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#fbf to Renato Laranga helping mentally prepare Grace Gundrum for her Superfight at EBI 4.

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Watch Grace Gundrum Roughing Up Boys in Competition

Watch Grace Gundrum Roughing Up Boys in Competition

12-year old BJJ prodigy Grace Gundrum has made a name for herself through her super fights at the Eddie Bravo Invitationals. The 10th Planet Bethlehem trained grappler first got her start winning a number of the east coast NAGA and Grapplers Quest events. Don’t let her quiet, calm and shy appearance fool you. She is a stone cold killer on the mats who has taken out both female and male opponents…

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Grace Gundram at EBI 

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Grace Gundrum Is a 12-Year-Old Who Can Kick Your Ass

10th Planet Jiu Jitsu in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, sits in a small strip mall next to a sandwich shop. It's a one-room gym lit with fluorescent lights and there's a box of sweaty gloves that you can borrow for kick boxing. In the back, there's a futon where co-owner Zach Maslaney used to crash when he first opened the place with partner JM Holland two years ago. Here, 12-year-old prodigy fighter Grace Gundrum trains twice a day, six days a week, preparing for matches like the one she fought on the 22 of this month, at the Eddie Bravo Invitational, one of Jiu Jitsu's most widely watched events.

Grace, ten pounds lighter than her opponent Alyssa Wilson (who is considered by many to be the best in her age in the world), was an underdog. When she stepped out into the bright lights onstage at the Orpheum Theater, it was not hard to imagine her, with her understated gait, staring down as she walked, as an underdog. Wilson, on the other hand, bounced into the match with a half-shaved haircut and plenty of eye contact with the crowd.

"She's just a quiet kid and doesn't like to be the focus of a lot of attention. This is all weird for her," said Grace's mom, Mary Jo Gundrum, three days later, back at the gym in Bethlehem. "The venue was gigantic and huge. I don't know if she was as worried about the match as she was about the venue and Pay Per View and this huge theater with all these people staring at you, and lights and cameras, and I think that was the most stressful for her. I was nervous just being there. She didn't really say anything about it. Not 'I'm scared, I'm nervous.' She sort of processes it all."

At the start of the match, Alyssa swiftly took down Grace, but Grace immediately and calmly regained dominance, holding Alyssa down with an almost perfect stillness.

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EBI 3 Superfight - Grace Gundrum vs. Alyssa Wilson