We’ve got the results of the black belt divisions from the 2015 IBJJF No-Gi World Jiu-Jitsu Championships. There was some drama, some controversy and plenty of action – take a look at the winers and losers right here. 

Roosterweight 
Caio Terra took his 8th IBJJF No-Gi world title with a submission win over Yusuke Homma. The Brazilian confirmed his place in the record books with his 8th World No-Gi title, tapping out Homma with an armlock. 

Light featherweight 
Joao Miyao met with Samir Chantre in the final of the light featherweight division, winning 6-4 in a controversial stop-start affair, marked by long periods of debate among the officials. Chantre was convinced that a last minute reversal would even the points and that his advantages would ensure victory, but he was unable to secure position with Miyao scrambling out to safety. 

Featherweight 
Augusto ‘Tanquinho’ closed out the featherweight finals with his friend and former teammate Osvaldo ‘Queixinho’. Though Moizino now fights under the Gracie Fighter banner, he came up through Soul Fighters, the team Tanquinho co-founded. Tanquinho had beaten Gianni Grippo in the semi-finals of the featherweight division, while Queixinho had outpointed Paulo Miyao on the other side of the semis. This is Tanquinho’s second World No-Gi title, his last coming in 2012. 

Lightweight
Alliance veteran Michael Langhi met with fellow Alliance team mate Mansher Khera in the finals of the lightweight division. Langhi had beaten Garry Tonon and Thiago Abreu of Checkmat on his way to the finals, and beat Khera on advantages in a very even match.  

Middleweight 
DJ Jackson beat Jon Satava 3-0 in a match where the Team Lloyd Irvin member used his pressure and superior pace to keep the Marcelo Garcia rep on the backfoot throughout. Jackson received a penalty from the ref for inactivity, reacting by immediately following up and passing Satava’s guard. Satava was unable to set up any submissions attempts and Jackson’s superior positioning secured him the win. 

Medium Heavyweight 
Lucas ‘Hulk’ Barbosa showed exellent strategy in his match with Thiago Sa of Checkmat. Barbosa scored a double-leg takedown around a minute into the match and remained ahead by 2 points, nullifying Sa’s submission attempts and staying clear on the scoreboard until the end. 

Heavyweight 
Jackson Sousa faced off with Felipe Pena in a thrilling battle in the heavyweight division, but it was ‘Preguica’ who emerged the victor on points. Pena came up on top during a leglock battle midway through the match, 

Super Heavyweight
Checkmat’s Joao Assis squared off against Roberto ‘Tusso’ Alencar of Gracie Barra in the super heavyweight final winning 4-0 via a takedown and a sweep, making him a three-time World No-Gi champ. 

Ultra Heavyweight
In his first tournament as a black belt Mahamed Aly made it to the final of the black belt ultra heavyweight division, meeting Gabriel ‘Fedor’ Lucas of Checkmat. The two were all set to end the contest 2-2 with 2 advantages apiece, but Lucas managed to get a match-deciding advantage point in the last 30 seconds. Lucas is now a double world champion, in gi and no-gi. 

Female Light Featherweight 
Pati Fontes defeated Chelsea Bainbridge-Donner via choke after eight minutes of action. The Checkmat black belt went 2-0 down early in the match, clawing back the points in the face of Chelsea’s pressure before jumping on the back and locking in a very fast rear naked choke. 

Female Featherweight 
In perhaps one of the more dramatic moments of the weekend Tammi Musumeci derailed Mackenzie Dern in the featherweight final. Musumeci cranked a very nasty looking kimura from the closed guard, sweeping Dern and landing in mount. At 6-2 on the scoreboard, the four point lead was too much for Dern to get back allowing Tammi to take her second World gold medal. 

Female Lightweight 
Checkmat took their second female gold medal of the weekend when Karen Antunes submitted Kiri Liao of Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu. She controlled Liao throughout the match before catching a guillotine choke in the transition at around the halfway mark. 

Female Middleweight 
Angelica Galvao overcame the very tough Amanda Loewen for the second time in as many days. Galvao outpointed Loewen 2-0 yesterday in the elimination match, but as they were in a bracket of three Loewen fought again and won, earning a place in the final. Galvao had to fight off two very close armbar attempts but once again came through on points to win gold. 

Female Middle Heavyweight
Alliance rep Andresa Correa toughed out a battle wqith Cyborg’s black belt Leanna Dittrich, attacking for a number of her trademark kneebars before securing a leglock in the dying seconds of the match. 


Absolute: Mackenzie Dern def Andresa Correa 
The absolute was Mackenzie’s opportunity to redeem herself and she did so in style, taking out the much bigger Andresa Correa with a guillotine in about two and a half minutes. Dern’s speed and agility were too much for Correa and she locked up the fight-ending choke in a scramble adding another IBJJF gold to her collection. 

Absolute: Felipe Pena def Matheus Diniz 
The men’s absolute final was a battle with Felipe Pena emerging victorious 10-2 over Matheus Diniz. Pena’s calm, measured approach overcame Matheus’s trademark intensity here, with Preguica playing a clever strategic game. Diniz had nothing to offer Pena, who came very close to finishing the match with a rear naked choke in the last 10 seconds.


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