For the primary time in 17 years, the ADCC will maintain a ladies’s absolute division on the 2024 ADCC World Championships in Las Vegas.
Based on a report from FloGrappling, ADCC head organizer Mo Jassim has introduced that the 2024 ADCC World Championships will host a ladies’s absolute division.
The present weight divisions for feminine rivals at ADCC are 55kg, 65kg, and over 65kg – an enlargement from the 2 weight divisions provided previously. These brackets include eight ladies.
By comparability, male grapplers can compete in 5 totally different weight lessons, and every division consists of 16 rivals.
The ADCC beforehand hosted a ladies’s absolute division in 2005 and 2007 however had since discontinued the division.
Historically, prize money for the ladies’s divisions is decrease than for males’s divisions, with feminine gold medal winners taking residence $6,000 in comparison with $10,000 for the lads. Male absolute champions win $40,000. Jassim didn’t disclose the anticipated payout for the ladies’s absolute division.
Additionally, the winner of the lads’s absolute division sometimes earns a shot on the present ADCC superfight champion. Jassim didn’t state if a ladies’s superfight title can be established.
View an up-to-date checklist of each athlete confirmed for the 2024 ADCC World Championships here.
The way to watch: The 2024 ADCC World Championships will happen on August 17-18 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and can air stay on FloGrappling (subscription required).
