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Jun 16, 2026, 08:13 AM
Matheus Araujo Held The Choke Past The Tap — Both Camps Stormed The Cage
São Paulo hosted a moment that would define the entire ethics conversation around the Jungle Fight welterweight grand prix. On April 27th, at Jungle Fight 149's main event, Matheus 'The Monster' Araujo got a rear-naked choke on Anderson Nascimento under three minutes into round o
Jun 16, 2026, 07:43 AM
Aljamain Sterling Out-Grappled A 17-Sub-Streak Featherweight For 50 Minutes—UFC Vegas 116 Was Khabib-School Back Control For Five Rounds
At UFC Vegas 116 on April 25, Aljamain Sterling won a five-round unanimous decision over Youssef Zalal, 49-45 across all three judges' scorecards. That score is what BJJ looks like when it works perfectly.
Jun 15, 2026, 08:22 PM
Kayla Harrison Is Back Training After Neck Surgery — The UFC Women's Bantamweight Champ Who Called Rousey a Liar Is Now Targeting a Return
Kayla Harrison was two weeks out from defending her UFC women's bantamweight title when the UFC flew her to New York and doctors gave her two options: have neck surgery immediately, or risk paralysis. That was late January.
Jun 15, 2026, 07:48 PM
Mikey Musumeci Is Training Wrestling and Boxing for an MMA Debut — The Butt-Scoot Champion Is Tired of Being Called a Wimp
Mikey Musumeci has five BJJ world titles. He's the current UFC BJJ Bantamweight Champion.
Jun 15, 2026, 07:34 AM
Brianna Ste-Marie Sits for 3-Hour Competition Advice Interview — Top Pointers Land
Most pro BJJ podcast appearances run 38 minutes, three of which are actually about jiu-jitsu. The rest is a predictable rotation: "how'd you start training," a camp recap, a Submeta plug, a sponsor read that the host doesn't believe in, and a polite sign-off where the interviewer
Jun 14, 2026, 04:20 PM
Mikey Musumeci Says He Wants to Fight MMA by End of 2026 — 'I've Been Called a Butt-Scooper and Wimp Long Enough, I Just Want to Scrap'
Mikey Musumeci has finally heard enough. The reigning UFC BJJ bantamweight champion confirmed on a recent podcast appearance, circulating on grappling feeds all week, that he plans to make his MMA debut before the end of 2026.
Jun 14, 2026, 07:38 AM
William Tackett Caught Biting Rocha On Camera — UFC BJJ Has Not Issued A Statement, A Fine, Or Even A Raised Eyebrow
William Tackett retained his UFC BJJ welterweight title on April 2, 2026, with a unanimous decision over Vagner Rocha at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas. The match itself looked clean enough on the surface.
Jun 13, 2026, 05:35 PM
Craig Jones Cancels CJI 3, Keeps the Money
Craig Jones killed the tournament that bears his name. Not because the market didn't support it.
Jun 13, 2026, 04:34 PM
Ryan Hall Chose MMA Over Sport BJJ. The Grappling World Is Mad About It.
Ryan Hall just threw down a statement that the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu community has been tip-toeing around for years: if he could pick one, he'd choose MMA over sport jiu-jitsu. On May 29, 2026, Hall sat down on Matt Serra's podcast and said it plainly.
Jun 13, 2026, 04:01 PM
Jon Jones Isn't Going to the White House Tomorrow—And That's the Entire Story
Ilia Topuria is defending his lightweight title at the White House tomorrow. Bo Nickal—a middleweight with legitimate grappling pedigree—is on the card.
Jun 13, 2026, 03:32 PM
Islam Makhachev Has No BJJ Black Belt But Knows Exactly Which MMA Fighters' Black Belts Are Fake
Islam Makhachev doesn't have a BJJ black belt. His grappling came up through combat sambo — world champion in 2016 — and Russian wrestling.
Jun 13, 2026, 02:17 PM
Jeff Glover Wants to Fight the Guy Who Says He Trained with Rickson — After Kron Already Said He Didn't
Kron Gracie already called it. Jeff Glover wants to prove it.
Jun 13, 2026, 01:46 PM
Rafael Mendes Retirement: Brothers Debunk Doping Myth
Rafael Mendes should've been one of the faces of jiu-jitsu for the next decade. Double ADCC champion.
Jun 13, 2026, 01:16 PM
Karel Pravec: Keep the Olympics Away From Jiu-Jitsu — Rules Will Ruin It
The irony is so obvious it hurts: jiu-jitsu spent thirty years fighting for mainstream recognition—for seats at the table, for media coverage, for the legitimacy that comes with Olympic inclusion. Now that it might actually get there, practitioners are looking at what happened to
Jun 13, 2026, 12:45 PM
Schultz Claims Gracie Family Blocked ADCC And Destroyed Tapes
Mark Schultz doesn't do jiu-jitsu. The 1984 Olympic wrestling gold medalist is a wrestler — a sport that makes BJJ look like tai chi in a sensory deprivation tank.
