The reward for getting out of bed before sunrise this morning was match after match of great grappling action as day one of ADCC 2017 kicked off. After the first series of matches there were a number of surprising upsets and stellar performances to talk about.
After one day of action, Craig Jones is perhaps the name that has the grappling community abuzz. The Australian-born competitor put the rest of the bracket and the grappling world on notice when he defeated not only Leandro Lo and Murilo Santana, but he submitted both men to move into the semifinals.