Rico Bastos

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• ▸ Across 13 recorded matches, Rico Bastos went 5 and 8, and none of those 5 wins came by submission. That puts his submission win rate at 0 percent against a site average of 40 percent, so his wins came from grinding out results rather than finishing.
• ▸ All 8 of his recorded losses ended in one of two ways: 5 by submission and 3 by points. That is a fighter who either got caught or lost the exchange on the scoreboard, not someone bleeding out advantages.
• ▸ In 2015 he beat Mansher Khera by advantage at the 2015 IBJJF Boca Raton Open, then took a decision over Diogo Araujo at the 2015 IBJJF Austin International Open Jiu-Jitsu Championships. Both wins were the tightest kind, decided by margins rather than finishes.
• ▸ His recorded matches run from 2012 to 2015, with 2015 as his busiest year at 5 matches. That late spike is also where his cleanest results show up.
• ▸ Of his 13 recorded matches, 12 were in the gi and only 1 was no-gi, and that lone no-gi outing produced a win over Sergio Santos da Costa Filho at the 2012 IBJJF World No-Gi Championship.