John Danaher recently shared his thoughts on the Craig Jones Invitational – praising it, despite the Danaher Death Squad team split and subsequent beef.

While none of his students from New Wave Jiu-Jitsu competed at the event, Danaher closely followed the tournament.
And, during a conversation with Jake Shields on his podcast, he gave an enthusiastic review of the event:

That was a fantastic show. They did an incredible job.

Not only did they do an incredible show, they did an incredible job against all the odds.
The show wasn’t even conceived until a relatively short time before it was put in place.

Although Danaher himself wasn’t present at the first Craig Jones Invitational, Craig Jones has expressed confidence that New Wave Jiu-Jitsu will have a team competing in the second edition.

Danaher also highlighted the impressive speed at which Jones and his team were able to organize such a high-level event:

You’ve got to do a lot of work, you’ve got to get a lot of little bureaucratic things done.

And to put on an international-level show, I think they had like three or four months to get it ready, it’s not long at all.
And to get it that good on the first attempt, it was impressive.