits cleanly. In 2015 Miyao swept all three of their meetings, two on advantages and one on points, across both gi and no-gi. Grippo answered in 2018, taking their finals at the 2018 Kasai Pro 4 and the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Los Angeles, both on points. Miyao took the third 2018 meeting at the 2018 Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship on an advantage.

Stylistically these are two guard-based players who both live on the back. Grippo of Alliance and Miyao of Dream Art share the same favorite finish, the Gi Choke From Back, with 15 of Grippo's wins coming that way and 29 of Miyao's. But none of that showed up between them. Their rivalry was settled on scoring margins, not submissions, which fits the picture of two evenly matched grapplers who knew each other's game well.