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Jun 11, 2026, 08:15 AM
When Mica Galvao Killed Mika Jiu-Jitsu Before It Started — 'Became Completely Unviable'
Mica Galvao made a decision, then unmade it just as quickly. The gap between announcement and reversal was so compressed that Mika Jiu-Jitsu never even got a proper logo.
Jun 11, 2026, 07:45 AM
Chael Sonnen Reveals His Complete UFC PED Protocol
Chael Sonnen did something remarkable on his recent podcast: he didn't apologize for using performance-enhancing drugs during his UFC career. Instead, he documented exactly what he took, how much, and when he took it—described with the casual certainty of someone ordering off a m
Jun 11, 2026, 07:14 AM
Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night
That's all Bryce Mitchell needed to remind the combat sports world why we stare at our phones at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday waiting for preliminary fight results.
Jun 10, 2026, 10:41 PM
Steveson Shuts Down DC's Warning on Jones Coaching
Gable Steveson thinks Jon Jones is perfect. Not "good." Not "great." Not "an underrated technical mind." Perfect.
Jun 10, 2026, 10:10 PM
Georgio Poullas Arrested After Glass Table Incident
There's a particular kind of irony in a man who made a name for himself with the phrase "take me down, win $1,000" getting arrested for an incident involving someone going through a glass table. Georgio Poullas, the Australian grappler and BJJ entrepreneur who built a substantial
Jun 10, 2026, 09:40 PM
Bernardo Faria Defends Buchecha And Vieira After UFC Vegas — Not Failure' From The Only Two-Time Worlds Absolute Champ Who Never Tried MMA
The morning after Buchecha got two-punched into next week and Rodolfo Vieira got out-cardioed by an unranked light heavyweight, Bernardo Faria sat down to defend them both. It's a defensible defense.
Jun 10, 2026, 09:10 PM
Back When RAF 9 Went Down: A Sitting UFC Champion, An Olympic Gold Medalist, And A Hall of Famer All Showed Up In Arlington
2026, to be exact — it marked one of those moments in combat sports where you had to actually stop and process what was happening. College Park Center at the University of Texas at Arlington hosted RAF 9, and the card that night represented something the freestyle wrestling world
Jun 10, 2026, 08:39 PM
Caio Terra: 'It Messes With My Life' — Legendary Competitor Reveals Lasting Career Damage
Caio Terra can't brush his teeth. Not in a metaphorical "life is hard" way.
Jun 10, 2026, 08:09 PM
Rafael Lovato Jr. Won Freestyle Wrestling at 42 — Proof That Grappling Lineage Never Expires
just won the Freestyle Wrestling US Open at 42 years old. Not as a comeback story.
Jun 10, 2026, 07:36 PM
Twenty-Year-Old Crowned 'Most Dangerous Man In Grappling' — Still Hasn't Acknowledged It 50 Days Later
When BJJEE published "Why Andrew Tackett is the most dangerous man in grappling right now" on the 12th, it felt like a coronation. The piece laid out the case: elite cardio, submission-first no-gi game, constant pressure, a generational shift away from point-stalling.
Jun 10, 2026, 07:06 PM
Main Character JJ's Inaugural Invitational Handed Out Six Title Belts in One Night—And Exposed How Every Promotion in 2026 Is Playing the Same Game
When Main Character Jiu-Jitsu staged its first-ever Invitational event on May 3rd, the promotion made a decision that said everything about where regional grappling had landed in 2026: it took every divisional belt it had ever stamped into existence and threw them all onto a sing
Jun 10, 2026, 06:36 PM
When the UFC Booked Gable Steveson vs. 'The Snack Panther' — and Nobody Knew Whether to Laugh Yet
When Gable Steveson's long-anticipated UFC debut finally materialized, the promotion did something that felt almost too perfectly absurd to be real. They matched the youngest super-heavyweight Olympic gold medalist in history against a guy whose official fight nickname is "The Sn
Jun 10, 2026, 06:05 PM
Roosevelt De Sousa's 3-Year Ban For Meldonium—A Substance Banned A Full Decade Prior
The BJJ community got handed a piece of paperwork that nobody particularly wanted to think about too hard. USADA announced that Roosevelt Sousa, the 2025 No-Gi Absolute World Champion, would not compete in an IBJJF event until January 12, 2029.
Jun 10, 2026, 05:35 PM
Dana White Banned Dillon Danis From UFC 328. Danis's Response Was to Publish the Full Banned List.
The most logical response to a lifetime ban is to keep your head down. Maybe stay off social media for a few weeks.
Jun 10, 2026, 05:04 PM
Gordon Ryan Retired Four Months Ago. He'd Like to Tell You Who the Good UFC Grapplers Are Anyway.
Gordon Ryan can't train. His gut — destroyed by years of antibiotics fighting recurring staph infections — won't recover on any timeline he controls.
Jun 10, 2026, 04:34 PM
Khamzat Chimaev Turned Down Kyle Snyder, Asked For Bo Nickal Instead — And The UFC Already Said No
Khamzat Chimaev signed with Real American Freestyle, then spent the next month declining the one wrestler in the building he could actually face. His RAF debut was set for RAF 10 on June 13 at Chaifetz Arena in St.
