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Author Archive: BJJEE

Gordon Ryan Pens Touching Tribute To Garry Tonon Thanking Him For Years Of Support

    Gordon Ryan has always been a vocal supporter of friend and mentor Garry Tonon but recently he wrote a very revealing story detailing just how deep their friendship goes, and how much...

Is Closed Guard Still effective or is it Outdated?

Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter cascao vital and runs cascao bjj hard knocks out of Las Vegas nv. Watch any of the early UFC’s and you see Royce Gracie submitting people...

Werdum Set To Do Outreach In LGBT Community After Latest Slur Outburst

    Werdum came under fire for the first time earlier last month when he was commenting on some Cormier reactions to Jones doping scandal. Werdum Slams Cormier, Hurls Gay Slur At Him  ...

Shamrock to Face Kazushi Sakuraba under grappling rules At Rizin

  Kazushi Sakuraba has entered an interesting challenge. He’s set to grapple Frank Shamrock at Rizin. Friday it was announced that Kazushi Sakuraba will face Frank Shamrock in a grappling...

Things Got Heated Between Werdum & Tony Ferguson During Recent Interview

    Fabricio Werdum has a very long list of accolades in both bjj and mma worlds. To boot Werdum is quite known as being outspoken and not caring who gets hurt in the process, as evidenced...

Eddie Bravo Invitational 13th Edition Set For October 22nd

    13th Edition of the Eddie Bravo Invitational has been set for 22nd October. The unique sub only event returns following an all female edition of the event. And this post ADCC edition is...

Gordon Ryan: Our Team Are Pretty Much The Only People That Don’t Dope

  Gordon Ryan has been through a tremendous transformation this year. While much of the spectators are skeptical he credits much of his transformation to his friend model/body builder Nathalie...

Anthony Bourdain Is In The Shape Of His Life At 61 Thanks To BJJ

    Celebrated chef Anthony Bourdain took up bjj when he was 58. Thanks to bjj he slimmed down 30lbs/14 kgs. Bourdain has so far trained in New York, Scotland, Los Angeles, Hungary, Miami...

Why Intermittent Fasting Works

    Intermittent fasting is a method of dieting that has gotten a bit of attention in the bjj community lately with excellent endorsements by both Edwin Najmi and Tom DeBlass. Intermittent...

Royce Gracie’s Son Had An MMA Debut

  UFC Hall of Famer and current Bellator MMA brand ambassador Royce Gracie has his name forever written in the history of MMA.  And now it looks like one of his kids is ready to take the same...

John Danaher and Eddie Bravo Exchange Congratulations Upon ADCC Success

    Danaher’s student Gordon Ryan was arguably among the biggest victors of the ADCC. Next to Ryan, Felipe Pena, Craig Jones, Vagner Rocha and Karppinen definitely put their best food...

Instructor Accused Of Sexual Assault and Child Abuse At Winnipeg Jiu Jitsu Academy

    Another rotten apple has bee unearthed. A Winnipeg firefighter and jiu-jitsu studio owner has been arrested after 3 girls aged 12-18 accused him of incidents of sexual abuse spanning...

Gordon Ryan Announces He’s Transitioning to Gi Competition Scene

    Gordon Ryan achieved exactly what he set out to. This ADCC proved he’s one of the most dominant grapplers of today – affirmed by his Gold in the -88kg division and silver in...

Danaher Death Squad Burries the Hatchet With Dillon Danis

    ADCC brought together many of bjj’s biggest names of today. While things usually only get more heated when Marcelo Garcia outcast Dillon Danis is around this was not the case....

Gordon “King” Ryan Shares Reflections on ADCC: Never Believe Your Own Hype

    The testy 22 year old has been making quite a splash since his surprise win at EBI Absolute. But finally he has the grappling pinnacle – the ADCC to back it up. Love him or hate...

How Judo Helped Kid With Learning Difficulties Turn His Life Around

    Another inspirational story has come to light recently – how judo transformed the life of Thomas Kyle Jones and turned his life around. The 18 year old from Swansea has faced...

ADCC 2017 Final Scores, Victor Crowned

    One more ADCC is behind us. An exciting can’t miss weekend of grappling featured plenty of surprises and some excellent performances. The absolute division had much to offer with...

Absolute Brackets Revealed Plus Over 99 Winner & Superfight Results

    More exciting stuff is up ahead. Brackets for Absolute division of ADCC 2017 have been released in addition to superfight Leo Vieira vs Chael Sonnen getting a victor and Buchecha vs...

ADCC Crowns Division Winners, 1st American Champion of 88kg Division

    In a trully exciting series of performances Gordon Ryan may have just earned his self titled nickname King. The 88kg giant managed to secure a submission on bjj prodigy Keenan Cornelius...

Girls Finals, Renzo Superfight Plus the Bronze Medalists Revealed

    More exciting matches are ahead but most of 3rd place fights have been finished. As for 3rd place finishers, Tonon lost his medal in a dominant performance by Vagner Rocha who had him...

Tonon Loses, Ryan Advances – First hour Of Day 2 of ADCC and Who advanced to Finals

    ADCC day 2 is well underway, the latest developments have Keenan Cornelius eliminating Craig Jones on points after a dominant performance. In the other half of that bracket Ryan has...

Mackenzie Dern Out in First Round Against Karppinen

    Mackenzie Dern has been eliminated from the ADCC thanks to some crafty strategy by Karppinen. Karppinen took the lead for 2-0. Mackenzie swept for 2-2 however Karppinen soon got on...

ADCC 2017: Huge Upset Leandro Lo Out In Round 1

    In an incredibly surprising turn of events Leandro Lo finished his ADCC journey rather quickly. After getting very close to a heel hook tap – Craig Jones went all out and in the...

ADCC Brackets are out! First Round: Nicky – AJ Agazarm, Gordon – Dillon Danis and more!

   Cobrinha vs Zhakshylyk Witkowski vs Yoshida Miyao vs Andrejczuk Geo Martinez vs Wink Tanquinho vs Shimoda Montovani vs Erno AJ Agazarm vs Nicky Crelinsten vs Renier  Lepri vs...