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BJJ World Champ Bernardo Faria Credits Wrestling For His Success

  2015 double gold World champion Bernardo Faria made history 2 weekends ago at the Pan as he became the first ever 3x world champion at absolute black belt. He submitted Leandro Lo in the...

Mackenzie Dern On How She Will Combine MMA & BJJ Career

  This weekend at the Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championships in California, Mackenzie Dern picked up another gold medal. She defeated Karen Borges at Featherweight. Despite her great success at black...

Mackenzie Dern Signs w/ Legacy FC, MMA Debut in July

  With BJJ still being considered an amateur sport, many sport BJJ competitors look to transitioning to MMA. Examples of current top MMA fighters that came from sport Jiu-Jitsu: Jose Aldo,...

Palhares Looking Jacked Ahead of Polaris 3 Match vs Tonon

  Garry “The Lion Killer” Tonon x Rousimar Palhares is going down at Polaris Pro 3, which will be held April 2 in the UK. Live tickets on sale here. http://goo.gl/OizbPe A picture from today...

Palhares Impatient For Polaris 3: ‘I’ll Finish Tonon’

  Garry “The Lion Killer” Tonon x Rousimar Palhares is going down at Polaris Pro 3, which will be held April 2 in the UK. Live tickets on sale here. http://goo.gl/OizbPe Garry Tonon is on a...

Epic Polaris 3 Jiu-Jitsu Invitational Card is Finalised

  Europe’s premiere submission only event, Polaris 3 Jiu-Jitsu Invitational is set to take place in Poole, England on April 2 and will be available on pay-per-view. Live tickets are on sale...

Marcus Buchecha Preparing For MMA Debut; Working on Striking

  3x World absolute champion Marcus Buchecha Almeida had announced last month that his transition to MMA would happen sooner than many people expected. Buchecha underwent surgery last August in...

Rose Namajunas On Why a Submission is Better Than a KO

  Rose Namajunas is an Lithuanian-American MMA fighter who is currently competing in the Women’s Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. She is a purple belt in BJJ and...

Buchecha On Rodolfo Vieira’s Move to MMA: ‘He’ll Do Very Well’

  The lack of strong sponsorship and the desire for new challenges is pushing more and more top Jiu-Jitsu athletes to move to MMA to further consolidate their careers beyond the financial side....

Watch: Mackenzie Dern Training Boxing For MMA Debut

  With BJJ still being considered an amateur sport, many sport BJJ competitors look to transitioning to MMA.Examples of current top MMA fighters that came from sport Jiu-Jitsu: Jose Aldo,...

Mackenzie Dern on MMA Move: ‘To Be Woman Version of Werdum’

    With BJJ still being considered an amateur sport, many sport BJJ competitors look to transitioning to MMA.Examples of current top MMA fighters that came from sport Jiu-Jitsu: Jose Aldo,...

Mackenzie Dern Announces Transition to MMA

  With BJJ still being considered an amateur sport, many sport BJJ competitors look to transitioning to MMA.Examples of current top MMA fighters that came from sport Jiu-Jitsu: Jose Aldo,...

Rodolfo Vieira Names TOP 5 Best BJJ Players That Have Transitioned to MMA

    BJJEE correspondant in Brazil Kamil Tkacz interviews 5x BJJ world champion Rodolfo Vieira. He talks about his path to winning ADCC 2015, Alexander Trans moving to GF Team, who has the...

Buchecha Almost 100% Recovered, Focused on MMA in 2016

    3x World absolute champion Marcus Buchecha Almeida had announced last month that his transition to MMA would happen sooner than many people expected. Buchecha underwent surgery last...

Rodolfo Vieira To Pursue MMA Career with American Top Team

  5x jiu-jitsu world champion at black belt, Rodolfo Vieira has been thinking about the idea of transitioning to MMA for a few years already. After winning his first ADCC title this year in the...

Top 5 Jiu-Jitsu Competitors That Would Do Great in MMA

    With BJJ still being considered an amateur sport, many sport BJJ competitors look to transitioning to MMA.Examples of current top MMA fighters that came from sport Jiu-Jitsu: Jose Aldo,...

Garry Tonon Anounces MMA Debut

Grappling sensation Garry Tonon is one of the top names in professional Jiu-Jitsu, and he has announced his plans to transition to MMA in 2016. He made the announcement on his Facebook page and also...

‘Sponge Bob’ Medeiros On Training Talented Emirati Youth & Top Black Belts in the UAE

  Fightinglifestyleuae.com caught up with Helder ‘Sponge Bob’ Medeiros, a 6 x world champion and top level BJJ coach. He is student of CheckMat founder Leo Vieira and top UFC...

Pederneiras Hits Back at Schaub’s ‘Brazilians Are Doping’ Statement

    UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub on his podcast ‘The Fighter and the Kid’ sees a link between the recent decline of some Brazilian UFC fighters (Anderson Silva, Vitor Belfort,...

Schaub: ‘Brazilians Not Doing Too Well Since New PED Testing’

    UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub on his podcast ‘The Fighter and the Kid’ sees a link betwen the recent decline of some Brazilian UFC fighters (Anderson Silva, Vitor Belfort,...

Gilbert ‘Durinho’ Burns Lists His Top 5 BJJ Fighters in UFC- Some Very Surprising Choices

      The MMA debut of BJJ world champion Gilbert Durinho Burns was in January 2012. The BJJ star is responsible for sharpening the ground game of Vitor Belfort. He is a big fan of the...

Flavio Canto Names Top 5 Fighters That Best Use Judo in MMA

    Flávio Canto is a Brazilian judo champion and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, who won the bronze medal in the – 81 kg division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He...

BJJ Gets a TV Deal in North America: Copa Podio on Fight Network

    Historic news for Jiu-Jitsu: Copa Podio has signed a partnership with Fight Network, the biggest fight channel on Canadian television. From now on, all Copa Podio events will be...

Jake Shields: ‘I’m going to take Palhares’s knee out’

    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...