The biggest and most prestigious submission wrestling tournament in the world, the ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Championship) will be held in Brazil in 2015.

The last time it was in Brazil was in 2003, in Sao Paulo. The event was originally planned to be held in the city of Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon forest, but for logistical reasons  the event will now be held once again in  Sao Paulo on Aug. 28-30.

ADCC official Elefterios Magiropoulos broke the news to Graciemag:

“Manaus is a large Brazilian city, and welcomed us in two major events: the Regional Brazilian ADCC and the Regional Selective for ADCC. However, as a matter of logistics, we decided to make the ADCC 2015 in Sao Paulo. The city has hosted major fight events and ADCC is very happy to welcome its stars in the state capital, “

The last champions are automatically confirmed to compete:

Rubens Charles “Cobrinha”, Kron Gracie, Romulo Barral, Joao Assis, Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida, Roberto “Cyborg” Abreu, Michelle Nicolini and Gabi Garcia all have confirmed their participation.

Superfights will feature:

“Cyborg” Abreu, who won the absolute division in 2013 vs Andre Galvao.

The legends superfight will be Renzo Gracie vs  Matt Hughes in a 10-minute match, and American Top Team coach Ricardo Liborio vs  Ze Mario Sperry.

Kron Gracie revealed in an interview with TATAME, that he wants to participate again in ADCC this year, but ruled compete in the IBJJF Worlds. According to Kron, the gold medal at the ADCC was, until now, the most important achievement of his career. Kron submitted all of his opponents to win the title of 77kg category of the 2013 ADCC, held in China. Gold came after Gracie apply a beautiful guillotine on Otavio Sousa in the final.

“I will continue dedicating myself to MMA in 2015, but fighting in the ADCC interests me, yes.. The Jiu-Jitsu Worlds does not interest me, I see fighters with a different goal from mine. They want to hold your sleeve, grab you and wait for time to pass. They just want to stall the game. I do not see this as a real fight, I see only as a strategy to win. For me, Jiu-Jitsu is much more than that, “