Silver medallist in 2013 and 2015, Joao Gabriel Rocha is eyeing a gold at the 2017 ADCC World Championships later this year after receiving his official invite. 



The Rio de Janeiro-bon grappler, now based in Texas, will make his third trip to the biennial no-gi submissiong grappling tournament. 

Competing in the +99kg division in 2015, Rocha fought his way through a 40-minute absolute division final to lose a 0-0 decision to overall winner Claudio Calasans. 

Rocha had beaten friend and occasional training partner Rodolfo Vieira in the semi-final earlier in the tournament. 

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Watch: Joao Gabriel Rocha training wrestling before ADCC 2015