This week on the show Maine and Josh recap the 2025 IBJJF World Championship, and preview WNO 28.

We recap all the all the action from the Mundials 2025. Breaking down all the black belt finals matches. We discuss Adam Wardziński winning his second world title to complete the jiu jitsu Grand Slam before retiring on the podium. We talk about his influence on our games and the joys we have had covering him over the years.

We talk about Mia Funegra making history as the youngest female black belt champ with a dominant 12-0 performance in the 53kg final. We also talk about where both Tainan Dalpra's continued dominance at middleweight, and where he potentially goes from here. Discussing his possible move to No-Gi. We talk about Joao 'Bisnaga' Mendes's underdog win at featherweight from the 22 seed slot and, and another absolute division victory for Gabrieli Pessanha.

In the preview section of the show we preview the WNO 28. The main evented by Jonnatas Gracie defending his middleweight title against the highly aggressive Mica Galvão. We breakdown of this matchup, contrasting Gracie's tactical pressure and somewhat methodical pace and control against Galvão's explosive submission entries and creative scrambles.

In the co-main event, we talk about the return of Xande Ribeiro on back to back cards taking on also un-retired Kit Dale in a clash of styles.

We discuss Lucas "Hulk" Barbosa, known for his physicality and dominant top game vs Dory Aoun.

Plus we also preview the rest of the main card, including a light heavyweight bout between submission artist Fellipe Andrew and B-Teams Declan Moody, and a welterweight bout between the unorthodox style of 10th Planet's Kyle Chambers against Victor Silverio.

In the outro we discussed cornering our teammate at his fight this weekend.

Recorded 7-8-2025