A 26-Win Streak Falls in Tampa

The weekend’s cleanest performance belongs to Lainey McKinney, who runs through seven opponents at AGF Arkansas Open without dropping a single match. Six of those seven wins come by submission. She enters the tournament unrated and leaves with a gold medal and 3,580 Jits.

At NAGA Tampa, Javen Martinez posts the weekend’s largest Jits gain among MVPs on a 3-3 record — proof that who you beat matters more than how many you beat. All three wins come by submission, including enough high-rated opponents to earn a silver medal and a 2,470-Jits surge.

Grappling Industries Portland owns the deep bracket story this weekend. Kent Kiepke of Brazilian Top Team Happy Valley runs the table twice — five wins in the Gi grey belt bracket and five more in No Gi intermediate, ten total wins across two divisions at the same tournament on the same day.

Lukas Nelson of ON GUARD BJJ, Ian Richardson, and Roland Wenger of Portland Renzo Gracie each win five straight in their respective Portland brackets. That is twenty-five consecutive wins across five brackets at a single event.

At Newbreed Greenville, Tessla Bumpus of Electric City MMA grinds through eight matches — ranked 119th out of 125 fighters entering the field. At NAGA Tampa, Kadyn Nelson of Gracie Brandon starts ranked 282nd out of 377 fighters and finishes with six matches and 810 Jits gained.

Three win streaks of 20 or more fall this weekend. Mateus Marx Dias (26-0) loses to Brandon Cadena at NAGA Tampa. Isaiah Hayes of Blackstone Jiu Jitsu Academy (25-0) falls to Ephraim Bennett at the same tournament. And Elijah Ramos (22-0) loses to Dias himself — the fighter who just had his own streak broken.

At AGF Arkansas Open, Malachi Evans of Kron Gracie West Monroe sees his 20-win streak end at the hands of Liam Kriner. And at NAGA Minnesota, Blake Born of Kato Jiu Jitsu drops his 15-win streak to Noah Barringer of Alliance St. Croix.

Fabin Rosa BJJ HQ runs the most efficient operation of the weekend: 20 medals from 10 fighters, with 15 of those being gold — a 75% gold rate. Kato Jiu Jitsu leads the gold count among the top five with 13 golds from 15 fighters at NAGA Minnesota. Westside BJJ tops the overall medal board at AGF Arkansas Open with 31 medals from 19 competitors.

Bailey Maghan of Impact Jiu Jitsu Beaverton gains +5,830 Jits on a perfect 5-0 weekend at Grappling Industries Portland. Five wins, zero losses, and a jump to 2,851 Jits — the biggest single-weekend move across all eleven tournaments.

Alesso Gonzalez of Alliance BJJ goes 4-0 for +5,350 Jits, climbing to Prodigy tier at 4,767 Jits. Avery Arthurs of Monster BJJ & MMA needs just three wins to gain +5,200 Jits. On the drops side, Elijah Ramos takes the hardest fall: -2,840 Jits on a 1-3 weekend after his 22-win streak snapped, dropping from a career record of 22-3.

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NAGA Tampa produced three broken win streaks in a single weekend — the most at any single tournament this year. The question for July is whether the summer circuit keeps producing upsets at this rate, or whether the late-June bracket depths were an anomaly. Grappling Industries Portland’s five-bracket sweep by Kent Kiepke suggests that round-robin formats still reward the grinders who can sustain effort across ten or more matches in a day.