Pawel Jaworski arrived at the 2026 Pan No-Gi Championship with a difficult assignment. He left New Jersey with two more gold medals and an increasingly convincing claim as the most adaptable no-gi competitor of the moment.
Jaworski won the adult black-belt medium-heavyweight division and the open class on October 4. The double-gold performance came only three weeks after he became the first Polish athlete to win an ADCC world championship.
That short turnaround matters. So does the path he took to get here.
Four Submissions, Then the Absolute Final
Jaworski’s Pan No-Gi run followed the pattern that has made him one of the most dangerous athletes in the sport. He creates complicated lower-body exchanges, understands the space inside them better than most opponents and rarely needs much time once a leg becomes exposed.
In his weight division, Jaworski submitted Natan Chueng with an outside heel hook before finishing David Garmo with a triangle. The open class produced two more leg-lock submissions. Sean Goolsby went out by inside heel hook, while Luuk van Nieuwamerongen was finished with an outside heel hook.
That placed Jaworski across from heavyweight champion Wallisson Oliveira in the absolute final. This time there was no submission, but Jaworski did enough to win the championship and complete the double.
The final result gives him Pan No-Gi gold at both medium-heavyweight and absolute. More importantly, it extends a run that now crosses three major competitive environments.
One Month, Three Different Tests
On September 4, Jaworski faced Rafael Lovato Jr. in a single submission grappling match at ONE Fight Night 47. He needed just 1:51 to finish the former world champion with a kneebar.
Nine days later, he competed through the 88-kilogram bracket at ADCC in Kraków. That event asked a completely different set of questions. ADCC places a premium on wrestling, positional control and tactical awareness within its own scoring structure. Jaworski adjusted, won the division and became Poland’s first ADCC world champion in front of a home-country audience.
Then came Pan No-Gi.
IBJJF competition changes the rhythm again. Points, advantages, penalties and restrictions alter how athletes build attacks and manage the closing minutes of a match. Jaworski did not merely enter that environment after an exhausting September. He submitted four opponents and won two divisions.
ONE rewards the urgency of a single superfight. ADCC tests adaptation across a bracket with its own strategic demands. IBJJF competition presents another scoring system and another set of technical boundaries.
Jaworski has now won in all three settings within approximately one month.
This Is No Longer a Breakout
It would be easy to call Jaworski a breakout star, but that label is beginning to feel late.
Before this latest run, he had already won the 2025 World No-Gi Championship and collected double gold at the 2026 Brasileiro No-Gi Championship. He entered Pan No-Gi as the top-ranked male no-gi athlete in the IBJJF system, not as an unknown waiting to be discovered.
What has changed is the scale of the evidence.
The leg-lock game remains the most visible part of his jiu-jitsu, but the recent results show more than one highly developed weapon. Jaworski has been able to carry his guard, finishing instincts and tactical decision-making from one ruleset to another without losing the qualities that make him dangerous.
His willingness to enter the absolute division is part of that picture. Jaworski could have protected the weight-class title and left. Instead, he went back into the bracket, submitted two larger opponents and defeated the heavyweight champion in the final.
The Next Question
Jaworski is only 22, which makes the speed of this rise even more striking. He is already an ADCC champion, a World No-Gi champion and a double-gold winner at both Brasileiro No-Gi and Pan No-Gi.
The question is no longer whether he belongs among the elite.
It is how long anyone can keep him from collecting the next title.