Snarky takes on real BJJ news.https://bjjdigest.com/en-ushttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/gilbert-burns-names-raoni-barcelos-best-bjj-practitioner-buchecha-vieira-prove-it/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/gilbert-burns-names-raoni-barcelos-best-bjj-practitioner-buchecha-vieira-prove-it/Gilbert Burns retired at UFC Winnipeg on April 19, lost to Mike Malott in the main event, did the whole goodbye script. A UFC welterweight title shot.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:00:08 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/garry-tonon-free-agent-bidding-war/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/garry-tonon-free-agent-bidding-war/Garry Tonon is a free agent. Stop reading for a second and let that sit, because the implications are bigger than the press release made them sound.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:12:37 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-8-four-former-champions-missing-contenders-catchweight-weigh-in/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-8-four-former-champions-missing-contenders-catchweight-weigh-in/UFC BJJ 8 has four former world champions on the card. None of them are fighting a challenger.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:00:06 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/us-consumer-debt-188-trillion-bjj-fanatics-400-instructionals-you-watched-twelve/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/us-consumer-debt-188-trillion-bjj-fanatics-400-instructionals-you-watched-twelve/The Federal Reserve published its Q4 2025 household debt numbers this month, and the line at the top was $18.8 trillion — a record, up $4.6 trillion from 2019. Buried in the agency's H.2 commentary was a short note about subscription-based recurring billing, which the Fed called Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:00:07 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-8-finalized-musumeci-dantzler-miyao-not-on-card/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-8-finalized-musumeci-dantzler-miyao-not-on-card/The UFC BJJ 8 card is finalized. Meta APEX, Las Vegas, May 21.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:00:01 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/conor-mcgregor-gi-roll-ufc-329-return/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/conor-mcgregor-gi-roll-ufc-329-return/Conor McGregor has, once again, been on the mat in a gi. Footage hit Instagram this week: guillotines, grip exchanges, the standard "I am still an athlete" highlight reel timed to a comeback that has been imminent for going on four years now.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:56:00 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-paramount-paywall-free-youtube-era-ends/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-paramount-paywall-free-youtube-era-ends/Here's the timeline of UFC BJJ getting its act together, in case you want to know exactly how long the window was. UFC BJJ launched in June 2025 with all the subtlety of a Dana White press conference — big promises, questionable matchmaking, and viewership numbers that made CraigSun, 26 Apr 2026 10:52:56 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/two-weeks-before-chimaev-strickland-begs-ufc-not-sign-eblen/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/two-weeks-before-chimaev-strickland-begs-ufc-not-sign-eblen/Two weeks out from his middleweight title shot against Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328, Sean Strickland's biggest public concern, somehow, is a different fighter. Strickland posted a video this week begging the UFC not to sign Johnny Eblen — the former Bellator middleweight champion, Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:51:10 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/jerry-oconnell-bjj-machado-three-things-your-gym-hasnt/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/jerry-oconnell-bjj-machado-three-things-your-gym-hasnt/The Sliders guy taps to black belts. He calls himself the worst person in the room.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:46:44 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/saturday-april-25-six-major-grappling-events-community-bored/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/saturday-april-25-six-major-grappling-events-community-bored/Six major grappling events are running today. By tonight, somebody you know will be on a podcast explaining that jiu-jitsu doesn't promote itself.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:33:07 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/rorion-gracie-ufc-infomercial-sold-1-million-now-worth-12-billion/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/rorion-gracie-ufc-infomercial-sold-1-million-now-worth-12-billion/That's what Rorion Gracie walked away from. Robert Drysdale laid it out on the Jiu-Jitsu Revolution podcasthttps://bjjdoc.com/2026/04/12/adcc-veteran-questions-if-gracies-ever-believed-in-mma-as-a-sport-they-sold-ufc-the-first-chance-they-got/ last week, and the numbers are the kSat, 25 Apr 2026 14:45:43 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/drysdale-rorion-moved-california-1978-sold-ufc-one-million-first-opportunity/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/drysdale-rorion-moved-california-1978-sold-ufc-one-million-first-opportunity/Robert Drysdale went on the Jiu-Jitsu Revolution podcast this week and said the quiet part out loud. Rorion Gracie, the man who founded the UFC, never actually believed in MMA as a sport.