Ribeiro pulled the fight to the guard and -still standing - he gave-up of this and returned to the gi's grips against Tiago Gaia. So this time for Gaia pulls to the half-guard. It seemed to have eased the job of Xande, who caught the back of Gaia and choked him out in 4:40. Xande commentated a lot his victory and showed a t-shirt with Carlson's image on it. He lifted the t-shirt and told everybody Carlson was the best.


Super-Pesado

Robert Drysdale pulled to the half-guard, and in my opinion this is not the good way of starting a match against a fighter of Roger's caliber. Roger had no mercy of Drysdale and passed his guard and grabbed the back of Drysdale, and tried to sink a lapel's choke. Drysdale gave in the mount position when turned, and Roger sunk a frontal choke at 3:30.


Galo

The guys began the fight with a high-speed pace but
believe or not they didn't score any point in whole
10 minutes fight. Evaniel Oliveira, started with an omoplata and got his advantage, Daniel Otero freed himself of it and started to score his advantages until the electronic score to emit the sound that
indicates the end of the fight, 6-4 in advantages to Otero.


Pluma

Bibiano Fernandes came across like the winner of this
division due to the disqualification of both semifinalists(Dai Yoshioka and Carlos Holanda) by lack of enough action. This scene I never watched in my life, both guys tried to pull to the guard, and stayed with backs on the mat calling each other to their guard. They kept like that for an irritating amount of time, it irritated the rules too and the referee disqualified both fighters. By his side, the champion (Fernandes) schooled his opponent in quarter finals by armbar and in the semifinals by lapel's choke and didn't leave any doubt who'd be the champion if someone had faced him at the finals.



Pena:

Gracie Barra's Marcio Feitosa gave Rubens Charles a
tough beginning of the fight, but after the first minute it was all Charles. With an impressive display of submitting Feitosa; Charles swept and passed the guard. In the mark of 7 minutes and 55 seconds Charles sunk a tight armbar, but the old school of Feitosa made him to defend it after seconds of tension. At the end of 10 minutes Charles was victorious by 8-0 (one more guard passage).


Leve:

Mario Reis is an excellent competitor and his awards don't let us to think different. However since he started changing academies in last 2 yeas, he became a fighter without identity. Against Celso Vinicius of Gracie Barra; Reis didn't find out his game in any moment. Vinicus pulled him to the guard and swept Reis, who didn't have nobody yelling instructions to him, while Vinicius had all crowd in his favor. Vinicius imposed his bigger will of winning and passed the Reis' guard, while Reis didn't anything effective to turn the score to his side. End of the fight and Vinicius was the champion by 5-0 in points and 5-1 at advantages.



Medio:
Bitter rivals Andre Galvao and Marcelo Garcia were in front of each other again on this final. Like in Brasileiro 2006 Garcia took the title, but this time he didn't finish Galvão, a sweep was enough to score the two points which rendered him the tournament.
Garcia pulled to the half-guard and did his traditional X with the legs around the Galvão's left leg. Galvão was unbalanced and did delay to be swept by Garcia. Galvão worked all the time with half guard and Garcia tried to sweep, but they didn't jeopardize themselves enough to change the score more than he did and it kept 2-0 to the champion Garcia.




Meio-Pesado:

With both fighters representing Gracie Barra, the action seemed to be a little rehearsed, I hope not at all. With a war of sweeps Delson Pe-de-Chumbo and Braulio Estima alternated moments on the top and on the bottom and Estima took the championship by 3 sweeps against 2 of Pe-de-Chumbo.


Pesadissimo:

UFC competitor Gabriel "Napao" Gonzaga is showing everybody that with a good calendar and a proper system to work in two different type of fight competitions you can be successful. Napao played a smart game against Leonardo Leite at finals- Leite is a Judo black-belt and to keep the fight stand against him is a risk. So Napao tried to pull half-guard and sweep. The fight came back to their feet and Napao - with a consistent game - was avoiding the takedowns attempts of Leite and pulled the fight again to the guard. Leite made a solid base, and grabbed the legs of Napao to not allow the sweep, but once again Napao swept for despair of Leite, who didn't have enough tools from