A 41-Win Streak Falls in New Jersey

Carter Ball does something rare in youth jiu-jitsu: six matches, six submissions. Not a single opponent reaches the final buzzer. At AGF Memphis, where the field runs 244 matches, that level of finishing is the cleanest performance of the weekend.

Meanwhile at NAGA Portland, Lincoln Cunningham of The Base Woodland makes the biggest rating jump among all MVPs — +3,690 Jits on a perfect 4-0 run. He enters as a 1,000-Jits yellow belt and leaves with a number that puts him in the conversation. Sebastian Sibug of Oneonta Academy runs a similar path at NAGA Albany, going 5-1 with three submissions for +2,710 Jits.

Grappling Industries New Jersey produces the weekend's deepest brackets with 985 matches. Nine fighters win six or more matches in a single division this weekend, and five of them do it at GI tournaments — Santino Stamato of Renzo Gracie Rockland, Arthur Silva of JABJJACADEMY, and Matsumoto at GI New Jersey; Zoe Marlene Barnhardt of Mushin BJJ Academy and Kai Hartwig at GI Austin.

At GI Hawaii, Noa Ooka of North Shore Jiu-Jitsu Club sweeps six straight in the grey belt 8-9 division at 5,851 Jits. And at GI Austin, Allison Tsuei matches the six-win mark in the white belt bracket — she also posts one of the weekend's biggest overall rating moves at +7,040 Jits.

The streak breakers pile up beyond Taha's 41-0 falling in New Jersey. Hiroshi Fry (35-0) of Hero 6, rated at 7,040 Jits, loses to Kai Pagan at FUJI Raleigh. Natalia Juliette Gordon (32-0) of Asenjo BJJ falls to Isabella Sophia De La Cruz at IBJJF Miami — De La Cruz is rated at just 2,275 Jits against Gordon's 6,859. And Peter David Hernandez (27-0) of Gracie Barra Chantilly sees his run end at the same tournament.

The Cherry rivalry writes another chapter at AGF Dallas. Donovan Cherry and Marciano Edward Cherry meet for the 55th time — Donovan leads the series 30-25. Fifty-five meetings between two youth fighters. That is not a typo.

Pablo Silva BJJ runs the weekend's largest operation: 134 medals from 148 fighters across the JJWL Houston XVII double-header. Eighty-one of those are gold. Labyrinth BJJ posts the most efficient medal rate among the top five: 47 medals from 42 fighters, a 1.1 medals-per-fighter rate with 26 golds.

Brayden Cruz of Gracie Barra Waipahu gains +10,410 Jits on a perfect 5-0 weekend — the largest single-weekend Glicko-2 move across all twenty tournaments. He climbs to 4,474 Jits and Prodigy tier.

Jakob Hanover of Twin Wolves MMA goes 10-0 for +8,700 Jits. Ten matches, zero losses — the highest match count among all risers. Atlas Crawford matches the 10-0 record for +6,530 Jits, and Santiago Lovato of The War Room does the same for +5,800 Jits. On the drops side, Eleonore Fernandez takes the hardest fall: -5,280 Jits on a 3-6 weekend.

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Next weekend carries a lighter slate. Grappling Industries runs events from Brooklyn to Nashville. AGF heads to Florida with the Jacksonville Championships. FUJI BJJ stages tournaments in North Carolina. And the IBJJF circuit stays quiet before ramping back up later in the month.