Craig Jones Invitational vs ADCC - EVERYTHING WE KNOW SO FAR (BJJ Documentary)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- Craig Jones is changing the BJJ jiu jitsu landscape for the better, taking on ADCC to get fighters paid and make some money for charity. Here's a timeline of everything we know so far.
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Biggest shayamalan twist: Gordon Ryan is the primary investor
Imagine. Reddit would implode
Shamalan? Like the the director, M. Night Shamalan?
@@canejuicemaui4355I see dead ppl
That would be insane
Think it's Mitch burgess
The fact that he did this just speaks to his level of troll
Half charitable sweetheart half coke fiend troll
This isn’t a troll, this is him reacting to Mo being too focused on himself and making a spectacle, and not enough on athletes’ pay. $10k for winners of ADCC is shameful, and they’re going to lose wayyyy more competitors before this year’s tourney. Looking forward to seeing who jumps ship. Hoping Mica backs himself to take the Milly under 80kg!
dude, you should do more content… or I will become guard puller
I’m back!! Don’t worry!! Don’t butt scoot!
Noooo.... Just stand up!
Guard pulling is for smart men in comp
I'm American and it sounds like the typical business motto in the United States. As the business grows we keep all the employees at the same pay so we bank all the money while our employees struggle to make a living.
For sure, but remember ADCC isn’t profit driven and has an endless financier
@@CombatArcade So what you're saying is they are blatantly being stingy? 🤔
I dunno
If stingy is the word, but they’ve elected to up their spending on streaming rights/arena fees/production value/staffing etc exponentially as they’ve grown but their athlete pay has remained the same since the late 1990’s
But! Then someone like Craig Jones comes along and does what Americans should do and that is start a competing entity. Who will win… maybe Craig or maybe ADCC. I am rooting for Team Jones and I hope he gets rich doing it. An Aussie succeeding in the American way. What is more American than that.
@@justinjex1 Yeah nice try trying to make America sound great. No this has nothing to do with how great America is everything to do with how manipulative America is. And of course it took someone who's not from America to challenge typical American systems.
I have nothing against ADCC but I’ll be rejoicing when flograppling goes under. They are so far from their customer base it’s actually crazy
One of my coworkers is subbed to flo cheerleading due to her daughter and even she complains about how shit it is. They can't even make a good UI for their expensive ass app.
It blows my mind that they just refuse to fix their mistakes, and continue to put out poorly edited videos that feel like they were made in 2015
I remember when the Crossfit Games started out, the prize money was super low. But as Crossfit grew, the prize money grew with the sport. You don't really see that growth with grappling.
Great comparison too, seeing as most Crossfit fans are people who actually do Crossfit, and most BJJ fans are people who do BJJ!
@CombatArcade the interesting thing about the Crossfit Games is that it's sort of a similar situation to ADCC. Each crossfit gym is independently owned and operated and the Games are run by Crossfit Inc. Crossfit Inc. depends on sponsors and an annual license fee from crossfit gyms. Despite this, they've still increased their payouts annually.
I was thinking the same thing
"inhumanely rich" was such a perfect way to describe that sheik's wealth lol
Couldn’t think of a better word lol
I know why he did the two divisions for one million each, but I think he should have done four divisions for men and two for women, with 400k for every winner of each division. 400k is still life-changing for these kind of athletes, and so many more athletes would jump over for sure! 10k for participating and 400k to win would have been awesome
True, maybe they do that in the future. I think the headline of “1 million dollars” really sold it though. Good marketing
@@eamonshields2754 that's what I figured
I half agree... with how many lives it could have changed, 2 seems like a wasted opportunity.
That said.. win or die is gonna make everv match more intense..
Ye, nah. Glad you aren’t the one trying to change the grappling industry cus you have no idea how to gain an audience lol
I like the purity of it. It’s like 2 absolute divisions … one for the big guys, one for the smaller guys. Mica should enter the under 80kg, he’d still have a good chance of winning …
Victor Hugo jumping on board early is huge. Think there’s gonna be another 10+ world class guys move to CJI soon
I want to see Mica 👀
You didn’t call it CGI, which alone means the video is a resounding success. In all seriousness, your videos are always sick and as soon as I saw you made a new one, I clicked. Lfg
Haha I came close a few times!! Thanks for the kindness 🙏
9:58 ?
How dare you that's just my New Zealand/UK accent ;)
My bro, your content is just top, really enjoy all the videos, plz keep it up, I also like a lot your work on MMMOP
You’re too kind!! Thank you!
