My only task this day was to follow the Open Weight Class and the Finals as
much as I could and over the next couple of days,
months, weeks I will be doing updates to this write
up! Just kidding. I will try to get as much information
to you as possible for this years Pan Ams. This page
is all the open class, I think! So enjoy and I will
get the rest of what I saw soon!
Marcel Fortuna was the first to fall
to Galvao when time ran out and he was down on points.
Rafael Lovato Jr. met up with Otavio Souza in the
second round of elimination and Otavio pulled guard
to work off his back when Rafael was caught off guard
and Otavio sat up and took a single leg that put Rafael
on his back. Not to be out done by this Rafael worked
an open guard and was pushing for sweep after sweep
and just could not get Otavio over. He tried to go
under and out the backdoor but Otavio stopped him
and as Rafael went to his knees Otavio was able to
swing around and take his back then work for a collar
choke that put Rafael on the defense, as he tried
to spin around and face Otavio, Otavio was able to
secure half mount. Rafael was eventually able to get
back to open guard and get back to his game but he
was down on points he did rally at the last couple
of minutes and got a sweep and started to work for
an armbar at the end but he just was not able to get
the needed points to win.
Lucas Leite was able to win his first
hard match to advance in his quest for the coveted
open weight medal. In his second match he met Alexandre
De Souza and he didn’t fair as well as he got
submitted by an armbar after working hard from the
bottom.
Tarsis Humphreys and Alexandre De Souza met and Alexandre
pulled guard first and immediately started to work
for a knee bar, sweep but then it stalled for a bit
and Tarsis was able to work from the top until he
got in guard. Alexandre worked a high guard and made
an attempt at an armbar, which Tarsis was able to
defend but just! After Tarsis had to work to escape
a tough open guard of Alexandre, especially after
a triangle attempt, a sweep attempt which he almost
got but he was still down on advantage points. In
the end Alexandre’s fight on the bottom and
sub attempts got him the win.
I was able to catch Andre Galvao and Fernando di
Pierros match but just barely. I saw the end of the
match and saw that Andre was on his back and had worked
a sweep to a pass and in a struggle that went off
the mat, taken Fernando’s back and secured an
arm in collar choke. I didn’t get the Otavio
Souza vs. Roberto Tozi match but heard it was Tozi
mostly on top and got the win on points. Andre Galvao
ended up meeting Luiz Theodoro, Andre pulled guard
on the bigger Luiz and that where the fight finished
as Andre was able to secure a tight cross collar choke
and sweep to the mount for the finish.
In the mean time Roberto Tozi and Alexandre de Souza
had been going on the mat and I missed most of that
match but Tozi had been able to secure his win to
the finals with a nice performance of position and
win on points to get to finals to face Andre Galvao.
Roberto Tozi and Andre Galvao met in the finals of
the open weight and it was Galvao that made the first
move as he shot in Tozi backed off so he pulled guard
looking for a cross collar choke. When that failed
he went to open butterfly guard with one foot on the
bicep. After a bit of struggle that foot on the bicep
got Galvao a sweep and to side control, from there
he worked to pass guard. Tozi kept him in half guard
for awhile but Galvao controlled the top and he eventually
looked for an armbar over the top but Tozi countered
but it put him in a bad position as Galvao was able
to take his back and work a collar choke for the win.
The ladies, not to be out done and in the finals
had a great battle between Michelle Nicolini of Brasa
with Luciana Dias of Gracie Humaita, as Luciana pulled
guard and started to work a collar choke that I thought
was going to end the match but Michelle defended but
got swept for her trouble. Back at the center of the
mat Luciana was working hard to get past that guard
of Michelle’s but it wasn’t until Michelle
opened up and got an omoplatta sweep on her that Michelle
went on the attack and passed her guard to get side
control. Luciana then returned the favor got a sweep
and proceded to work past her guard Michelle got her
back to guard worked for a triangle but missed and
turned to give her back. Luciana pulled Michelle back
to get her hooks in a Michelle took that opportunity
to turn and get in her guard. Luciana attempted a
cross collar choke, Michelle defended but had to get
to her feet to try to work a pass but after a little
off the mat rollin at about 9 minutes in the score
was 7 and 1 advantage to 8 and 4 advantages. The last
part of the match found them both going all out trying
to get the score but in the end it was Luciana that
took the hard fought match!
