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May 27, 2026, 10:00 AM
Gilbert Burns Returns to Grappling at UFC BJJ 9 vs. Monteiro
When you're Gilbert 'Durinho' Burns, a UFC welterweight contender fresh out of a grueling war, what's a guy to do with some downtime? Apparently, you don't take a vacation.
May 24, 2026, 08:12 PM
Sean Strickland Is a Two-Time UFC Middleweight Champion. That Sentence Shouldn't Make Sense.
Sean Strickland is a two-time UFC middleweight champion. Not because it's hard to believe — it happened, the scorecards are real, the belt is around his waist — but because the entire narrative infrastructure the UFC built over the last two years just collapsed in Newark, New Jer
May 23, 2026, 07:00 PM
Mica Galvão Reveals Childhood Abuse, Gun Threats Under Father Melqui
When you're a child prodigy in jiu-jitsu, the story usually goes one of two ways. Either you're a natural talent backed by a supportive team, or you're the product of a parent pushing you hard to succeed.
May 23, 2026, 04:00 PM
Khabib Nurmagomedov Denies Dana White's Claims About UFC Retirement
When you've done everything in your combat sport, retired undefeated, and left a lasting legacy, you'd think the story of your career would be set. Especially when your reasons for retiring are as clear and emotional as a promise to your grieving mom.
May 23, 2026, 01:00 PM
UFC 327 Was a Knockout Party. The One Grappler Invited Didn't Even Show.
UFC 327 was a knockout fest in Miami. Carlos Ulberg blew out his knee in the first round, then knocked Jiri Prochazka out cold to win the light heavyweight title.
May 22, 2026, 07:00 PM
Khamzat Chimaev's Toughest Opponent at RAF 10? His Own Knee, Five Weeks Post-UFC 328
Joe Rogan watched Khamzat Chimaev lose for the first time, and his first concern wasn't the scorecard. It was Chimaev's knees.
May 22, 2026, 03:00 PM
Chuck Liddell Just Put Down the Guy Who Claims Nobody Can Take Him Down
When you put a bounty on your own head, you'd better be ready for the grappling community to come knocking. Georgio Poullas, a wrestling personality who's clearly confident in his ability to avoid getting taken down, decided to put his money where his mouth is and offered $1,000
May 22, 2026, 12:08 PM
BJJ Coach's 'Don't Tap' Call Leads to Fractured Arm Debate
When you sign up for a BJJ tournament, you're signing up for chaos. Questionable ref decisions, mystery meat at the concession stand, and that 14-year-old phenom who somehow weighs 190 lbs and moves like a cat – it's all part of the experience.
May 22, 2026, 09:53 AM
Helena Crevar vs. Paige Ivette Clymer: High-Stakes Grappling at ONE Championship
When you hear 'youngest ADCC podium placer' and 'ADCC Trials winner' in the same sentence, you know somebody at ONE Championship finally decided to give the fans what they actually want: pure, unadulterated, high-level grappling competition. We're talking about Helena Crevar goin
May 21, 2026, 09:00 PM
The Grappling Specialist Who Just Got Out-Grappled by a Striker Has Some Thoughts on Jiu-Jitsu
When you've built your brand on being an unstoppable force of Dagestani wrestling and power grappling, admitting that a nuanced, often-misunderstood discipline like jiu-jitsu is 'one of the most important skills' for MMA success is… well, it’s a moment. For Khamzat Chimaev, that
May 21, 2026, 08:45 PM
Dagestani Mikey: From Staph to Heel Hook to Calling Out Tsarukyan, The Layers Of Irony Keep Stacking
The man they called a butt scooter is about to defend a UFC title. Mikey Musumeci — five-time IBJJF world champion, the best pure jiu-jitsu player at 125 pounds, and the human being specifically targeted by the UFC BJJ no-butt-scooting rule that the promotion quietly abandoned on
May 21, 2026, 08:00 PM
Mikey Musumeci's IBJJF Rant: 'Attacking Jiu-Jitsu' Is a Liability... Except When He's Attacking His Way to World Titles
When you're two weeks out from defending a UFC BJJ title under submission-only rules, but can't resist taking shots at the IBJJF's points system, you know you're dealing with Mikey Musumeci. The five-time IBJJF world champion turned UFC BJJ titleholder has never been shy about hi
May 21, 2026, 06:51 PM
Roosevelt Sousa Has a 3-Year IBJJF Ban for Meldonium. He's Still Challenging For The UFC BJJ Title.
When Roosevelt Sousa steps onto the mats for UFC's inaugural BJJ championship next month, he'll be doing so under a cloud of controversy that perfectly encapsulates the fractured state of competitive grappling governance. The Brazilian heavyweight is currently serving a 3-year IB
May 21, 2026, 09:46 AM
Ulpiano Malachias, Gracie Barra 5th Degree and One of Brazil's Most Beloved BJJ Figures, Has Passed Away
The mats in Houston are quieter today. Professor Ulpiano Malachias, a 5th-degree black belt under Carlos Gracie Jr.
May 21, 2026, 12:43 AM
Gordon Ryan's New Gym Sold $20,000 Lifetime Memberships — Limited to Five People — While He's Retired
When you're the most dominant no-gi grappler of your generation but take an indefinite competition hiatus, what's your next move? If you're Gordon Ryan, you launch a gym with $20,000 lifetime memberships — and limit them to five people.
