Several BJJ world champions are joining the six tournaments at the 2024 IBJJF Crown. Here’s everything you need to know about the event.
The professional grappling scene has been rapidly growing in recent years, with ADCC, CJI, WNO, Polaris and the UFC Fight Pass Invitational among those ushering the way and improving viewership and athlete pay. Most pro events are no gi though, and IBJJF has since created their answer to those with a professional event in the traditional kimono called “The Crown.”
Their inaugural event happened in 2023, and their upcoming second iteration on November 17 promises to be bigger and better.
The 2024 IBJJF Crown will once again host tournaments across six divisions — four for men, two for women — but brackets have now doubled in size, going from four to eight-man tournaments.
Several decorated BJJ stars have also been confirmed to be in the roster. This includes four of the six returning winners from the inaugural IBJJF Crown in two-time world champ Tainan Dalpra, four-time world champ Erich Munis, and eight-time female world champs Gabrieli Pessanha and Luiza Monteiro.
Last year’s middleweight winner and CJI silver medalist, Fellipe Andrew is currently unable to participate in IBJJF events, as he is one of the few jiujitsu athletes to have been tested and suspended by USADA.
Outside of the returning champs, the biggest name on the line up is five-time world champ Diego “Pato” Oliveira, who will return to gi competition after recently taking silver at the 2024 ADCC World Championships.
The full list of competitors, along with everything else you need to know about the event, can be seen below.
Payouts and rulesets for 2024 IBJJF Crown
The four men’s divisions will be a condensed version of the typical IBJJF gi weight classes, with featherweight, middleweight, heavyweight and ultra-heavyweight. The two women’s divisions will be at lightweight and openweight.
For better or worse, every match will again be held under traditional IBJJF rules with points and advantages, for 10 minutes each.
The 2023 IBJJF Crown also had $15,000 prizes for each tournament winner and $3,000 for silver medalists, with smaller purses for the other participants. They revealed that the total payout was an IBJJF record of over $120,000 in 2023. The larger field of competitors now could help eclipse that total, but no monetary figures were revealed for this 2024 iteration, as of this writing.
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2024 IBJJF Crown full list of competitors
Featherweight (70 kg/154 lbs)
Diego Pato – 5-time world champ, 2024 ADCC silver
Kennedy Maciel – 2018 no gi world champ, 2019 ADCC silver
Jamil Hill-Taylor – 2018 IBJJF world champ
Osvaldo “Queixinho” Moizinho – 4-time no gi world champ
Ademir Barreto
Marco Mendes
Eduardo Granzotto
Joao Mendes
Middleweight (82.3 kg/181 lbs)
Tainan Dalpra – Reigning IBJJF Crown champ, 2-time world champ
Andy Murasaki – 2022 no gi world champ
Francisco Lo – 2023 no gi world champ
Elijah Dorsey – 2023 ADCC Trials Champ
Manuel Ribamar – 2019 no gi world champ
Mauricio Oliveira
Gabriel Galvao
Jaime Canuto
Heavyweight (94.3 kg/208 lbs)
Gustavo Batista – 5-time world champ
Adam Wardzinski – 2024 IBJJF world champ
Patrick Gaudio
Rider Zuchi
Paulo Merlin
Horlando Monteiro
Mateus Rodrigues
Matheus Spirandelli
Men’s Ultra-Heavyweight (Openweight)
Erich Munis – Reigning IBJJF Crown champ, 4-time world champ
Roosevelt Sousa – 2023 no gi world champ, 2022 ADCC bronze
Felipe Costa – 2024 ADCC bronze
Gutemberg Pereira
Pedro Machado
Marcus Ribeiro
Kjetil Lydvo
Kristof Szucs
Women’s Lightweight (64 kg/141 lbs)
Luiza Monteiro – Reigning IBJJF Crown champ, 6-time world champion
Brianna Ste-Marie – 2024 ADCC Silver, WNO Champ
Margot Ciccarelli – ADCC Trials champ
Janaina Lebre Maia
Cassia Moura
Jaine Fragoso
Vitoria Vieira
Vitoria Assis
Women’s Super-Heavyweight (Openweight)
Gabi Pessanha – 8-time world champ
Nathiely de Jesus – 8-time world champ
Melissa Stricker Cueto – 2-time world champ
Tamiris Silva – 2024 IBJJF world champ
Mayara Custodio – 2021 no gi world champ
Giovanna Jara – 2022 ADCC Trials champ
Isabely Lemos
Maria Vincentini
2024 IBJJF Crown: How to watch, live stream, start time
The 2024 IBJJF Crown will happen on November 17, 2024 at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California. It will be streamed live on FloGrappling starting at 3 p.m. ET.
There will be two mats, with matches happening simultaneously up until the final rounds of the tournaments.