Hannette Staack talks brass tacks for Female BJJ Athletes (and thoughts on guys demanding pro athlete pay)

Real talk. A number of events have been and are paying male/female athletes equally and really though, this is bigger than gender: JiuJitsu athletes want to be paid like pro athletes but there’s almost nothing professional about them other than hours on the mat. The Spyder Invitational? Guys getting paid for literally two matches and coasting in one of the matches at that. Lemme score a sweep and stall with a minute left. Lemme tie this guy up in lapels and win on an advantage. And expect people will want to see it? Spare me.
ACB was a canary in the coal mine. The boring ass Gi matches and 50/50 stall fests literally shuttered an event paging dozens of guys who’d hardly been ever paid by the IBJJF until the semi new Pro events. Dudes cry about the IBJJF and show up and put on boring AF Superfights more boring than two blue belts I coach on Thursday night. Spectator sport? Paid like a pro sport? Who are you kidding?

I tried watching the event and was literally bored and tired of the quality of the stream prior to even making it to the superfight where Werdum and Hulk both said the usual "I'm coming to finish him" and "it's going to be a war." Man, if I had a scoop of BCAA's for every time a guy said that then put on a *&^%ing snoozefest of a match, I'd be a lot less sore, that's for sure.

Subjected Myself to the Spyder Invitational Finals (So You Don't Have to)

Read online that Hulk and Werdum basically didn't do any mat work but that the Gi matches made up for it. Given the honesty finally being displayed in critiquing guys getting paid to put on "superfights" that are less eventful than watching blue belt deathmatches in the gym at an open mat, I was hopeful the Gi matches would deliver.....spoiler alert: it was less exciting than Worlds matches at black belt.

Miyao took a ref decision win over Jang who basically did less passing movement than Miyao did various lapel and feet/hook grips rocking him off balance. Alves in typical tongue half out and both feet tape cast wrapped nearly halfway got a submission win (armbar) over Iwasaki despite Iwasaki actually trying to pass and Alves never really putting him in danger of being swept. Iwasaki was up by an advantage with 30 seconds left and got lazy in an omoplata position he'd been in at previous points in the match, and Alves pounced and got the tap. Alves took out Miyao with a sweep, his only real points scored of the event.
I guess that's the sport in the Gi these days. Exciting, thrilling, sexy, beast mode stuff, I know.

Hugo scored a sweep, then a guard pass, then mount then additional points finishing at 16-0 against DJ Jackson for a dominating win.
Ferreira vs Duarte - Duarte scored a sweep, got to his feet, pulled guard....then stalled to ride out the 2 points....because I guess fighting for 7 full minutes then 7 more minutes in the final sounded like a lot of work.

Cho vs Shane - Shane locked his hands in a scramble, stepped around behind then hip heisted him up and put him down flat on his back. Cho hits a big bridge and almost gets kimura-triangled/back problems, but gets to closed guard with Shane still on the attack. Shane would go onto to rack up double digit points before taking the win. At this point I couldn't tolerate the laggy, jpeg level quality of the flograppling broadcast so I stopped watching.