FloGrappling senior editor Hywel Teague sat down with Gordon Ryan for an in-depth chat about:



How everybody wrote him off before competing at EBI 6

Dealing with competition anxiety (1:55)

What helped him the most going into EBI 6 as an underdog (2:40)

How his personality reflects his style of competing (3:40)

A time when his style saw him get "viciously submitted" in a competition (4:40)

How he spends "days and weeks" in bad positions in the gym (5:35)

Going from purple to black belt in a year (6:08)

Training at the Renzo Gracie academy in New York with John Danaher, Eddie Cummings and Garry Tonon (7:16)



Training at Georges St-Pierre's home gym of Tristar in Montreal, and his plans to fight MMA (9:45)

What he needs to do to realize his goal of becoming the best submission grappler of all-time (11:45)



How much weight he cuts to compete (12:25)

Which kind of tournaments and rulesets he prefers to compete in (12:58)