Felipe Pena is set to face Gordon Ryan for the fourth time in a Who’s Number One event in February 2023, and the heavyweight, who is the only person to submit Gordon in a match, is now training at Atos with Andre Galvao, preparing for the next encounter with the “King.”
Felipe Pena is an interesting character for those that are into Jiu-Jitsu. The heavyweight Brazilian is the only man to tap out Gordon Ryan (rear-naked choke) in a match at black belt. He is also the only man to defeat Ryan twice, the second one coming in the way of a points victory at ADCC 2017.
Gordon Ryan did get one back over his “nemesis” Felipe Pena at WNO this summer when Pena tapped verbally to pressure from the mount after 40 minutes of grappling. However, the match was marred by controversies, with Felipe Pena claiming that he was too upset to fight on account of his good friend Leandro Lo getting shot and killed the night before.
Gordon shared his side of the story, claiming Pena tried to change the rules of the match at the last minute, and it all turned into the drama that kind of overshadowed Gordon’s victory, leaving more question marks, and a total record of 2-1 in Pena’s favor.
Now, Gordon Ryan just posted on his Instagram that Felipe Pena is setting his training camp at Atos, seemingly quashing his rivalry with Andre Galvao in order to best prepare for their fourth match:
“Apparently, this guy said on his you tube channel that he’s doing his next camp for me at atos. This is so incredible for so many reasons but the number 1 reason is the rivalry between Felipe Pena and Andre was one of the biggest rivalries ever in the sport and the 2 genuinely don’t like each other.
I guess the only thing stronger than penas hatred for Andre is his hatred for me. This is absolutely incredible ahhaa. Pena Is leaving his students behind and completely uprooting his entire life to train at atos, which will help him exactly 0% In our next match. It’s alright though, daddy needs some more HP in his CadiLLACC. Free money’s good money.”
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This is what Felipe Pena said about his Atos training camp on his YouTube channel:
