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May 18, 2026, 06:00 PM
Every Current UFC Champion Finishes With Strikes — Islam Makhachev Is the Last One Winning by Grappling
Go through the UFC title picture right now. Ask how each champion got there.
May 18, 2026, 04:00 PM
Kayla Harrison vs Amanda Nunes Is the UFC 329 Title Fight Nobody Talked About — Between Them, They Have More World Grappling Titles Than McGregor Has Fights Since 2021
The UFC 329 bantamweight title fight is July 11 in Las Vegas during International Fight Week. Kayla Harrison defends.
May 18, 2026, 01:00 PM
UFC BJJ Booked a Man Serving a 3-Year USADA Ban as Their June Title Contender
Roosevelt De Sousa had a December to remember. On December 13, 2025, he won the IBJJF gi world title in the ultra-heavyweight division.
May 18, 2026, 11:00 AM
Larry Wheels Can Bench 600 Pounds. He Was Submitted by a Bantamweight Named Cobey Fehr at Xtreme Couture.
Larry Wheels can bench press 600 pounds. He's 260 pounds and has spent his career doing things with a barbell that most people don't believe are possible.
May 17, 2026, 08:44 PM
IBJJF Worlds Is in 12 Days — And This Is the First Time USADA Will Test at the Venue
USADA is going to Worlds. The 2026 IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu Championship runs May 28–31 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
May 17, 2026, 05:41 PM
Fighter's Cauliflower Ear Explodes Mid-Match, Stops the Fight
The fight stopped because of an ear. Not a referee standing up a stalled scramble.
May 17, 2026, 02:53 PM
John Lineker Got Cut By ONE Championship. The Steroids Didn't Even Help.
John Lineker tested positive for Metandienone and Tamoxifen after losing to Ben Woolliss at ONE Fight Night 41 in March 2026. Metandienone is Dianabol, an anabolic steroid that's been on the banned list since before most fighters today started training.
May 17, 2026, 12:34 PM
Alice Ardelean Hit the First Capsule Lock in UFC History — She Learned It on TikTok
On Saturday at UFC Vegas 117, a strawweight prelim turned into a small piece of history. Alice Ardelean submitted Polyana Viana at 4:36 of the second round with a capsule lock, a leg compression submission that had never been finished in a UFC fight.
May 17, 2026, 09:28 AM
UFC BJJ 8 Lost Another Fight to Injury — The Card Is Five Days Away and Already on Its Third Version
The card they announced in April doesn't exist anymore. UFC BJJ 8 is Thursday, May 21 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas.
May 16, 2026, 08:18 PM
Gordon Ryan Posted About Hanging Politicians. Craig Jones Released His Wife's Arrest Footage and Sold the Merch.
Craig Jones just turned Gordon Ryan's wife's arrest into a merch drop. Backstory: Nathalia Santoro, Ryan's wife, was arrested in Texas last October after a high-speed police chase.
May 16, 2026, 07:28 PM
Your Professor Called It Tuesday: The Ecological BJJ Rebrand and Who Actually Invented It
In January 2025, someone asked Gui Mendes about ecological training in jiu-jitsu. He's a three-time World Champion who built Art of Jiu Jitsu into one of the best competition academies in the country.
May 16, 2026, 05:45 PM
Tom Hardy's Jiu-Jitsu Coach Confirms: 'He's Getting Close. It's Coming.'
Somewhere in England, Tom Hardy is drilling on a Tuesday afternoon while you're reading this. He's been doing it since 2018.
May 16, 2026, 02:45 PM
260-Pound Powerlifter Larry Wheels Cannot Cope With Getting Outgrappled by Lightweight MMA Fighters — And He Can't Believe It
I got bitched out." That's Larry Wheels, walking out of Xtreme Couture MMA in Las Vegas after getting submitted by professional fighters who weigh 100 to 125 pounds less than him. He said it into his own camera.
May 16, 2026, 12:07 PM
Guy Ritchie Got His 3rd Degree BJJ Black Belt on a Film Set — Tom Hardy Watched
Guy Ritchie makes films for a living. Snatch, Lock Stock, two Sherlock Holmes movies, The Gentleman, the King Arthur film everybody forgot they hated until someone rewatched it.
May 16, 2026, 09:50 AM
Jeff Glover Wants to Fight Chris Bones to Settle Whether He Has Any Rickson Lineage At All
Jeff Glover is not a Rickson Gracie black belt. His lineage runs through a different branch entirely — Rolls Gracie, then Ricardo Miller — not a Rickson in sight, and he's never claimed otherwise.
May 15, 2026, 12:27 PM
Derek Moneyberg Got a BJJ Black Belt in 3.5 Years. Now He's Suing Sean Strickland for Saying It Out Loud.
