Craig Jones was victorious within the extremely anticipated inter-gender grappling match with jiu-jitsu legend Gabi Garcia at Saturday evening’s Craig Jones Invitational on the Thomas and Mack Middle in Las Vegas.
Jones, a embellished grappler with two ADCC silver medals and up to date grappling wins over skilled MMA abilities Rafael Lovato Jr., Rinat Fakhretdinov and Gerald Meerschaert on his resume, appeared to have enjoyable earlier than and through his match with the four-time ADCC champion.
Garcia tried to take Jones’ again early with no success, and the Australian star reversed, attacking with a triangle choke, straight foot locks and armbar makes an attempt within the first spherical.
The second spherical started and Jones attacked with a Tornado, which Garcia hanged tight earlier than Jones’ arm slipped away. Jones went for the heel hook and Garcia responded with thumbs as much as present the referee she was high quality. Jones took her again and labored for the rear-naked choke as soon as, however the faucet solely got here on his second try moments later.
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