John Danaher
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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That's correct.
This was in fact the first time in history that this was allowed.
For your listeners who don't follow grappling, we may have been very rude in just throwing a lot of stuff at you without explaining ourselves.
First of all, ADCC is like the Olympics of grappling.
It occurs every two years.
You can either qualify for the event through winning matches and a qualification process, or you can be invited.
The only people who get invited are either former winners or people in the sport who are just widely recognized superstars who bring some kind of brand value, who have proven in the past that they have what it takes to compete at that level.
In this format, there are two kinds of matches.
weight division matches in which you compete against people roughly your own size and weight.
There is an open weight where anyone of any size can enter.
So you can have very small people fighting very large people.
And there is a second category called a super fight where established champions who have won previous open weight tournaments fight each other in one-off battles, one athlete against another.
So in most of the matches, you will fight repetitively over time towards a gold medal.
But in one category, you fight one fight, the so-called super fight, which is usually the headline fight of the event.
Traditionally, if you were in the super fight, you could not compete in the weight categories.
It was seen as too risky because you might get injured during the weight category, or you might have to fight four very tough fights in a row and get exhausted so that you're ineffective during the main event of the show, the super fight.
So throughout its history, ADCC has always resisted the idea of an athlete being allowed to do both weight category and a super fight.
It's never happened before.
Gordon Ryan requested to be able to do this.
Because of his extraordinary stature in the sport, the ADCC organization granted his request.
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