The Ruotolo brothers Kade and Tye have withdrawn from ADCC 2024 in favor of competing on the inaugural CJI.
Two of the game’s largest stars have formally withdrawn from the 2024 ADCC World Championships and can as an alternative be competing on the inaugural Craig Jones Invitational (CJI), as 2022 ADCC 77kg world champion Kade Ruotolo and 2022 ADCC absolute bronze medalist Tye Ruotolo will vie for the $1 million prize.
Each brothers will compete within the -80kg division.
Every widely known among the many high pound-for-pound opponents in no-gi grappling, the Ruotolo brothers’ departure from ADCC marks a major blow to the occasion, which is slated to happen on the identical weekend because the CJI.
Kade Ruotolo is the youngest-ever ADCC world champion – a feat he achieved within the occasion’s most talent-laden division with a one hundred pc ending price. Since his gold medal run on the 2022 ADCC World Championships, he has gone on to additional entrench himself as a pound-for-pound powerhouse, profitable and defending the ONE light-weight submission grappling world title with victories over IBJJF world champions Matheus Gabriel and Tommy Langaker, in addition to no-gi Pans champion Francisco Lo.
Kade is slated to defend his ONE world title in opposition to fellow ONE star Mikey Musumeci in September at ONE 168: Denver.
For his half, Tye Ruotolo can be a wildly profitable younger grappler. He’s the youngest-ever IBJJF black belt gi world champion and, like his brother, is a present ONE submission grappling world champion. On the 2022 ADCC World Championships, he suffered a shocking first-round defeat within the 88kg division however roared again within the absolute with victories over Pedro Marinho and Felipe Pena earlier than dropping a slim resolution to Nicholas Meregali.
In ONE, Tye boasts submission wins in opposition to Garry Tonon and Izaak Michell. He’s scheduled to face fellow younger phenom Jozef Chen on July 5 at ONE Battle Evening 23.
View a full and up to date listing of each athlete competing on the inaugural CJI here.
watch: The inaugural CJI takes place on August 16-17 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and can air reside on YouTube.
