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Category Archive: Articles

UFC Fighters Before & After TRT Ban & USADA PED Testing

In the post 2 years: two major events contributed in a power shift in the UFC roster: TRT On February 27, 2014, the Nevada State Athletic Commission banned the use of Testosterone Replacement Therapy...

Gracie Breakdown – Victim Of Attack Defends Himself With BJJ

    Gracie Breakdown’s latest episode is here! This time it features a street fight video entirely focused on jiu-jitsu. Right away you can tell the person attacked knows how to...

Demian Maia Secure In His Title Shot, Talks Possible GSP Match

    Following Maia’s latest brilliant finish against Carlos Condit he shrugged off a possible match with Georges St-Pierre. He was focused on getting a title shot. As is, the chance...

John Danaher Tells The Story Of Inventing D’Arce Choke

Origin of moves is often quite hard to determine in grappling. BJJ, Judo, Wrestling and Sambo are all cousins of sorts. As such the moves are often named according to the person who popularized them...

Who Are The Most Educated Grapplers?

  Anyone who has ever grappled will tell you how rewarding it is. What they often neglect to mention is -how all- consuming it is. These athletes compete in some of the most challenging...

Ronda Rousey’s BFF Announces Unexpected Pregancy

  Marina Shafir is a MMA fighter with a professional fight record of 1 wins, 2 losses and 0 draws. She is also Ronda Rousey best friend and best training partner. They have known each other...

Roberto Cyborg Abreu: Strength Matters!

    Cyborg is a celebrated competitor from the Carlson Gracie lineage whose arguably biggest feat was securing the ADCC 2013 Absolute Championship. In addition to this Cyborg won World...

UFC Fighter Max Holloway Recommends Jiu-Jitsu To Lose Weight

    Max Halloway is amid promotion tour for UFC Fight Night set in Manila, Philippines and he’s passing some sage advice.   To the untrained eye it might look like I’m in a...

World Champion Dominyka Obelenyte Explains Why She Left Marcelo Garcia

    Dominyka Obelenyte is 21 years old. In that time she’s accomplished becoming a world champion several times at different levels including being world champ at the black belt level...

Eddie Bravo Announces: EBI Will Have Striking As Early As Next Year!

    Eddie Bravo has long inspired to create a style of jiu-jitsu that’s dangerous from the back but would withstand tests in MMA surrounding. This idea has been in his mind as far...

UFC Fighter Josh Samman Pronounced Dead

    Following a week long coma, Josh Samman has passed away. Samman was 28 years old and had been in a coma at Memorial Hospital in Hollywood. The police arrived at the apartment following...

Ottavia Bourdain Was Just Promoted To Brown Belt

    Ottavia Bourdain has just received some great news. Her coach, the infamous John Danaher made the decision to promote her to brown belt level!   A huge congratulations to...

Kennewick BJJ Instructor Charged With Molesting a Student

    Another rotten apple has been revealed. A Kennewick teacher who owns Richland martial arts school has been accused of inappropriate contact with a girl and trying to set up a secret...

Guillotine on Foot By Leo Vieira

    Considered one of the best Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athletes of the 90s, Checkmat leader Leo Vieira is also an excellent teacher. Here he is at his school in Signal Hills, California, and...

Cop Uses Judo Throw On Troublemaker

  This incident happened at a street parade at the 2015 St. Patrick’s Day parade in Buffalo, with over 80,000 people in the streets. The troublemaker had a jacket with ‘Saint I Ain’t’...

England Rugby Team CrossTrain Judo

    England’s Rugby Team tried something very different before the autumn internationals!   Eddie Jones’ Red Rose tried their hand at martial arts in order to prepare for...

Rafael Lovato Jr To Headline Legacy FC 62 Against Coleman

    Another edition of Legacy Fighting Championships scheduled for November 11th in Oklahoma. The middleweight title is on the line! Champion Rafel Lovato Jr will put his belt on the line...

Jose Aldo: There’s Nothing That Would Keep Me In UFC At This Point

    Jose Aldo has been adamant – he wants out of the UFC. He might even retire from MMA. Not even a McGregor match could change his mind. Indeed it’s been a whirlwind year for...

Dillon Danis Makes Triumphant Return At NoGi Pans

    It has been an exciting year for Dillon Danis. Following a coaching stint with UFC’s Notorious McGregor Danis conquered the double gold at 2016 IBJJF No-Gi Pans with several...

What’s It Like Rolling with Buchecha, Rodolfo & Leandro Lo in the Same Day

Photos and video: William Burkhardt of BJJ Pix   This amazing camp happened this year for the second time. Many people didn’t believe that such elite stars could come together in one mega...

Questionable Call: Keenan Cornelius vs Tarsis Humphreys

    Tarsis Humphreys placed first yesterday at LA BJJ PRO in the category Adult Male Black Belt Heavy Weight Champion. But the triumph was overshadowed by a bit of cunning action in his...

Polaris 4 Finds Replacement for Denny Prokopos in Nathan Orchard

    Few days ago the entire bjj community was stunned when 10th Planet prodigy Denny Prokopos announced he would be retiring from the competition scene and bowing down from the already...

AJ Agazarm vs Vagner Rocha Score Overturned Following Viral Kick Footage

        Fight to Win officials came under fire yesterday after the video of Vagner Rocha Sparta Kicking AJ Agazarm went viral.   A video posted by FloGrappling...

Vagner Rocha Spartan Kicks AJ Agazarm off the Stage

Was the ref wrong not to DQ Vagner after this kick?   A video posted by FloGrappling (@flograppling) on Oct 2, 2016 at 11:06am PDT There was plenty of bad blood between AJ Agazarm and Vagner...