Hinger Beats Cornelius In No-Gi, Cornelius Beats Hinger In The Gi, Both Win Double Gold

This year’s American Nationals featured some of the oddest results the BJJ media has reported on in…well, maybe history.

In the No-Gi American Nationals, Josh Hinger faced off against his Atos teammate, Keenan Cornelius, beating him in the Adult Black Belt Heavyweight division. Hinger would go on to win double gold.

American Nationals Nogi Adult Blackbelt Double Gold Champion! I'm super happy and super thankful that I train with the best team in the world @atosjiujitsuhq and that they are always game to train hard. Also big congrats to my irmão @lucasbarbosajj for winning the medium heavy division. I had 5 matches today and 4 submissions. Today was a great day, but tomorrow is a new day with new challenges. Thanks @atosjiujitsuhq and @galvaobjj for keeping me on the path to success. Oss. #atosjiujitsu #doublegold #ibjjf #american #nationals #blackbelt #champion #habroksports #moskova #monkeytape #greaterthan #vegas #hingertineforthefinals

A post shared by Josh Hinger (@hingerbjj) on Jul 6, 2017 at 7:43pm PDT

When the two donned the gi the Nationals, Keenan not only defeated Hinger, and not only did it at heavyweight, but also won double gold!

@keenancornelius takes double gold! #AmericanNational2017

A post shared by IBJJF (@ibjjf) on Jul 7, 2017 at 5:55pm PDT

So, essentially, the teammate beat his teammate, then the teammate came back to beat his teammate, and both won double gold.

Just your average day at the American Nationals, right?

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