Jorjão Rodrigues and Rousimar Toquinho's brother submit in Brasil Fight 7

Jorjão Rodrigues submitted Ken Jackson with a beautiful kneebar. Photo: Eduardo Oliveira

Jorjão Rodrigues from Rio Grande do Norte and Rick Palhares, brother of the black belt from Minas Gerais Rousimar Toquinho, shone in the seventh edition of Brasil Fight, an event held this Friday (11), in Divinópolis, in the interior of Minas Gerais.

Jorjão reminded the world that size is not a document. Scheduled two days in advance to replace Thiago Michel, the Kimura Nova União athlete had a performance worthy of the times of Royce gracie and, despite performing two categories above his own, he submitted the American Ken Jackson, 14 centimeters taller, with a rare kneebar, to win the international Superfight of the event.

Rick Palhares debuted in MMA in style. After being at a disadvantage in the fight against Vinicius Franklin, Rousimar Toquinho He went out of his way, opened the game with striking, dominated the fight in the final half and managed to end the duel with a hand triangle.

Jackson x Jorjão

When the international superfight began, Ken Jackson proved what was expected: taller, stronger and with sharp wrestling, he took down and controlled from above. But, underneath, was Jorjão Rodrigues, training partner of Jussier formiga, José Aldo, Renan Barao e Leo Santos, and owner of sharp jiu-jitsu. Calmly, the experienced athlete, who has more than 70 fights in his career, stayed in half guard, positioned a triangle with his legs, and stretched his opponent's until forcing him to give three taps, while the Divinópolis crowd cheered.

“I only found out about the fight two days before, and the time I had was to fight and travel”, recalls Jorjão. “I always train this position, I have a lot of confidence in it. I waited to exchange with him, but if he took down, I would submit. The fans were very affectionate, they showed that they really like fighting, it was a new and really cool experience to fight in Divinópolis. I have no plans for the future, but wherever a fight comes up, I’ll go.”

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Ju Thai showed his class and didn't give Lilian Tolezi time to even land a punch. In less than 2 minutes, Ju took him down and, using ground and pound, won by technical knockout. Another highly anticipated fight was that of Rick Palhares, brother of Rousimar Toquinho. He made his MMA debut against Vinicius Franklin, starring in the best fight of the night, and winning in the third round, with a beautiful hand triangle, showing that jiu-jitsu runs in the family.

 Check out the complete results from Brasil Fight 7 below:

Jorjão Rodrigues (Kimura Nova União) submitted Ken Jackson (CM System) with a kneebar in R1;

Ju Thai (Gracie Barra BH/Champion BH) beat Lilian Tolezi (Marcelo Ribeiro) by technical knockout in R1;

Diogo Bebezão (Storm Fighter-DF) submitted Daniel Chicão (Mathielo Team/ Pantera Negra-MG) with a guillotine choke in R1;

Herbert Souza (Constrictor Team-DF) submitted Flavio “Baiano” (Champion BH-MG) with a rear naked choke in R1;

Alessandro Gambulino (TFT Piunhim-MG) beat Edgar Massara (Five Rounds) in a unanimous decision by the judges;

Gildásio Neto (Constrictor Team-DF) submitted Luis Felipe Bope (Champion BH-MG) with a guillotine choke in R2

Gabriel Otávio D2 (TFT-MG) submitted Gabriel “Buldog” (Popó Fight-DF) with an R2 guillotine choke;

Preliminary Card

Rick Palhares (Mathielo Team) submitted Vinicius Franklin (Gracie Barra BH/ Titi-Danilo) with a hand triangle in R3;

Bruno Wallace (Cristiano Titi MMA) beat Thiago Paraíba (Mathielo Team/ Pantera Negra) by technical knockout in R1;

Daniel Gaucho (CM System) submitted Juliano Gonçalves (Eli Kickboxing) with an R1 kimura;

Benny Black (TFT/ Piunhi) beat Rodrigo Souza (Mamute Team) in a split decision from the judges;

Henrique Prota (CDT) submitted Wendel Cobra (Cristiano Titi MMA) with a triangle in R1;