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The 2024 Craig Jones Invitational was an international submission grappling tournament held August 16–17, 2024 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The winner in each weight division received $1 million prize money.
Craig Benjamin Jones (born 17 July 1991) is an Australian grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor and coach. An IBJJF World No-Gi Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion as a white belt, Jones is a two-time ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship silver medalist and a three-time Polaris Pro Grappling champion.
Men's divisions will have sixteen competitors: eight qualified athletes, seven invitations and the defending ADCC champion. Women's divisions will have eight competitors: approximately four qualified athletes, three invitations and the defending ADCC champion; there may be some variation due to returning champions, invitees and trials winners moving into different weight divisions.
Kerkvliet was invited to compete in the over 80kg division of the Craig Jones Invitational on August 17-18, 2024. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] He lost to Fellipe Andrew by decision in the opening round. [ 34 ]
Mo Jassim took over as head organizer ready for ADCC 2019 and has since made sweeping changes to the organization. He announced that he had plans for adding more women's divisions and allowing reigning absolute champions to compete in weight-classes despite being booked for the main event superfight. [11]
Jones made a noteworthy appearance on a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast. To promote his new tournament — the inaugural Craig Jones Invitational — and to show that he has ...
Craig Jones, from Adelaide, started to train in 2016 at his cousin’s academy and later went on to compete in many global championships. However, if not performed by a professional or performed ...
Craig Melvin, Sheinelle Jones, Dylan Dreyer, Al Roker and Lindsay Czarniak at the Colorectal Cancer Alliance Bottoms Up Invitational Concert, Shorehaven Golf Club, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA on ...