Always happy when I see this in my recommended. If I had my way you’d be beholden to do weekly breakdowns of any and all grappling events/moments in combat sports. I adore your insights into the subtleties of grappling
You're way too kind! Trust me, if I could afford to I would make these videos every day :)
Another great vid, continue the good work sir 🤙🏻
Thanks Ivan!! Appreciate it :)
love this content!!!!!!! lmao great job
Great video. Thanks team! Long live the CJI!
Thanks bro!
greet stuff, as always mate
Thanks sir!
Craig just doing this soo all the big names come to CJI soo he can go to ADCC and win.
We call that 4D chess
Nice editing on this one! "I had to do a lot of bad things for that..." "Uh..." got a laugh out of me.
Good eyes! Haha. Craig is a natural comedian. Thanks!
August 16,August 17 Las Vegas
Thomas & Mack Center
Be there or be square
Subbed!
Thanks yo!
Craig is genuinely a hero.
THEEERE GOES MY HEEEROO
Btw they are not doing the pit style platform to stop people from falling off, but instead to stop people backing up all the time.
True! But hopefully we will see less judges-table intimacy too
Ele e o cara ., muito bom oss 🇧🇷
definitivamente meu amigo
4k views in 3 hours well done
Thanks coach!
I feel bad for the winners of adcc cus they will forever never get the credit cus people will say they would of lost if so in so who went to cji would of beat them.
I mean, it’s mainly just B-team doing the cji as of now
@@thatguitarguyguydid u not see the whole video? Lucas “hulk” barbosa , Roberto Jimenez , tacket bros , mason fowler , victor Hugo. None of them are bteam
@@ThruTheWire2 I’m a casual in jiujisu so I don’t know any of those names besides the Tackett brothers.
Did any of those guys you mentioned place at adcc before or have a chance at winning adcc this year?
Roberto Jimenez is the current IBJJF openweight world champ no gi, Victor Hugo won worlds x3 and has wins over Nicky Rod, Jimenez etc., Hulk is an ADCC bronze and silver medallist and 5x world champ, Mason Fowler has wins over Craig and is a 2x ADCC Trials winner, they're all legit dangerous talents at ADCC level for sure!
If you like you can go watch my rundown of Roberto Jimenez's worlds run (it was awesome!)
@@CombatArcade noted. ✍🏼🫡
The Loki of BJJ!
Coki
A bloody good Aussie
One correction is the women's division prize money was actually only 5k, not 6k although they have now increased it to the illustrious 10k to match the men's divisions
My bad, misspoke!
CJI for the win!
Hell yeah!
Wish the best to CJI
🔥
It’s the karate combat guys finding this, it’s gotta be
They have Crypto money behind em too, anything is possible
I thought the DDS split into New Wave and B-team was genius marketing at first. They all still train together secretly. Part of me wants to think that cause it's entertaining
One tip on Flo is that if you sign up for another sport (Flo Rugby) you can get a monthly sub during ADCC and still watch ADCC (well, I was able to last year anyway).
👀
If you own a credit card that is..😂
This aussie bloke needs to go all the way with this, he's hilarious hahaha
Ten thousand and ONE (10,001) AND ONE MILLION (1,000,000) sheesh fire I love it!
That $1 is coming out of Craig’s personal money too lmao
@@CombatArcade hahahaha this made my day! Thanks for the awesome video and content. Huge fan. CGI!!!
Thanks man!
Where do you buy tickets for CJI?
Keep an eye on their Insta
I'm very mixed on the topic. I will definitely support both events but I just feel like it's wrong to bail on an event that you already make commitments to. Of course, I understand the fighters wanting to be paid but like you said ADCC was not designed to
make money. It was designed to bring the best grapplers in the world together and see who the best is like the olympics. Also, the fact that it's on flow will always hurt It's finances because it's locked behind a paywall and the greater audience will not even be aware of it. They should have stayed with UFC because then they could have at least promoted it on UFC and ESPN which would have come with more sponsors. Plus the fighters going into CJI only one will win a million dollars. The others will just walk away with 10k and risk never getting invited to ADCC again if CJI is a one off
Fair points, but ADCC has made it clear to guys who have left for CJI that they're welcome back, they just have to go through trials. Also BOTH bracket winners will earn $1m, and the superfights will be for much more money than those fighters (Ffion, Gabi etc.) would have gotten at ADCC too..
