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Jun 12, 2026, 06:15 PM
Luke Thomas Becomes The First Voice To Say BJJ Isn't Washed In MMA — Names Buchecha, Names Vieira, Distinguishes Between Them
Somebody finally said the obvious thing. For the last month, the BJJ-doesn't-work-in-MMA take has been the most reliable podcast filler in the sport.
Jun 12, 2026, 05:45 PM
New Grappling Champion Discovers He Cannot Compete At ADCC, UFC BJJ, CJI, or Any Event Run By Anyone With Internet Access Due to Overlapping Exclusivity Clauses He Signed at Different Open Mats
When you're the hottest new name in submission grappling but can't actually compete anywhere because you signed your life away at three different open mats. That's the reality for newly crowned regional champion Marcus 'The Anaconda' Delgado, who just discovered the hard way that
Jun 12, 2026, 05:15 PM
SUG 30: When Submission Underground's Six-Time Champion Couldn't Show Up Because the UFC Owned His Schedule
When Chael Sonnen announced the return of Submission Underground after nearly five years away, there was one glaring absence that told you everything about where grappling's power structure had shifted. Mason Fowler, the reigning absolute champion with six SUG titles to his name
Jun 12, 2026, 04:44 PM
Yuri Simoes Won Three ADCC Titles. Then He Went 0-2 in ONE Championship MMA. Now He's Trying Again.
Yuri Simoes never gave up a single point in the 2022 ADCC absolute. He gave up two unanimous decisions in MMA.
Jun 12, 2026, 04:14 PM
Sarah Galvao's Spring 2026 Run Left No Room for the P4P Debate—She Beat Pessanha, Then Won Two Divisions
The pound-for-pound conversation in women's gi jiu-jitsu stopped being abstract. Sarah Galvao made sure of it.
Jun 12, 2026, 03:43 PM
Tom Hardy's BJJ Coach Reveals the Part Nobody Talks About: He Refused Private Lessons and Trained With the Group
Every celebrity BJJ story follows the same script. A famous person takes a few private lessons, posts a photo with their coach, wins a local tournament or two against handpicked opponents, and collects a belt promotion that arrives faster than their accountant's invoices.
Jun 12, 2026, 02:37 PM
Gabi Garcia's Fifth ADCC Title Chase and the Arena That Stayed Half-Empty
Gabi Garcia showed up in Kraków to make history. The venue showed up half-full.
Jun 12, 2026, 02:06 PM
Mica Galvao Paused His New Academy Because His Father Made It 'Completely Unviable' — He Still Won't Say His Name
When Mica Galvão announced plans for his own academy in São Paulo, the BJJ world expected another chapter in the young phenom's meteoric rise. Instead, we got a masterclass in how family drama can derail even the most promising ventures.
Jun 12, 2026, 01:36 PM
Covering Your Opponent's Face as a Grip Break: Technique or Ethics Violation?
The first time someone palmed your face on the mat, your reaction wasn't analytical. A hand on the face hits different from an arm drag — it feels personal in a way heel hooks don't, and heel hooks can end your season.
Jun 12, 2026, 01:06 PM
Kyra Gracie Says Her Family Told Her Women Aren't Supposed to Do Jiu-Jitsu. She Became a 3-Time ADCC Champion.
The family that turned jiu-jitsu into a global franchise — the billion-dollar brand built on the premise that anyone can do this, that anyone can learn, that the art belongs to whoever puts in the time — told one of their own women to quit. "Kyra, forget about it.
Jun 12, 2026, 12:35 PM
Urijah Faber's Tech Fall And The RAF Pay Floor That Actually Checked Out
Urijah Faber wanted you to know wrestling pays now. He told Ariel Helwani that Real American Freestyle wrestlers can make "as much as a doctor or a lawyer if you have four or five matches in a year." He said that had never been heard of in wrestling, which was why people were goi
Jun 12, 2026, 12:05 PM
Craig Jones' Training Secret: What Teammates Revealed
Craig Jones built his no-gi reputation on a specific narrative: he was different. While everyone else was in the gym destroying their bodies with traditional strength training, Jones claimed he was just rolling, flowing, outsmarting people through technique and timing.
Jun 12, 2026, 11:34 AM
Kyra Gracie Had to Fight Her Own Family for the Right to Train Jiu-Jitsu
The Gracie family has spent a hundred years selling jiu-jitsu as the great equalizer. Technique beats strength.
Jun 12, 2026, 10:14 AM
Robert Valentin Dedicated a First-Round RNC to His Late Mother — And Nobody in the Arena Was Ready For That Speech
Two minutes and twenty-two seconds was all it took. Robert "Robzilla" Valentin dragged Julien Leblanc to the canvas, took his back, and sank in a rear-naked choke so textbook it could be the cover of a BJJ instructional.
Jun 12, 2026, 09:43 AM
The Most Decorated Pure-BJJ Specialist Alive Is Going to MMA Because He's 'Tired of Being Called a Wimp'
Mikey Musumeci has been called a butt scooter for so long he's started talking about punching people. Not because he believes it.
