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Jun 11, 2026, 03:53 PM
SUG 30 Went Down With No Pre-Fight Hype. Here's What Actually Happened.
Submission Underground pulled off one of the most audacious promotional non-announcements in grappling history. SUG 30 was scheduled for Saturday, May 18th in Florianópolis, Brazil—and as of Friday evening, May 17th, literally nobody outside the promotion knew who was fighting.
Jun 11, 2026, 03:23 PM
Kron Gracie Says His Father's MMA Advice 'Is Not Working.' The Most Decorated Gracie in History Is Getting Called Out By His Own Son.
Rickson Gracie's advice isn't working. The one actually eating punches inside the UFC cage.
Jun 11, 2026, 02:52 PM
When ADCC's Kraków Ticket Disaster Became a Case Study in Self-Sabotage
When ADCC's ticket sales numbers finally became impossible to ignore, the math told a story that no amount of spin could fix. The numbers were bleak enough that they deserved a second look — and they still are.
Jun 11, 2026, 02:22 PM
Kron Gracie Says Rickson Stopped Speaking to Him for Years Because He Used Boxing In MMA — The Gentle Art Family Was Not Gentle About It
Rickson Gracie built his reputation on one idea: jiu-jitsu beats everything. Against bigger men, against strikers, against wrestlers who didn't yet know what a closed guard could do to their arms.
Jun 11, 2026, 01:52 PM
When Demetrius Johnson Called It Quits on IBJJF Masters — 'My Life Doesn't Change If I Win Or Lose'
Demetrius Johnson dropped one of the most honest sentences anyone's said about competing in a gi tournament, and it's worth revisiting now that the dust has settled. "My life doesn't change if I win or lose." He meant every word of it, and the reasoning behind that statement reve
Jun 11, 2026, 01:21 PM
When Mica Galvão Dissolved BJJ College And Launched MJJ — A 21-Year-Old Forced To Rebuild After His Arrested Father's Charges
When the fallout from Melqui Galvão's arrest was still fresh enough to sting, his 21-year-old son Mica posted a clean graphic to Instagram and ended a 15-year project in two paragraphs. BJJ College, the team his father had built from the ground up, the team that had produced Mica
Jun 11, 2026, 12:51 PM
Gabriel Bonfim Defeats Belal Muhammad 50-45
Gabriel Bonfim didn't just beat Belal Muhammad on June 6 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas. All three rounds, all three judges: 50-45, 50-45, 50-45.
Jun 11, 2026, 12:21 PM
When Mica Galvão's Rebranding Lasted Exactly 96 Hours
Something happened at BJJ College that crystallized one of grappling's most persistent structural problems in real time. That's how long Mika Jiu-Jitsu lasted before it was put on indefinite hold.
Jun 11, 2026, 11:50 AM
How Mica Galvao Named His New Team After Himself—While Walking Away From One Named After His Father
The jiu-jitsu world watched something rare unfold: a clean organizational break, executed without the usual corporate apologies or half-measures. When Micael "Mica" Galvão announced he was leaving Melqui Galvão Jiu-Jitsu and launching Mika Jiu-Jitsu, the move wasn't just a name c
Jun 11, 2026, 11:19 AM
Diogo Reis's Return to Competition After Leaving Fight Sports Manaus
When Diogo Reis stepped into the ONE Championship cage for Fight Night 43 on May 15, he was doing something that looked routine on the surface but carried weight underneath it. He was defending his ONE flyweight submission grappling championship against Yuki Takahashi.
Jun 11, 2026, 10:49 AM
When Mackenzie Dern's Father Won Brasileiros Gold at 58 — Megaton Dias Took Master 7 Lightweight As João Miyao Claimed Master 1
A quiet milestone slipped past the main narrative of what the IBJJF circuit was building toward. On May 1, when the masters block of the 2026 Brasileiros rolled through Barueri, Wellington "Megaton" Dias—who had just turned 58 the previous October—stepped onto the mat and won Mas
Jun 11, 2026, 10:18 AM
Thug Trials 3 and the Lovato Jr.-Rocha Match That Finally Happened
pulled off something that had been floating around the grappling community's wishlist for years. On May 11th, three days after competing at a NAIA collegiate wrestling meet against athletes who were in middle school when he was winning ADCC titles, the 42-year-old showed up in Do
Jun 11, 2026, 09:48 AM
Mikey Musumeci Says IBJJF Rules Encourage Strategy Over Fighting — 'It's So Easy to Lose'
"Nobody actually wants to fight." That's Mikey Musumeci on IBJJF competition. Not a disgruntled blue belt venting after losing on advantages at a regional.
Jun 11, 2026, 08:45 AM
Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay
When this went down on April 25 at São Paulo's Ginásio do Ibirapuera, it seemed like a straightforward submission gone wrong. Matheus "The Monster" Araujo caught Anderson Nascimento in a rear-naked choke inside three minutes of Round 1 at Jungle Fight 149.
