Three Streaks Fall at the Worlds in Long Beach

Jayden Hubbert puts together the weekend's most complete performance at Grappling Industries Tampa. Twelve wins, zero losses, two bracket sweeps. He enters rated at 2,210 Jits and exits with a +7,450 gain — the kind of number that rewrites a profile overnight.

At the Worlds, Jessie Kelly of Lansang BJJ needs only two matches to gain +3,350 Jits. That is 1,675 per match, the best efficiency rate of the weekend. Meanwhile in Columbia, South Carolina, William Gabriel Del R. Santiago grinds through 13 matches and beats the same opponent — his own teammate Kaydan T Jones — three separate times in gi, no-gi, and challenger brackets.

Grappling Industries Tampa produces the weekend's deepest runs. Hubbert's 6-win gi bracket and 6-win no-gi bracket stand alone, but he is not the only fighter grinding through extended fields. Gabriel Rene Rivera of Bully Me Now wins five straight in the 8-9 grey belt gi bracket. Lukas S Camacho Araujo of Asenjo BJJ does it twice — five wins in gi, five in no-gi — at an 8,718-Jits rating that makes him the highest-rated fighter in any deep bracket this weekend.

Grappling Industries Spokane runs parallel deep brackets on the West Coast. Sunny Thavisouk of Vital Jiu Jitsu and Linden Charles The 1st of Vital Jiu Jitsu each win five straight — the same academy producing back-to-back bracket sweeps at the same tournament.

The Worlds produce most of the weekend's biggest upsets. Three of the top four all come from Long Beach. The streak-breaking numbers are even more striking: Kash Figueroa (33-0) falls to Epifanio Pinca. Ezekiel M Rico (27-0, 6,544 Jits) loses to Tristan Martinez, rated at 2,831. Hrachya Shahbazyan (24-0, 5,609 Jits) drops to Robert Ayvazyan, rated at 2,045. Three streaks above 20 wins, all broken at the same tournament, on the same weekend.

At Newbreed Louisville, Evan Freetage sees his 25-win streak snapped by Palmer Leif Ward. And back in Tampa, Nico Cendan-Libranti (16-0) falls to Lenox Curry at Newbreed.

KDMMA leads the medal count with 44 across the Worlds weekend in Long Beach — the home turf advantage. Silva Jiu Jitsu Academy runs the most efficient squad: 32 medals from 25 fighters, a 1.28 medals-per-fighter rate, all at Grappling X San Diego. Gracie Humaita South Bay posts an even sharper 69% gold rate — 18 of their 26 medals are first place.

Jayden Hubbert of South Tampa Jiujitsu & MMA gains +7,450 Jits on a perfect 12-0 weekend at Grappling Industries Tampa. Twelve wins, zero losses, and a jump to 2,210 Jits — the largest single-weekend move across all ten tournaments.

Reilly O'Neill of Gracie Tampa South goes 5-0 for +6,240 Jits. Brandi Cherair of Dark Haven Grappling Club goes 4-0 for +5,870 Jits. On the drops side, Jonathan Johnson takes the hardest fall: -3,260 Jits on a 0-4 weekend at Newbreed Louisville.

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The Worlds weekend is the annual high-water mark for youth jiu-jitsu. The question now is which fighters carry momentum from Long Beach into the summer tournament season — and which learn from the streaks that broke.