The 2024 ADCC World Championships happen on August 17-18 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Grappling Insider shall be previewing each division on the occasion. Take a look at a preview of the 66kg division here, the 77kg division here, the 88kg division here, the 99kg division here, and the +99kg division here.
The 2024 ADCC World Championships will see the much-welcome and long-awaited addition of a 3rd girls’s weight class. With the brand new, eight-woman division, many opponents who had been undersized for the 60kg bracket now have a brand new lease at 55kg.
The smallest girls’s division is filled with elite expertise, even when it’s lacking 2022 ADCC world champion Ffion Davies and beforehand invited former champion Mackenzie Dern, each of whom opted to compete in a superfight on the inaugural CJI.
With Davies out, the 55kg division could be the toughest bracket to foretell for your entire event. Former ADCC champion Bianca Basilio and embellished IBJJF world champions like Mayssa Bastos and Anna Rodrigues stand out, however they’ll face fierce competitors from harmful rising stars.
Earlier than we dive into the favorites, contenders, and darkish horses of the division, try the lineup of 55kg opponents under. For a full checklist of each athlete competing on the 2024 ADCC World Championships, go here.
Ladies’s 55kg
- Margot Ciccarelli (European Trials winner)
- Anna Rodrigues (South American Trials winner)
- Mayssa Bastos (invite)
- Jasmine Rocha (West Coast Trials winner)
- Bianca Basilio (invite)
- Adele Fornarino (Asia & Oceania Trials Winner)
- Alex Enriquez (invite)
- Brenda Larissa (invite)
Favourite: Bianca Basilio
Whereas no single girl appears to be the clear favourite at 55kg, 2019 champion Bianca Basilio is the division’s solely ADCC medal winner.
A well-rounded and scrappy veteran, Basilio has confirmed herself on the highest ranges of competitors time and time once more. She is probably going one of many bracket’s high two wrestlers – a talent that enhances her high-paced guard passing, robust back-takes, and devastatingly highly effective straight ankle lock. What’s extra, she is a bodily imposing athlete who is ready to push a torrid tempo for so long as the match lasts.
Merely put, as probably the most embellished ADCC competitor at 55kg, Basilio may have a goal on her again.
Contenders: Jasmine Rocha, Mayssa Bastos, Adele Fornarino
Realistically, any of the remaining seven girls within the bracket stand a very good likelihood of constructing it to the rostrum if not profitable gold. Nonetheless, a number of names stand out as high contenders.
Jasmine Rocha will be a part of her brother Achilles and father Vagner in her quest for ADCC gold. Though Rocha shall be making her ADCC Worlds debut, she has a great deal of expertise underneath the ruleset, having made it to the rostrum of a number of Trials occasions and competed usually at ADCC Opens. That have has helped her to develop a method that’s made for the ruleset, all whereas she’s maintained her popularity as one of many sport’s high closed guard gamers – and certainly one of its hardest to attain on.
9-time IBJJF world champion and present ONE submission grappling world champion Mayssa Bastos is thought to be the greatest-ever of the game’s lightest weight lessons due to her vaunted open guard and berimbolo recreation. A real technical grasp, Bastos is maybe one of the best pound-for-pound guard participant in all of BJJ. Her downfall, although, stays her wrestling and comparatively small measurement for the division – points she’ll have to work round if she hopes to take house ADCC gold.
Australian star Adele Fornarino has quietly change into certainly one of BJJ’s fastest-rising stars, due to wins over the likes of Amanda “Tubby” Alequin and Anna Rodrigues. The Atos consultant is a well-rounded submission hunter who is especially harmful when attacking the legs. Her current victory over Rodrigues at Who’s Quantity One, whereas not significantly full of motion, proved she will grapple at a excessive tempo for quarter-hour and has the technical talent to hold with one of the best.
Darkish horses: Alex Enriquez, Anna Rodrigues
Followers ought to pay shut consideration to 2023 IBJJF no-gi world champion Alex Enriquez. After profitable gold on the East Coast Trials, she got here up brief in opposition to Rocha within the closing of the West Coast Trials however has performed greater than sufficient to warrant an invitation to the massive present. A wonderful takedown artist and guard passer, Enriquez boasts victories over Fornarino and Amanda Bruse, in addition to a win over Rocha. If she will put all of it collectively when it issues probably the most, Enriquez might take pleasure in a breakout weekend at ADCC 2024.
Lastly, embellished gi competitor Anna Rodrigues has seemed robust in her first ADCC run, profitable gold at South American Trials. The Brazilian is a grasp tactician – a talent set honed over years of competing on the IBJJF circuit. She additionally could be the division’s greatest pure athlete, making her a legit menace to any girl at 55kg.
Tips on how to watch: The 2024 ADCC World Championships happen on August 17-18, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and can air dwell on FloGrappling (subscription required).
