IBJJFMay 12, 2017 by Hywel Teague
Galvao & Co In Action This Weekend, Last-Minute Tune-Up For IBJJF Worlds
Galvao & Co In Action This Weekend, Last-Minute Tune-Up For IBJJF Worlds
The IBJJF San Diego and Miami International Opens go down this weekend, and they are the last tournaments on American soil ahead of the World Championships that take place on May 31-June 4.
The IBJJF San Diego and Miami International Opens go down this weekend, and they are the last tournaments on American soil ahead of the World Championships that take place on May 31-June 4.
The list of black belts who have signed up in San Diego is impressive but not surprising. Seeing as there are a number of major jiu-jitsu teams based in the Californian city, you would expect their top guys to take to the mats in a last-minute tune-up before the biggest jiu-jitsu event of the year.
Points of interest include:
• The return of Ary Farias, last year's light feather silver medalist at Worlds. Following Paulo Miyao's doping sanction, Farias could be retroactively awarded the gold medal, his first IBJJF black belt World title.
• Andre Galvao back in the medium heavyweight division. Last year he competed at heavy and even ultra heavyweight!
• Nova Uniao black belts Marcio Andre and Horlando Monteiro in the lightweight and medium heavyweight divisions, respectively.
• Studio 540 gym owner and Gracie Barra black belt Robert Zeps, a Masters 4 competitor, in with the young guns at black belt heavyweight!
• Mackenzie Dern has signed up at middleweight, two divisions higher than her usual fighting weight of featherweight.
Miami has also attracted a number of top black belts, with a particularly large featherweight division with 10 competitors and a small but powerful ultra-heavyweight division!
• DJ Jackson has signed up at heavyweight(!). The Team Lloyd Irvin competitor is back in the gi in an effort to qualify for Worlds. He gold in the middleweight and silver in the absolute in the IBJJF Dallas Open last month, so should he medal at this tournament then he will have qualified.
• Roberto 'Cyborg' an Gabriel 'Fedor' are the only two entrants in the black belt ultra-heavyweight division.
Take a look at the full list of black belt competitors for both tournaments below:
The list of black belts who have signed up in San Diego is impressive but not surprising. Seeing as there are a number of major jiu-jitsu teams based in the Californian city, you would expect their top guys to take to the mats in a last-minute tune-up before the biggest jiu-jitsu event of the year.
Points of interest include:
• The return of Ary Farias, last year's light feather silver medalist at Worlds. Following Paulo Miyao's doping sanction, Farias could be retroactively awarded the gold medal, his first IBJJF black belt World title.
• Andre Galvao back in the medium heavyweight division. Last year he competed at heavy and even ultra heavyweight!
• Nova Uniao black belts Marcio Andre and Horlando Monteiro in the lightweight and medium heavyweight divisions, respectively.
• Studio 540 gym owner and Gracie Barra black belt Robert Zeps, a Masters 4 competitor, in with the young guns at black belt heavyweight!
• Mackenzie Dern has signed up at middleweight, two divisions higher than her usual fighting weight of featherweight.
Miami has also attracted a number of top black belts, with a particularly large featherweight division with 10 competitors and a small but powerful ultra-heavyweight division!
• DJ Jackson has signed up at heavyweight(!). The Team Lloyd Irvin competitor is back in the gi in an effort to qualify for Worlds. He gold in the middleweight and silver in the absolute in the IBJJF Dallas Open last month, so should he medal at this tournament then he will have qualified.
• Roberto 'Cyborg' an Gabriel 'Fedor' are the only two entrants in the black belt ultra-heavyweight division.
Take a look at the full list of black belt competitors for both tournaments below:
San Diego International Open Black Belt Entrants | Miami Spring International Open Black Belt Entrants |
---|---|
BLACK / Adult / Male / Rooster | BLACK / Adult / Male / Rooster |
Ronald Stephen Henderson Jr. | Javier Gomez |
Chad Daniel Lundy | Marcelo Cohen |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Light-Feather | BLACK / Adult / Male / Light-Feather |
Wallace Fernando Santos | Lucas dos Santos Pinheiro |
Bruno de Freitas Sena | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Feather | Mario Escurra |
Fabbio Passos de Alencar | João Ricardo Bordignon Miyao |
Orlando Machado da Silva Junior | Alexis Alduncin Barragan |
Ary de Melo Farias | |
Omar French | BLACK / Adult / Male / Feather |
Sergio Ernesto Hernandez | Jonathan Paul Thomas |
Brian Mahecha | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Light | Daniel Silva De Oliva |
Onofre Cardoso Guimarães Junqueira | Francisco Jackson Da Silva Matos |
Marcio Andre C. Barbosa Junior | Michael Joseph Pepio |
Carlos Eduardo Barroso da Silva | John Jason Lawrence |
Julio Cordova Reyes | Christopher M. Kriebel |
Victor de Matos | Joao Pereira |
Thiago Augusto Araujo Macedo | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Middle | Samir José Chantre Dahás |
Piter Frank Almeida Silva | |
Andris Auseklis Brunovskis | BLACK / Adult / Male / Light |
Nathan Albrecht Mendelsohn | Frederico Augusto Alves Silva |
Magid Hage IV | Kevin Javier Mahecha |
Yago Nanci EspÃndola | Gilson Nunes De Oliveira Neto |
Youngam Noh | Glaudiston Luiz Simczak |
Diego Dias Ramalho | Vitor Atalla Riciotti |
Alberto Serrano Govea | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Medium-Heavy | Felipe Hugo de Souza Simplicio |
Andre Luiz Leite Galvão | |
Lucas Daniel Silva Barbosa | BLACK / Adult / Male / Middle |
Eduardo Telles Moreira | Jonathan T. Satava |
Horlando de Jesus Monteiro | Victor Silverio Santos |
Justin Workman | Edward Hohl |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Heavy | BLACK / Adult / Male / Medium-Heavy |
Vitor Fabio Martins Toledo | Samir Abdolkader |
Gabriel Procópio da Fonseca | Valdir Araujo de Lima Júnior |
Arnaldo Maidana de Oliveira | Thiago Alves de Sousa |
Robert Zeps | Robby Malof |
Nick Schrock | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Heavy | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Super-Heavy | Jurandir Vieira da Conceição |
Rafael Figueiredo Macedo Fraga | Jose M Portillo Jr |
Dany Guy Steve Gerard | De'Alonzio Jerome Jackson |
Wellington Modena Peroto | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Super-Heavy | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Ultra-Heavy | Matheus Maia Abreu Lopes |
Erberth Santos de Mesquita | Helton Jose Mendes da Silva Junior |
Carlos Eduardo de Araujo Farias | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Ultra-Heavy | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Light-Feather | Gabriel Lyrio Lucas |
Rayanne Amanda Carmo dos Santos | Roberto de Abreu Filho |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Light | BLACK / Adult / Female / Rooster |
Beatriz de Oliveira Mesquita | Kanako Inaba |
Jena Rae Bishop | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Light | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Middle | Andrezza Façanha Pinho |
Emilie Maxine M. H. Thylin | Melissa Bentley |
Mackenzie Lynne Dern |