Grappling Report: Official ADCC 2022 alternate list revealed

ADCC 2022 is less than a month away but anything can happen when you’re attempting to get almost a hundred elite athletes to compete over one weekend. That’s why the promotion has booked seven competitors to remain on standby in case there’s a pull-out at the last minute, one for each division at the event. These are all elite grapplers with the potential to do great things, with all of them only narrowly missing out on an invite.

This kind of forward-planning paid dividends almost immediately in fact as it was only a matter of days after the athletes were named publicly when Lucas Lepri was forced to withdraw from the 77kg division. As a result, Magid Hage has stepped up to compete at ADCC…