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May 19, 2026, 10:40 PM
Kuwaiti Gold Medalist Walked Off the Abu Dhabi Podium Rather Than Shake an Israeli Athlete's Hand — He Also Said He'd Have Forfeited the Final
Then he walked off the podium. Jassim Alhatem, a Kuwaiti competitor in the men's blue belt amateur under-77kg division at the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Jiu-Jitsu World Tour, went undefeated through four bouts on Friday.
May 19, 2026, 08:00 PM
Larry Wheels Squatted 900 Pounds. A 135-Pound PFL Fighter Choked Him Out in 20 Seconds.
When a 260-pound man with a 900-pound squat walks into an MMA gym and announces he'll be fine because he's strong, you already know how this goes. The rest of us learned this in week two of white belt, from a quiet purple belt who weighed 170 pounds and never seemed to rush.
May 19, 2026, 05:39 PM
Musumeci Says IBJJF Rules Punish Attacking. Drysdale Says Without IBJJF We'd Have 12-Year-Old Black Belts. Both Are Right.
The uncomfortable part is that both being right at the same time is the actual problem. Mikey Musumeci and Robert Drysdale made opposite-sounding arguments about IBJJF in the same week.
May 19, 2026, 02:43 PM
Joe Rogan Said 'Here Is My Fear' About Chimaev at RAF 10 — He's Not Wrong
Here is a thing that happened: Khamzat Chimaev went into UFC 328 having allegedly cut somewhere between 42 and 50 pounds, fought five brutal rounds against Sean Strickland, lost his middleweight title on a split decision, and then signed to wrestle Dillon Danis at RAF 10 on June
May 19, 2026, 12:21 PM
Mikey Musumeci Says IBJJF Punishes You For Actually Fighting — He Should Know, He Won Under Both Systems
Mikey Musumeci has five IBJJF world titles. He's the first American to win multiple black belt world championships at IBJJF Worlds.
May 19, 2026, 09:22 AM
Adriano Moraes Wins at 4:59 of Round 3 With a Last-Second RNC — Officials Reviewed Whether It Happened Before the Bell
Phumi Nkuta was already unconscious. That's the official answer, though it took video review and a California State Athletic Commission ruling to get there.
May 18, 2026, 08:19 PM
Adriano Moraes Won With a Rear Naked Choke in the Final Second — Officials Reviewed the Footage and Confirmed It
With one second on the clock, Phumi Nkuta said the word that ends every roll in every gym in the world. The referee didn't call it.
May 18, 2026, 06:00 PM
Every Current UFC Champion Finishes With Strikes — Islam Makhachev Is the Last One Winning by Grappling
Go through the UFC title picture right now. Ask how each champion got there.
May 18, 2026, 04:00 PM
Kayla Harrison vs Amanda Nunes Is the UFC 329 Title Fight Nobody Talked About — Between Them, They Have More World Grappling Titles Than McGregor Has Fights Since 2021
The UFC 329 bantamweight title fight is July 11 in Las Vegas during International Fight Week. Kayla Harrison defends.
May 18, 2026, 01:00 PM
UFC BJJ Booked a Man Serving a 3-Year USADA Ban as Their June Title Contender
Roosevelt De Sousa had a December to remember. On December 13, 2025, he won the IBJJF gi world title in the ultra-heavyweight division.
May 18, 2026, 11:00 AM
Larry Wheels Can Bench 600 Pounds. He Was Submitted by a Bantamweight Named Cobey Fehr at Xtreme Couture.
Larry Wheels can bench press 600 pounds. He's 260 pounds and has spent his career doing things with a barbell that most people don't believe are possible.
May 17, 2026, 08:44 PM
IBJJF Worlds Is in 12 Days — And This Is the First Time USADA Will Test at the Venue
USADA is going to Worlds. The 2026 IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu Championship runs May 28–31 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
May 17, 2026, 05:41 PM
Fighter's Cauliflower Ear Explodes Mid-Match, Stops the Fight
The fight stopped because of an ear. Not a referee standing up a stalled scramble.
May 17, 2026, 02:53 PM
John Lineker Got Cut By ONE Championship. The Steroids Didn't Even Help.
John Lineker tested positive for Metandienone and Tamoxifen after losing to Ben Woolliss at ONE Fight Night 41 in March 2026. Metandienone is Dianabol, an anabolic steroid that's been on the banned list since before most fighters today started training.
May 17, 2026, 12:34 PM
Alice Ardelean Hit the First Capsule Lock in UFC History — She Learned It on TikTok
On Saturday at UFC Vegas 117, a strawweight prelim turned into a small piece of history. Alice Ardelean submitted Polyana Viana at 4:36 of the second round with a capsule lock, a leg compression submission that had never been finished in a UFC fight.
