Did you know?

• ▸ Rene Lopez met Joao Miyao 5 times on record and lost all 5. That kind of repeated matchup against one of the sharpest guard players of the era tells you a lot about the level he was competing at.
• ▸ Of Lopez's 6 recorded wins, 2 came by submission, 2 by points, and 2 by other methods. His submission win rate sits at 33 percent, a bit under the site average of 40 percent.
• ▸ Lopez competed mostly in the gi, with 25 recorded gi matches against 9 in no-gi. If you are studying his game, the gi footage is where most of it lives.
• ▸ His recorded matches span from 2014 to 2022, with 2018 as his busiest year at 9 matches. That is a long stretch of active competition to draw from.
• ▸ At the 2021 IBJJF World Championship Lopez beat Ram Ananda by submission and Luis Felipe Ninja Pinto on points. That event shows up 3 times in his record, more than most.