2024 IBJJF Crown full list of competitors: Diego Pato, Tainan Dalpra, among several BJJ world champs confirmed

The professional grappling scene has been rapidly growing in recent years, with ADCC, CJI, WNO, Polaris and the UFC Fight Pass Invitational among those ushering the way and improving viewership and athlete pay. Most pro events are no gi though, and IBJJF has since created their answer to those with a professional event in the traditional kimono called “The Crown.”

Their inaugural event happened in 2023, and their upcoming second iteration on November 17 promises to be bigger and better.

The 2024 IBJJF Crown will once again host tournaments across six divisions — four for men, two for women — but brackets have now doubled in size, going from four to eight-man tournaments.

Several decorated BJJ stars have also been confirmed to be in the roster. This includes four of the six returning winners from the inaugural IBJJF Crown in two-time world champ Tainan Dalpra, four-time world champ Erich Munis, and eight-time female world champs Gabrieli Pessanha and Luiza Monteiro.

Last year’s middleweight winner and CJI silver medalist, Fellipe Andrew is currently unable to participate in IBJJF events, as he is one of the few jiujitsu athletes to have been tested and suspended by USADA.

Outside of the returning champs, the biggest name on the line up is five-time world champ Diego “Pato” Oliveira, who will return to gi competition after recently taking silver at the 2024 ADCC World Championships.

The full list of competitors, along with everything else you need to know about the event, can be seen below.

Payouts and rulesets for 2024 IBJJF Crown

The four men’s divisions will be a condensed version of the typical IBJJF gi weight classes, with featherweight, middleweight, heavyweight and ultra-heavyweight. The two women’s divisions will be at lightweight and openweight.

For better or worse, every match will again be held under traditional IBJJF rules with points and advantages, for 10 minutes each.

The 2023 IBJJF Crown also had $15,000 prizes for each tournament winner and $3,000 for silver medalists, with smaller purses for the other participants. They revealed that the total payout was an IBJJF record of over $120,000 in 2023. The larger field of competitors now could help eclipse that total, but no monetary figures were revealed for this 2024 iteration, as of this writing.

2024 IBJJF Crown full list of competitors

Featherweight (70 kg/154 lbs)

Diego Pato – 5-time world champ, 2024 ADCC silver

Kennedy Maciel – 2018 no gi world champ, 2019 ADCC silver

Jamil Hill-Taylor – 2018 IBJJF world champ

Osvaldo “Queixinho” Moizinho – 4-time no gi world champ

Ademir Barreto

Marco Mendes

Eduardo Granzotto

Joao Mendes

Middleweight (82.3 kg/181 lbs)

Tainan Dalpra – Reigning IBJJF Crown champ, 2-time world champ

Andy Murasaki – 2022 no gi world champ

Francisco Lo – 2023 no gi world champ

Elijah Dorsey – 2023 ADCC Trials Champ

Manuel Ribamar – 2019 no gi world champ

Mauricio Oliveira

Gabriel Galvao

Jaime Canuto

Heavyweight (94.3 kg/208 lbs)

Gustavo Batista – 5-time world champ

Adam Wardzinski – 2024 IBJJF world champ

Patrick Gaudio

Rider Zuchi

Paulo Merlin

Horlando Monteiro

Mateus Rodrigues

Matheus Spirandelli

Men’s Ultra-Heavyweight (Openweight)

Erich Munis – Reigning IBJJF Crown champ, 4-time world champ

Roosevelt Sousa – 2023 no gi world champ, 2022 ADCC bronze

Felipe Costa – 2024 ADCC bronze

Gutemberg Pereira

Pedro Machado

Marcus Ribeiro

Kjetil Lydvo

Kristof Szucs

Women’s Lightweight (64 kg/141 lbs)

Luiza Monteiro – Reigning IBJJF Crown champ, 6-time world champion

Brianna Ste-Marie – 2024 ADCC Silver, WNO Champ

Margot Ciccarelli – ADCC Trials champ

Janaina Lebre Maia

Cassia Moura

Jaine Fragoso

Vitoria Vieira

Vitoria Assis

Women’s Super-Heavyweight (Openweight)

Gabi Pessanha – 8-time world champ

Nathiely de Jesus – 8-time world champ

Melissa Stricker Cueto – 2-time world champ

Tamiris Silva – 2024 IBJJF world champ

Mayara Custodio – 2021 no gi world champ

Giovanna Jara – 2022 ADCC Trials champ

Isabely Lemos

Maria Vincentini

2024 IBJJF Crown: How to watch, live stream, start time

The 2024 IBJJF Crown will happen on November 17, 2024 at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California. It will be streamed live on FloGrappling starting at 3 p.m. ET.

There will be two mats, with matches happening simultaneously up until the final rounds of the tournaments.