Poster and pics by @jeffreyschu

20 year old Gordon Ryan is a man on a mission. He wants to be the best grappler on the planet and he intends to face all the best grapplers at all weight classes!

Gordon Ryan with around 5 years of training, in the last few months, submitted the gold, silver, and bronze medalists of ADCC (Olympics of submission grappling) Yuri Simoes, Keenan Cornelius, and Rustam Chsiev. All of which are a weight class above his own, Which in ADCC is a big jump (over 20lbs).
Now he has pushed hard to face another member of the grappling elite: the 2014 BJJ world champion (later stripped of title for failing doping test) and 2016 ADCC silver medalist Felipe ‘Preguica’ Pena in a sub only no time limit format which he favours.

The event will go down at Studio 540 in Solana beach, California on December 17th and will be streamed Live on Flograppling.com. It will be financed by Mr Mo Jassim, an Emiratee businessman who is a big grappling fan as well as an ADCC referee. Other big match ups will be:

Nicky Ryan vs Kennedy Maciel (Cobrinha’s son) under 30 min ebi ot rules and Garry Tonon vs Kim Terra.

Gordon told BJJEE.com about his motivation behind this superfight:

This is a match I’ve wanted for a while. Pena is very tall and long like myself. He was one of my favorites to watch last adcc with his aggressive guard passing style. He’s one of the biggest names in modern submission grappling and it’s going to be an honor to compete against him. I’m just a young kid who wants to test himself against the greatest names to ever compete. Shout out to Mr Pena for accepting .

Ryan also added:

I wanted to talk about all the cash revolving around my name. If you’re a no gi grappler and want to make money. King Ryan is the match to have. In my match with Pena I will be making 10,000$ to lose and 20,000$ if I win. In other words, I’ll be walking away with 20,000$ The top guys will have no choice but to chase matches with me now. I run the show. Top guys want big money to compete. Well now the money is there thanks to Mr mo Jassim. Buchecha, Rafa, where you at?