"This is elite grappling competition at its purest form, a showcase for the world's best grapplers on the world's biggest stage."
"When the dust settled, Felipe came out on top after 45 minutes of competition, securing the choke and the win."
"The ADCC World Championships: a place where legends are made."
"In 2019, Gordon Ryan cemented his place as an elite ADCC champion with six out of eight submissions."
"You're all here because you're some of the best and most exciting up-and-coming grapplers in the world. You're here for a reason. There's a grappling legend amongst us, and we're going to find out who's next."
"His understanding of grappling is impressive, is the best I've ever felt, the best I've ever seen."
"If you are grappling someone, you become slowed. So if you're holding onto someone, you move slow. Oh, that's cool, I like that."
"He's always been a good grappler, but last night he looked sensational."
"I don't think he's going to focus on your leg locks. I'm going to attract fast sweep. It's gonna be me just flanking him, forcing him as a half guard, passing him repeatedly."
"All the talking ends. There will be no judges, no controversial calls, no points or advantages. Just two of the world's best grapplers and only one way to win: guaranteed submission."
"Gordon Ryan is the greatest no-gi grappler in my opinion."
"A display of skill from the number one pound-for-pound no-gi grappler in the world."
"There's something about his fights, they're always entertaining, there's a ton of grappling in them, it's high level fastpac, so yeah, that's my pick for fight of the night."
"He fights tall and when he grapples, he grapples with purpose, verve, and asymmetry."
"Judo can be a very effective martial art because of its focus on leverage and grappling."
"It's not like, 'Oh dude, isn't it going to get that result?' You cover every single weave that can happen around the body lock."
"He's a submission Hunter and could be a very, very dominant Grappler." - Commentator
"In a general fight, I'll go with the grappler. Strikers who don't understand grappling don't have an exit plan."
"It's not about the answer as much as it is about the willingness to grapple with it."
"Oftentimes grappling and maybe shoving an enemy will do more for your party than like 10 or 15 more damage in a round would have done."
"It becomes extremely easy to control them because they usually give up their neck."
"Alexander Volkanovsky, fought the best scrappers in the world, they've had positions on him, they've strapped on their best submissions but no one could make him tap."
"It's great that noge grappling is getting that huge."
"The whole idea of positional loss, everyone was critically critical of leg locks. Now, if you go for leg locks and they don't work, well now you're in trouble. The guy's going to be on top of you. They never make that criticism with arm bars."
"A decision win in a hard-fought battle. Excellent grappling on display both offensive and defensive."
"Prompt will be an essential document for people thinking about how to grapple with this."
"Incredible submission grappling skills."
"It's about someone grappling with the truth and realizing how hard it can be to accept the truth."
"I feel like the grappling world is gonna be somewhat changed after this sec."
"Give it up for the number one no key grappler in the world."
"I felt good. It's nice to be able to grapple for the first time in four years without just wanting to throw up every single second."
"2024 ADCC is going to be the big one that I think is going to be the biggest grappling event of all time by a landslide."
"If I get into an argument with an idiot who's like, 'I'm just too strong,' I could be like, 'Well, I literally grappled the strongest person on the planet, I assure you that it works.'"
"I'm not just a Grappler, I'm not just a wrestler, I'm actually one of the best strikers in the world."
"He's also a very big guy. Grappling is more of holding onto him and preventing him from moving, but he can still move. It's a hard thing. It's a little wishy-washy at this size."
"Approaching grappling from the standpoint of okay I need to be dominant and I need to be winning but I also need to have an aesthetic to this thing that makes it look like I'm also being really dominant too."
"This is what happens when you beat a grappling legend like Hoer Gracie, you just make a lot of money."
"...if you have high level grappling like you know the movements you know what the where to position yourself you know could take you pretty far...you could make yourself really hard to handle just by your positions alone..."
"Everyone thanks very much. I like to thank these guys but for helping us but also my own personal journey they both made my life a lot more fun by teaching me a lot of grappling and so thanks so much."
"Try everything, try gi, try no-gi, try judo, try wrestling, try all these levels of grappling."
