Polaris 32 main card lineup: Previewing the first Women’s Squads
View a preview of Polaris 32, which takes place on Saturday, June 28, 2025, and features a North American versus European Squads competition.
Polaris is set to return to action this Saturday with its first-ever women’s Squads competition. Featuring a North American team led by young phenom Helena Crevar and a European team captained by Nia Blackman, Polaris will see the two squads go head-to-head in a Quintet-style team duel.
The main card will also feature a pair of men’s middleweight superfights.
How does Polaris Squads work?
Two teams, each consisting of six grapplers, will battle head-to-head in individual matches, with the winner of each match staying on the mat until she’s defeated.
Each individual match is slated for five minutes, and in the event no submission occurs, mat-side judges will determine the winner. These matches will continue for two 45-minute halves. The team with the most points at the end of 90 total minutes will be the winner.
View more details about the Polaris Squads format below.
Polaris 32: Team North America
With Crevar leading the charge, Team North America is loaded with elite talent.
Although she was only recently promoted to black belt, Crevar has firmly established herself among the sport’s top pound-for-pound competitors. Renowned for her dynamic guard game and dangerous leg locks, the John Danaher product is the current Polaris 70kg champion, an ADCC Trials champion, and a 2024 ADCC silver medalist. In the past year alone, she boasts notable victories over Team Europe’s Blackman, multiple-time no-gi world champion Elisabeth Clay, and her Team North America teammate Brianna Ste-Marie.
In short, Crevar will likely have a target on her back and will be the favorite heading into any match she might have.
Supporting Crevar will be Ste-Marie, a two-time ADCC veteran and two-time IBJJF no-gi world champion. With her crafty half-guard game, methodical pressure passing, and creative submissions, she is a serious threat to any woman standing across from her.
Another athlete to watch on Team North America is 2023 IBJJF no-gi world champion Elizabeth Mitrovic. A skilled guard player with a wealth of experience at the black belt level, Mitrovic regularly competes at 79 kg, making her perhaps one of the event’s largest competitors. Look for her to employ her dangerous guard game and press her size advantage whenever she can to take out some of Team Europe’s smaller grapplers.
Team North America:
- Helena Crevar
- Brianna Ste-Marie
- Elizabeth Mitrovic
- Alex Enriquez
- Taylor Ellis Hishaw
- Alanis Santiago
Polaris 32: Team Europe
While Team Europe might be shorter on name recognition, the squad nonetheless features many of the continent’s top competitors.
The 21-year-old Blackman steps up to replace an injured Ffion Davies as the squad’s captain. With a decorated juvenile and colored belt career on her resume, Blackman has long been regarded as one of the UK’s most promising young talents, and she has largely lived up to the hype since receiving her black belt in the summer of 2024. She is an ADCC European Trials champion and IBJJF no-gi Euros silver medalist.
A relentless guard passer with a seemingly endless gas tank, Blackman will be looking to even the score with Crevar after dropping a decision to the American at Polaris 30 last year.
Team Europe also includes decorated black belt Margot Ciccarelli. An ADCC Trials winner and IBJJF Euros champion, Ciccarelli will be one of the field’s smallest competitors, but with her creative guard and ever-evolving submission skills now developing under the tutelage of the Mendes brothers at Art of Jiu-Jitsu, the 31-year-old certainly has the skills to take out some of North America’s more accomplished or larger grapplers.
Sula-Mae Lowenthal is another notable competitor on Team Europe. The Gracie Barra representative is an ADCC Trials winner who boasts an impressive colored belt career and no shortage of experience competing against elite opposition.
Team Europe:
- Nia Blackman
- Margot Ciccarelli
- Sula-Mae Lowenthal
- Ane Svendsen
- Josefine Modig
- Selma Vik
Polaris 32 main card lineup
- Squads competition: Team North America vs. Team Europe
- Owen Jones vs. Carson Coles (middleweight – available on YouTube)
- Eoghan O’Flanagan vs. Mohammed Avtarhanov (middleweight)
How to watch: Polaris 32 takes place on Saturday, June 28, 2025, and will air live on UFC Fight Pass (subscription required) beginning at 2:00 PM ET.