Jun 12, 2026, 09:13 AM
Kron Gracie Says Rickson Didn't Speak to Him for Years After His Cub Swanson Fight — The Values Break Inside BJJ's First Family
Rickson didn't speak to him. That's the part Kron Gracie just said out loud.
Jun 12, 2026, 08:14 AM
Russian Men Are Paying $80 to Get Fake Cauliflower Ears Injected — The One Part of BJJ You Actually Cannot Outsource
Your cauliflower ear took years to earn. In Russia, they're selling a shortcut for six thousand rubles — about $80 a side.
Jun 12, 2026, 07:44 AM
ADCC Double Champion Has a Hard Time Selling Seminars in Australia — She Says It's 'How Big Their Ego Is'
Adele Fornarino is the most accomplished female grappler Australia has ever produced. Two ADCC World titles.
Jun 12, 2026, 07:09 AM
Song Yadong Just Beat a Grappler Grappling. Then He Lied About It.
Song Yadong just beat Deiveson Figueiredo—a former UFC flyweight champion, a world-class grappler—via guillotine choke. Then he explained his win like it was an apology.
Jun 11, 2026, 10:33 PM
Melqui Galvao Allegedly Used Prison Phone to Threaten Former Students Into Changing Testimony
When your defense strategy involves prison payphones and veiled threats, you might be Melqui Galvao. The embattled coach, currently awaiting trial on multiple charges, has allegedly been working the phones from his cell to pressure former students into altering their testimony.
Jun 11, 2026, 10:03 PM
BJJ World Champion Brenda Larissa Says Melqui Galvao Forced Her to Date a Boy From the Academy as Cover — Detailed on Camera
She was twelve years old when Melqui Galvão began grooming her. She was a world champion by the time she found the words to describe what happened.
Jun 11, 2026, 09:32 PM
Melqui Galvão Enters Formal Interrogation Phase in São Paulo — What Happens Next in Brazil's Criminal Process
When Melqui Galvão was transferred to a civil police prison in São Paulo on May 10, the jiu-jitsu world watched a case move into territory that most of the sport had never seen at this scale before. By May 12 — just 20 days ago now — the case against him had crossed a critical th
Jun 11, 2026, 09:02 PM
Helena Crevar Defended Her Polaris Lightweight Title Against Amanda Pamela Nicole — Here's How It Went Down
When Helena Crevar stepped onto the Polaris 37 mat to defend her lightweight championship against Amanda Pamela Nicole, she was still 18 years old and already holding two major belts. By June 1st, the dust had settled on what turned out to be one of the more interesting title def
Jun 11, 2026, 07:27 PM
Fight 2 Win Hit 315 North American Events. Then They Finally Went to São Paulo.
Fight 2 Win made a quiet announcement that barely registered as news until you actually thought about what it meant: event 316 was leaving North America for the first time in the promotion's history, landing in São Paulo on May 23. For a submission grappling series that had run 3
Jun 11, 2026, 06:57 PM
RAF 10: Will Chimaev vs Danis Actually Happen?
Louis on Friday, and if you squint at the card hard enough, it looks legitimate. Khamzat Chimaev vs Dillon Danis headlines.
Jun 11, 2026, 06:26 PM
When Yuri Simoes Got the Biggest Grappling Offer of His Career—Then Announced an MMA Return the Same Week
Yuri Simoes managed to pull off a scheduling contradiction that left the grappling world scratching its head. On May 10th, ADCC officially confirmed he would headline the 2026 World Championship in Krakow, Poland in a superfight against Kaynan Duarte for the vacant heavyweight ti
Jun 11, 2026, 05:55 PM
Garry Tonon Finally Free: Nine Years Later, ONE Championship's Matching Rights Clause Is Gone
When ONE Championship quietly released Garry Tonon alongside four other fighters, the immediate reaction was predictable—financial cleanup, roster trimming ahead of a Japan pivot, standard promotion housekeeping. But the real story wasn't the release itself.
Jun 11, 2026, 05:25 PM
Chimaev vs. Danis at RAF 10: Grappling Breakdown
RAF 10 takes place Saturday night in St. Louis, and if you've been following the sport casually, you probably know Khamzat Chimaev is fighting Dillon Danis.
Jun 11, 2026, 04:54 PM
Ryan Hall Said MMA Is 'Better' Than BJJ — But Mighty Mouse Just Proved Why That Argument Misses the Point
When this went down recently—Ryan Hall made the rounds on Matt Serra's podcast on May 29, declaring that MMA is better than Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He's not wrong, exactly.
Jun 11, 2026, 04:24 PM
When a BJJ World Champion Named Herself
Brenda Larissa did something the sport of jiu-jitsu wasn't particularly set up to handle: she recorded twenty minutes of testimony, published it under her own name, and described what she said was fourteen years of abuse at the hands of Melqui Galvão, an Alliance black belt, foun