Matt Horwich in ADCC Trials?

[Jonathan Wylie]

Good question

[brent_littell]

Poor blue belts in that division. He could probably win the brown division

[rickdawson]

Uhhh... isn't he a Brown Belt under Eddie?

[DanConway]

Blue belt under renato laranja? ;]

[Eddie Bravo]

This is news to me, I have no idea why he's wearing a blue belt, maybe they don't recognize 10p belts as gi belts??? :-/

[Jon Helton]

Weird....IBJJF recognizes them.

[Max P.]

from his Facebook:

Won on match with beautiful switch guard pass and back control lost one cos I wasn't ready to defend over head sweep with gi control...shouldn't happen in Mma ,went for omaplata got beatiful reversal but my opponent rolled outa bounds...and they started us over if defended sweep he stalled closed guard and won on points in Mma I could posture and punch closed guard...I tried my ass off like always lord god of hosts help me get the mind over matter going an stop finding so many ways to come up short...balls I know I can do better by Jesus grace I wanna do more grappling tournaments thank to my opponent for teaching me a valuable lesson an making me better god bless everyone and good vibes 11:11 losses won't limit me I ll choose to use them to grow ripeices limits by the greatest artist and warriors grace

[sean applegate]

yea, lots of hate flowing in for the pics of him in a blue belt

[brent_littell]

It's not us sandbagging. He is with kings mma right now.

[Slick Rick]

True. If he is under Kings mma, Joao Assis(checkmat), and he wanted to do gi, and Joao says you're not brown in the gi, you're blue... I could see that. Better yet, Joao should say, "Your gi is not up to brown level gi just yet. Train in the gi and get ranked through gi, and when you are brown, go compete."
I'm ranked brown in no gi, and having learned some simple handles and chokes with the gi, I'm at a level where if I compete in gi, I know I have a good chance of not being submitted. I have a good chance of being outpointed, but I'll still rep my brown belt. And any gi gym I've been to, Cobra Kai/ Purebreed(bjj revolution)/ Mendes bros seminar and AKA, Sean Roberts seminar, Marcel Louzado's gyms, Maui Martial arts... I feel weird not wearing my brown. I am a brown belt (gi or no gi), so I rep it to the fullest. For me not to wear it, I'd be lying to myself. Sure I may get mashed on while I'll learn the tricks of that trade, but it's the same the other way around.
Maybe I'm just thinking too much into it, but I would love to see my man Matt put on brown, and run with those other browns... Maybe at the local circuit first, then get in to that Abu dhabi pro division. Rep and rep well...