Submission Wrestling

Submission Wrestling: Jaun vs. Drake

Match Rules

Submission wrestling rules.

Match Intro

Two dominant GRPL wins have put a target on Jaun’s back in South Africa. His third Choke-Only Submission Wrestling match now brings a completely new challenge: 18-year-old MMA fighter Drake steps onto the GRPL mat for the first time. Jaun has made an immediate impact since joining GRPL. A 13-time national wrestling champion with an amateur MMA background and grappling experience, he controlled his first two appearances convincingly. Now the question changes. Can he maintain that momentum when a fresh opponent arrives with nothing to lose? Drake makes his GRPL debut with an MMA background and a bigger frame. At 80 kg, he enters heavier than Jaun and brings the unpredictability of a fighter who is used to combining different phases of combat. But this is not MMA. There are no strikes, no wrestling points and no positional score to protect. Under GRPL Choke-Only Submission Wrestling rules, everything has to lead toward the neck. The match is fought over 1 round of 7 minutes. Every successful choke scores 1 point, followed by a reset. The fighter with the most points after regulation wins. If the score is tied after 7 minutes, both fighters take a short break before continuing into

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