May 17, 2026, 09:28 AM
UFC BJJ 8 Lost Another Fight to Injury — The Card Is Five Days Away and Already on Its Third Version
The card they announced in April doesn't exist anymore. UFC BJJ 8 is Thursday, May 21 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas.
May 16, 2026, 08:18 PM
Gordon Ryan Posted About Hanging Politicians. Craig Jones Released His Wife's Arrest Footage and Sold the Merch.
Craig Jones just turned Gordon Ryan's wife's arrest into a merch drop. Backstory: Nathalia Santoro, Ryan's wife, was arrested in Texas last October after a high-speed police chase.
May 16, 2026, 07:28 PM
Your Professor Called It Tuesday: The Ecological BJJ Rebrand and Who Actually Invented It
In January 2025, someone asked Gui Mendes about ecological training in jiu-jitsu. He's a three-time World Champion who built Art of Jiu Jitsu into one of the best competition academies in the country.
May 16, 2026, 05:45 PM
Tom Hardy's Jiu-Jitsu Coach Confirms: 'He's Getting Close. It's Coming.'
Somewhere in England, Tom Hardy is drilling on a Tuesday afternoon while you're reading this. He's been doing it since 2018.
May 16, 2026, 02:45 PM
260-Pound Powerlifter Larry Wheels Cannot Cope With Getting Outgrappled by Lightweight MMA Fighters — And He Can't Believe It
I got bitched out." That's Larry Wheels, walking out of Xtreme Couture MMA in Las Vegas after getting submitted by professional fighters who weigh 100 to 125 pounds less than him. He said it into his own camera.
May 16, 2026, 12:07 PM
Guy Ritchie Got His 3rd Degree BJJ Black Belt on a Film Set — Tom Hardy Watched
Guy Ritchie makes films for a living. Snatch, Lock Stock, two Sherlock Holmes movies, The Gentleman, the King Arthur film everybody forgot they hated until someone rewatched it.
May 16, 2026, 09:50 AM
Jeff Glover Wants to Fight Chris Bones to Settle Whether He Has Any Rickson Lineage At All
Jeff Glover is not a Rickson Gracie black belt. His lineage runs through a different branch entirely — Rolls Gracie, then Ricardo Miller — not a Rickson in sight, and he's never claimed otherwise.
May 15, 2026, 12:27 PM
Derek Moneyberg Got a BJJ Black Belt in 3.5 Years. Now He's Suing Sean Strickland for Saying It Out Loud.
Derek Moneyberg is suing Sean Strickland. For a hotel hallway comment, and the implication that a financial influencer with zero competition record might not be a legitimate BJJ black belt.
May 15, 2026, 10:00 AM
77-Year-Old Earns Gracie Black Belt After 12 Years — Somehow The Fastest Promotion Story Of The Week
Paul Laniosz got his black belt in Gracie jiu-jitsu on Saturday, February 7. A month later, on March 18, he turned 77.
May 15, 2026, 09:26 AM
Kyra Gracie: The Gracie Family Paid Women Champions $2,000 While Men Earned $50,000 — And Forbade Them From Training In The First Place
That's the pay gap Kyra Gracie says existed inside the Gracie family for its own champions. Not in some rival organization.
May 14, 2026, 09:00 PM
A 62-Year-Old Baseball Manager Just Gave BJJ Its Biggest Mainstream Moment — And Nobody From The Sport Was Involved
Jiu-jitsu has spent the better part of a decade trying to crack into the mainstream. Craig Jones built CJI.
May 14, 2026, 06:00 PM
Fabricio Andrey Wants Kade Ruotolo's Belt So Bad He'll Gain 25 Pounds to Get It
Fabricio Andrey has a problem. He's arguably the most exciting submission grappler on the planet right now, he's undefeated in ONE Championship, and his boss won't give him a featherweight title because the division doesn't technically exist yet.
May 14, 2026, 03:24 PM
BJJ Now Has An Anti-Doping Medal Table: Fight Sports 5, Alliance 4, Gracie Barra 3, Atos 2
Five anti-doping violations: Cyborg, Porfirio, De Sousa, Rocha, and most recently Mica Galvão. Alliance sits second with four (Nogueira, Tayane Porfirio, Andrew, Gabi Garcia).
May 14, 2026, 12:32 PM
Governing Body Blocks Two Blue Belts From Competing Against Each Other At Family Reunion; Cites Exclusive Gym Membership Contracts Both Signed At Same Family Reunion
TRURO, MA — Forty minutes before cousins Dylan Ferraro, 26, and Micah Ferraro, 24, were scheduled to grapple on a tarp in the backyard of 118 Highland Road, the Ferraro family reunion was interrupted by a process server from the North Atlantic Jiu-Jitsu Commission, who handed eac
May 14, 2026, 09:36 AM
Danaher Says Go Back to Your First Armbar. The 20-Hour Back System Can Wait.
John Danaher quoted Heraclitus to 631,000 Instagram followers on April 14. "You never step in the same river twice," he wrote.