Rivalry · 6 recorded meetings

Gianni Grippo vs Shane Jamil Hill-Taylor

Head-to-head record

Gianni

Shane

Gianni

Shane

2017 → 2018, oldest first

Did you know?

Across their 5 recorded meetings, 4 were finals, and Grippo won all 4 of those to build his 4 to 1 series lead.
Hill-Taylor's lone win in the series came in the Round of 16 at the 2017 Pan Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship, by decision.
Grippo finishes 27% of his wins while Hill-Taylor finishes 46% of his, a real gap in how each man tends to close out a match.
Grippo has 296 recorded matches to Hill-Taylor's 70, but Hill-Taylor holds the higher win rate at 80% to 73%.
Against a shared opponent, Thiago Macedo, Hill-Taylor is 5-0 while Grippo is 2-1.

The rivalry

Gianni Grippo and Shane Jamil Hill-Taylor met 5 times on record, and Grippo holds a 4 to 1 edge. Four of those meetings were finals, which tells you these two were regularly the last men standing in the same brackets across both gi and no-gi. Hill-Taylor's only win came earlier, in the Round of 16 at the 2017 Pan Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship, by decision.

What decided most of these matches was the scoreboard, not the finish. Three of Grippo's four wins came by points, and the other, in the final of the 2018 European Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship, came down to a single advantage. That is close, grinding jiu-jitsu between two peers at Peso Pena rather than one man running the other over.

The two carry different profiles overall. Grippo has 296 recorded matches at a 73% win rate with a 27% submission rate on his wins, leaning on control and his Gi Choke From Back, his most frequent finish with 15. Hill-Taylor's record is shorter at 70 matches but a higher 80% win rate and a 46% submission rate on wins, so he tends to hunt the finish more often when he does win.

Career stats

Stat	Gianni	Shane
Recorded matches	308	74
Record (W-L-D)	223-78-7	57-17-0
Win rate	72%	77%
Submission rate (of wins)	26%	46%
Favorite finish	Gi Choke From Back (14)	unknown (6)