Rivalry · 6 recorded meetings

Leandro Lo vs Renato Cardoso

Head-to-head record

Leandro

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Leandro

Renato

2013 → 2018, oldest first

Did you know?

Across 6 recorded meetings, Leandro Lo went 6-0 against Renato Cardoso with no draws.
Five of their 6 meetings took place in the semi-finals, meaning they were regularly colliding deep in major brackets.
Five of the 6 matches were decided by points, with the lone exception being a Toe Hold finish by Lo at the 2016 Pan Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship.
Cardoso finished 47% of his 106 recorded wins by submission, but he never scored a submission against Lo.
Every one of their recorded meetings, spanning 2013 to 2018, was contested in the gi.

The rivalry

On record, Leandro Lo and Renato Cardoso met 6 times, and Lo won all 6. This was a one-sided rivalry on the scoreboard, even if the matches themselves were competitive. Five of the six meetings landed in semi-finals, which tells you they were running into each other at the business end of major brackets rather than early rounds.

The two built their games differently. Lo carried an 84% win rate across 296 recorded matches with a submission rate of 21% of his wins, leaning on a passing and points game that is reflected here: five of the six meetings were decided by points. Cardoso, by contrast, shows a 47% submission rate across his 106 wins, a more finish-oriented profile, but against Lo he never got to play that game. The one time this rivalry ended in a finish, it was Lo doing the finishing.

That came at the 2016 Pan Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship, where Lo closed the match with a Toe Hold. Everything else went to points, in the gi, across events like the 2015 World Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship and the Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2016. The pattern is consistent: Cardoso could get to the same stages as Lo, but could not solve him.