Derek Moneyberg is suing Sean Strickland. For a hotel hallway comment, and the implication that a financial influencer with zero competition record might not be a legitimate BJJ black belt.
May 15, 2026, 10:00 AM
77-Year-Old Earns Gracie Black Belt After 12 Years — Somehow The Fastest Promotion Story Of The Week
Paul Laniosz got his black belt in Gracie jiu-jitsu on Saturday, February 7. A month later, on March 18, he turned 77.
May 15, 2026, 09:26 AM
Kyra Gracie: The Gracie Family Paid Women Champions $2,000 While Men Earned $50,000 — And Forbade Them From Training In The First Place
That's the pay gap Kyra Gracie says existed inside the Gracie family for its own champions. Not in some rival organization.
May 14, 2026, 09:00 PM
A 62-Year-Old Baseball Manager Just Gave BJJ Its Biggest Mainstream Moment — And Nobody From The Sport Was Involved
Jiu-jitsu has spent the better part of a decade trying to crack into the mainstream. Craig Jones built CJI.
May 14, 2026, 06:00 PM
Fabricio Andrey Wants Kade Ruotolo's Belt So Bad He'll Gain 25 Pounds to Get It
Fabricio Andrey has a problem. He's arguably the most exciting submission grappler on the planet right now, he's undefeated in ONE Championship, and his boss won't give him a featherweight title because the division doesn't technically exist yet.
May 14, 2026, 03:24 PM
BJJ Now Has An Anti-Doping Medal Table: Fight Sports 5, Alliance 4, Gracie Barra 3, Atos 2
Five anti-doping violations: Cyborg, Porfirio, De Sousa, Rocha, and most recently Mica Galvão. Alliance sits second with four (Nogueira, Tayane Porfirio, Andrew, Gabi Garcia).
May 14, 2026, 12:32 PM
Governing Body Blocks Two Blue Belts From Competing Against Each Other At Family Reunion; Cites Exclusive Gym Membership Contracts Both Signed At Same Family Reunion
TRURO, MA — Forty minutes before cousins Dylan Ferraro, 26, and Micah Ferraro, 24, were scheduled to grapple on a tarp in the backyard of 118 Highland Road, the Ferraro family reunion was interrupted by a process server from the North Atlantic Jiu-Jitsu Commission, who handed eac
May 14, 2026, 09:36 AM
Danaher Says Go Back to Your First Armbar. The 20-Hour Back System Can Wait.
John Danaher quoted Heraclitus to 631,000 Instagram followers on April 14. "You never step in the same river twice," he wrote.
May 13, 2026, 09:00 PM
Matt Serra Says The Best Gyms Don't Push Beginners Into Sparring — An Entire Industry Just Stopped Nodding
Matt Serra has opinions on what a beginner should look for in a BJJ gym. The 5th-degree black belt, first American to ever earn a Renzo Gracie black belt, UFC Hall of Famer, and one half of the Long Island accent that built modern East Coast jiu-jitsu sat down and explained, in d
May 13, 2026, 08:06 PM
Gordon Ryan Doesn't Respect the Superfight He Vacated — Now Questioning Duarte's Right to Hold It
Gordon Ryan vacated the ADCC Superfight title in February 2026. He's spent the time since explaining why Kaynan Duarte doesn't deserve it.
May 13, 2026, 05:53 PM
ADCC's Answer to 63% Empty Seats Is a 2019 Rematch — Gordon Ryan Already Calling It a Consolation Prize
Sixty-three percent of the seats in Tauron Arena are currently empty. That's the actual math.
May 13, 2026, 04:00 PM
Kyra Gracie Says Her Own Family Tried to Block Her From Training — The Gracies Almost Stopped the Gracies
The Gracie name is jiu-jitsu. It's on the lineage walls, in the textbooks, baked into every gym that traces its roots to Rio.
May 13, 2026, 03:00 PM
Melqui Galvao Is Still Running His Academy — From Prison, Via Phone
Melqui Galvao was transferred to a São Paulo prison on May 10. Brazilian deputy Alessandra Campêlo went public this week with the claim: Galvao has been making video calls from inside the facility — 20 to 30 minutes at a time — to students connected to his BJJ College project in
May 13, 2026, 02:00 PM
Paddy Pimblett Made an Influencer Throw Up During Sparring. The Influencer Is Now a BJJ Convert.
At some point between throwing up at the window and getting back on the mat, Dean Alex — British TikToker, chaos content merchant, bearer of the catchphrase "do you not know who I am, kid?" — appears to have had an actual realization. He didn't know who he was dealing with.
May 13, 2026, 01:00 PM
Paddy Pimblett Accepted a Sparring Challenge From a TikToker. The TikToker Vomited.
"Do you not know who I am, kid?" is Dean Alex's catchphrase. His content franchise.