Jun 11, 2026, 08:15 AM
When Mica Galvao Killed Mika Jiu-Jitsu Before It Started — 'Became Completely Unviable'
Mica Galvao made a decision, then unmade it just as quickly. The gap between announcement and reversal was so compressed that Mika Jiu-Jitsu never even got a proper logo.
Jun 11, 2026, 07:45 AM
Chael Sonnen Reveals His Complete UFC PED Protocol
Chael Sonnen did something remarkable on his recent podcast: he didn't apologize for using performance-enhancing drugs during his UFC career. Instead, he documented exactly what he took, how much, and when he took it—described with the casual certainty of someone ordering off a m
Jun 11, 2026, 07:14 AM
Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night
That's all Bryce Mitchell needed to remind the combat sports world why we stare at our phones at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday waiting for preliminary fight results.
Jun 10, 2026, 10:41 PM
Steveson Shuts Down DC's Warning on Jones Coaching
Gable Steveson thinks Jon Jones is perfect. Not "good." Not "great." Not "an underrated technical mind." Perfect.
Jun 10, 2026, 10:10 PM
Georgio Poullas Arrested After Glass Table Incident
There's a particular kind of irony in a man who made a name for himself with the phrase "take me down, win $1,000" getting arrested for an incident involving someone going through a glass table. Georgio Poullas, the Australian grappler and BJJ entrepreneur who built a substantial
Jun 10, 2026, 09:40 PM
Bernardo Faria Defends Buchecha And Vieira After UFC Vegas — Not Failure' From The Only Two-Time Worlds Absolute Champ Who Never Tried MMA
The morning after Buchecha got two-punched into next week and Rodolfo Vieira got out-cardioed by an unranked light heavyweight, Bernardo Faria sat down to defend them both. It's a defensible defense.
Jun 10, 2026, 09:10 PM
Back When RAF 9 Went Down: A Sitting UFC Champion, An Olympic Gold Medalist, And A Hall of Famer All Showed Up In Arlington
2026, to be exact — it marked one of those moments in combat sports where you had to actually stop and process what was happening. College Park Center at the University of Texas at Arlington hosted RAF 9, and the card that night represented something the freestyle wrestling world
Jun 10, 2026, 08:39 PM
Caio Terra: 'It Messes With My Life' — Legendary Competitor Reveals Lasting Career Damage
Caio Terra can't brush his teeth. Not in a metaphorical "life is hard" way.
Jun 10, 2026, 08:09 PM
Rafael Lovato Jr. Won Freestyle Wrestling at 42 — Proof That Grappling Lineage Never Expires
just won the Freestyle Wrestling US Open at 42 years old. Not as a comeback story.
Jun 10, 2026, 07:36 PM
Twenty-Year-Old Crowned 'Most Dangerous Man In Grappling' — Still Hasn't Acknowledged It 50 Days Later
When BJJEE published "Why Andrew Tackett is the most dangerous man in grappling right now" on the 12th, it felt like a coronation. The piece laid out the case: elite cardio, submission-first no-gi game, constant pressure, a generational shift away from point-stalling.
Jun 10, 2026, 07:06 PM
Main Character JJ's Inaugural Invitational Handed Out Six Title Belts in One Night—And Exposed How Every Promotion in 2026 Is Playing the Same Game
When Main Character Jiu-Jitsu staged its first-ever Invitational event on May 3rd, the promotion made a decision that said everything about where regional grappling had landed in 2026: it took every divisional belt it had ever stamped into existence and threw them all onto a sing
Jun 10, 2026, 06:36 PM
When the UFC Booked Gable Steveson vs. 'The Snack Panther' — and Nobody Knew Whether to Laugh Yet
When Gable Steveson's long-anticipated UFC debut finally materialized, the promotion did something that felt almost too perfectly absurd to be real. They matched the youngest super-heavyweight Olympic gold medalist in history against a guy whose official fight nickname is "The Sn
Jun 10, 2026, 06:05 PM
Roosevelt De Sousa's 3-Year Ban For Meldonium—A Substance Banned A Full Decade Prior
The BJJ community got handed a piece of paperwork that nobody particularly wanted to think about too hard. USADA announced that Roosevelt Sousa, the 2025 No-Gi Absolute World Champion, would not compete in an IBJJF event until January 12, 2029.
Jun 10, 2026, 05:35 PM
Dana White Banned Dillon Danis From UFC 328. Danis's Response Was to Publish the Full Banned List.
The most logical response to a lifetime ban is to keep your head down. Maybe stay off social media for a few weeks.
Jun 10, 2026, 05:04 PM
Gordon Ryan Retired Four Months Ago. He'd Like to Tell You Who the Good UFC Grapplers Are Anyway.
Gordon Ryan can't train. His gut — destroyed by years of antibiotics fighting recurring staph infections — won't recover on any timeline he controls.
Jun 10, 2026, 04:34 PM
Khamzat Chimaev Turned Down Kyle Snyder, Asked For Bo Nickal Instead — And The UFC Already Said No
Khamzat Chimaev signed with Real American Freestyle, then spent the next month declining the one wrestler in the building he could actually face. His RAF debut was set for RAF 10 on June 13 at Chaifetz Arena in St.