UAE Jiu-Jitsu federation has just announced that this year’s edition of the World Pro Jiu-Jitsu championships will be the first time ever a 10 day event. More than 5,000 competitors from 100 countries will be competing in the 8th edition of the Abu Dhabi World Pro Jiu-Jitsu Championship. This now makes it the biggest BJJ tournament in the world, surpassing the IBJJF European championship. Earlier this year with 3,517 registered competitors, the Europeans became the biggest championship in the world, surpassing the Pan (3,000 this year).

For the first time ever, the Word Pro will be streamed live in English on Flograppling.com for 4 days straight.

At the world pro, BJJ athletes will be competing for a bigger than ever prize money of $ 630,000 divided into several categories at the event.

The brackets are extremely stacked and promise some exciting matches!

Male Black belt +94KG

Braket side A
Otavio Nalati vs Victor Honório
Igor Silva vs Chris Bowe

Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida (bi in first match)
André Campos vs Mahamed Aly

Gustavo Dias Elias vs Raphael Souza
José Junior (bi in first match)

Bracket side B

Alexander Tráns vs Antonio Henriques
Pablo Yuri Aragao vs Luiz Panza

Lucio “Lagarto” (bi in first match)
Roberto “Cyborg” Abreu vs Daniel Leal

Dany Gerard vs Gabriel Lucas
Ricardo Evangelista (bi in first match)

Male Black belt -94KG

Braket side A
Faisal Al Ketbi vs Handr Peter
Karol Piotr Migo vs Arya Esfandmaz

Isaac Toledo Dul (bi in first match)
Erberth Santos vs Michael Douglas Almeida

“Nelton” Pontes vs Herico Hesley
Keenan Cornelius (bi in first match)

Braket side B
Alexandro Ceconi vs Max Wisniewski
Diogo “Moreno” vs Felipe Pena

Jackson Souza vs Nalmir Oliveira
Thiago Pessoa vs Rodolpho Bomfim

Andre Galvao (bi in first match)

MALE BLACK -85KG

Braket side A
Melksedec Ferreira Franco vs Viking Wong
Guto Campos vs Romulo Azevedo

Claudio Calasans vs Luiz Felipe Santos
Abner Soares Souza (bi in first match)

Thabet Taher vs Ygor Machado
Keller Locke-Sodhi vs Igor Basilio Sousa

Arturo Salas Espies vs Alberto Gonzalez Ortiz
Romario Gonzalles Martins vs Romulo Barral

Braket side B
Renato Cardoso vs Victor Freitas
Thiago Sá vs Charles Santos

Murilo Santana vs Rodrigo Reis
Nino Ambrosini (bi in first match)

Tyler Bishop vs Patrick Gaudio
Gareth Neale vs Karol Dzieniszewski

Magid Hage vs Lucas Figueiredo
Leandro Lo (bi in first match)

MALE BLACK -77KG

Braket side A
Davi Ramos vs Marcos Tinoco
Ilke Bulut vs Andre Arruda

Alex Cabanes (bi in first match)
Gabriel Rollo vs Felipe Cesar

AJ Agazarm vs Kevin Mahecha
Carlos Vinicius (bi in first match)

Ian De Toro vs Roberto Satoshi
Lachlan Giles vs Gabriel Procopio

Ross Nicholls (bi in first match)
Lucas Lepri vs Luan Carvalho

Youngam Noh vs William Dias
Jonathan Satava vs (bi in first match)

Braket side B

Akira Hosokawa vs Caio Silva
Arbi Muradov vs Adriano Pereira Araujo

Edwin Najmi (bi in first match)
Jhonny Loureiro vs Bruno Martins

Marcos Costa vs Hassem Moussa
Lucas Benevolo Valle (bi in first match)

Cedric Akakpovi vs Cesar Miyahira
Rafael Naves Carvalho vs Rodrigo Caporal

Gabriel Arges vs Andre Luiz Almeida
Jefferson Cordeiro vs Luis Gabriel Venturino

Sam Gibson (bi in first match)

MALE BLACK -69KG

Braket side A
Leonardo Fernandes vs Isaque Paiva
Erick Morais Sá vs Mario Edson Silva

Tiago Bravo vs (bi in first match)
Victor de Matos vs Abdallah Hibar Nabas

Paulo Miyao (bi in first match)
Vinicius Wingerter Lima vs Brian Mahecha

Murat Besnek (bi in first match)

Braket side B
Wanki Chae vs Gianni Grippo
Sergio Calderen vs Raphael Cadena

Rafael Machado Mansur (bi in first match)
Italo Lins vs Samuel Hertzog Canquerino

Marcio Andre vs Lee Ting
Gilson Nunes (bi in first match)

MALE BLACK -62KG

Braket side A
Daniel Vieira vs Mathias Jardin
Jose Eduardo Oliveira vs Hiago George

Braket side B
Rodnei Barbosa vs Joao Bosco Gouveia
Tomoyuki Hashimoto vs Wellington Lima

Joao Miyao (bi in first match)

Female Brown / Black –55Kg

Side One
Ariadne De Oliveira vs Laurence Cousin Fouillat
Anna Kavoura vs Jessica De Henriques
Kate Wilson ss Ana Talita Alencar
Mackenzie Lynne Dern (bi in first match)

Side Two
Michelle Nicolini vs Sofia Rosa Amarante
Liwia Gluchowska vs Flavia Guimaraes Quintare..
Clarissa Lacerda vs Marina Soares Ribeiro
Aline De Coelho vs Amal Amjahid

Female Brown / Black –62Kg

Side One
Nadia Maria Melo vs Jess Fraser
Leoni Jane Munslow vs Erin Herle
DeBorah Santos vs Ariane Pereira Guarnier
Beatriz Oliveira Mesquita (bi in first match)

Side Two
Hope Douglass vs Bianca Barbosa Basilio
Luiza Monteiro Costa vs Ida Floisvik
Isabel Alfaro Arreaga vs Heather Raftery
Jena Rae Bishop vs Jessica Cristina Santos

Female Brown / Black –70Kg

Side One
Priscilla Assuncao Santos vs Ana Carolina Srour
Luanna A Alzuguir vs Nathiely Melo Jesus
Luciana Lemes Kusaka vs Jessica Silva
Claudia Fernanda Va vs Polyana Barbosa

Side Two
Ana Carolina Lima vs Amanda Elouise Benavides
Tara White vs Priscila Cardoso
Katia Guimaraes Pina vs Yacinta Nguyen Huu
Monique Elias vs Samantha Cook

Female Brown / Black +70Kg

Side One
Jonna Konivuori vs Nayara Sousa Plesa
Ewelyn Arruda (bi in first match)
Joaquina Bonfim Neta vs Tereza Crisley Souza
Tayane Porfírio de Araújo (bi in first match)

Side Two

Tammy May Griego vs Anna Carolina Tavares
Caroline Silva (bi in first match)
Marcela Fernandes Caiafa vs Fernanda Mazzelli
Vanessa Oliveira (bi in first match)