Jun 10, 2026, 03:33 PM
UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs. Gaethje at the White House
Professional combat sports stopped being sport and became pure spectacle. UFC Freedom 250 at the White House is the moment that stopped being subtle.
Jun 10, 2026, 03:03 PM
Nicholas Meregali Steps Back From Galvao Plea — 'Many Of Those People Are Also Part Of It'
Nicholas Meregali — three-time IBJJF World Champion and the loudest name in professional BJJ pressing on the Melqui Galvão case — made a very public plea. On April 28, he posted an Instagram video asking victims to come forward with a specific ask: contact him directly and he'd r
Jun 10, 2026, 02:33 PM
ADCC Worlds Tickets Stuck 63% Empty Four Months Out — How Yuri Simoes vs Kaynan Duarte Quietly Became The Main Event
When May rolled around and ticket sales data started leaking, ADCC's Kraków event was already showing signs of serious trouble. When this went down recently—roughly 27 days before the time of writing—the organization found itself in a position that few major combat sports propert
Jun 10, 2026, 02:02 PM
Buchecha's UFC Collapse: How the BJJ GOAT Went 0-2-1 in Just Three Fights
Ryan Spann delivered what might be the final punctuation mark on Alexandre "Buchecha" Ribeiro's mixed martial arts experiment. A left hook and straight right in the second round at UFC Vegas 116 sent the 13-time IBJJF World Champion to the canvas, and he didn't beat the count.
Jun 10, 2026, 01:32 PM
UFC BJJ 9: Eight Submissions, Fowler Dodges Rodriguez
Eight of nine matches ended in submission. That's not a grappling tournament—that's a technical beating handed out by one format to another.
Jun 10, 2026, 01:02 PM
SUG 30 Happened in Florianopolis — Chael Returned, Mason Fowler Stayed Home, and Brazil Had Plenty to Say
Submission Underground finally came back from the dead. SUG 30 went down on May 17 in Florianopolis, Brazil — a comeback event that felt equal parts inevitable and bizarre when you stopped to think about the full context.
Jun 10, 2026, 12:31 PM
When Ngannou Revealed His Son's Death Changed Everything—And Why He Kept Fighting Anyway
Francis Ngannou stepped into the Netflix spotlight to face Philipe Lins on a card headlined by the Rousey-Carano fight—a matchup that had dominated combat sports conversation for weeks. But if you'd tuned into the DC Show in the days leading up to that fight, you would have heard
Jun 10, 2026, 12:01 PM
When Kade Ruotolo and Diogo Reis Both Fought Through Inflection Points on the Same Bangkok Card
Two ADCC champions shared a ONE Fight Night 43 card in Bangkok. The coincidence seemed minor at the time.
Jun 10, 2026, 11:30 AM
Nate Diaz's Return
Nate Diaz stepped back into an MMA cage for the first time in nearly four years. On May 16th, the 40-year-old Stockton native faced Mike "Platinum" Perry at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, in what turned out to be one of the more legitimate fights on a Netflix card that
Jun 10, 2026, 11:00 AM
When Rousey Called Chimaev a 'F***ing Cleft-Lip Lincoln'
When Ronda Rousey's Netflix comeback against Gina Carano was supposed to be the story of fight week, nobody had Khamzat Chimaev on the bingo card for creating actual chaos. But on May 15 — just six days before her big return — Rousey said something at the MVP MMA 1 press conferen
Jun 10, 2026, 10:29 AM
Kade Ruotolo's First MMA Knockout Changed the Conversation—Just 6 Weeks Before His Grappling Title Defense
When Kade Ruotolo stepped into the ONE Championship cage in Bangkok, the narrative around him was still settling. But something was noticeably missing from his highlight reel—and when that hole got filled on May 15, it shifted how people were talking about him entirely.
Jun 10, 2026, 09:59 AM
Diogo Reis's First Fight Without Melqui Galvão's Team — ONE Fight Night 43 Became a Test Nobody Planned
Diogo Reis stepped onto the mat in Bangkok on May 15 for what should have been a routine title defense. Instead, it became something far more complicated: the first real glimpse of one of submission grappling's brightest talents operating without the institutional scaffolding tha
Jun 10, 2026, 09:28 AM
Buchecha's 'Friendships Over Titles' Message Hit Different After His Second UFC Knockout
About a week after Ryan Spann's left hook and straight right sent Marcus Buchecha Almeida to the canvas at UFC Vegas 116, the legendary grappler shared some philosophical reflections on what actually matters in life. "Everything that you build, everything that you conquer as an a
Jun 10, 2026, 08:58 AM
Kade Ruotolo's May Fight Against Tetsuka Was The First Real Test — And It Mattered
When Kade Ruotolo stepped into the cage against Hiroyuki Tetsuka at ONE: The Inner Circle in Bangkok on the 15th, it marked something genuinely different from what had come before. The announcement didn't exactly break the internet — Tetsuka isn't a name that drives mainstream cl