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:44:08 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/eddie-bravo-ebi-done-ufc-budget-cuts-sub-only-format/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/eddie-bravo-ebi-done-ufc-budget-cuts-sub-only-format/Eddie Bravo might walk away from EBI. He sat across from Jake Shields at 10th Planet HQ in downtown Los Angeleshttps://bjjdoc.com/2026/04/13/eddie-bravo-ufc-wants-to-cut-eddie-bravo-invitationals-budget-so-much-it-might-not-be-worth-doing-at-all/ and said something nobody expecteSat, 25 Apr 2026 06:42:42 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-rejects-tsarukyan-covington-raf-9-approves-two-others-same-week/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-rejects-tsarukyan-covington-raf-9-approves-two-others-same-week/RAF 8 ended on a Saturday. By Sunday the UFC had a new policy problem to pretend it already had a policy for.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:41:37 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/rousey-wet-towel-harrison-two-olympic-golds-own-sport/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/rousey-wet-towel-harrison-two-olympic-golds-own-sport/Ronda Rousey showed up to a Netflix press conference in New York on April 15 and spent the afternoon explaining that Kayla Harrison, the reigning UFC bantamweight champion who has defended the belt Rousey used to own, has "the charisma of a wet towel" and "will always be in me anFri, 24 Apr 2026 22:40:10 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-three-months-catchweight-still-no-weight/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-three-months-catchweight-still-no-weight/It's been three months. Nobody at UFC BJJ can name the weight.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:37:13 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-champion-bit-opponent-week-three-silence/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-champion-bit-opponent-week-three-silence/Three weeks ago, UFC BJJ's welterweight champion bit a man on camera. The promotion's response has been a master class in hoping you didn't notice.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:34:12 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/gable-steveson-ufc-329-jon-jones-mentor-22-hour-retirement/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/gable-steveson-ufc-329-jon-jones-mentor-22-hour-retirement/On April 10, 2026, Jon Jones told Red Corner MMA that his gloves were hung up. "No more fighter Jones," he said.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:34:02 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/four-grappling-promotions-revolutionary-pay-raises-less-than-one-ufc-bonus/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/four-grappling-promotions-revolutionary-pay-raises-less-than-one-ufc-bonus/In the month of April 2026, four separate grappling promotions walked up to a microphone, cleared their throats, and announced that athlete pay was finally being revolutionized. Apex Submission League raised its per-fight minimum to forty dollars.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:33:01 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/mighty-mouse-pulled-guard-chimaev-not-sorry/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/mighty-mouse-pulled-guard-chimaev-not-sorry/The footage hit the internet like a flying armbar at a local tournament — fast, chaotic, and absolutely devastating if you didn't see it coming. UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev locked a D'Arce choke on newly minted UFC Hall of Famer Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson durThu, 23 Apr 2026 21:21:31 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/gilbert-burns-retires-ufc-winnipeg-malott/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/gilbert-burns-retires-ufc-winnipeg-malott/Gilbert Burns is done. Saturday night at the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, after Mike Malott stopped him at 2:08 of round three, Durinho walked to the center of the octagon, pulled off his gloves, and left them on the canvas.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:17:50 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/nallo-leglock-scramble-herzog-stoppage-ufc-winnipeg/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/nallo-leglock-scramble-herzog-stoppage-ufc-winnipeg/The only jiu-jitsu moment in Jai Herbert vs Mandel Nallo was also the saddest one. Nallo, eating hammerfists from a guy he had wobbled thirty seconds earlier, rolled for a leglock.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:17:18 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/charles-oliveira-daughter-tayla-bjj-debut-submission/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/charles-oliveira-daughter-tayla-bjj-debut-submission/Tayla Oliveira is nine years old. Last weekend, in Guarujá, she walked into her first jiu-jitsu tournament as a white belt and submitted her opponent.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:00:08 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/eddie-bravo-ebi-future-ufc-budget-cuts-stole-the-format/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/eddie-bravo-ebi-future-ufc-budget-cuts-stole-the-format/Eddie Bravo sat down with Jake Shields this week at the 10th Planet headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, rolled for a bit, and then said the quiet part out loud. Not because it stopped working.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:06:07 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/tsarukyan-faber-off-stage-raf-8-ufc-kills-covington-rematch/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/tsarukyan-faber-off-stage-raf-8-ufc-kills-covington-rematch/Arman Tsarukyan finished a single leg at RAF 8 on Saturday night in Philadelphia by picking up a 46-year-old Urijah Faber, walking him across the stage, and dumping him into the front row. Both men were uninjured.