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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.
Jun 17, 2026, 12:59 PM
Fake Cauliflower Ear Surgery Is Trending in Russia — Men Are Paying $80 Per Ear to Look Like Grapplers Without Touching a Mat
Cauliflower ear has a waitlist now. Clinics across the country are booking out four weeks in advance for a procedure where technicians fracture your ear cartilage on purpose.
Jun 17, 2026, 12:28 PM
Adele Fornarino Blames Australian Ego for Not Being Able to Sell Seminars in Her Own Country
Adele Fornarino is the first Australian to win at ADCC. Not just her weight division — the absolute too.
Jun 17, 2026, 11:58 AM
The Competition Scene Is Pricing Out The People Who Made It: $150 Entry Fees, Shrinking Brackets, And The Hobbyist Exodus Nobody Is Naming
Your bracket has three people. Three years ago it had eight.
Jun 17, 2026, 11:22 AM
BJJ World Champion Brenda Larissa Says It Started When She Was 12 — And Her Sister Was Next
She said he told her she would have a great future. Brenda Larissa was 12.
Jun 17, 2026, 10:13 AM
Tom DeBlass: 'You're Winning Just By Showing Up' — Message to Non-Competitive Grapplers
In a world obsessed with gold medals, championship belts, and highlight reels, it’s easy for the average grappler — you know, the one with a mortgage and a day job, NOT a sponsored acai regimen — to feel like they’re not 'doing it right.' Every day, our feeds are choked with foot
Jun 17, 2026, 09:42 AM
BJJ Apparel Brand BRAUS Asked A Critic To Sign An NDA Before Sharing Charity Receipts — Roger Gracie And Thalison Soares Are Both Sponsored
Sign this NDA, then we'll show you the receipts. That is a real sentence in a real exchange between BRAUS, the BJJ apparel brand that sponsors Roger Gracie, Thalison Soares, and the ADCC, and Benjamin Marks, the Australian critic who runs Partizan Media.
Jun 17, 2026, 09:11 AM
The Man Who Beat Carlson Gracie Is Reportedly Living On Student Donations. Robert Drysdale Wants To Know Why The Sport Doesn't Care.
Quick test for the BJJ obsessive in your gym: name the only man to ever get his hand raised against Carlson Gracie. Most black belts can't do it, which is exactly Robert Drysdale's point.
Jun 17, 2026, 08:39 AM
Matt Serra Says The First American Gracie Black Belt Was 'Disowned' In The Very Next Family Newsletter
The first American BJJ black belt didn't survive to the next newsletter. That's not a metaphor.
Jun 17, 2026, 08:08 AM
Half The Community Just Realized Their Gym Is Running The Lloyd Irvin Sales Playbook — No Pricing, No Schedule, No Way Out
You walk into the gym. The website didn't tell you the price.
Jun 17, 2026, 07:37 AM
McGregor vs Holloway Is 'All But Official' for UFC 329 — A 13-Year Rematch Where Both of Them Now Have a BJJ Black Belt
Thirteen years is a long time to wait for a rematch that nobody asked for. Then again, nobody asked for the first one to go three rounds either — and that one ended with Conor McGregor limping out of a Boston cage on a knee that popped in round two.
Jun 16, 2026, 10:54 PM
American Black Belt Flies to Tbilisi For 'Real' BJJ Training — Both Gyms He Visits Are Watching the Same Lachlan Giles Tutorial His Academy Uses
The laptop is propped against the mirror. Someone queued up a Lachlan Giles tutorial — the half guard anthology, volume four by the look of it.
Jun 16, 2026, 10:23 PM
Anthony Bourdain's Secret BJJ Account and the Man Hollywood Never Filmed
A24 is making a movie about Anthony Bourdain. The film is Tony, directed by Matt Johnson, starring Dominic Sessa as a young Bourdain in a 1976 summer in Provincetown — cooking jobs, drinking, the early outline of a man who would spend the next four decades eating his way across e
Jun 16, 2026, 09:53 PM
Black Belt Calls Gym-Branded Gi Mandates 'Outdated And Unamerican' — Names New York Academy That Forces Members To Wear Blue Gis On Saturdays And Buy Their Own Brand
Some gyms make you wear blue on Saturdays. A New York gym (the source didn't name it) enforces this, per a BJJDoc report.
Jun 16, 2026, 09:23 PM
The Lloyd Irvin Sales Blueprint Is Still Running in American BJJ Gyms — 14 Years After His Team's Sexual Assault Scandal, His Tactics Live On
Go to lloydirvin.clickfunnels.com right now. A sales program for martial arts gym owners is still active.