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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.
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.