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Jun 21, 2026, 08:34 AM
After Six Years Grinding the Qualifier Circuit, Grapplers Earned ADCC Invites They Can't Afford to Accept
The dream was specific. For six years, the math had held constant: hit the qualifier circuit, accumulate wins, stack credentials, get the invite.
Jun 21, 2026, 07:51 AM
Fight 2 Win Event 316 in São Paulo Marks First Show Outside North America—F2W Declares Itself 'Global'
Fight 2 Win held event 316 in São Paulo on May 23. That single show outside North America apparently qualified the entire tournament series for international status.
Jun 21, 2026, 07:21 AM
ADCC World Championship 2026 Confirmed for Krakow, Poland; Amateur Worlds Precedes Main Event
ADCC, the grappling world's most prestigious no-gi tournament, officially announced its 2026 World Championship would be held in Krakow, Poland. Not Vegas, not Los Angeles, not Abu Dhabi—Eastern Europe was the destination this time.
Jun 20, 2026, 10:35 PM
Moneyberg Lost His Defamation Case, Still Suing Strickland
When you lose a defamation case after five years of litigation, most people accept it. Derek Moneyberg apparently did not get that memo.
Jun 20, 2026, 10:10 AM
14-Year-Old Becomes Youngest ADCC Competitor
ADCC just extended a competitor invite to a 14-year-old. Let that sit for a second.
Jun 20, 2026, 09:40 AM
Is Asking If CJI 3 Is Cancelled — Craig Jones Hasn't Said Anything
Craig Jones has been busy. After Sean Strickland beat Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328 on May 10, Jones got on social media to flag a potential issue: "I'm a camp curse." Strickland asked him to come back.
Jun 20, 2026, 09:10 AM
Black Belt Resigns From Orlando BJJ After Admin Allegedly Told Him 'It's The Women's Job To Stop Him' Following Multiple Harassment Reports Against An Instructor
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu faced another institutional reckoning—this time in Orlando. On April 24, black belt Louis Eduardo resigned his teaching position at Orlando Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and two days later he went public with exactly why.
Jun 20, 2026, 08:39 AM
Six Major Grappling Events Competed For Attention On April 18 — And The Community Still Couldn't Watch Them All
April 18, 2026 landed on a Saturday that tested the grappling community's ability to exist in six places at once. The ADCC North American Trials ran at Fairplex Expo Hall in Pomona, California.
Jun 20, 2026, 08:09 AM
UFC BJJ 8 Finish Rate Hits 62.5% — Community Meanwhile Debates If Dantzler 'Really' Lost
UFC BJJ 8 in Las Vegas on May 21 posted the highest submission-finish rate in the promotion's history. Five out of eight matches ended with someone getting caught and finishing the other person.
Jun 20, 2026, 07:39 AM
UFC BJJ 10 to ADCC Worlds: Three-Week Crisis
UFC dropped the date for UFC BJJ 10 on August 20, 2026, and nobody said the quiet part out loud yet: that's three weeks before ADCC Worlds. Not eight weeks to recover from a major tournament and rebuild for the next one.
Jun 19, 2026, 09:08 PM
Andrew Wiltse Arrested After Mental Health Crisis
Andrew Wiltse, the co-founder and face of Absolute MMA, was arrested in June following a mental health crisis. The news landed in the community with an uncomfortable thud.
Jun 19, 2026, 08:38 PM
Robert Drysdale: 'If Money Is The Ultimate Achievement — How Do You Explain To A 13-Year-Old That Khabib Is Better Than Conor McGregor?'
Robert Drysdale went on the Jiu-Jitsu Revolution podcast and asked what he meant as a rhetorical sigh. "In a world where money is the ultimate achievement in life," he said, "how do you explain to a 13-year-old that being a Khabib is better than being a Conor McGregor?" The line
Jun 19, 2026, 07:32 PM
Fan Who Purchased $847 Mat-Side Seat At World Submission Grappling Championship Reports Optimal Viewing Angle For Athletes' Pre-Match Butt-Scooting Ritual — Plans To Return
You paid eight hundred dollars to be this close. The mat-side seat at a major submission grappling event puts you right there: no screens, no distance, just you and two of the best grapplers alive separated by a strip of mat.
Jun 19, 2026, 06:25 PM
Beatrice Jin on 'Being Too Nice' in BJJ — The Sport's Most Passive Aggression Debate Gets a Name
The practitioner who gives back side control a beat early so their partner can "reset." Who apologizes when they almost catch a submission. Who pulls guard reflexively — not because of their game plan, but because shooting a takedown feels impolite somehow.
Jun 19, 2026, 05:55 PM
Fitness Influencer With 8 Years Of Body Combat Tries Real BJJ — Choked Out By A 14-Year-Old In Week Three
Every gym has watched this arc. A new student walks in confident, glowing.
