What We Learned From the AIGA Championship 2025

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AIGA is back and there is a big prize this time. There are a lot of good names here and I'm hoping we'll see some great matches over these 2 days. For those that aren't familiar AIGA is a team event that gathers some of the best grapplers around the world to compete. The rules are similar to ADCC, but with rounds and a slight wrestling focus. This is also one of the biggest prizes in grappling. There was a lot of grappling this week, so I'll be brief with the descriptions, but I'll try to give you the stats and results. First let's look at the teams. 



Teams




Results


Al Leone def Acai Republic (7-0)


Williams Elite Team def Team Euro Trash (5-2)


Team Universal Fighters def Battle Force (5-2)


Team Kasai def Checkmat (7-0)




Williams Elite Team def Al Leone (4-3)


Team Kasai def Team Universal Fighters (5-2)


Al Leone (3rd Place) def Team Universal Fighters (4th Place) (5-2)


Team Kasai (Champion) def Williams Elite Team (2nd Place) (5-2)


How People Won



We got a 53.3% finish rate here, which is nothing to sneeze at. Most of the finishes came from chokes followed by leg locks, which is the usual trend. 


Stats 


Before I get into the stats, I should note that I didn't include the matches between Team Universal Fighters and Battle Force, due to time constraints on my part and the fact that many of the athletes aren't pro grapplers.

 



Overall


This event was great. It took a while to get to the championship, but the matches were really good. There were some slower matches in there that brought down the action and watchability scores, but they were so few, I don't think it mattered. The individual matches were good and even the final was good. Although Kasai was able to end things quickly I felt like things were always up in the air. 

I think the biggest problem with this event was the promotion. When it started there was a lot of hype and I think many people were excited about it. However all of that died down about 6 months ago and I didn't hear about it after that. I almost missed this event because nobody talked about it. It was on Flo at first and then moved to youtube and the prize money was cut in half. It is a shame if they're having money problems because the event itself was really good and it was free on youtube. I hope we will get another event like this in the future as this really did live up to the hype. 





Year To Date Stats



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