May 21, 2026, 12:40 AM
Tainan Dalpra and Gabi Pessanha Are Nine Days From Grand Slam Immortality — With USADA Testing Standing Between Them and the Trophy
When you're nine days from becoming one of the greatest competitors in the history of jiu-jitsu, the math is simple. Secure the Grand Slam.
May 20, 2026, 06:00 PM
RAF 9 Is Eleven Days Out — Gable Steveson Debuts, Covington Faces Weidman, and Five UFC Names Are on One Card
When you hear 'wrestling promotion,' your brain probably pictures a dusty college field house, a single table of volunteers, and a guy with a clipboard arguing about weight classes. RAF 9 on May 30 in Arlington, Texas is not that.
May 20, 2026, 05:00 PM
Mason Fowler Couldn't Defend His SUG Title Last Friday — His UFC BJJ Contract Made Him the First Concrete Casualty of the Exclusivity Policy
When the UFC announced its BJJ exclusivity contracts earlier this year, the grappling community mostly reacted with shrugged shoulders and wait-and-see energy. It sounded like corporate fine print — the kind of clause that exists in documents nobody reads until someone's already
May 20, 2026, 04:00 PM
UFC BJJ 9 Is June 4 — Nicky Rod vs. Roosevelt Sousa and Ffion Davies Return Are the Headline
When UFC decided to get into the grappling event business, a lot of practitioners had questions. Like: will these be real grappling matches, or just celebrities awkwardly pummeling each other while Dana White grins at a production monitor?
May 20, 2026, 02:43 PM
Larry Wheels Has a 660-Pound Bench. He Got Tapped By a 135-Pound Bantamweight Who Is Also Significantly Less Strong.
You already know how this ends. You knew the second you read the headline, because if you've trained jiu-jitsu for more than six months, you've lived a version of this.
May 20, 2026, 12:32 PM
ADCC's Ticket-Sales Crisis Has a Number: 1,724 Sold, 9,351 Empty, 4 Per Day
That's the current sales pace for ADCC 2026, booked for September 12–13 at TAURON Arena Kraków, a venue with 14,941 available seats. BJJ World scraped live ticket availability data across 22 active sales sections of the arena and published the count: 1,724 sold, 9,351 still avail
May 20, 2026, 09:46 AM
Kron Gracie Publicly Says His Father Rickson's MMA Advice 'Isn't Working' — And Has Never Worked
Rickson Gracie's MMA advice never worked. That's not an outsider's take.
May 19, 2026, 11:34 PM
Khamzat Chimaev's Corner Told Him He Was Winning. He Wasn't. Now He's Wrestling Dillon Danis to Earn a Rematch.
The fight wasn't decided in the Octagon. It was decided on the corner stool between rounds four and five.
May 19, 2026, 10:40 PM
Kuwaiti Gold Medalist Walked Off the Abu Dhabi Podium Rather Than Shake an Israeli Athlete's Hand — He Also Said He'd Have Forfeited the Final
Then he walked off the podium. Jassim Alhatem, a Kuwaiti competitor in the men's blue belt amateur under-77kg division at the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Jiu-Jitsu World Tour, went undefeated through four bouts on Friday.
May 19, 2026, 08:00 PM
Larry Wheels Squatted 900 Pounds. A 135-Pound PFL Fighter Choked Him Out in 20 Seconds.
When a 260-pound man with a 900-pound squat walks into an MMA gym and announces he'll be fine because he's strong, you already know how this goes. The rest of us learned this in week two of white belt, from a quiet purple belt who weighed 170 pounds and never seemed to rush.
May 19, 2026, 05:39 PM
Musumeci Says IBJJF Rules Punish Attacking. Drysdale Says Without IBJJF We'd Have 12-Year-Old Black Belts. Both Are Right.
The uncomfortable part is that both being right at the same time is the actual problem. Mikey Musumeci and Robert Drysdale made opposite-sounding arguments about IBJJF in the same week.
May 19, 2026, 02:43 PM
Joe Rogan Said 'Here Is My Fear' About Chimaev at RAF 10 — He's Not Wrong
Here is a thing that happened: Khamzat Chimaev went into UFC 328 having allegedly cut somewhere between 42 and 50 pounds, fought five brutal rounds against Sean Strickland, lost his middleweight title on a split decision, and then signed to wrestle Dillon Danis at RAF 10 on June
May 19, 2026, 12:21 PM
Mikey Musumeci Says IBJJF Punishes You For Actually Fighting — He Should Know, He Won Under Both Systems
Mikey Musumeci has five IBJJF world titles. He's the first American to win multiple black belt world championships at IBJJF Worlds.
May 19, 2026, 09:22 AM
Adriano Moraes Wins at 4:59 of Round 3 With a Last-Second RNC — Officials Reviewed Whether It Happened Before the Bell
Phumi Nkuta was already unconscious. That's the official answer, though it took video review and a California State Athletic Commission ruling to get there.
May 18, 2026, 08:19 PM
Adriano Moraes Won With a Rear Naked Choke in the Final Second — Officials Reviewed the Footage and Confirmed It
With one second on the clock, Phumi Nkuta said the word that ends every roll in every gym in the world. The referee didn't call it.