Jun 19, 2026, 05:25 PM
Kamaru Usman Says Brock Lesnar Would Beat Jon Jones In A Pure Wrestling Match — Both Wrong For Different Reasons
Kamaru Usman went on the Pound for Pound podcast he co-hosts with Henry Cejudo and answered a fan question: who would win a freestyle wrestling match, Real American Freestyle rules, no MMA, between Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar. Cejudo, an Olympic gold medalist in freestyle and a tw
Jun 19, 2026, 04:54 PM
Georgio Poullas Arrested for Felony Battery
Georgio Poullas got arrested again. This time, the charge is felony battery.
Jun 19, 2026, 04:21 PM
Mikey Musumeci Condemns the 106-0 Match — 'That's Not Skill, That's Bullying'
A scoreline circulated through the BJJ community that sparked one of those rare moments when the sport's biggest names actually say what everyone's thinking. Then a submission to end it.
Jun 19, 2026, 03:48 PM
Fight to Win Held Its First Brazil Event After 315 Shows in North America
Fight to Win did something it had never done in its entire operational history: it left North America. After 315 consecutive events locked exclusively on the continent, the promotion held its inaugural Brazil show on May 19th — and the grappling community's reaction was somewhere
Jun 19, 2026, 02:33 PM
Raja Jackson Cut Plea Deal — Rampage's Son Got 90 Days and $81K Restitution for Beating Wrestler Unconscious
Raja Jackson pleaded no contest to felony battery with serious bodily injury on May 9, 2026, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. The son of former UFC heavyweight Quinton "Rampage" Jackson admitted two special allegations: personal infliction of great
Jun 19, 2026, 02:01 PM
BJJ Apparel Brand BRAUS Changed Its Charity Website Language Days After a Critic Refused Their NDA
When Benjamin Marks of Partizan Media looked into BRAUS Foundation's finances, he uncovered a troubling gap between the brand's charitable marketing and what its official filings actually show. The brand's response — complete with NDAs, website rewrites, and a final statement tha
Jun 19, 2026, 01:00 PM
Black Belt Walks Out Of Florida Academy After Leadership Says Preventing Harassment Is 'The Women's Job'
When Louis Eduardo made his exit from Orlando Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu public, he didn't just hand in a quiet resignation. Instead, the black belt posted screenshots that revealed exactly why he was leaving—and the reasoning from OBJJ leadership was genuinely worse than anything the h
Jun 19, 2026, 12:30 PM
A Surf Bully Told a BJJ World Champion to 'Go Back to Your Country.' He Ended Up on the Sand.
Something happened at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz that perfectly captured what happens when someone makes a catastrophically bad read on who they're picking a fight with in the ocean at sunrise. Nobody at Steamer Lane ran the check.
Jun 19, 2026, 09:22 AM
Olympic Gold Medalist Amit Elor Broke Her Silence On Her Father-In-Law Melqui Galvao — 'Teach Your Sons To Respect Women'
When Melqui Galvao was arrested in Manaus on charges involving minors, three statements landed inside a 24-hour window. The charge sheet covered statutory rape of a victim under 14, sexual harassment, threats, and unauthorized access to electronic devices.
Jun 19, 2026, 08:52 AM
How Diogo Reis Left BJJ College, Announced His Departure in 4 Days, and Competed 13 Days Later at a Higher Weight Class
The Brazilian jiu-jitsu world watched one of its brightest young competitors navigate an impossible situation with a clarity that's rare in professional sports. Diogo Reis, a two-time ADCC champion and current ONE Championship flyweight world champion, found himself connected to
Jun 18, 2026, 08:03 PM
Black Belt Walks Away From Orlando Academy After Leadership Dismissed Multiple Women's Misconduct Reports — Coach Says Admin's Response Was 'It's The Women's Job To Stop Him'
A story broke that landed exactly where it needed to land: squarely in the category of institutional failure so complete that it almost reads like satire. Black belt Louis Eduardo walked away from Orlando Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and the reason he gave was a sentence so stark the hea
Jun 17, 2026, 03:55 PM
Ryan Hall's 'Sport BJJ Is Self-Referential' Take Is Credible—But He's Diagnosing the Wrong Disease
Ryan Hall did the thing that makes every sport jiu-jitsu defender flinch: he said out loud what MMA athletes have been thinking for a decade. On Matt Serra's podcast, the UFC veteran and BJJ black belt explained that MMA is 'better' than Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu because it encompasses
Jun 17, 2026, 03:22 PM
Tom DeBlass Tells Men To Stop Sliding Into Women's DMs After BJJ Class — 'You Don't Do This For The New White Belt Guy'
Tom DeBlass just made every BJJ guy with that DM in his sent folder very nervous. The Ocean County BJJ owner and 1.4-million-follower black belt posted a Saturday message that boils down to one question every man on the mats already knows the answer to: do you do this for the new
Jun 17, 2026, 01:59 PM
Kron Gracie Calls Viral BJJ Instructor 'A Joke' — Jeff Glover Issues Sub-Only Challenge, Nobody Has Heard Back
Chris Bones has built a career telling you what's wrong with jiu-jitsu. Competition guys can't fight for real.
Jun 17, 2026, 01:29 PM
Craig Jones Has Responded to More BJJ Abuse Cases This Year Than Every Governing Body Combined
Craig Jones holds no official position in this sport. He runs an event that lost $800,000.