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Category Archive: BJJ News

KVRA ‘Haka’ Gi Under Attack from New Zealand Rugby for Use of Trademark

    New Zealand Rugby Federation are ordering a KVRA, a Brazilian company to remove a fern from a BJJ Gi being marketed globally online. The “haka kimono” features the fern and...

Watch: Mariusz Pudzianowski’s One Punch KO of Rolles Gracie

      Five-time World’s Strongest Man winner Mariusz Pudzianowski‘s faced Rolles Gracie at KSW 31 on Saturday. Pudzianowski landed one of the hardest punches ever seen...

Great Resource: TrackmyBJJ.com now Available 100% FREE

    NOW FREE OF CHARGE. Track my BJJ is a first-of-its-kind website that tracks your BJJ training much like a calorie-tracking website. It has some pretty nifty features like pie charts, a...

Chris Weidman Moved to Tears During Interview

    UFC middleweight champion faces Vitor Belfort this weekend. Weidman spoke to MMAFighting.com‘s Ariel Helwani about his early years in MA, when he was just 2-0, was injured and was...

Palhares: ‘I look forward to shaking Jake Shields’ hand – or rather his foot’

    Jake Shields is next in line for a  title shot at World Series of Fighting welterweight champion Rousimar Palhares. The former Strikeforce middleweight champion defeated former UFC...

UK: Woman Puts Sexual Attacker to Sleep with Triangle Choke Learned at Self Defense Class

    Cheltenham, England, A woman defended herself from a sexual attacker by using a triangle choked that she learned in a self defense class. Mark Willis, 39, attacked the woman as she was...

Great Britain Basketball Team Captain Competes in BJJ

    Great Britain basketball star Andrew Sullivan has competed for the first time in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the British Open last weekend. Sullivan, 30, has played close 100 times for...

Guilherme Mendes Retires from Competition at the Age of 26

    Guilherme Mendes is a four time Brazilian Jiu Jitsu world champion at the black belt level. Guilherme along with his brother Rafael are 2nd degree black belts under Ramon Lemos and...

Watch: TOP BJJ & Grappling Matches of 2015 – Part 1

    The Top BJJ & Grappling matches from the first half of 2015 featuring the best grapplers in the world from the best grappling organisations such as Metamoris, Super Boa 8, IBJJF,...

Roger Gracie on Return to Jiu-Jitsu Competition: ‘If I Don’t Come Back Now It’ll be Too Late’

    Fighting Lifestyle UAE’s BJJ analyst Ricky Rout caught up with 10 x world champion, ADCC champion and professional Mixed Martial Artist Roger Gracie during his visit to Team Nogueira...

Fastest Submission in MMA History: 4 secs, Polish MMA Fighter

    Tommy Allen vs Konrad Jaskiewicz – Contenders #11 Konrad Jaśkiewicz is a Polish MMA fighter based in the UK. With this submission, he now holds the world record for fastest...

Five Invitational PPV Event Promises Epic Line Up: Biggest Names in BJJ (Men & Women)

    Five Grappling is preparing a massive professional Jiu-Jitsu invitational which offer equal prize money for men and women! For the moment the fight card hasn’t been finalised but...

Erberth Santos Involved in Massive Brawl at Competition, DQ’d, Woman Kicked in Face

    1 week after placing third at the Copa Podio Heavyweight GP, rising star Erberth Santos competed at the CBJJE Mundials in Sao Paulo (A smaller federation than IBJJF). In the open class,...

NJCAA National Champion Wrestler Sentenced to 60 years for Spreading HIV

    Michael Johnson, a former student of Lindenwood University and former NJCAA National Champion Wrestler, has been accused of knowingly exposing more than 30 of his sexual partners to...

2015 IBJJF Worlds: Find Out Who Has Registered So Far

    Monday May 18th is the final deadline for all registrations for the 2015 IBJJF World Championships. Most of the big names at black belt have already registered but some major names...

2015 ADCC List of Competitors: Find Out Who Will Compete in the World’s Biggest Grappling Tournament

  The biggest and most prestigious submission wrestling tournament in the world, the ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Championship) will be held in Brazil in 2015. The last...

JDS, Royce Grace & Demian Maia Analyze Weidman vs Belfort

    Weidman and Belfort will fight for the UFC middleweight championship on May 23 at UFC 187 in Las Vegas. 3 of Brazil’s most famous popular MMA fighters talked to Portal do Vale...

Copa Podio Revelation Victor Honorio on IBJJF Worlds, His Wrestling Base & GFTeam

    Brown belt under GFTeam’s Julio Cesar, Victor Honorio was the breakout star at last weekend’s Copa Podio Heavyweight GP. Honorio fought on the same level and even better...

BJJ Purple Belt Switches to GJJ Academy & Starts from White Belt

    Popular Blogger MegJitsu (Check out her blog megjitsu.com) recently wrote an article where she talked about ‘How to Change BJJ Schools’. Up until recently, Meg had been...

Watch: Ronda Rousey Throws Host of ‘Good Morning America’

    Ronda Rousey has a new book coming out on May 12. The book is called My Fight / Your Fight and she is currently doing the rounds of the media to promote it. She was featured in article...

Ronda Rousey on Difficult Childhood, Father’s Suicide & Vicodin Habit

    Ronda Rousey was born in Riverside County, California, the daughter of Ron Rousey and AnnMaria De Mars (née Waddell). Her mother had a decorated Judo career and was the first American...

Ronda Rousey’s Message for her Social Media Haters

    Ronda Rousey on social media and Twitter, her new book, and performance enhancing drugs in MMA / UFC. Ronda has this to say about her large contingent of internet haters:   I never...

Babalu: ‘Sonnen Showed Zero Jiu-Jitsu’

    Chael Sonnen and Renato Babalu Sobral competed in Metamoris 6 where they had an uneventful draw. Sonnen spent most of the match in Babalu’s guard. Babalu and Sonnen already fought in...

Ken Shamrock Wants to Rematch Royce Gracie, Insists on Royce Wearing a Gi

    MMA pioneer Ken Shamrock will be facing Youtube street fighting sensation Kimbo Slice at Bellator 138 on June 20th. Shamrock says that he also plans to rematch Royce Gracie and he wants...