John Danaher

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · 10 Oct 2022 podcast

That was the first time ever.

In addition, Gordon Ryan would be fighting to be the first person to win three gold medals in three different weight categories.

This has never been done before.

So it was a huge event on Gordon's part.

And bear in mind also that prior to this event, he had fought just a month and a half earlier against...

a former ADCC openweight champion, Felipe Pena, who had defeated him in the past in a completely different rule set, and then previous to that against the current world champion.

So there'd been a build-up to this.

So he'd been very active coming up to the event, and then he went in to fight arguably the greatest ADCC champion of all time, Andre Galvan, which would occur late on Sunday, and would have to fight

the toughest people, including the possibility of fighting his nemesis, Felipe Pena, in the weight division prior to getting to the super fight.

So there was genuine concern here that he may have completely overstepped himself.

The biggest concern I had as a coach, and I'm sure the organizers, Mo Jasim, must have had the same concern, is that he would get injured

or exhausted fighting in his weight division.

There were two athletes in particular, Felipe Pena, who had given Gordon a very tough 40-minute match in a no rules setting shortly before ADCC, and his former training partner, Nick Rodriguez, who were expected to give Gordon very, very tough matches if they came up against each other.

So there was a genuine concern that Gordon may burn himself out before he even got to fight the guy who most people believe is the greatest ADCC champion of all time.

So our concern was how do we manage this?

So what we looked for is extremely efficient methods of reducing the time of the matches, making the matches as short as possible.

our favorite way to fight bigger, stronger athletes.

And I think Gordon was the lightest athlete in his weight division.

Everyone goes, oh, Gordon's so big and strong.

He's actually quite light.

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