A 43-Win Streak Falls at ADCC San Diego

Joseph Dangelo of Checkmat enters NAGA Pensacola and finishes every opponent. Five matches, five submissions, gold. His path includes a submission over Aaron De La Rosa of Capitao Jiu Jitsu across an 1,830-Jits gap.

Itzel Castro of Gracie Barra Avondale goes 4-0 at NAGA Phoenix with the weekend's third-largest upset — a submission of Phoenix Ting of Gracie Barra Ocotillo across a 3,140-Jits gap. Ting leads their rivalry 3-2. Castro just made it 3-3. Arrow Parker of Lōgōs JJ runs 11-0 at Grappling Industries Denver for +9,070 Jits — the kind of weekend that rewrites a profile overnight.

Grappling Industries Denver generates the weekend's deepest brackets across its 1,058-match field. Ryla Jaye Knight of Six Blades Jiu-Jitsu wins six straight in the Gi grey belt 8-9 division, then crosses to No Gi and wins six more — twelve bracket wins in one day at 9,587 Jits. She also ends Brixton Stratton's 24-win streak along the way.

Arrow Parker of Lōgōs JJ runs six wins in the Gi white belt 6-7 bracket. Evelyn Pham of Lōgōs JJ does it in the Gi grey belt 6-7 bracket at 5,570 Jits. Same academy, adjacent divisions, same result. John Foster of Easton Training Center runs six in the adult blue belt Gi bracket — proof that deep bracket runs are not limited to the kids divisions.

At the ADCC US Open, Monte Sardaryan of KDMMA enters ranked 452nd out of 496 fighters. He wins two matches. At a tournament where the field runs nearly 500 deep, surviving two rounds from the bottom is its own kind of story.

The ADCC US Open is a streak-breaking machine. Seven win streaks of twenty or more fall in a single weekend, and four of them fall in San Diego. Samuel Hakobyan (43-0) of Honor Roll BJJ loses to Eden Boe Gomez. Annabelle Li (25-0) of Gracie Barra Ocotillo falls to Shiloh Shank. Lemar Saidy (22-0) of Atos HQ drops to Greg Altunyan. Kendan Oganesyan (21-0) of BAZA falls to Danil Denisovich Litvinov.

In Denver, Noah Pertaia of PRIME BJJ (28-0) loses to Ellie Rivas at 8,642 Jits. Beau Radcliff of Roman's Submission School (20-0) falls to Bear Pimlott at FUJI Ft Myers. When the competition level rises, the records fall.

Art of Jiu Jitsu runs the best gold efficiency among the top five: 26 golds from 29 fighters, a 0.90 gold-per-fighter rate. That is ADCC US Open quality on the home court in San Diego. Checkmat Gulf Breeze BJJ leads in total medals at 49 — perfectly split at 22 gold and 22 silver — controlling the NAGA Pensacola field from the Florida Panhandle.

Norman J Velazquez of Atos Jiu-Jitsu gains +9,820 Jits on a perfect 7-0 weekend — the biggest single-weekend Glicko-2 move across all eleven tournaments. Arrow Parker of Lōgōs JJ rides an 11-0 run at Denver to +9,070 Jits. Timothy Rooney of Subhounds goes 6-1 for +8,990 Jits, including a six-win bracket run in the No Gi intermediate division.

On the drops side, Jayden Antonio of AKA San Diego takes the hardest fall: -3,350 Jits on a 1-3 weekend. Jesse Fabiano of NEW ERA Jiu Jitsu Academy drops -2,880 Jits on an 0-2 weekend — a 33-5 career record that gets a sudden Glicko-2 correction.

Risers

Drops

February opens with the circuit still running at full capacity. Grappling Industries heads to Austin, New Jersey, and Portland. NAGA runs Charlotte and Tulsa. FUJI BJJ opens in Tallahassee. The January surge set the pace. February will test whether the field can sustain it.