Could we list the best merited crossover grapplers?

Could we list the best merited crossover grapplers? Not ones that crossed over to MMA but rather people with succes in two or more grappling sports

and in "pure" grappling sports so Fedors judo + combat sambo doesn't count

Mark Kerr
NCAA Div 1 champ
US Freestyle champ
but freestyle/folkstyle isn't that much of a difference

ADCC 3 time champ + super fight
but it is just one competition

but you get my drift

but more like
Nick Tritton

junior championships?

Remember names like Dave Camarillo and Edson Carvalho being mentioned
gotta be loads from Brazil?


Steve Mocco for wrestling and some judo

so who are the most wellrounded with merits in 2 or more sports?

edit: almost forgot Ivar Johansson Ivar Johansson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
as far as I can see the only guy with olympic golds in both freestyle AND greco, same year nonetheless (1932) and two weightclasses aswell

 

Leo Leite

Pan Am Judo Champion

then goes on to win the BJJ world championship at Black belt.

No clue why this guy is not talked about more around here. He is awesome.

 

Jake Shields-2x CA JC All-American. ADCC 3rd place, has wins over a lot of good BJJ guys.
Ben Askren-4x NCAA All American- 2x Runner-up, 2x Champion, 2x Dan Hodge Winner, 2008 FS Olympian, FILA World Grappling Games Champion, ADCC Veteran. I think there is more, not sure.

 

Would this man count?

-5th Dan in Judo

-Gold in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games
-Bronze in the 1991 World Championships
-Silver in the 1993 World Championships
-Silver in the 1995 World Championships
-Gold in the 1999 World Championships
-Gold in the 1988 Asian Championships

 

In my club :

Hakim Djabali

French national champion in sport sambo in 2010
Bronze at the European sport Sambo in 2010.
2 time BJJ world champion at Blue and Purple belt (his name was horribly misspelled by the brazilians as Abel Djaboli. )
Just entered the France's division one in Judo.



Hard to find all his accomplishment, especially in Judo, he's got no website, he doesn't brag about it all,...Still a dude to be followed.

 

*2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze from the mundials
*2 gold and a silver at the copa do mundo

decent judo record too:

Leonardo Leite - JudoInside.com

oh and he is Kyra Gracie's boyfriend.

 

i'm not sure camarillo or carvalho were really that accomplished at judo or BJJ were they? certainly nothing compared to leite's record.

 

Dean Lister is a 2x National Sambo champion, NA ADCC absolute Champion, and National bjj champ.

 

I don't think winning the FILA grappling games equates to a super high level... I think that is about like winning a NAGA tourney... I like Askren, just sayin, he hasn't really had any success to speak of in submission grappling.

 

you're actually quote wrong. the world level games, like the ones my teammate tom lecuyer competes at, are highly competitive and every person there would easily win their naga division. i consider the fila games the AAA to the major leagues of grappling.

 

All I know is that Jacob Volkmann, Ben Askren, and Zack Makovski are all "world champions" by winning the FILA grappling games. But none of them would even come close to winning mundials or ADCC. ADCC is the world championships of no-gi grappling IMO.

Ben got tapped in his first match in about 2 minutes I think in ADCC. Volkmann vs.
Marcelo in a no-gi grappling match, who do you got? I will take Marcelo.

Maybe it is higher level than a NAGA, but I would put a guy like Glover who still competes in GQ well ahead of a grappler like Volkmann. WELL ahead.

 

The Fila Worlds is probably on a par with the bigger NAGA or Grapplers Quests and some of the IBJJF No Gi events. Small fry comp compared to ADCC.

Will be interesting to see who goes to the new World Pro No Gi comp being run next year.

 

Roberto "Cyborg" Abreu was a finalist at ADCC in 2009 and was a Brazillian National Wrestling Champion.

Jeff Monson was Pac-10 Wrestling Champion and 2x ADCC winner.