"So essentially, that's why the headlock is dangerous on the ground because you had me here. Yeah, nothing was protecting my hips from coming out."
"That's more a problem with nogi with ghee once it's hard to get your arm back in with you it's harder."
"For me, that's like the truest form of grappling."
"His grappling's gotten so much better."
"I have a philosophy of coaching submission grappling which puts the emphasis on bottom position you attack the lower body first everything else second and top position you focus on passing first and upper body submissions first and lower body second that's the breakdown."
"It's pretty interesting to be forced to do something that you're uncomfortable with, and to have to grapple with what role you're playing in the creation of the culture that these girls are participating in."
"I'm a better grappler than I've ever been in every single way."
"ADCC Asia and Oceana trials, the pinnacle of grappling."
"It's funny because the half guard passer, good half guard passers have the same exact goal that you do. He should be trying to work himself down my hips in order to isolate my hips, whereas I'm trying to work myself down his hips in order to do good things to him."
"Heavyweights can't grapple, it's been a rumor for a while, it just got proven tonight."
"Chris Weidman is a very good grappler."
"Glover Teixeira's grappling is very good."
"Nikki Ryan immediately sitting guard, Renee Souza looking to pass on top."
"'Winning doesn't mean holding, it's about effective grappling and striking.'"
"The big takeaway here is an incremental approach to side control. You start with hip control, I'm not in a hurry to get past the hip, I need to stabilize the position."
"People either think grappling is brutal or that it's harmless. It's definitely neither."
"It's been two years now that I've been the number one pound-for-pound grappler in the world."
"She's got it, oh she's got it in deep."
"All matches are 15 minutes in length, with no points, no advantages, just elite competitive grappling."
"He's phenomenal, like he's won ADCC twice; he's a monster."
"It was such a beautiful thing to tap people out every night, and get tapped out, you're winning and you're losing this game of death."
"The three minutes this went was some of the most beautiful ground working grappling you'll ever see."
"My style of grappling is described, I think, best as relentless."
"When you submit the guy with the most submission victories in the company, you are in the top spot."
"If you're well attached to your opponent, where you go, they will go."
"Muay Thai is also a great gateway drug to grappling."
"Brilliant strategy by Keith Krikorian, uses the ankle lock attempt to get to the top position."
"What a back take, that was fantastic."
"He's everything that a grappling fan wants to see."
"Grappling, broadly stated, is superior to striking in a one-on-one situation."
"I just don't want to be a grappler; I want to be the top grappler of YouTube."
"That was probably like one of the biggest, the best scene ever in a grappling tournament in my life."
"I think it was the most exciting grappling thing ever."
"Judo is the ultimate sport for launching you into the ground better than anyone else."
"Hamza Chameleon is just different level when it comes to grappling."
"This is some great grappling that you're watching today."
"This was maybe the highest level grappling I've ever seen in an MMA fight."
"The original Karate forms had a bunch of grappling techniques in them."
"If I can tap you without the hands, imagine what I can do with them."
"This is the true epitome of world championship grappling right here."
"You've found a real appreciation for grappling."
"When you watch UFC now, you'll see like you appreciate all that wrestling and grappling, and you actually know what's going on."
"Grappling is grappling; if you're a good wrestler, you've learned the basics of really... that's the fundamentals."
"He is a three-time EBI invitational champion and the number one ranked lightweight no-gi grappler in the world."
"One of the best nicknames in all of grappling."
"He's got really, really good grappling that I really, really highly respect."
"This is high level grappling coming from a very young man, ladies and gentlemen."
"When you're on top, your hands are your base."
"This is a moment that we certainly mourn and have to grapple with repair."
"Two of the most skilled fighters on the whole card, two of the best grapplers in the entire UFC going at it."
"You're rarely going to ever see a potential grappling exchange like you will with Oliveira versus Makashev."
"He is one of the best Grapplers in that division."
"Khabib absolutely revolutionized MMA grappling."
"Khabib Nurmagomedov, the best grappler to ever compete in MMA in my opinion."
"She's getting so much better as a Grappler in this sport."
"He's more most likely the best grappler out of every middleweight there's nobody on his level right now."