The billboard was developed in front of a good public presence at the Fedenador theater last Friday night.
Last Friday Guayaquil hosted the fourth edition of the IBI, a tournament of combat jiu-jitsu that this year attracted the attention of athletes and the general public by the intervention of the Olympic fighter and winner of the Olympic diploma in Tokyo 2020, Luisa Valverde, and the champion of the mixed martial arts (MMA) category of the Mexican league Budo Sento Championship, Emiliano Linares.
The winner of the belt and the economic prize of 2,250 dollars of IBI 4 went to Juan Albarello, of Team Mantra. The Colombian left Linares, from Team Bonebreakers, on the road and in the final he defeated his teammate, Fernando Herrera.
Albarello, black ribbon on jiu-jitsu Brazilian, he is the first non-born in Ecuador to win the title.
In the female branch, the victors of the super fight Priscila Arboleda, from Team Arte Suave Juan Miguel Iturralde, and Klaudia Altamirano, from Team Alliance LDE, who beat Valverde, from Team Predador, and Pamela Espinoza, from Team Cohab Cuenca, respectively.
IBI 4 took place on Friday night at the Fedenador theater. The billboard began at 20:00 in the presence of the public and fellow competitors who were looking to win the economic prizes.
The action started with the direct elimination bracket between men with the triumph of one of the serious candidates to take the belt, Sebastián Guevara (Team Alliance LDE), over Miguel Goncalves (Team Casca Grossa).
Then Albarello (Team Mantra) hit the ground running, eliminating Linares (Team Bonebreakers).
The next two fights were carried out by Sebastián Fernández (Team Capone), who defeated Joaquín Gavilánez (Team Gracie Barra), and Ariel Delgado (Team Alliance LDE), who did the same against Brian Guarnizo (Team Basurto).
The winners of the first classification (4) faced in the quarterfinal round those who were released:
Guevara defeated Paulo Silva (Team Behring), Albarello defeated Emilio Saltos (Iturralde Arte Suave), Fernández defeated Luis Castro (Team Mantra) and, finally, Fernando Herrera (Team Studio 76) eliminated Delgado.
In the semifinals, Albarello beat Guevara after a very tough battle and Herrera gave Fernández an account.
And in the final, Colombian Albarello won the fight at the expense of Herrera.
“For me it is a dream. I came to Ecuador thinking about the IBI and it was what motivated me the most, that there was such a system that I wanted to train: submission, grappling without points, which rewards the one who seeks the fight. I have always believed in that system, in which I was formed. I came to Ecuador with the hope of participating in an IBI ”, said the new monarch of the contest, in statements to the website Last minute.
“For me it is like completing a dream, really. I don’t cry because I adjusted, but I’m really very excited, ”added the Colombian fighter. (D)
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