Hey guys, we're here art the Warehouse Live in Houston, TX for Third Coast Grappling 2, a stacked superfight event featuring matches such as Nicholas Meregali vs Roberto Cyborg Abreu, Craig Jones vs Matheus Diniz, Edwin Najmi vs Gianni Grippo, Vagner Rocha vs Ethan Crelinsten and much, much more. 

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The main card kicks off at 9:00pm Central Time. Use the guide below if you're elsewhere in the world. 

Third Coast Grappling uses some unique rules– the first person to score 11 points win the match and wins by tech fall. This makes for some fast and exciting matches! 

Also, there is a twist to the traditional OT. A coin toss allows one competitor to choose the start position, but the other gets to choose top or bottom. Golden score means the first person to get points win the match. 

The undercard has been a lot of fun and has featured some really impressive local talent. The crowd are insanely loud and they go crazy any time there is a submission! 

MAIN CARD

9:00: Black Belt Gi – Viktor Doria vs Raul Jimenez    

Jimenez and his son Roberto are both competing on this card– Roberto is coaching his dad, and you know they'll switch roles later. Cyborg and Toco Albuquerque are coaching Doria, the first of many Fight Sports guy to compete on tonight's show. 

The match goes the distance and is 0-0, with Doria aggressively passing and Jimenez almost catching a triangle. OT sees Doria starting on bottom with closed guard. He hits a sweep and wins via golden score. 

Result: Viktor Doria def Raul Jimenez via sweep in OT (golden score) 

9:10: Purple Belt Gi – Douglas Hernandez vs Tony Fitzgerald    

Hernandez (blue belt, GF Team) vs Fitzgerald (purple belt, Alliance) in this 215lb battle. Frantic starts with Fitzgerald aggressively looking for takedowns. Hernandez scores first with an impressive flying guard pass after the pull. He racks up the passes and wins via tech fall. 

Result: Douglas Hernandez def Tony Fitzgerald via tech fall 

9:20: Purple Belt No-Gi – William Tackett vs Danny Gutierrez    

Checkmat's William Tackett is one of the best up-and-comers in Texas. Keenan Cornelius trained with him once during a marathon roll after a seminar and said he was the toughest guy in the entire room. High praise. Tackett takes down Gutierrez (10th Planet) with a big toss from a bodylock. Tackett runs through positions until he gets the rear body triangle. Gutierrez's defense is top notch and proves near impossible to choke. Tackett drops off for an arm-triangle from top and gets the tap with 1.27 left on the clock. 

Result: William Tackett def Danny Gutierrez by arm-triangle choke

9:30: Purple Belt No-Gi – Ruben Bueno vs Jonathan Dowdell

If you've never seen para jiu-jitsu then this match is the perfect place to start! A great example of how jiu-jitsu can be adapted for any body types, including those with disabilities. Watch the video for yourself and see. 

Result: Jonathan Dowdell def Ruben Bueno via tech fall 

9:40: Brown Belt Gi – Mike Trinh vs Marcel Woodard    

This brown belt match ended with Trinh (Gracie Barra) beating Woodard (Paradigm Training Center) via golden score in overtime. The match hit a snag when Trinh's gi rippe at the shoulder but he rallied back to win. 

Result: Mike Trinh def Marcel Woodard in OT (golden score) 

9:50: Brown Belt No-Gi – Pedro Marinho vs Roberto Jimenez    

This match was about as close as you can get, a tight contest between Jimenez's dynamic takedown attempts and Marinho's waiting guillotine. How they managed to stay on the stage without landing in the crowd is beyond belief, but the match went without score so was decided in overtime. Jimenez chose the back, but Marinho chose to start in the attacking position. A rear naked choke sealed the deal and the crowd went crazy. 

Result: Pedro Marinoh def Roberto Jimenez via rear naked choke in OT

10:00: Black Belt No-Gi – Kody Steele vs DJ Jackson    

Not many people can put the pressure on DJ Jackson, the TLI black belt is rock solid and super hard to score on. Steele made Jackson look human by near-passing the half guard more than once, almost getting the back but running out of space (and almost landing on a table of players from the Houston Texans!). 

They start OT with Jackson on bottom and with closed guard. Steele nearly passes but Jackson wraps him up in a guillotine and manages to avoid getting scored on, and the scramble off the mat and right into one of the cameras. The OT ends 0-0, but not for lack of trying on either part. Jackson's guillotine was looking sharp, but Steele's forward pressure and positional attacks got him the win in the judges' eyes. 

Result: Kody Steele def DJ Jackson by judges decision 

10:10: Black Belt No-Gi – Inacio Neto vs Vinicius Ferreira

Inacio Neto is one of the toughest black belts based in Texas, and the Gracie Barra rep can count on huge support from the crowd (lot of Gracie Barra in Houston). "Trator" Ferreira, one of three Marcelo Garcia guys to appear on the card, played almost exclusively from bottom during regulation. 

