EBI5 lightweights... Denny returns

[Craig Murray]

On Bruce Buffer and his "kids shouldn't smoke week" podcast, Eddie says Dec 13th is the lightweight division. Denny Prokopos, Nathan Orchard, Eddie Cummings and then drops a bunch of other names I can't really understand cause Eddie's like on his phone or some shit. And at the very end says "maybe even Cobrinha"... could you imagine watching that guy against a field of 16 in sub only? Holy cow. That would be sick.

Anyway, check it out.

Eddie starts well into the postcast, the talk about EBI5 is at the very end of Eddie's interview...

39:30 is where Eddie talks about it.

https://soundcloud.com/itstimewithbr...ews-nfl-week-1

[Craig Murray]

Just get the guys that the jiu jitsu world at large thinks are the best. Get the biggest killers in the world, fly them out, do whatever you have to do. What's a half-dozen plane tickets from Brazil cost? Plus Hotel and a per-diem. Who gives a fuck about cost just get the best in the world to EBI and let's watch them all go sub-only!

EBI can become the premier grappling event in the world, but only if they best in the world are competing.

ADCC rules suck balls, but it's the premier event in grappling. Why? It's got the best talent.

[Jeff Baldwin]

And it's only the premier event because of the potential payday.

[Diogo Trigo]

Hm, was actually hoping for a heavyweight tournament, but I'm always sold for these names.

[David Rosado]

Hm, was actually hoping for a heavyweight tournament, but I'm always sold for these names.

Same.

[Mike Nall]

Just get the guys that the jiu jitsu world at large thinks are the best. Get the biggest killers in the world, fly them out, do whatever you have to do. What's a half-dozen plane tickets from Brazil cost? Plus Hotel and a per-diem. Who gives a fuck about cost just get the best in the world to EBI and let's watch them all go sub-only!

EBI can become the premier grappling event in the world, but only if they best in the world are competing.

ADCC rules suck balls, but it's the premier event in grappling. Why? It's got the best talent.

Thankfully much of the best talent lives here, so hopefully it can happen.

[Mojoplata]

Hm, was actually hoping for a heavyweight tournament, but I'm always sold for these names.

Would love to see Vinny on EBI

[Cora Sek]

Just get the guys that the jiu jitsu world at large thinks are the best. Get the biggest killers in the world, fly them out, do whatever you have to do. What's a half-dozen plane tickets from Brazil cost? Plus Hotel and a per-diem. Who gives a fuck about cost just get the best in the world to EBI and let's watch them all go sub-only!

EBI can become the premier grappling event in the world, but only if they best in the world are competing.

ADCC rules suck balls, but it's the premier event in grappling. Why? It's got the best talent.

Bro did you win the lotto and want to sponsor them? EBI will be the premier event regardless. Remember this is just the beginning...give them time to grow and get more sponsors and when the prize money is big enough, the elite will beg to be on EBI. But from this last event, what some consider the elite or best around doesn't necessarily mean they will do all that great in EBI format. For example, Miyao is an elite grappler and I've been following him and his brother and study their style. But while watching him on EBI, I was saying to myself and begging for him to just finish one guy...just one. But nope, all his matches went into OT and eventually got beat by Soto. Some of the lesser known grappler are actually better in this format IMO. So with that being said, just because they are recognized as being the best in other format, it doesn't mean they will be all that great on EBI.

[NelsonLucca]

Would love to see Vinny on EBI

It's only a matter of time. You know Vinny is down. Excited to see Denny, Nate and Eddie though.

[Will Thaxton]

WarDenny!