ADCC Worlds 2024: All-Time Winners At +99KG
ADCC Worlds 2024: All-Time Winners At +99KG
The 2024 ADCC Worlds is taking place in Las Vegas on Aug. 17-18. Before we see who takes the titles this year, see the list of past winners at +99kg.
The 2024 edition of the ADCC World Championship will take place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Aug. 17-18 and bring more than 100 of the world’s top grapplers to the Entertainment Capital of the World.
There will be fighters of all shapes and sizes – men and women – battling to add their names to the growing list of winners at the prestigious ADCC World Championship.
The 2022 event was held at the nearby Thomas & Mack Center and attracted more than 10,000 spectators.
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The 2024 ADCC World Championship will include five men’s weight classes (-65.9kg, -76.9kg, -87.9kg, -98.9kg, +99kg) and four for the women (-55kg, -65kg, +65kg, Absolute). It’s the first time since 2007 the women’s division will have more than two weight classes.
The Absolute division was a late add for 2024, and the announcement was made at the end of April.
The competition first was held in 1998 and then every other year, starting in 2001, though the 2021 event was delayed a year by COVID-19. This year’s ADCC World Championship is the 15th edition.
Before the action gets underway in Las Vegas, FloGrappling will be reviewing all of the winners in each weight class over the years. Next up, the men’s +99kg (+220.5lbs):
All-Time ADCC World Championship Winners – Men’s +99KG
Year | 99kg+ (220.5lbs+) |
2022 | Gordon Ryan |
2019 | Kaynan Duarte |
2017 | Marcus Almeida |
2015 | Orlando Sanchez |
2013 | Marcus Almeida |
2011 | Vinny Magalhaes |
2009 | Fabricio Werdum |
2007 | Fabricio Werdum |
2005 | Jeff Monson |
2003 | Pe De Pano |
2001 | Mark Robinson |
2000 | Mark Kerr |
1999 | Mark Kerr |
1998 | Ricco Rodriguez |
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See who is scheduled to compete in Las Vegas in 2024.
Who Is Scheduled To Compete This Year In The Men’s +99KG Weight Class?
Gordon Ryan is one of the most successful and recognizable Jiu-Jitsu athletes in history, and he grabbed a special place in the ADCC record book in 2022 when he fought in the +99kg bracket and the ADCC Super Fight.
Gordon rolled through his bracket, eventually defeating fellow American Nick Rodriguez in the final and downed ADCC Hall of Famer Andre Galvao in the Super Fight.
The plan is different in 2024, as Gordon will NOT be doing his weight class but instead will focus on two super fights - Yuri Simoes and Felipe Pena.
There is a plan for a men’s Absolute weight class at the ADCC World Championship in 2024, and it was announced in April that there would be one for the women this year. The last times that happened was 2005 and 2007, before being discontinued.
See who’s competing in the men’s +99kg division in 2024. Two spots have yet to be determined:
- Heikki Jussila (1st European Trials winner) | Finland
- Daniel Manasoiu (East Coast Trials winner) | Romania
- Josh Saunders (1st Asia & Oceania Trials winner) | Australia
- Mark MacQueen (2nd European Trials winner) | Scotland
- Victor Honorio (2nd South American Trials winner) | Brazil
- Mike Perez (West Coast Trials winner) | United States
- Gutemberg Pereira (Invited) | Brazil
- Mansur Makhmakhanov (2nd Asia & Oceania Trials winner) | Kazakhstan
- Felipe Pena (Invited) | Brazil
- Vinny Magalhaes (Invited) | Brazil
- Vince Pezzuto (Invited) | United States
- John Hansen (Invited) | United States
- Haisam Rida (Invited) | Ghana
- Luke Griffith (1st European Trials winner, -99kg) | South Africa
What Is Abu Dhabi Combat Club?
Abu Dhabi Combat Club was created out of a passion for martial arts and the desire to grow the reach of martial arts in the United Arab Emirates. It all was put into motion by Sheik Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose father Sheik Zayed is a former leader of the UAE.
With the help of world-class instructors from a variety of disciplines, ADCC took shape, initially giving the people of Abu Dhabi another option for a healthy lifestyle and direction in nutrition and learning about self-defense.
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What Is The ADCC World Championship?
The second part of the vision was the creation of the ADCC World Submission Fighting Championship, and the event debut in Abu Dhabi in 1998 with 16 elite competitors. It now is held every other year and is described as the most prestigious event of its kind in the world.
The ADCC World Championship is open to fighters of all grappling styles, though Brazilian jiu-jitsu continues to be the dominant style.
From the beginning, the event featured six weight classes – 66kg, 77kg, 88kg, 99kg, +99kg and Absolute.
Women’s categories were added to the mix in 2005 (60kg, +60kg, Absolute), and that was expanded briefly to five classifications in 2007 (-55kg, -60kg, -67kg, +67kg, Absolute).
From 2009-2022 (the 2021 event was pushed back due to COVID-19), the women’s division featured just two weight classes (-60kg, +60kg), but that will be expanded again in 2024 (-55kg, -65kg, +65kg).
In 2024, the men’s divisions will feature 16 competitors – eight qualifiers, seven invitees and the defending champion. The women’s categories will have eight fighters – four qualifiers, three invitees and the defending champion.
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