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Category Archive: Articles

Street Fight Jiu-Jitsu Where Both Fighters Train

    Majority of street fight footage online can be characterized as “What happens when a jiu-jiteiro meets an untrained opposition” but this case is very different. Both...

The Wire’s Idris Elba Had An Impressive Kickboxing Debut

    Idris Elba made his name staring in the golden age of HBO classic “The Wire”. By many accounts the show is number one on the list of best shows of all time but he might be...

Felipe Pena Weighs In On Biggest Mistakes Fighters Make In Training

    Felipe “Preguica” Pena is a bjj black belt from Gracie Barra academy in Belo Horizone Brazil. For years he’s been considered one of the biggest rising stars in sport...

EBI 9: Featured Players, Countdown and Expectations

    EBI 9 is fast approaching. The 9th edition of the event will be focusing on the light heavyweight division. For this event EBI will be returning to the LA set Orpheum Theater. The...

Fight To Win Pro 17 Results

    Latest edition of Fight To Win Pro just concluded. In the main event Joao Gabriel Rocha was facing James Puopolo. Puopolo started the fight coming off strong and asserting himself in...

Ryron Gracie Teaches Kimura’s Grandson A Kimura

Ryron Gracie: On October 23, 1951, my grandfather fought Masahiko Kimura. Exactly 65 years later, I was introduced to Kimura’s grandson, Andrew. Since Andrew has no martial arts experience, I...

Polaris 4 Recap & Matches We’d Love To See In Future

    Polaris Pro just concluded it’s 4th event! A truly thrilling spectacle had plenty of actions and a couple of submissions to boot. The first fight of the card was between Tom...

Running The Gauntlet: Rite of Passage Or Physical Abuse

    Written by Iva Djokovic, Psychology graduate and BJJ practitioner at Kimura Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Serbia.   Running the Gauntlet is a tradition that more and more...

Polaris Pro 4 Results

Press refresh to get results in real time. When: Saturday, October 29. Prelims: 16:00, Main Card 18:30 (UK time) Where: Lighthouse, Poole, UK FIGHT CARD (18:30 UK TIME, PPV through Polaris website)...

Werdum Hurls Insults At Reebok, Suspended From UFC broadcast Duties

    Several days ago former UFC heavyweight champion decided to protest against Reebok on social media.   Não sou genérico, sou @nike desde criancinha! #chupa #mishuevos #reebok...

Gordon Ryan Avoids Arrest For Scaling Street Poles In England

    Garry Tonon has been preparing for his fight against Gilbert Durinho Burns at Polaris with his controversial pupil, Gordon Ryan. The two have made the trip to England accompanied with...

Carlson Gracie Jr Challenged by Professional Wrestler, Enters Ring

  Carlson Gracie Jr. has just made a winning return to competition after an 18 year break. He won his first match at the world master by choke vs Joseph Monahan of Gracie Elite Team! Carlson...

Mackenzie Dern Reveals She Was Already Approached By UFC

    Mackenzie Dern is a rising star and by many accounts the grappler to watch in MMA. The bjj champion is just 23 years old but her youth doesn’t necessarily mean she’s not...

BJJ Black Belt and Actor Scott Caan Shares His Go-To Submission – AmeriCaan

  Hollywood actor Scot Caan has been a black belt in bjj under Marcus Vinicius from February of this year. It’s public knowledge he’s been training for around 15 years having started...

Five Grappling Welterweight Pro Invitational set To Feature Huge Names

    First ever Welterweight Pro Invitational is off to a big start and all of the participants aren’t even announced yet! The event will be taking place December 3rd at Lincoln High...

Ralek Gracie Says Trying to Defend Himself Would Be Dishonorable

  Rener and Ryron Gracie have sent an email  statement last week to Gracie Certified Training Center (GCTC) Owners warning them not to do business with their brother Ralek. Ryron and Rener...

Mario Sperry’s Thoughts on Sport Jiu-Jitsu’s Effectiveness for Self Defense

    Mario Sperry is a 3 Time World Jiu Jitsu Champ, 6 Time ADCC World Champ, MMA veteran. Born in a wealthy family and coming from a military college, where he practised sports like...

St-Pierre Denies Possibility of Fighting Michael Bisping

    A world of confusion is surrounding the career of Georges St-Pierre lately. The one time welterweigh champion and legend of the sport announced his contract with the UFC is null but the...

Ralek Gracie Signs With Bellator MMA

    Ralek Gracie has spent plenty of time in the news this week. Following feud with brothers who urged business partners to distance themselves from Ralek he’s made a deal to appear...

Keenan Cornelius’ Newest Guard: Krab Guard

  Jiu-Jitsu is limitless. Keenan Cornelius is alreday credited as being the inventor of the Worm and Mantis guard. Here is what Keenan has been working on recently: The KRAB Guard which is a...

Garry Tonon vs Lucas Lepri. 1/4 finals -77kg ADCC 2015

  At ADCC 2015, Multiple world BJJ champion Lucas Lepri showed the recipe to shut down and defeat Garry Tonon’s dangerous leglock game. The two champions faced in the quarter finals:...

Adem Redzovic Shows Great Guillotine Trap Set Up At Seminar in Bosnia

  Adem Redzovic is a third degree BJJ black belt and the co-owner of Team Redzovic in Chicago, one of the biggest BJJ Academies in the USA. Adem Redzovic conducted a series of seminars  in...

Robert Drysdale On Crossfit , Best Way To Drill, Instructors That Don’t Roll

Photo: Leon Sandoval www.heyleon.com, Instagram @heyleonmedia and Facebook.com/heyleonmedia   BJJ world champ and LEGACY FC MMA champ Robert Drysdale talks to Some Kind Of Fighter after his...

Crossfit World Champion Wins First Major BJJ Competiton

Jason Khalipa has been in the world of sports for quite sometime. Under his belt is 2008 Crossfit Championship as well as other accomplishments. But a couple of months back he got into jiu-jitsu...