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Join HOGOn April 26, 2025, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 21-year-old Mica Galvao tapped Roberto Jimenez with an armbar at 2:35 of a 10-minute final to win the BJJ Stars 15 Middleweight No-Gi Grand Prix and a R$100,000 (about $17,500) winner-take-all purse [1][2]. It was an eight-man, single-night bracket — the first no-gi Grand Prix in BJJ Stars' history — and Galvao went the full distance through it: a 3-0 decision over Jon "Thor" Blank in the quarters, a referee decision over Elijah Dorsey in the semis, and the armbar finish over Jimenez in the final [3][4]. The submission itself was clean. The aftermath wasn't. Video showed Jimenez's elbow hyperextending well past the line before the referee jumped in, and Galvao's reaction — hands on his head, immediately checking on…
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