Submission Wrestling: King of the Mat Tournament | GRPL

Submission wrestling rules.

GRPL brings the King of the Mat Tournament to Health Center Breukelen together with DojoLink: a 30-minute choke-only Submission Wrestling format where four fighters rotate, one fighter stays, and every successful choke submission puts a point on the leaderboard. This is not a standard one-on-one Submission Wrestling match. Two fighters start on the mat. When a fighter taps, he leaves the mat, the opponent earns 1 point, and the winner stays in. A new fighter immediately enters, creating a constant rotation of fresh opponents, changing styles, and unpredictable matchups. After 30 minutes, the fighter with the most points becomes King of the Mat. As always under the GRPL ruleset, only chokes are allowed as submissions. That means no armlocks, no leglocks, no position points, no takedown points, and no easy way to hide behind control alone. Every exchange must lead toward the neck. Rear naked chokes, guillotines, triangle chokes, sankaku attacks, arm triangle threats, scrambles, and survival under pressure all become crucial in this relentless winner-stays-on format. The field brings together a varied group of fighters. Sam enters with a combination of Judo and BJJ, Jordi brings a