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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
Jun 11, 2026, 03:53 PM
SUG 30 Went Down With No Pre-Fight Hype. Here's What Actually Happened.
Submission Underground pulled off one of the most audacious promotional non-announcements in grappling history. SUG 30 was scheduled for Saturday, May 18th in Florianópolis, Brazil—and as of Friday evening, May 17th, literally nobody outside the promotion knew who was fighting.
Jun 11, 2026, 03:23 PM
Kron Gracie Says His Father's MMA Advice 'Is Not Working.' The Most Decorated Gracie in History Is Getting Called Out By His Own Son.
Rickson Gracie's advice isn't working. The one actually eating punches inside the UFC cage.
Jun 11, 2026, 02:52 PM
When ADCC's Kraków Ticket Disaster Became a Case Study in Self-Sabotage
When ADCC's ticket sales numbers finally became impossible to ignore, the math told a story that no amount of spin could fix. The numbers were bleak enough that they deserved a second look — and they still are.
Jun 11, 2026, 02:22 PM
Kron Gracie Says Rickson Stopped Speaking to Him for Years Because He Used Boxing In MMA — The Gentle Art Family Was Not Gentle About It
Rickson Gracie built his reputation on one idea: jiu-jitsu beats everything. Against bigger men, against strikers, against wrestlers who didn't yet know what a closed guard could do to their arms.
Jun 11, 2026, 01:52 PM
When Demetrius Johnson Called It Quits on IBJJF Masters — 'My Life Doesn't Change If I Win Or Lose'
Demetrius Johnson dropped one of the most honest sentences anyone's said about competing in a gi tournament, and it's worth revisiting now that the dust has settled. "My life doesn't change if I win or lose." He meant every word of it, and the reasoning behind that statement reve
Jun 11, 2026, 01:21 PM
When Mica Galvão Dissolved BJJ College And Launched MJJ — A 21-Year-Old Forced To Rebuild After His Arrested Father's Charges
When the fallout from Melqui Galvão's arrest was still fresh enough to sting, his 21-year-old son Mica posted a clean graphic to Instagram and ended a 15-year project in two paragraphs. BJJ College, the team his father had built from the ground up, the team that had produced Mica
Jun 11, 2026, 12:51 PM
Gabriel Bonfim Defeats Belal Muhammad 50-45
Gabriel Bonfim didn't just beat Belal Muhammad on June 6 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas. All three rounds, all three judges: 50-45, 50-45, 50-45.
Jun 11, 2026, 12:21 PM
When Mica Galvão's Rebranding Lasted Exactly 96 Hours
Something happened at BJJ College that crystallized one of grappling's most persistent structural problems in real time. That's how long Mika Jiu-Jitsu lasted before it was put on indefinite hold.
Jun 11, 2026, 11:50 AM
How Mica Galvao Named His New Team After Himself—While Walking Away From One Named After His Father
The jiu-jitsu world watched something rare unfold: a clean organizational break, executed without the usual corporate apologies or half-measures. When Micael "Mica" Galvão announced he was leaving Melqui Galvão Jiu-Jitsu and launching Mika Jiu-Jitsu, the move wasn't just a name c
Jun 11, 2026, 11:19 AM
Diogo Reis's Return to Competition After Leaving Fight Sports Manaus
When Diogo Reis stepped into the ONE Championship cage for Fight Night 43 on May 15, he was doing something that looked routine on the surface but carried weight underneath it. He was defending his ONE flyweight submission grappling championship against Yuki Takahashi.
Jun 11, 2026, 10:49 AM
When Mackenzie Dern's Father Won Brasileiros Gold at 58 — Megaton Dias Took Master 7 Lightweight As João Miyao Claimed Master 1
A quiet milestone slipped past the main narrative of what the IBJJF circuit was building toward. On May 1, when the masters block of the 2026 Brasileiros rolled through Barueri, Wellington "Megaton" Dias—who had just turned 58 the previous October—stepped onto the mat and won Mas
Jun 11, 2026, 10:18 AM
Thug Trials 3 and the Lovato Jr.-Rocha Match That Finally Happened
pulled off something that had been floating around the grappling community's wishlist for years. On May 11th, three days after competing at a NAIA collegiate wrestling meet against athletes who were in middle school when he was winning ADCC titles, the 42-year-old showed up in Do
Jun 11, 2026, 09:48 AM
Mikey Musumeci Says IBJJF Rules Encourage Strategy Over Fighting — 'It's So Easy to Lose'
"Nobody actually wants to fight." That's Mikey Musumeci on IBJJF competition. Not a disgruntled blue belt venting after losing on advantages at a regional.
Jun 11, 2026, 08:45 AM
Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay
When this went down on April 25 at São Paulo's Ginásio do Ibirapuera, it seemed like a straightforward submission gone wrong. Matheus "The Monster" Araujo caught Anderson Nascimento in a rear-naked choke inside three minutes of Round 1 at Jungle Fight 149.