The 5-min OT saw them end up in the same position, but the clock ran down without either man able to score. 

Result: Inacio Neto def Vinicius Ferreira via judge's decision 

10:20: Black Belt No-Gi – Jordan Holy vs Marvin Castelle

Sorry guys but I completely missed this match because I had to go backstage and interview Gordon Ryan. 

Result: Jordan Holy def Marvin Castelle 2-0 

10:30: Black Belt Gi – Hunter Newton vs Manuel Ribamar

We got an all-Texas affair here, at least kind of. Ribamar is based in San Antonio and Newton is a local Gracie Barra guy from Houston. Riba opens up this match aggressively, latching onto an armbar attack. Slipping out, Newton goes on the offense with solid guard passing attacks but is met with legs and lasso grips everywhere he goes. 

Going into OT, Ribamar had to work non-stop for a solid three minutes or more to secure a winning sweep–the effort he put into this (and to defend getting passed) was something else. Newton may not have as big a name but he showed he could hang with a world-class guy like Ribamar. 

Result: Manuel Ribamar def Hunter Newton via sweep in OT

10:40: Black Belt Gi – Nina Moura vs Andressa Cintra

2019 World champion Andressa Cintra broke onto the scene in a big way this year, winning the world title in her first full year as a black belt. Nina Moura has yet to make her name but she went head to head with Cintra in this match, fighting her way out of a deep armbar and even a flying triangle. She couldn't find her way out of a vicious leglock that ended the match, though. 

Result: Andressa Cintra def Nina Moura via toehold

10:50: Black Belt Gi – Lucas Valente vs Marcio Andre    

Something of a contentious one, this match. Andre scored in the regulation period but if there is no submission in the opening 7 mins, then it goes to OT. As nobody scored in the OT, it went to a decision with Valente getting the win. This enraged Marcio Andre and his camp, who felt that his earlier points were worth more than Valente's non-scoring efforts in the shorter overtime round. 

Result: Lucas Valente def Marcio Andre via decision 

11:10: Black Belt No-Gi – Mike Perez vs Travis Moore

I'll be honest, I blinked and missed it. It was super quick. 

Result: Mike Perez def Travis Moore via guillotine 

11:20: Black Belt Gi – Marcelo Azevedo vs Gilbert Burns    

Durinho rarely competes in the gi nowadays so it's nice to see him back to his roots. Azevedo is one of those really tough Gracie Barra guys from the same roots as guys like Romulo and Felipe Pena– he hails from the state of Minas Gerais. Dunriho's youth and physical conditioning helped him establish an early pass and then a nasty back control that led to a choke with less than 10 seconds left. 

Result: Gilbert "Durinho" Burns def Marcelo Azevedo via choke 

11:30: Black Belt No-Gi – Vagner Rocha vs Ethan Crelinsten

A slippy match, but not just because of the sweat. Ethan's style of transitioning from submission to submission matched Vagner's own non-stop game well. They barely settled for the whole match, with Ethan constantly switching between lower body attacks and back attacks, and Vagner putting his patented kimura system to good work. The overtime tuned into a heavy leg game, and a sweep from Vagner in OT sealed the match. 

Result: Vagner Rocha def Ethan Crelinsten via sweep in OT

11:40: Black Belt No-Gi – Edwin Najmi vs Gianni Grippo

Everybody knows Grippo loves the de la riva and that's exactly what he goes for. Edwin answers with a couple of estima locks– I've never seen Gianni tap to a leglock before, and we didn't see it now. They go to OT and Gianni takes top, and Edwin choose him to put him in the closed guard. Edwin laces up a leg and uses it to wrestle Gianni down for reversal points. 

Result: Edwin Najmi def GIanni Grippo via sweep in OT

11:50: Black Belt No-Gi – Craig Jones vs Matheus Diniz

Much more entertaining than their last encounter. Jones wrestled with Diniz and came close to catching Diniz with a nice footsweep right on the edge of the mat. Diniz had to fight like hell to get out of a kimura attack that had him rolling and he managed to escape and they went into OT. For the first time all night we them choose to stand standing. Jones tried a shot but Diniz countered back with one of his own and scored the 2 to win via sudden death. 

Result: Matheus Diniz def Craig Jones via takedown in OT

12:00: Black Belt Gi – Cyborg Abreu vs Nicholas Meregali 

Meregali went right to the collar-sleeve control from guard and his long legs got to work hunting for triangles and de la riva. Cyborg flipped out of a lasso sweep and the veteran's strength and balance seemed the perfect antidote for Meregali's active guard. That was until he threw up one of his deadly loop chokes that forced Cyborg to tap. 

Meregali used his post-match interview to issue a challenge to his original opponent, Keenan Cornelius, who had to pull out via injury. 

"Take your time, keep selling your DVDs. If you'd been here it could have been you, but December 7, I invite you to come here and fight."

Result: Nicholas Meregali def Cyborg Abreu via loop choke

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