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Category Archive: Articles

Ana Carolina Vieira Ecstatic Men and Women Were Equally Awarded at CBD Invitational

Black Belt CBD invitational was definitely the most exciting gi event of the season. On the line was 30.000 USD – for each of the two categories male and female. In the end family Vieira came...

New Seattle Seahawk Defensive End Jacob Martin Does BJJ To Get In Shape For NFL

New Seattle Seahawk Defensive End Jacob Martin has been in tremendous shape his entire life. After all he has to be as Defensive End of one of the strongest teams in the NFL.   Recently Martin...

Leandro Lo Abandons Helm Of NS Brotherhood

Leandro Lo made his name as a part of Cicero Costha team. Until 2015 – when he founded his own team NS Brotherhood. A team he commemorated in a huge tattoo on his chest:     View this...

CM Punk Compares Himself To Ben Askren: Not Fighting Logan Paul

CM Punk was a huge joke back when he got signed to the UFC. Everyone was seriously questioning the move – however in spite of his fighting record, now standing at 0-2, Punk proved to be a...

Paulo Miyao Suspended For 3 Months Due To Competing Before Prior Suspension Ran Out

USADA just revealed Miyao has accepted another suspension. Miyao was caught competing at the UWW Grappling World Championship for Brazil prior to the organization realizing Miyao was actually...

Gracie Shares Unbelievable Clip Of Systema Self defense

Some martial arts instructors and schools actually believe that they are capable of offering an effective set of self defense skills, while actually that is far from reality. Even famous martial arts...

(Video) Jiu Jitsu Stacks The Odds In Police Officer’s favor in spite of A Huge Weight Difference

Through the years we’ve often talked about cop jitsu and how huge of a difference it makes when we see police officers be able to handle themselves properly and without excessive force in...

‘Jacare’ Wants Title Shot Says He Deserves more Than To Be Ranked 5th

Jacare just put on quite a show. The seasoned veteran managed to outclass Chris Weidman and knock him out. “Romero defeats me in a robbery and fights for the belt. Gastelum wins a split decision, a...

‘Judo’ Gene LeBell retires from MMA judging following Liddell vs. Ortiz 3

‘Judo’ Gene LeBell has been a legend of the sport longtime. The 86 year old Gene is a judo & bjj black belt. He decided to end his time as a professional MMA judge following...

Rodolfo Vieira Analyzes Return to Jiu-Jitsu and Possible Match Against Gordon Ryan

Rodolfo Vieira recently returned to the jiu jitsu scene for a limited occasion. The CBD black belt invitational with some impressive financial prizes. There he proved once again what made him a...

Gracie Breakdown: Giving a Boxer a Reality Check

A European man showed up at a Gracie CTC in Osaka, Japan recently and made a unique request – he needed his arrogance in check. We kid you not! In the short discussion beforehand he reveals...

CJJ Adds Josh Barnett To Heavyweight Tournament Featuring Vinny Magalhaes, Gordon Ryan And Fabricio Werdum

Eddie Bravo has really stepped it up. After several months of low visibility shows he’s planned quite a combat jiu jitsu spectacle for February. In addition to the power house that are Vinny...

Kayla Harrison Books New Fight – Judoka Set to Fight on New Years Eve

Kayla Harrison is steadily building her mma career. 2x Olympic gold medal winning judoka will face Moriel Charneski in a lightweight bout at PFL 11 on Dec. 31 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square...

AJ Agazarm: Dillon Danis Was Plucked From Obscurity With No Real Accomplishments in BJJ to be an Entourage For McGregor

AJ Agazarm is quite happy with his new Bellator deals and he’s not afraid to show it off. To announce his signing he guested on the Ariel Helwani ESPN show and gave quite a few memorable...

John Danaher Gives Extensive interview on Getting into Jiu jitsu: Within 2 Weeks I’d Strangled 6 People Unconscious At Work

John Danaher makes every word count. This is why it was especially interesting to see him give an extensive interview to Bernardo Faria. In it he explained how he started doing bjj. Apparently during...

Judo Gold Medalist Satoshi Ishii Promoted To BJJ Black Belt – Will Compete At Nogi Worlds

Ishii is a Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist noted for winning a gold medal in Olympic Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China, a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games and two...

Augusto Frota’s Triumphant Return To Competition After 12 Year Break & Neck Surgery

Returning to competition after a long break is always a tricky task. To be a successful competitor, you often need to have competition rhythm but sometimes willpower and high level technique is more...

Naga and Shooto Moves to Smoothcomp

Naga and Shooto, two companies with very long traditions are now hosting their events on Smoothcomp.com and thereby joining hundreds of organisers world wide that make up the Smoothcomp community to...

Roger Gracie Shares Details For A Stealthy Baseball Choke Setup

Roger Gracie is known as the GOAT of Jiu-Jitsu, with his 10 black belt world titles and his recent submission victory over Marcus Buchecha which cemented his legacy. Gracie is known as the master of...

Hawaii MMA fighter Arnold Berdon III arrested on suspicion of 2nd degree attempted murder

Recently UFC’s Rachel Ostovich was hospitalized with some major injury following what was reported to be a domestic violence incident. Honolulu police launched a second-degree assault...

Gordon Ryan Set to Make Combat Jiu Jitsu Debut Against Fabricio Werdum

Gordon Ryan has been absent from Eddie Bravo events for a hot minute still when it came down to someone accepting his challenge offer – Bravo quickly scooped up the match up for his platform....

Nick Diaz Set to Fight Jorge Masvidal – Masvidal a Betting Favorite over Diaz

Reports indicate UFC fan favorite Nick Diaz would be returning to the Octagon after f 4 year layoff to face Jorge Masvidal at UFC 235. Shortly after that report, BetOnline released betting lines for...

Rafael Lovato Jr Set For a Title Shot: Gegard Mousasi Fight In January

Rafael Lovato Jr is riding high on his latest Bellator victory – against a seasoned grappling expert John Salter. “He definitely made it a war and brought out the best in me,” Lovato Jr....

AJ Agazarm has signed with Bellator MMA

AJ Agazarm will be continuing his MMA career at one of the more prestigious organizations around. For months and months Agazarm could mostly be seen only accompanied by Diaz brothers and now it looks...