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‘Awesome News’ Thrills Gordon Ryan & Grappling Fans as UFC Fight Pass Makes Huge Announcement With ADCC

Published 01/22/2023, 11:55 PM EST

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In what could be groundbreaking news for grappling fans, the UFC fight pass has announced an exclusive multi-year streaming agreement with ADCC. The organization will stream its events through 2024 exclusively on fight passes as the promotion continues to expand its coverage.

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One of the interesting reactions that came up with the news was the collective sigh of relief from grappling fans. ADCC previously had a partnership with Flo Grappling, which fans did not seem to be a fan of. Thus, most of the reactions on the news were quite untoward at Flo Grappling and its services. Additionally, stars like Gordon Ryan and Claudia Gadelha among many others also reacted to the news.

Fans call out Flo grappling over bad service after ADCC joins hands with UFC fight pass

ADCC previously was partnered with Flo Grappling and the 2022 ADCC World Championships were also streamed on the platform. While many fans welcomed the shift to the UFC fight pass, some took this opportunity to thrash Flo grappling.

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A few of the reactions were a clear display of why fans hated Flo grappling

“rest in pi*s fl*grappling”

“Never been more excited to cancel a subscription as I was when I saw this news”

“This is awesome news”

One individual even went as far as to cancel his subscription to Flo grappling.

“Man I cancelled my Flo with the biggest smile on my face”

As expected, there were quite a few comments slandering Flo Grappling and its service

“Praise jeebus! all us grappling nerds can breath a sigh of relief and put flo out to pasture”

“Flow Grappling was f****g garbage, thank god ADCC is on fightpass.”

“Flograppling sucks a*s. Not to mention everything is paywalled there which even by modern standards is too much.”

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But there were also fans who praised the news of the partnership.

“As much as people give UFC shit here. They’re much better than flograppling. Good move by ADCC.”

“Man 95$ for a year of fight pass is surprisingly reasonably priced for the ufc. They have tons of stuff. (Not a ufc intern btw)”

On an Instagram post by UFC fight pass, grappling GOAT Gordon Ryan and retired UFC fighter Claudia Gadelha  also left their reactions

Badass!!!” –  Claudia Gadelha

We all did!” –  Gordon Ryan

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More on ADCC and UFC’s recent announcement 

With this announcement, ADCC will exclusively stream over 40 ADCC events through 2024. The major events during this time frame are the ADCC Opens, Trials, and Championship in Las Vegas on September 2024. As per schedule, the partnership is expected to kick off with the ADCC opening in Mexico in March.

ADCC is the biggest submission grappling event in the world with athletes like Gordon Ryan, and Andre Galvao competing for the highest accolade in the sport. Some of the athletes who competed in ADCC and also successfully transitioned to MMA are Ronaldo Souza, Fabrício Werdum, and Gilbert Burns

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This announcement is sure to bring more eyes to the sport of grappling as well as provide a better streaming platform ADCC as well. So, grappling fans should stay tuned as there are a lot of events to look forward to.

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Pragjyoti Singh

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Pragjyoti is a UFC writer at Essentially Sports. He is extremely passionate about MMA and has a good understanding of the sport and its technicalities. Having trained in the sport along with a passion for journalism, it has helped him develop a keen interest in the UFC and anything related to the promotion.
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Rohini Kottu