Rafa Mendes vs Galvao Sparring for ADCC

[Mike Nall]

let's go all the way, shall we?

notice rader's intensity at 1:56 right after he escapes to his feet. i'm sure he's thinking "he threw everything at me and i'm STILL HERE."

Man that was destruction. What's crazy is that there's still another 1-2 gi matches and another nogi match still not posted.

Cobrinha is pretty much the 2nd best in the world on any given day if not the first, right? I mean nogi you can probably say he's the best now? He beat Rafa at the last ADCC and won the no-gi worlds in 2011 and 2012.

Cobrinha subs every match like clock work and he's never been able to finish Rader no-gi as far as I know of in at least 3 no-gi matches I can think of. He usually wins by a big point spread but never got that finish. He's had him in some super deep subs and Rader's held on. RNCs, armbars, heel hooks, kneebars, calf slicers. Rader doesn't tap to anyone but Rafa.

Actually I can't think of anyone besides Rafa that's finished Rader in no-gi. Rader's a bad ass dude. Underrated as fuck. Has wins over lots of people's favorites. Jeff Glover. Ryan Hall. Baret Yoshida. Denny Prokopos. Joao Miyao. Tanquinho. Celsinho.

Awesome grappler.