Imagine Gordon winning ADCC and this at the same time and take all the money and buy himself 50 more Miatas
Imagine if cji was put on cable tv and netflix 🎉
The next logical step is cgi winners vs adcc winners
Co-promoted, $5m grand prize? :O
Misawa on the ark
Ffion said in her video she was doing a superfight not a division
8:50 I think Craig said $250k venue rental vs ADCC being $2million for the venue this year??
On reddit he mentioned he got it for a quarter of what ADCC spent on T-Mobile, and I think he spent half a million. But I could be wrong
@@CombatArcade at 1:58:00 of the Chris Williamson podcast he says “under $200k” to rent Thomas and Mack including loading days. And tbh I can’t remember if he said $2mil to rent T-mobile, or $1mil!
Craig Jones seems to be as cool of a guy as he is skilled at grappling.
So it’s basically all of B team and…Gabby Garcia. I know Craig is extra hard.
Kreg is the perfect hero for bjj
Krog
And now Gordon will face Yuri and Pena at adcc
i believe the main investor in the CJI tournament is Motar2k, famous for donating huge sums to streamers back in the day. but the guy turned out to be a huge BJJ fan nowadays, hence the partnership with Craig Jones
Umm u cant be more wrong on this 1 lol. Motar2k is none other than Mo Jassim. The organizer of ADCC. Hes literally the dude underpaying athlete lol.
Nice try Mo
ADCC is founded by rich people from Dubai and award is 10.000? That’s pocket change for them so I am glad CJI will happen and its a bo brainer. Like who would do ADCC for free when you get 10k just to show up in CJI
you can order flo wrestling for a month and then cancel
Clever!
Still costs far too much
Im never giving money to flo on principle their streaming service is absolute dogshit
If you own a credit card that is 😅
It's not really grown until the last 5 years. The events in china Finland and Brazil were tiny and awful turn out.
just wondering: when they say $1M to win, they mean that's the total purse for the event right? Maybe the fighters from the men's divisions stand to win something in the mid to low 100,000s (if distributed amongst the top three fighters)?
Nope, $1m for each of the bracket winners! The superfights are a different pay structure I think
Gabi Garcia said in her video she’s getting over 150 000 so there’s 2.5 million prize funds easy
I can’t wait to see this and I’m not gonna be watching adcc
I'll try to watch both at the same time with crossed eyes
@@CombatArcade good idea but imo flograppling charges too much for their platform just to watch grappling . I’d rather support Craig. Everyone supports his idea except NWJ
I’m pretty sure women get 5k and second place men get 6k
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like leagues that allow steroids end up failing.
women get the same as men to my understanding
Sign up to flo cheerleaders for a monthly subscription
only if craig is wearing the cheerleaders outfit
Only if you own a credit card 😂
Adcc is the one actually trolling here.. payin fighters for winning 4 matches 10k? 😂 that is the biggest troll there ever was
They’ve got away with it for a while too!
feel like this is a psyop. not saying top jiu jiutsu guys shouldn't get paid more. just seems strange.
wtf is a psyop
Mark Zuckerberg and Mark Wahlberg funding CJI
Fart
This is the most intelligent comment I've ever seen on TH-cam. I'm not kidding.
Thanks mate I put a lot of thought into it.
I've been thinking about this comment all night
if you dont think this will affect adcc then youre smoking crack fella
When did I say that? I said it won’t kill ADCC, and they will change their pay and it’ll be diluted. (They’ve already changed the pay since I made this video by the way)
@@CombatArcade who cares if they changed there money, mo is a pretty shitty dude he’s shown that multiple times over the years. Who cares if he ORGANISED a contest it’s not like he funds any of it is it!! And now Craig has shown you don’t need an outside organiser you can just do it yourself and give the proceeds to charity then why won’t anyone else start there own…..adcc is not the be all and end all of ju jitsu and the faster you all get that the richer the athletes will be and the further the sport will be pushed
24k views in 23hr…. bro fell off fr
I hope you’re kidding because this is the fastest growing video I’ve ever made haha
Man you were in the DDs being a top guy but still gettin whooped, went to adcc beeing a nobody…spitting on both that make u famous. And now just doing trash talk to the hand that fed u. Ur doing stuff as ur saying to elevate grappling status, but cant even beeing legit lossing to gordon, to mason, nearly to ruotolo…
U australians think that ur the best in evrything. Get humble