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Apr 26, 2026, 02:51 AM
Two Weeks Before Fighting Khamzat Chimaev, Sean Strickland Begs UFC Not to Sign His Sparring Partner
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,
Apr 26, 2026, 12:46 AM
Jerry O'Connell Has Figured Out Three Things About BJJ That Half Your Gym Hasn't
The Sliders guy taps to black belts. He calls himself the worst person in the room.
Apr 25, 2026, 04:33 PM
Today Has Six Major Grappling Events On Three Continents. The Community Has Already Decided It's 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.
Apr 25, 2026, 10:45 AM
Rorion Gracie Created The UFC As A Jiu-Jitsu Infomercial, Sold It For $1M — It's 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 k
Apr 25, 2026, 06:44 AM
Drysdale: Rorion Moved to California in 1978 — Then Sold the UFC for $1M at the 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.
Apr 25, 2026, 02:42 AM
Eddie Bravo Says EBI Might Be Done Because The UFC Wants To Slash The Budget — The Promotion That Popularized Sub-Only Just Got Priced Out By Its Own 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 expecte
Apr 24, 2026, 10:41 PM
UFC Rejected Tsarukyan–Covington for RAF 9. The Same Week, It Approved Two Others.
RAF 8 ended on a Saturday. By Sunday the UFC had a new policy problem to pretend it already had a policy for.
Apr 24, 2026, 06:40 PM
Ronda Rousey Called The Reigning UFC Champion A 'Wet Towel.' The Wet Towel Has Two Olympic Golds In Rousey's 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 an
Apr 24, 2026, 10:37 AM
Three Months Into The 'Catchweight' Superfight, UFC BJJ Still Can't Name The Weight
It's been three months. Nobody at UFC BJJ can name the weight.
Apr 24, 2026, 02:34 AM
UFC BJJ's Champion Bit a Guy On Camera. The Promotion's Response Is Entering Week Three.
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.
Apr 24, 2026, 01:34 AM
Gable Steveson's UFC Mentor Un-Retired 22 Hours Before His Signing Was Announced
On April 10, 2026, Jon Jones told Red Corner MMA that his gloves were hung up. "No more fighter Jones," he said.
Apr 23, 2026, 09:33 PM
Four Grappling Promotions Just Announced 'Revolutionary' Pay Raises. Combined, They Still Pay 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.
Apr 23, 2026, 05:21 PM
Mighty Mouse Pulled Guard on a 200-Pound Champion and He's Not Sorry About It
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 dur
Apr 22, 2026, 07:17 PM
Gilbert Burns Left His Gloves In The Cage Tonight — 12 IBJJF World Titles, A UFC Title Shot, And A Career That Deserved A Better Ending
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.
Apr 22, 2026, 07:17 PM
Mandel Nallo Rolled For A Leglock To Survive His UFC Debut, Then Jason Herzog Stood There Watching Him Get Finished Anyway
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.
Apr 21, 2026, 01:00 PM
The UFC's All-Time Submission Leader Couldn't Finish Max Holloway In Five Rounds. His 9-Year-Old Finished Hers In One.
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.
Apr 20, 2026, 06:06 AM
Eddie Bravo Is Wondering If EBI Is Even Worth Doing Anymore. The UFC, Which Copied His Ruleset, Is Busy Cutting His Budget.
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.
Apr 20, 2026, 02:05 AM
Tsarukyan Drove Urijah Faber Off The Stage Into The Front Row On A Single Leg. The UFC Killed The Sequel By Sunday Morning.
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.
Apr 19, 2026, 06:04 AM
UFC BJJ 8 Books Musumeci Against A Man Who Lost 13-0 At Pans — Community Calls It 'Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby'
Mikey Musumeci is the most decorated grappler in UFC BJJ history. His next opponent lost 13-0 at Pans.
Apr 19, 2026, 02:03 AM
UFC Vegas 116 Has Three BJJ World Champions On One Card. Only One Looks Like She Belongs.
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 cas
Apr 18, 2026, 08:02 PM
'Dagestani Mikey' Abandons Leg Locks For Wrestling — UFC BJJ 8 Matches Him Against A Man Who Lost 13-0 At Pans
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 con
Apr 17, 2026, 01:58 PM
Community Fears CJI Is 'The 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.
Apr 16, 2026, 02:57 PM
Mica Galvao's Career Pivot Away From Points Lasted About As Long As You'd 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.
Apr 16, 2026, 10:56 AM
BJJ-to-MMA Reality Check Goes Viral: 'Nobody Taught Me How to 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.
Apr 14, 2026, 09:37 AM
BJJ Has World-Class Athletes, World-Class Events, And Absolutely Zero Idea How To Tell A Story About Any Of It
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.
Apr 14, 2026, 08:06 AM
Rigan Machado Receives 9th-Degree Red Belt From The Man IBJJF Demoted Him Under — At A Ceremony The IBJJF Didn't Sanction
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.
Apr 13, 2026, 07:52 PM
GrappleDB Counted Every BJJ Instructional Ever Made. The Numbers Are Brutal.
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.
Apr 12, 2026, 06:04 PM
Jon Jones Retires Again, Walks It Back in Under 24 Hours, and Nobody Is Surprised
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.
Apr 12, 2026, 06:02 PM
Gable Steveson Says Jon Jones Is the Perfect Coach, Ignoring Everything We Know About Jon Jones
Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones haven't fought since 2018, and they still can't stop throwing shots at each other. The latest battlefield?
Apr 12, 2026, 03:45 PM
Gable Steveson Finally Signs With the UFC. It Only Took an Olympic Gold, 3 First-Round KOs, and a Detour Through WWE.
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-9-17