No Holds Barred: Kid Peligro on ADCC 2017
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with our colleague and correspondent Kid Peligro (
http://www.kidpeligro.com).
Our main topic was the 2017 ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club) Submission Fighting World Championship, which will be held Saturday, September 23, and Sunday, September 24, at the Espoo Metro Areena in Espoo, Finland.
It
is the most important and prestigious grappling tournament in the
world, and as always will feature competition in no-gi grappling.
There
will be tournaments held featuring grapplers who either won in the many
continental qualifying trials, or were former ADCC champions.
The men's weight classes are -66kg, -77kg, -88kg, -99kg, and +99kg, plus an Absolute division.
The women's weight classes are -60kg and +60kg.
Another highlight will be the Superfights.
In the main Superfight, multi-time ADCC champion Andre Galvao takes on Claudio Calasans.
There
will also be two Stars Superfights featuring veteran competitors. In
these, Renzo Gracie faces Sanae Kikuta and Leo Vieira faces Chael
Sonnen.
We spoke with Kid Peligro by phone Thursday.
For
this event, there is "a lot of anticipation. It's the number one
event," he said, "most prestigious and best event in the world of this
type."
He continued, "If you like submission grappling, jiu-jitsu, judo, wrestling, this is a really, really great event."
We
discussed the favorites in each weight class and the Superfights, some
of the history of upsets by then-little-known grapplers in ADCC events,
how success in grappling does not always mean success in MMA and vice
versa, and much more.
