With Gordon Ryan largely inactive and sidelined in recent times, two openweight champions confronted off at WNO 27, in a bout that might’ve arguably decided the highest heavyweight in the present day. CJI champion Nick Rodriguez overcame early adversity and used his smothering prime management, incomes a formidable win over ADCC double gold medalist Kaynan Duarte in the principle occasion.
Very like how the inactive Conor McGregor pops up on social media to steal the highlight throughout huge UFC occasions, Gordon Ryan took to Instagram to criticize each heavyweight grapplers after WNO 27.
“One man cant isolate a limb from Mount. One man has clearly by no means practiced a mount escape in his life,” Gordon Ryan wrote on Instagram, earlier than trying to promote extra of his Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) instructionals.
“Why is everybody so dangerous ? there are dvds for this, fellas . Examine me out @bjj.fanatics”
Whereas some folks identified his inactivity, Gordon Ryan made certain to let everybody within the feedback know that he already “submitted each guys” previously. He additionally repeated outdated accusations on his former teammate, saying “each males on this photograph are on steroids.”
It’s additionally price noting that when the preliminary PED accusations began after their match, Rodriguez took an impromptu drug check to debunk Gordon Ryan’s statements.
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Like he identified, Gordon Ryan does have wins over each WNO 27 headliners. He survived Rodriguez breaking his foot to get an extra time win at UFC FPI 3, and he additionally choked out Duarte on the IBJJF Pans again in 2018.
These wins have been from three and 7 years in the past although, lengthy earlier than Duarte and Rodriguez received their main titles. Rodriguez received the inaugural CJI title final yr, whereas Duarte received 4 ADCC titles in 2019, 2022 and through his greatest exhibiting in 2024.
Successful that ADCC absolute event supposedly arrange Duarte for a match towards Ryan subsequent. However with Ryan largely inactive and sidelined in recent times, the 2 openweight champions as an alternative confronted one another at WNO 27, which Rodriguez ended up profitable.
Whereas he has picked a number of fights on social media, Gordon Ryan has been far much less energetic and extra selective of his opponents on the mat as of late. The embellished BJJ star continues to be simply 29-years-old, however has been coping with critical well being points for years now.
Whereas he has but to make any official announcement on a attainable retirement, his coach John Danaher just lately acknowledged that the “very sick” Gordon Ryan in all probability received’t compete once more.
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