BJJ Scout: BJJ Digest 43 - Gordon Ryan Free Agent/ACB's on the Fence, Danis Dancing Around the Obvious

Several Pro/NoGi ACB Events cancelled. "Possibly starting up again" in a few months with some rule set changes. We'll see. I will say this, in defense of the Gi guys, when you penalize guard pulling for 1 minute out of a 5 minute round, do you expect some of the world's best Gi competitors to face one another and produce a ton of thrilling matches? For every exciting 2018 Black Belt Worlds match I saw, there were 5 marred by fleeing the boundaries, extended/protracted battles in just a few positions, hell, even the IBJJF had to put a timer on ankle grabbing double guard pull sit-fests....and change the rules surrounding coming up for the sweep in 50/50. We were subjected to multiple Worlds finals over the years that were 50/50 scissor fests. Simply making the rounds shorter and penalizing guard pulling is a couple band-aids on the problem.
IN Gordon's own sole ACB match, Vinny scored points in the first round, and then basically did enough anti-Jiu-Jitsu to ride out the remaining two rounds. It only takes one competent competitor to produce a frustrating match, as Kasai has also seen in a number of it's Grand Prix format events.

Time will tell...
Also, you get a short clip of Danis dancing around why he's not in the welterweight grand prix and how he avoided the Neiman Gracie fight that he knows he wants no part of whatsoever. Neiman is an animal. I say that having seen him train in the blue basement at Renzo's. Danis will avoid that fight for as long as he possibly can.