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:05:23 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-8-musumeci-dantzler-hydrogen-bomb-vs-coughing-baby/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-bjj-8-musumeci-dantzler-hydrogen-bomb-vs-coughing-baby/Mikey Musumeci is the most decorated grappler in UFC BJJ history. His next opponent lost 13-0 at Pans.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:04:19 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-vegas-116-three-bjj-world-champions/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/ufc-vegas-116-three-bjj-world-champions/UFC Vegas 116 goes down on April 25 at the Meta Apex, and if you're a BJJ practitioner who also follows MMA, you might want to sit down for this one. Three Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champions are on the card. Between them, they hold enough IBJJF and ADCC gold to fill a trophy casSun, 19 Apr 2026 06:03:29 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/dagestani-mikey-abandons-leg-locks-ufc-bjj-8-dantzler-matchmaking/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/dagestani-mikey-abandons-leg-locks-ufc-bjj-8-dantzler-matchmaking/Mikey Musumeci — the man who built an entire career on attacking feet — wants you to know that feet are so 2025. The UFC BJJ bantamweight champion has spent the last few months rebranding himself as "Dagestani Mikey," growing a chin-strap beard, training with UFC bantamweight conSun, 19 Apr 2026 00:02:38 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/community-fears-cji-next-metamoris-craig-jones-claps-back/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/community-fears-cji-next-metamoris-craig-jones-claps-back/Eighty-four percent of the grappling community thinks CJI is the next Metamoris. Craig Jones's response was two words.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:58:37 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/mica-galvao-career-pivot-points-lasted-about-as-long-as-youd-expect/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/mica-galvao-career-pivot-points-lasted-about-as-long-as-youd-expect/In December 2024, Mica Galvao sat down and said something that made every grappling media outlet scramble for a headline. "I no longer train with the goal of competing in organizations that prioritize points or advantages," he told BJJEE.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:57:20 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/bjj-to-mma-reality-check-nobody-taught-get-up-from-bottom/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/bjj-to-mma-reality-check-nobody-taught-get-up-from-bottom/Every few months, the BJJ community rediscovers that lying on your back in a cage is a bad idea. Somebody tries MMA, gets absolutely mauled from bottom, and posts about it online like they're the first person in history to get punched while playing half guard.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:56:32 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/2026-04-14-daily-v2auv/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/2026-04-14-daily-v2auv/BJJ's biggest promotions have the rosters, the production budgets, and the exclusive contracts. What they don't have is a single answer for why a non-fan should care about any of it.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:37:52 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/2026-04-14-daily/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/2026-04-14-daily/Rorion Gracie promoted Rigan Machado to 9th-degree red belt at the CSW World Conference on April 10. The IBJJF's own database had listed Machado — a Pan Am champion, ADCC medalist, and 40-year veteran — as just a 3rd-degree black belt.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:06:06 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/grappledb-instructional-market-collapse-danaher-ai-cover/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/grappledb-instructional-market-collapse-danaher-ai-cover/GrappleDB just did something nobody in the instructional market wanted: they counted. The database — 3,393 titles, 1,228 instructors, 5,800 hours of footage — tells a story that starts as a gold rush and ends as a clearance rack.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:52:08 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/jon-jones-retires-again-walks-it-back-under-24-hours/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/jon-jones-retires-again-walks-it-back-under-24-hours/Jon Jones retired this week. On April 10, in an interview with Red Corner MMA, the 38-year-old former heavyweight champion declared himself done.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:04:02 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/steveson-says-jones-perfect-coach-ignoring-everything/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/steveson-says-jones-perfect-coach-ignoring-everything/Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones haven't fought since 2018, and they still can't stop throwing shots at each other. The latest battlefield?Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:02:21 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/gable-steveson-raf-09-deal-ufc-any-day-now/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/gable-steveson-raf-09-deal-ufc-any-day-now/Gable Steveson has signed a multi-match deal with Real American Freestyle. He will headline RAF 09 on May 30 at College Park Center in Arlington, Texashttps://sports.yahoo.com/wrestling/breaking-news/article/gable-steveson-signs-with-raf-on-multi-match-deal-debut-set-for-raf-9-17Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:45:43 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/jon-jones-road-rage-proud-of-myself-not-getting-physical/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/jon-jones-road-rage-proud-of-myself-not-getting-physical/Jon Jones wants you to know he's growing as a person. On Saturday, a 19-year-old Albuquerque driver named Bryan Beltran posted footage — filmed through Meta Glasses, because of course — showing Jones confronting him in a parking lot near Central Avenue and Eubank.