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#390 Tye Vs Dante 3 and IBJJF 2025 Brazilian Nationals Recap

Grappling Rewind Staff Episode 390

This week on the show Maine and Miranda recap the Middleweight Title Bout between Tye Ruotolo and Dante Leon. We discuss this third matchup at One Championship. Plus we recap the Brazillian Nationals 2025. 

In the news section we talk about the New Wave rebrand to Kingswave, and the CJI Wildcard team. 

In the recap of One Tye Vs Dante 3 we discussed the phenomenal guard work from Dante paired against some of the best passing in the world from Tye. We discussed all of the sequences of the match and the way that Tye continue to deal with grips and initiate passing attempts off of the guard of Dante. Lead to a decision in favor of Tye.

In the recap of the 2025 IBJJF Brasileiro the third major grand slam event of the year we recapped all of the finishes for the adult black belts, and discussed some of the more interesting sequences in select finals matches of the tournament. We talked about some of the huge upsets, as well as some of the matches that merited a rewatch. We also talked about some of the recurring themes in some of the matches at the event with low scoring, singular cycle guards being played against a singular passing style.

Recorded 5-5-2025