Melbourne is packed: 1,863 athletes are chasing AJJC gold

The Australian Jiu Jitsu Championship in Melbourne has finished. Recaps are up for adults and kids. This page is the field as it stood before the medals: 1,863 athletes and 3,083 registrations from 205 academies, about 954 in adult divisions and 909 in kids divisions.

Results are on the AJJC event page.

Adults Friday and Saturday

The biggest recorded squad is Australian Elite Team with 212 athletes. Dominance brought 118. Will Machado has 63, De Been 58, Cia Paulista Australia 55, and SJJA Team 52. Those rooms filled the sideline.

A few adult records worth opening before you pick a favourite. Darrian Areai of Southside BJJ comes in at white belt on 33–3 and is entered in adult gi ultra-heavy plus the absolute. Armen Alexander of Galeb BJJ is 32–5 at purple and entered in Master 3 heavy and the gi absolute.

Three unbeaten adults are also on the card. Taran Vance of Peninsula MMA is 25–0 at blue in super-heavy and the gi absolute. Zak Angelevski of Sydney Wrestling Academy is 21–0 at brown in no-gi super-heavy. Greer Mason of Lemos BJJ is 20–0 at blue and entered in Master 2 gi light plus the absolute.

Queensland just had its state championship three weeks ago. Laura Graham of Studio 55 went 8–0 there in her first recorded event, and she is back in adult white-belt gi, no-gi, and both absolutes. Travis Morgan of SJJA Team went 8–0 at purple at QLD States and is entered here in gi, no-gi, and the gi absolute. The QLD States recap has those weekends in full.

A Master 2 rematch with seven previous meetings

Blake Russo of Carlson Gracie Gold Coast and Danilo Pereira of Arte Suave have seven recorded meetings already, all in Master blue-belt no-gi. Russo won the most recent one on points in the QLD States absolute. Pereira won one of the earlier meetings at the Ipswich Open. Both are entered again at AJJC, including the Master 2 no-gi absolute.

Their head-to-head page has the full list. Matstories also found 1,049 pairs in this field who have already met somewhere in the index. If two names in your division look familiar, they probably are.

Kids on Sunday

Sunday is a full kids card: 909 athletes in boys, girls, and juvenile divisions. The recorded records there are huge. Ezlan Hewitt of Forza Jiu Jitsu is 103–10 at grey and entered in Pee Wee I gi and no-gi. Riley Stevens of Lemos is 69–15 in the same age band. Theo Taylor of SJJA Team is 61–8 and went 7–0 at QLD States.

Three grey belts come in unbeaten on Matstories. Danny Fayad of High Rollers is 53–0. Amias Ishimwe of Southside is 41–0. Aden Grajzman of Complete MMA is 37–0 and went 9–0 at QLD States. Those are kids' competition records, not an adult ranking argument. They are still the matches parents will want on one page on Sunday night.

Rory Mulhern of Gracie Barra Carlton and Ashton Price of Lake Macquarie Jiu-Jitsu have seven recorded meetings already. Both are entered in Pee Wee III on Sunday, though Mulhern is grey and Price is yellow, so they may not meet in the same bracket. Their head-to-head page has the history either way.

Follow it on Matstories

Search a name, or stay on the AJJC board. Gym pages for Australian Elite Team, Dominance, and SJJA Team show who they brought. The useful check after the medals is the same one as always: who won, who they had already fought, and whether the result flipped. Start with the adult recap and the kids recap.