Garry Tonon Going Down A Weight Class – Expects to Fight Next at 155 lbs
Sep 12, 2018BJJEE
Garry Tonon is currently 2-0 in MMA. For his debut and subsequent match up Garry Tonon elected the welterweight division – he fought at 170. If we look at his grappling career he also...
Renzo Gracie Teaches the Broomstick Takedown That He Showed in The Airport Earlier This Year
Sep 11, 2018BJJEE
Renzo Gracie returned to action last month against Yuki Kondo in OneFC and in it he worked a takedown technique that he had demonstrated to Brandon Vera months beforehand. Here he was waiting for his...
Is Paulo Miyao Getting Another 2 Year Suspension from IBJJF?
Sep 10, 2018BJJEE
Paulo Miyao tried to skirt rules once again as he signed up for UWW Grappling World Championship representing Brazil. However in doing that he appears to have sidetracked his own career,...
Miyao Brothers Set To Represent Brazil in UWW Grappling Worlds
Sep 07, 2018BJJEE
Grappling has great many rulesets. One prominent federation to hold Grappling competition is the United World Wrestling. Interestingly this is one ruleset famous for allowing knee reaps and for a...
UFC Working On B.J. Penn – Ryan Hall Bout for November or December
Sep 01, 2018BJJEE
BJ Penn isn’t quit done with MMA just yet…. ESPN’s Ariel Helwani is reporting that the UFC is working on a featherweight bout between the two world class grapplers: BJ Penn and Ryan...
Powerlifting Champ Chad Smith on Dropping in with Danaher Death Squad & How He Syncs Powerlifting and BJJ training
Aug 29, 2018BJJEE
350lbs Powerlifting Champion Chad Wesley Smith competed at Jiu Jitsu Worlds. IBJJF Novice (White Belt) Worlds is in the books. Took 2nd in the Ultra-Heavy Division. Won here by Americana but lost in...
Jiu-Jitsu Medalist Arrested during Bahrain Political Unrest Starts Hunger Strike
Aug 23, 2018BJJEE
A brazilian jiu jitsu competitor in Bahrain has first declared a hunger strike in solidarity with a fellow prisoner. According to bloodyelbow report: Mohamed Mirza, who medaled for Bahrain at the...
McGregor Flying In Wrestling Olympic Champ Jordan Burroughs to train for Khabib
Aug 13, 2018BJJEE
It’s looking like McGregor is prepping for Khabib’s wrestling in the best way imaginable. MMA insider Mario Saunders of the Las Vegas Post reported that the UFC has hired 6x world...
Logan & Jake Paul Looking To Transition To MMA & Want To Face CM Punk
Aug 09, 2018BJJEE
Youtube superstar brothers Logan and Jake Paul have more than 28 million subscribers on the video channel and have been all over the news with the outrageous pranks. The older brother, Jake Paul ran...
Khabib Casually Drops By To BJJ At North Cal Academy
Aug 06, 2018BJJEE
Khabib Nurmagomedov has been the center of attention lately with his pending fight with Conor McGregor around the corner. While Conor McGregor has been steadily working alongside Dillon Danis...
Biggest Kids Tournament in Europe Coming To Slovenia: Gymnasium Euro Cup
Aug 02, 2018BJJEE
In the past Gymnasium Cup broke through different frontiers. Now they’re at it again! The biggest kids Brazilian Jiu-jitsu tournament in Europe is coming to Slovenia on October 6th 2018! The...
Renzo Gracie Hit the Broomstick Takedown That He Showed in The Airport Earlier This Year
Jul 30, 2018BJJEE
Renzo Gracie returned to action against Yuki Kondo in OneFC and in it he worked a takedown technique that he had demonstrated to Brandon Vera months beforehand. Here he was waiting for his luggage to...
Garry Tonon Weighs In On New MMA Match: Fans Can Expect A Little More Confidence, More Sense of Direction
Jul 26, 2018BJJEE
Garry Tonon made his mma debut earlier this year. Garry Tonon Showcases Heavy Hands in A TKO Debut Victory in MMA Phenomenal MMA debut from @Garry_Tonon at @ONEChampionship! Wins via tko in the 2nd...
Black Belt Urges Fast tracking of Jiu-jitsu for Asian Games 2018 application
Jul 20, 2018BJJEE
Back in 2015 we reported of The UAEJJ and JJIF action plan with a goal to push the drive towards the ultimate dream of including Jiu-Jitsu in the Summer Olympic Games, starting with Asia and the...
Jiu Jiteiros in Quebec Demand Government Legalize Our Sport
Jul 18, 2018BJJEE
Quebec has long had an issue with jiu jitsu. We first wrote about it a while back. In February 2017 the issues first started: This Friday at 6:00 PM, an official complaint was launched to the SPVM....
Study of Demian Maia’s Takedown Tactics
Jul 16, 2018BJJEE
Even though Demian Maia has been on a losing streak it’s hard to argue with his dominance in the octagon. The Brazilian ace keeps on being one of the hardest fighters to book fights for in...
Olympic Wrestling Gold Medalist Stops Armed Terrorist With Takedown
Jul 16, 2018BJJEE
Grapplers are universally known for their braveness which sometimes comes in handy when faced with dangerous real life situations. Who can forget the case of US airman and BJJ practitioner Spencer...
Bixente Lizarazu, Football World Cup Champion, is a BJJ Black Belt
Jul 16, 2018BJJEE
Bixente Lizarazu, the former left back of French national football team that won the world cup in 1998, has been training Jiu-Jitsu for the since 2009. Lizarazu has also competed twice even winning...
A Lower Belt Tapped You, Now What?
Jul 14, 2018BJJEE
Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter cascao vital and runs Cascao Evolution BJJ out of Las Vegas nv. The belt ego is a real thing. No blue belt minds tapping to a purple belt,...
Why Do No-Gi Only Guys Refuse To Train Gi But Gi Guys Often Do Both?
Jul 11, 2018johnmoris
In Jiu-Jitsu, you rarely see Gi practitioners who refuse to train No Gi, but the large majority of “NoGi only” practitioners literally hate the Gi and never train in it. Why is that?...
Satoshi Ishii Looking To Become a Croatian, Wants To Coach Cro Judo
Jul 06, 2018BJJEE
Balcan is known for a good level of judo. But looks like thing will hit another level as Satoshi Ishii is looking to get a croatian citizenship in order to teach judo and to help the croatian judo...
Competitor loses Grappling Match at ACB via KO
Jul 02, 2018BJJEE
ACB had a much buzzed about edition of the event over the weekend. However while results of the main event were fairly predictable what nobody could’ve predicted was a random knock...
White Belt Enters All Ranks Absolute And Leg Locks His Way To Gold – in staggering 3 Minutes
Jun 25, 2018BJJEE
Leglocks have been at the center of the bjj zeitgeist for quite some time. Cases like this are just why. Competitor named James Hunt had an easy time finishing a blue and a purple belt in Australian...
Iowa Hawkeyes Wrestler Shot In The Knee In Accidental Shooting
Jun 21, 2018BJJEE
Knee injuries are every grappler’s worst nightmare – so imagine how Iowa Hawkeyes Wrestler Sam Stoll felt after he was accidentally shot in the knee. According to press story report:...
