Kyle Bohem, ADCC veteran and 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu standout just accused John Danaher’s New Wave Jiu-Jitsu of fixing matches for their students and having students participate in fake matches.
Kyle Bohem shared his thoughts on the subject a couple of days ago, right before his performance in EBI 20, which is the first EBI in years that featured the old submission-only Jiu-Jitsu format rather than being an exclusive combat Jiu-Jitsu event. Bohem got to the finals where he lost to B-team’s Nick Rodriguez, but his accusation about New Wave Jiu-Jitsu got more attention than his performance on the mats.
His accusation had to do with New Wave Jiu-Jitsu competitors that were part of the EBI 20 event. Luke Griffith and Giancarlo Bodoni both fought in the absolute’s return edition of EBI. Bodoni withdrew due to injury, and Griffith lost the semifinals to Rodriguez.
Bohem’s take on things was that they’d have a fake match if they ended up facing each other, which was a realistic possibility. In the words of Bohem, that wouldn’t be the first time, accused Eddie Cummings, Gordon Ryan, and Gary Tonon of doing the same on multiple occasions.
“”To whom it may concern, two of the athletes in Today’s EBI absolute tournament are planning on doing a fake match. These athletes are Luke Griffith and Giancarlo Bodoni who are coached by John Danaher.
If they both make it to the semifinals the match will be faked.
This same team has done this multiple times including in this tournament at EBI 3. I hope that something can be done to prevent this because they will be stealing money from the other athletes.
Josh Hinger was robbed of a potential win and a lot of money at EBI 3 by the fake match mentioned above. Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida was robbed of a lot of money and a win in the absolute at ADCC by the fake match shown in the video above.
It’s absurd that this is allowed to continue in a sport on the cusp of mainstream professionalism which is being held back by these types of unscrupulous tactics.”
The EBI 3 match Bohem refers to was between Tonon and Cummings, while he causes Tonon and Ryan of doing the same in the 2019 ADCC absolute division.
Bohem later deleted the post.
New Wave Jiu-Jitsu lead competitor Gordon Ryan responded to the accusations in a post of his own: “Maybe if you spent less time spewing bs and more time focusing you’d have spent less time getting bal** dragged across your face and actually won a gold medal for your team for once.”
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