ADCC 2024 World Championships
Full results · Champions · Standout performances
The ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship is the single most prestigious no-gi grappling event in the world, held every two years. The 2024 edition continued the tradition of producing the sport's defining moments, careers made, legacies defended, and upsets that reshape the entire no-gi landscape. Here's the full breakdown.
ADCC takes place every two years. Between editions, athletes compete at ADCC trials and qualifier events worldwide to earn their spots. The 2024 edition follows the landmark 2022 ADCC in Las Vegas.
Men's Division Champions
Women's Division Champions
Standout Performances & What They Mean
The Ruotolo Brothers Sweep -77 and -88
Kade and Tye Ruotolo winning their respective divisions in the same ADCC is a historic achievement. Both trained under John Danaher after his move from Renzo Gracie to New Wave Jiu Jitsu. Their success validates the New Wave system, high-pressure positional control, elite leg entanglement, and back take sequences, as the dominant technical framework in no-gi competition at this point in the sport's history.
Mica Galvao's Generational Statement
Gordon Ryan's absence from ADCC 2024 opened the heavyweight division, but Mica's performance wasn't merely opportunistic. He submitted his way through the +99kg bracket and won the absolute with the kind of technical dominance that suggests the next decade of no-gi heavyweights will be defined by him. He is twenty-something years old competing at the absolute peak of the sport's deepest weight class.
Mikey Musumeci's Third Gold
At -66kg, three ADCC gold medals in a row represents the most dominant sustained run in any division in ADCC history. Mikey's guard game, specifically his ability to threaten submissions from his back in a ruleset that doesn't reward stalling, has proven resistant to the entire field's preparation over six years of high-level competition against him.
Ffion Davies at -60kg
Two consecutive ADCC golds at -60kg establishes Ffion Davies as the greatest women's no-gi grappler of her era. Her submission-first approach in a division that often produces more conservative grappling is what separates her record from others who win on points and advantages.
The Bigger Picture: Where No-Gi Grappling Stands
ADCC 2024 confirms several trends that have been building for years. The Danaher-influenced leg lock / back take framework dominates the men's divisions. The Atos camp and Brazilian athletes continue to produce the top heavyweights. Women's no-gi competition is deepening, Ffion's bracket performance was challenged in ways that the 2022 edition was not.
What ADCC also demonstrated is the physical ceiling of no-gi competition. The athletes competing at the elite level are not just technically superior, they have gas tanks that allow them to maintain technical execution across multiple matches in a single day. From a performance standpoint, that's the ultimate test of what supplement support, training protocols, and recovery systems actually produce under competition conditions.
Gas tank is the separator at ADCC.
Multiple matches in a day. No rest between rounds of the bracket. The athletes who win late are the ones whose cellular systems, pH buffering, blood flow, cellular hydration, hold up when everyone else's fall apart. That's the performance gap Explode & Roll was built to address.