BJ PENN X SPK22 COLLAB HOODIE

SPK22 X BJ PENN SCRAP COLLAB: BJ Penn and Melchor Manibusan’s strong relationship goes deep, and we are super honored to be apart of such a huge collaboration. Along with Melchor’s many wrestling accolades, one of his greatest achievements early on in career at the young age of only 19, Manibusan entered the Abu Dhabi Grappling Championships. This was the greatest platform for submission grappling, considered widely as the Super Bowl of the sport. Manibusan, not even a white belt in Jiu Jitsu, had such a strong wrestling pedigree that would bring him all the way to the Semi-Finals against World Famous Royler Gracie of the Gracie family. Manibusan would finish 3rd place and held his own as a young wrestling underdog from the small island of Guam in a den of lions on the biggest grappling stage in the world. There he created strong ties with Charuto Verissimo who would later become BJ Penn’s BJJ coach. Now 2002. Manibusan was called upon by the Penn camp in 2002 by Charuto Verissimo