Did you know?

• ▸ Across 10 recorded matches, Mani Tavanaei has 3 wins and 7 losses. His 3 wins came by three different routes: 1 by points, 1 by submission, and 1 by other.
• ▸ Tavanaei met Hiago George 3 times on record and lost all 3. That is a matchup that clearly had his number.
• ▸ His recorded work leans heavily toward the gi, with 8 gi matches against only 2 no-gi. If you want to study him, expect a gi grappler.
• ▸ Tavanaei's submission win rate sits at 33 percent on record, just under the site average of 40 percent. His lone submission finish came over Alexis Alduncin at the 2018 Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship.
• ▸ The 2018 Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship is his most frequent event with 3 appearances, and it is also where he picked up his only recorded submission win.