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Jun 27, 2026, 08:52 AM
ADCC Asia & Oceania Trials: Belal Etiabari Becomes First New Zealander to Win an ADCC Trials Event
For a sport obsessed with lineage and legacy, grappling had a blind spot the size of the Tasman Sea. New Zealand had never—not once—produced a winner at an ADCC Trials event.
Jun 27, 2026, 08:22 AM
Tyron Woodley Competed in Wrestling After 20-Year Absence
Tyron Woodley returned to wrestling. Not as a coach, not as a consultant, not as a retired legend doing celebrity exhibitions.
Jun 27, 2026, 07:52 AM
Buchecha: 'Competing Again Would Come From Ego' — 13-Time World Champion Says BJJ Career Is Over
Marcus Almeida didn't need to announce his retirement. Buchecha's been semi-retired for years—stepping in for the big matches, ghosting the smaller ones, treating competition like a Netflix subscription he renews when something good is on.
Jun 26, 2026, 05:49 PM
UFC BJJ 9 Drew 1,800 English Viewers—The Apex Was Packed, But the Stream Wasn't
UFC BJJ 9 took place June 19 at the Apex in Las Vegas. The venue was packed—standing room only.
Jun 26, 2026, 05:18 PM
UFC Fighter Philip Rowe Said There's 'No One Elite' In UFC BJJ — He Wasn't Wrong But He's Also Not Elite
Philip Rowe gave UFC BJJ the most honest assessment anyone's dared to say out loud: there's nobody elite in there. On The Casuals MMA YouTube channel, the UFC welterweight broke down the new initiative with a clarity that made the room uncomfortable.
Jun 26, 2026, 04:48 PM
Khabib Opened a Coffee Shop Because He Couldn't Go to Any Other Coffee Shop Without Signing Autographs for 45 Minutes
Khabib Nurmagomedov, the undefeated former UFC champion, couldn't just walk into a coffee shop anymore. Not because the door was locked, but because the moment he stepped inside, he was no longer a person ordering an espresso.
Jun 26, 2026, 04:18 PM
UFC BJJ 9: Mason Fowler Defended the Title, Nicky Rodriguez Submitted His Opponent in 3 Minutes, and Burns Returned — All Three Called For The Same Fight
UFC BJJ 9 handed the grappling world the most beautiful scheduling nightmare in recent memory: three fighters with legitimate claims to the same opponent, only one of whom can get it. Mason Fowler defended his UFC BJJ title.
Jun 26, 2026, 03:47 PM
Gilbert Burns Won His UFC BJJ Debut in About 60 Seconds. He's 40. That's It. That's the Whole Thing.
Gilbert Burns walked into the octagon at forty years old and finished his opponent in about a minute. Sixty seconds of technical dominance, and it was over.
Jun 26, 2026, 12:14 PM
Coach Sentenced 178 Years for Abusing Young BJJ Athletes
Brazilian jiu-jitsu was supposed to be the way out. For Matheus Gabriel and at least eleven other children from economically vulnerable backgrounds in Brazil, it became the path that led directly to a predator.
Jun 26, 2026, 11:43 AM
Zabit Returns After 7 Years to Face Raul Rosas Jr
There's a specific kind of hunger that comes from never leaving the table. has been eating constantly since 2019.
Jun 26, 2026, 10:41 AM
Islam Makhachev Declines All Grappling Matches Outside UFC
Islam Makhachev is the most dominant grappler in mixed martial arts. Nineteen-minute average control time.
Jun 26, 2026, 10:11 AM
Gable Steveson vs. Elisha Ellison: The Obvious UFC Setup
The UFC has booked Gable Steveson's debut against Elisha Ellison on July 11. If you don't know who Elisha Ellison is, that's exactly the point.
Jun 26, 2026, 09:41 AM
Fight 2 Win 316 São Paulo Success — F2W's First Brazilian Event Signals Geographic Expansion Beyond North America
Fight 2 Win pulled off something that would have sounded absurd a decade ago: it brought professional submission grappling back to Brazil as a foreign import. Not as an innovation from the birthplace of jiu-jitsu, but as a product manufactured in North America and re-exported to
Jun 26, 2026, 09:10 AM
Marcus Buchecha Says He's Done Competing in BJJ — The Most Decorated Gi Champion of His Generation Is Out
Marcus Buchecha Almeida announced he was done competing in gi jiu-jitsu. Not retired from teaching.
Jun 26, 2026, 08:40 AM
ESPN Announced a Gracie Family Documentary — But Which Story Gets Told?
ESPN announced plans for a Gracie family documentary. This is a big deal for a sport built on the myth of the Gracie family — the way jiu-jitsu was invented by them, perfected by them, exported to the world by them, and now they're the guys in charge of defining what jiu-jitsu is
Jun 26, 2026, 08:09 AM
Jordan Burroughs Signs With RAF, Immediately Calls Out Makhachev and Tsarukyan
Jordan Burroughs signed with RAF and immediately called out two UFC lightweights by name. Not as a stepping stone.
