In the second year of one of the biggest Gi grappling events on the calendar, The IBJJF Crown has been filled with plenty of action and excitement.

In the second year of the ultimate event, The Crown has named six new kings and queens of grappling exciting on a Sunday full of action that came to you live from Long Beach, CA on November 17.

The IBJJF is back with their premier invitation event The Crown, a tournament that brings together champions, veterans, and up-and-comers to battle it out for supremacy at the end of the IBJJF gi season. With expanded brackets and lots of prize money on the line, this year's event is looking to be bigger and better than last year's inaugural edition. Who has the edge leading into Sunday's action? Let's take a look at every division by favorites, contenders, and darkhorses.

The IBJJF made the announcement last week on Instagram, in the following post;

Com seis divisões de peso divididas entre masculino e feminino, o IBJJF The Crown 2024 está com quase tudo pronto para chegar à Walter Pyramid, em Long Beach, no dia 17 de novembro. O torneio, que contará com oito atletas por chave, trará quatro divisões masculinas e duas femininas, com todos os duelos transmitidos ao vivo e exclusivamente pela FloGrappling.

Na manhã deste sábado, dia 1 de junho, grandes emoções marcaram o Campeonato Mundial, em Long Beach, com os primeiros lances da elite da faixa-preta adulto na Pirâmide. As ações começaram com as aguardadas disputas do absoluto.

Featured on The Crown's star-studded card, Erich Munis stands out as the most decorated fighter in the ultra-heavyweight bracket. The event, organized by the IBJJF and presented by FloGrappling, takes place this Sunday, Nov. 19, with a live and exclusive broadcast from FloGrappling.

Figurando no card recheado de estrelas do The Crown, Erich Munis se destaca como o mais condecorado na chave de pesadíssimos.

In a field of giants, one black belt is going to emerge as the first ever ultra-heavyweight winner of The Crown. With the entries of Erich Munis, Joao Gabriel Rocha, Roosevelt Sousa, and Victor Honorio, one will navigate the bracket and make history.

With a little over a month until the debut of the prestigious gi event, IBJJF's The Crown, the federation has announced the four competitors who will be competing in the men's ultra-heavyweight division. This marks the last division to be filled.

Alliance is one of the most historically successfully organizations in competitive Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and every year they crown champions and earn medals in the Pyramid. In 2023, Alliance saw strong results again with black belts like Fellipe Andrew, Melissa Cueto, and Isaac Doederlein, and colored belts like Eduardo Alves and Helena Crevar, bringing home accolades.

CheckMat always sends one of the strongest teams to the IBJJF World Championships, and in 2023 they delivered again with two champions in the black belt division. Jansen Gomes had the run of the tournament, beating two defending world champions on his way to gold, and Sam Nagai won his first world title at black belt by defeating two familiar foes. Relive all the best moments from CheckMat below.

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Every year brings a new crop of colored belt world champions and medalists, a group that has won the toughest tournament possible at their current rank and proven ready for higher levels of challenge. Below is a list of the 2023 IBJJF World Champions that have been promoted to the next highest rank since winning their bracket. The list will be updated every few days for the next few months to reflect ongoing promotions.

At the 2023 IBJJF World Championships, Gabriela Pessanha of Infight JJ cemented herself as the greatest women's black belt in the world with a double gold, history-making performance. With five fights, five wins, and five submissions, Gabi became the first woman to both win three straight double golds and to submit her way through both brackets at the black belt level.