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:33:54 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/cji-outside-every-structure-community-metamoris-comparison/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/cji-outside-every-structure-community-metamoris-comparison/Here's the math on the Craig Jones Invitational. CJI 1, August 2024: two million in prizes, free YouTube stream, over 100,000 concurrent viewershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CraigJonesInvitational, half a million raised for charity.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:17:53 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/atos-insider-27-cameras-no-investigation-no-charges/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/atos-insider-27-cameras-no-investigation-no-charges/The Atos defense has entered a new phase. For about two months after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against Andre Galvao in early 2026 — prompting an exodus of elite athletes including Kaynan Duarte, Lucas Barbosa, Andy Murasaki, Josh Hinger, and Gustavo Batista — the Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:17:49 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/rockhold-modern-bjj-doesnt-work-mma-fili-craig-jones-counterexample/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/rockhold-modern-bjj-doesnt-work-mma-fili-craig-jones-counterexample/Luke Rockhold won a UFC middleweight title with some of the best offensive jiu-jitsu in MMA history. He won a blue belt silver medal at Pan Amshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LukeRockhold and a purple belt gold at Worlds before he ever stepped in the cage.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:17:44 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/13-year-old-hospitalized-gauntlet-hazing-bjj-brazil/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/13-year-old-hospitalized-gauntlet-hazing-bjj-brazil/The municipal youth jiu-jitsu program in Ribas do Rio Pardo, Brazil promised discipline, confidence, and healthy routines. The kind of thing you'd put on a government brochure next to a photo of smiling kids in white gis.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:17:40 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/jay-rodriguez-returns-simple-man-community-debates-accountability/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/jay-rodriguez-returns-simple-man-community-debates-accountability/Jacob "Jay Rod" Rodriguez is training at Simple Man Martial Arts again. If you need a second to process that sentence, take your time.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:17:37 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/bjjlink-mma-inc-145-percent-growth-18000-gyms-800-verified/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/bjjlink-mma-inc-145-percent-growth-18000-gyms-800-verified/Mixed Martial Arts Group Limited wants you to know that business is booming. The company — which trades on the NYSE under the ticker MMA, because subtlety is dead — just announced "frictionless self-onboarding" for its BJJLink gym management platform.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:17:32 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/taira-grappling-stats-ufc-flyweight-title-challenger-van/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/taira-grappling-stats-ufc-flyweight-title-challenger-van/There's a number floating around that should make every jiu-jitsu practitioner sit up straight. That's the percentage of Tatsuro Taira's significant strikes that come from the ground.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:17:27 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/dern-vs-robertson-two-bjj-black-belts-ufc-strawweight-title/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/dern-vs-robertson-two-bjj-black-belts-ufc-strawweight-title/Mackenzie Dern was sitting at a Celebrity Poker Tour table in Las Vegas when she casually dropped what might be the most significant matchmaking news in women's MMA this year. "They're kind of talking about giving me Gillian Robertson." Not a press conference.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:26:26 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/prochazka-frozen-lake-mountain-isolation-extreme-training-vhmjf/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/prochazka-frozen-lake-mountain-isolation-extreme-training-vhmjf/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:02:58 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/dana-white-approves-tsarukyan-musumeci-claudia-gets-it-done/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/dana-white-approves-tsarukyan-musumeci-claudia-gets-it-done/Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:14:43 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/man-called-brazil-dump-filthy-animals-announces-comeback-event-brazil/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/man-called-brazil-dump-filthy-animals-announces-comeback-event-brazil/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:14:40 GMThttps://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/hype-brazil-tsarukyan-danis-cancelled-third-failure-to-launch/https://bjjdigest.com/feed/blog/hype-brazil-tsarukyan-danis-cancelled-third-failure-to-launch/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:14:35 GMT