Jun 13, 2026, 12:15 PM
BRAUS Foundation's May 1 Deadline Came and Went—Their Tax Filings Still Show $0 in Merchandise Revenue
The grappling community got a hard lesson in what happens when a charity makes promises it apparently can't keep. The BRAUS Foundation, which has spent years positioning itself as the philanthropic backbone of BJJ, faced serious questions after their own IRS filings revealed some
Jun 13, 2026, 11:44 AM
Tsarukyan's Side-Quest Economy
When Real American Freestyle announced that Tony Ferguson, 42, eight UFC losses deep, hadn't wrestled since junior college, would face the No. 1 UFC lightweight contender at RAF 10 on June 13 at Chaifetz Arena in Saint Louis, it marked another milestone in Arman Tsarukyan's incre
Jun 13, 2026, 11:12 AM
Gabi Garcia Targeting Historic Fifth ADCC Title at 40 — In a Tournament That Can't Fill Its Arena
Gabi Garcia is going to Kraków this September to win her fifth ADCC title. She has four already — 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019 — all in the Women's +65kg division.
Jun 13, 2026, 10:04 AM
Andy Murasaki Submitted Every Opponent at Brasileiros — At Worlds He's the Most Dangerous Man Nobody Is Studying
Andrew Tackett called him boring. Then Andy Murasaki went to Brasileiros and submitted everyone.
Jun 13, 2026, 09:34 AM
Max Holloway Got His BJJ Black Belt the Hard Way — Charles Oliveira Submitted Him Into It. Now He's Fighting McGregor.
When Charles Oliveira armbarred Max Holloway in 2019, nobody expected that seven years later, Holloway would be cashing that receipt against Conor McGregor. But here we are — Holloway just received his BJJ black belt from Rylan Lizares, and the timing couldn't be more poetic.
Jun 13, 2026, 09:03 AM
Fabricio Andrey Gets His ADCC 2026 Invite Two Weeks After Formally Leaving the Team Under Criminal Investigation
In August 2023, Fabricio Andrey explained why he was leaving the team that made him. The explanation wasn't exactly illuminating.
Jun 13, 2026, 08:33 AM
When Mikey Musumeci Announced His MMA Debut—The Most Decorated Pure-BJJ Specialist Voluntarily Walked Into the Sport Where None of It Is Legal
When Mikey Musumeci made his surprise announcement to BJJDoc, the grappling world did a collective double-take. The man who had spent his entire career perfecting techniques illegal the moment a referee allows strikes was walking into MMA.
Jun 13, 2026, 08:03 AM
Mackenzie Dern vs Gillian Robertson: The First UFC Title Fight Built Entirely on Jiu-Jitsu
For the first time in UFC history, a title fight is being headlined by two athletes whose entire professional identity is built on jiu-jitsu. Not as a secondary skill.
Jun 13, 2026, 07:23 AM
Tye Ruotolo Stops Dante Leon (Again) — The Man Who Pushed Him Hardest Three Times Got the Same Answer Every Time
When Tye Ruotolo and Dante Leon squared off at ONE Fight Night 31 in Bangkok back on May 9th, it marked the conclusion of one of submission grappling's most interesting asymmetrical rivalries. Leon had walked in saying he was 100 percent confident.
Jun 12, 2026, 10:08 PM
Kron Gracie: Rickson Told Me Not to Box. I Ignored Him. It Worked. We Didn't Talk for Three Years.
Rickson Gracie gave his son an ultimatum. "Don't box." Two words, no debate.
Jun 12, 2026, 09:38 PM
Gilbert Burns 88-Second Return at UFC BJJ 9
Eighty-eight seconds. That's how long it took Gilbert Burns to remember why he's a genuinely dangerous grappler, even when he's been focused on punching people in the face for two years.
Jun 12, 2026, 09:08 PM
Ben Askren Returns to Fighting After Lung Transplant
Ben Askren is coming back to fighting less than a year after a double lung transplant. We live in a sport where fighters pop anti-inflammatories before morning open mat like vitamins.
Jun 12, 2026, 08:37 PM
An MMA Fighter With a 2-2 Record Drowned Saving Four Teenage Girls — He Did More With His Career Than Most Champions Ever Will
We spend a lot of time in this community arguing about records. Submission percentages.
Jun 12, 2026, 08:07 PM
Joe Rogan Warned Chimaev About Wrestling After the Title Loss — He Was Already Booked Anyway
Joe Rogan went on his podcast and spelled out a specific injury concern about Khamzat Chimaev's decision to compete in freestyle wrestling just six weeks after losing the UFC middleweight title. By the time Rogan finished naming that concern, Chimaev was already locked in for RAF
Jun 12, 2026, 07:37 PM
Ruslan Abdulaev: The Heavyweight Nobody Could Move Made It to ADCC 2026
When Ruslan Abdulaev's ADCC World Championships invite was officially announced, it landed without the usual controversy or debate that had surrounded several other 2026 selections. But the real story wasn't the invite itself — it was the twenty-one-day chain reaction that preced