Eddie Bravo vs Royler Gracie: ADCC 2003

J.F.R. Perseveranda 5/13/2025 11:23:00 AM

Abu-Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) Submission Wrestling World Championship 2003

May 13, 2025. Bay Area, CA, USA. Over the weekend, Jian brought up that Basil sometimes teaches at 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu school in Oakland. He then told Keo, and suggested they can work out there when Basil is teaching.

I then asked if they had heard of 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu and/or Eddie Bravo; they replied no. So here's the video of how Eddie Bravo introduced himself to the world, and how 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu was born.

In 2003, Bravo entered the 145 lb/66 kg division of the Abu-Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) Submission Wrestling World Championship as a brown belt after winning the North American trials. Bravo defeated Gustavo Dantas in the elimination round by rear naked choke in what was considered an upset.

Bravo then faced four-time world champion and three-time ADCC champion Royler Gracie in the quarter-finals. Bravo traded comfortably top positions with Gracie throughout the match before deploying his game of rubber guard, and eventually winning via a triangle choke after just under 9 minutes.

Upon his return to the United States after the competition, he was awarded a black belt by Jean Jacques Machado and subsequently opened his first 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu school in Los Angeles, California, a no-gi jiu-jitsu system.