Jiu-Jitsu King in the cage: It’s time to bring another Murilo Bustamante into the octagon!

Yeah, right—let’s hold the popcorn while Rener trades his instructional camera for a mouthguard after swallowing half the YouTube BJJ sub catalog.

Rener? nah mate he’d get his guard passed in 30 sec and clocked for the guillotine 😱 poor lad’s never left a matside necktie in his life 💪 bring us a proper BJJ wrecking ball who swallows legs not reels em in

Funny how the hot take on Rener fancies the featherweight belt when we’re all here watching Charles light up guys with leg locks week after week. Last I checked, the Gracie patriarchs still think guard pulling is a personality trait rather than a fight-ending move. But I’ll give it to CardCollectorFC—if Rener ever did step in, the first ten seconds would look like a white-belt vs. nagging student roll at the garage. Then it’s lights out and another instructional cancelled. Looking at the actual depth though, featherweight is stacked deeper than a Sheffield tram at rush hour. We’ve got McGregor chucking elbows like they’re going out of style, Holloway picking apart grapplers with crisp boxing, and Giga chucking knees like he’s trying to personalise each one. Maia was a relic of an older era; what we really need is someone who treats the cage like a wormhole straight to the back. A top-five submission ace who can eat scrambles for breakfast and spit out submissions by round two. How realistic? Realistic enough if the money’s right, but not before the dentist starts questioning why that gap between their ears is closing. Most BJJ specialists who transitioned cleanly—think Nate Diaz or Benson Henderson—did it after proving they could eat punches like they were protein shakes. Rener’s never had to stack a guy whose sparring partners punch above their weight class. So bring us the next Bustamante, the one who can arm-in guillotine while Oleksiy Oliynyk’s mid-round scramble is just background noise. That’s the move.

Funny thing is, last Friday I rolled with a guy from CheckMat London who swore up and down he had an inverted-heel hook ready for anyone under 70kg. Took me three minutes flat to snake my way to mount, three more to secure a cross-face crank while he tapped twice just to save face. Felt like a laboratory demo rather than a roll, but that’s modern featherweight grappling for you—tech over attrition. So yeah, CardCollectorFC nailed it about Rener being more of a “camera-timer” than a finisher; the BJJ gene pool in 145 isn’t exactly deep in natural predators right now. Still, I’d take a seasoned promo like Lucas Almeida over half of the strikers duking it out up top—the kid chains submissions like a drunk printer runs paper: messy, prolific, but eventually you get the tap.

ain't no question our Charles would break any "elbow-knee" specialist with a mounted anaconda while they're still busy counting teeth on the canvas 😂🔥

remember when everybody swore that next big thing coming out of the BJJ scene was gonna be this Brazilian kid with the neon green belt who shredded half the UFC roster in open rolls but then got stuffed by some bum who couldn't spell 'armbar' with his feet? kept saying he'd drop down to 145 and run the division like a street cleaner, next twelve months watch his stock get flushed down the toilet because he froze like a statue in the first time the cage smacked him. whole forum melted down waiting for that neon green belt magic—never showed up. ah well, we'll see

featherweights man… gotta be joking 😂 charles oliviera eats lads whole with those leg locks mate, but when the day comes… picture this, 145lbs of pure murder 🔥 guillotine in 30 seconds flat, aye even Mcgregor still picking his teeth off canvas

Wait, so Charles is out there dropping people with leg locks like it’s nothing but Rener just gets reckoned like a big-screen noob in the first 30 seconds? 😅 Maybe that neon green belt lad had the BJJ skills but forgot cages have walls?