Victory at the NAGA Championship
Gunnar competed last night at the North American Grappling Championship (NAGC) in New Jersey and won the gold in No-Gi and the silver in Gi! In Men's No-Gi Expert Middle Weight Gunnar defeated the Brazilian veteran "Macaco" Jorge Patino in the finals. Macaco is of course an illustrious Brazilian vale tudo fighter, with famous Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills, whose career began back in the 1990's (Macaco has 44 MMA fights according to his HL clip on YouTube). Gunnar then took 2nd place in Men's Gi Brown & Black Cruiser Weight after a battle in the finals against another veteran, Dan Simmler. As seen on Dan's BJJ school website he is a highly decorated and an active competitor since 1999 and has been a top five nationally "ranked" competitor in the USA for seven years, including four years at number one.
Gunnar's win over Macaco and his overall success in the NAGC is a huge accomplishment for the 20 year old Icelander and even more impressive is the fact that Gunnar didn't give up a single point in all his matches in the No-Gi competition. For our Icelandic readers here is an article about this in Icelandic.
