The 2024 ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship is an upcoming international

submission grappling Submission wrestling, also known as Submission grappling, Submission fighting a form of competition and a general term for martial arts and combat sports that focus on Clinch fighting, clinch and ground fighting with the aim of obtaining a Submis ...

tournament to be held at the T-Mobile Arena in

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, Nevada, USA, in August 2024.

Background

The

ADCC World Championship The ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship, is an international submission wrestling, submission grappling competition, organised by the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC). The inaugural tournament was held in Abu Dhabi, UAE in 1998. It has been ...

is a

tournament held every two years, widely considered to be the most prestigious submission grappling tournament in the world. Competitors have to qualify by finishing first at a continental qualifying events, known as ADCC Trials, or by being invited to compete by the organization. Returning champions were automatically qualified. 2024 will be the first edition of the tournament to have a third women's weight division. This marks the first edition of the tournament since 2007 to have more than two women's divisions. Head organizer Mo Jassim later confirmed that this would also be the first edition of the tournament since 2007 to include a women's absolute division. It was announced in July that all competitors would be paid to show for the first time ever, and that they would receive a minimum of $2,500.

Participants

Men's divisions will have sixteen competitors: eight qualified athletes, seven invitations and the defending ADCC champion. Women's divisions will have eight competitors: approximately four qualified athletes, three invitations and the defending ADCC champion; there may be some variation due to returning champions, invitees and trials winners moving into different weight divisions. Only the female winners of European, Asia & Oceania, North American, and South American second trials qualify for the World Championship.

Qualifiers

Invitees

ADCC 2024 Superfight

Traditionally, ADCC Superfights feature the reigning Superfight champion vs the previous tournament's Absolute champion.

Gordon Ryan Gordon Ryan (born July 8, 1995) is an American submission grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu 1st degree black belt, considered to be the greatest no–gi grappler of all time due to his accomplishments and dominance. Ryan is a Five–time ADCC W ...

won the Superfight and

Yuri Simões Yuri Simões (born June 18, 1990) is a Brazilian grappler, BJJ practitioner and mixed martial artist, signed with Singapore-based mixed martial arts promotion ONE Championship. He is a three time ADCC World Champion in three different weight div ...

won the Absolute division at the

2022 ADCC World Championship The 2022 ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship was a two-day no-gi submission grappling event that took place on 17-18 September 2022 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. History The tournament was originally scheduled ...

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References

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