(Demian Maia won’t be going for his second-straight 87kg tournament sweep at this year’s ADCCs. Photo courtesy of GracieMag.)
On Monday, we oohed and aahed over the lineup for the 2009 ADCC Submission Fighting World Championships, which, according to its official website, was slated to feature a horde of MMA stars. (Urijah Faber is now listed in the under 65.9kg category, by the way.) Well, it’s time to debunk some rumors. First off, Demian Maia:
Maia: No. Now, I’m just planning a 10-day vacation [Ed. note: That's like a half-day vacation for every second of work. Must be nice!], because I trained so hard for this fight, so I think it will be too close to compete at ADCC. I’m going to be in Europe for a series of seminars by that time, and I probably will go there to see the event. But I’m not going to compete because my priority is the UFC, and I must be 100 percent if I want to fight at the end of the year.
Then, more bubble-bursting from a couple of our twitter-buddies…
As of now, Maia, St. Pierre, and Marquardt are still listed on adccbarcelona.com, which seems like blatant false advertising. It’s not clear if the ADCC organizers should be blamed for jumping the gun or the fighters for flaking out, but if there’s anything we learned from the line of men’s girdles we were going to launch with Roy Nelson, it’s that you’d better get ink on paper before you start printing flyers.
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commentsAs for ufc guys competing at adcc.. would that really be good exposure? I wouldn't think having your champions and top fighters getting choked out by "nobodys" (as far as the casual fan is concerned) would be good for their image. I wouldn't call people trying to break your limbs "minimal injury risk" either.
I can understand Maia not fighting after getting chopped down like that. I wonder what the deal was with GSP? Did he renege on a verbal agreement, or is this a bait and switch move by ADCC? (Hey, and are we one hundred percent sure that ADCC isn't a dyslexic metal cover band?)
By the way, how could any ufc guys compete? Wouldn't that be a breach of contract?
On the other hand the guy learn fast and it will help his ground game to watch and compete there.
He also got nothing to lose.
If he loses he'll go home with more ground experience.
If for whatever reason he win he'll be more godly than god himself .
after the thiago alves fight wen he was (briefly) on his back he said he would normally work for a sub but cause his groin popped he had to go back to kick boxing the shit out of him.
id love to see GSP display his BJJ
Only for UFC ball sucking idiots who think GSP is a BJJ god.
Nate is a solid pro fighter but not what you would call a world class guy.
Maia is a good BJJ for an MMA guy but the only of the three I would consider to be a top contender.
Of course, for nitwits who love their logo and see it as a symbol then yeah, not having them could probably kill your chubby.
but i guess apart from demian maia all the best guys are still there, so it's not that bad (yet)
CURTIS OUT!!!
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