Jun 26, 2026, 07:39 AM
Philip Rowe: 'There's No One Elite' in UFC BJJ — The Competition Is Not At World Level
Philip Rowe, the UFC welterweight who actually knows what a leg lock is supposed to look like, went on The Casuals MMA and said something that made everyone uncomfortable because it was completely accurate: "There's no one elite in UFC BJJ. There's no one elite around." The state
Jun 26, 2026, 07:09 AM
B-Team Jiu-Jitsu Returns: Craig Jones Delivers Zero Details
Craig Jones just announced that B-Team Jiu-Jitsu is returning. You know what B-Team is.
Jun 25, 2026, 03:30 PM
Marcus Buchecha Retires With 13 World Titles — Also 0-2-1 in MMA, So He's Taking Both Sports at Once
Marcus 'Buchecha' Almeida announced he was retiring from competition. The statement was clean: "I think that my mission was fulfilled in the sport." And technically, he was right.
Jun 25, 2026, 08:47 AM
PGF Doubles Season 10 — Expansion Gamble Raises Saturation Questions
Professional Grappling Federation announced Season 10 with a significant expansion: eight teams instead of four, two matches per week instead of one, and forty-plus elite grapplers on rotation. The stated goal was to increase match volume to maintain competitive intensity.
Jun 25, 2026, 08:17 AM
Andrew Wiltse Opens New Academy, Launches YouTube Channel, Posts Public Apology to Craig Jones
Andrew Wiltse didn't ease back into BJJ. He came back with a public apology, a YouTube channel, and a gym in Nebraska, and he did those things in roughly that order.
Jun 25, 2026, 07:40 AM
Bryce Mitchell Won at UFC Vegas 118, Then Called the White House UFC Card 'A Birthday Party for Trump While World War 3 Is Happening'
Bryce Mitchell defeated previously unbeaten Santiago Luna via arm triangle submission at 4:52 of the third round at UFC Vegas 118 on June 6, 2026. It was his 10th octagon victory—clean finish, technical grappling, career momentum climbing.
Jun 24, 2026, 03:58 PM
Song Yadong Submits Former Champ, Casually Asks 'Who Doesn't Know Jiu-Jitsu?'
Song Yadong submitted Deiveson Figueiredo via guillotine choke at UFC Macau on May 30, 2026. That's a technical fact.
Jun 24, 2026, 03:28 PM
Izaak Michell — Who Has an Active Felony Warrant — Was Booked to Fight Francisco Lo at ONE Fight Night 33 in Bangkok
Izaak Michell was booked for ONE Fight Night 33 in Bangkok on July 11, 2026, to face Francisco Lo in a welterweight submission grappling match at Lumpinee Stadium. The matchup itself read like a reasonable test: two grapplers still searching for their first ONE Championship victo
Jun 24, 2026, 08:28 AM
Tainan Dalpra and Mica Galvão Have Never Competed at the Same IBJJF Major — The Sport's Two Best Active Gi Competitors Keep Missing Each Other
Dalpra has three world titles. Galvão has the Super Grand Slam.
Jun 24, 2026, 07:28 AM
Owen Jones Steps In for Kade Ruotolo — Short-Notice ONE Fight Night 44 Call Creates Opening for Rising Star
Owen Jones got the call. The kind of call that changes careers — a short-notice opportunity to step onto one of ONE Championship's biggest stages against Fabricio Andrey at ONE Fight Night 44, filling the spot Kade Ruotolo left open.
Jun 23, 2026, 04:52 PM
Gordon Ryan Retired But Never Stopped Critiquing Everyone Else's Losses
When Kaynan Duarte lost to Ruslan Abdulaev in an upset at the AIGA Global Champions League in June 2025, Gordon Ryan's immediate response was not sympathy or silence. It was: "You got owned by unknown obese man." Duarte, a two-time ADCC world champion with credentials Ryan had to
Jun 23, 2026, 04:21 PM
RAF 9 Lineup Proved UFC Athletes Only Need Wrestling When Punches Aren't Allowed
There was a moment in every combat athlete's career when they voluntarily walk into a format that removes their biggest advantage. RAF 9 in Arlington on June 1st was that moment for five UFC-credentialed fighters: Gable Steveson (UFC heavyweight, making his wrestling promotion de
Jun 23, 2026, 03:51 PM
Fight 2 Win Expands to Brazil for First Time — F2W 316 São Paulo Success Signals Geographic Shift
Fight 2 Win 316 took place in São Paulo in late May, marking the promotion's first event in Brazil. It wasn't a guest appearance or a visiting circus—it was F2W 316, a regular sequence event in the city that birthed the Gracie family legacy, redefined through the Miyao brothers,
Jun 23, 2026, 10:00 AM
John Danaher Says Winning Means Nothing If You Win the Wrong Way — Three Days Before IBJJF Worlds
John Danaher, the BJJ coach renowned for his analytical mind and aversion to direct sunlight, posted a philosophical gem just three days before the IBJJF World Championships kicked off. That "winning doesn't mean anything if you win the wrong way." Oh, John.