The latest edition of the Abu Dhabi grand slam tour took place today in Tokyo, Japan.
Plenty of big names made the trip to the other side of the globe. Among them are Mackenzie Dern, Xande Ribeiro, Felipe Preguica, Gabriel Arges and others.
Dern was keeping her jiu-jitsu sharp when not training MMA and won the brown/black adult 70kg division having finished Australia’s Megan Green via leg lock.
Elsewhere the biggest match of the tournament was Xande Ribeiro against Felipe Pena in the finale of the upto 94kg division. To get there Xande Ribeiro secured at least two submissions (pictured below)
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Xande hung in there but ended up losing via points – final score being 4:2 for Felipe Pena.
Gabriel Arges struggled a little bit in the semi finals but ended up defeating Youngam Nog after all. Arges secured a victory via advantage and moved on to the finals where he won against Al Kitbe on points.
The complete list of scores is attached below:
62KG DIVISION
1ST Tomoyuki Hashimoto
2ND Kazuhiro Miyachi
3RD Kei Ito
69KG DIVISION
1ST Tiago Bravo
2ND Daisuke Shiraki
3RD Charles Gaspar
77KG DIVISION
1ST Roberto Satoshi
2ND Robson Tano
3RD Kleber Koike
85KG DIVISION
1ST Gabriel Arges
2ND Faisal Al Kitbe
3RD Youngam Noh
94KG DIVISION
1ST Felipe Pena
2ND Alexandre Ribeiro
3RD Alan Fidelis
110KG DIVISION
1ST Jose Junior
2ND André Campos
3RD Choi Dongwa
55KG FEMALE DIV.
1ST Rikako Yuasa
2ND Mei Yamagushi
3RD Yuxing Xiong
70KG FEMALE DIV.
1ST Mackenzie Dern
2ND Megan Green
90KG FEMALE DIV.
1ST Nathiely de Jesus
Full replay of the event is available on Flograppling!
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