Gabi Garcia Targeting A Belt in 2018, Likely Fight In July – Out of IBJJF Worlds 2018
May 22, 2018BJJEE
Gabi Garcia recently had a rare joy – to fight someone close to her size and age. The over 100 kilogram MMA fighter and former bjj world champion is looking ahead in future after submitting the...
Mackenzie Dern Misses Weight
May 11, 2018BJJEE
UPDATE: To recap: Mackenzie Dern is looking to make her 2nd UFC fight a quick submission. The Arizona born Mackenzie Dern is looking to make good on her heritage in Brazil on a female led card. Dern...
Diving Deep Into Rickson and Carlos Jr Rivalry and the IBJJF duel with Gracie Federation
May 01, 2018BJJEE
Rickson Gracie founded the JJGF – Back in 2014 the first ever event under the ruleset took place 2014 Vulkan California Open . The idea of this unique system was to focus more on submission...
Men Try To Grab Eve Gracie and Miserably Fail
Apr 26, 2018BJJEE
Self defense is an integral part of bjj but it’s quite often under taught because in the instagram friendly age it just doesn’t look as fun. But most extremely useful things aren’t...
Gabi Garcia on Doping Accusations From New Opponent: We’re Both Getting Tested & We’ll See Who Wins
Apr 19, 2018BJJEE
Gabi Garcia has had a very interesting year. The jiu jitsu phenom struggled through a bout of depression after back to back fights scheduled against the elderly but in a sign that tides...
To Stand & Pass or Stay on the Knees & Pass?
Apr 17, 2018James Duscio
Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter cascao vital and runs cascao bjj hard knocks out of Las Vegas nv. Often times during a jiu-jitsu battle, the majority of the time is...
Gabi Garcia Set To Fight In May Against Russian *Age Appropriate Boxer
Apr 16, 2018BJJEE
Gabi Garcia has been booked to duel middle aged former pro wrestlers back to back in the past year. One match she was meant to have against someone age appropriate and size appropriate ended up a no...
Gi Review: Dokebi White Metal Gi
Apr 08, 2018BJJEE
Dokebi white metal Gi review – by Mike Mella Dokebi is a European/Korean Gi company. They are the preferred rash guard manufacturer of John Danaher, where he wore the Dokebi Jungle rash guard...
Does Sambo S*ck? An Answer To Chael Sonnen
Apr 02, 2018BJJEE
Guest post by Mark Lajhner, founder and chief instructor of Kaizen MMA Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. He is a Judo black belt (Serbian national team member), BJJ purple belt and multiple medallist...
Krav Maga Instructor Calls Gracies ‘McDojo Senseis’ For Self Defense Technique
Mar 25, 2018BJJEE
Last year, a woman who was jogging in East River Park near Jackson Avenue when a man accosted and dragged her by the hair into a nearby amphitheater. Once there, he s*xually assaulted her, stole her...
The Best Position & Strategy For MMA Ground Fighting
Mar 21, 2018BJJEE
Guest post by Mark Lajhner, founder and chief instructor of Kaizen MMA Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. He is a Judo black belt (Serbian national team member), BJJ purple belt and multiple medallist...
Rodolfo Vieira Talks Adapting BJJ To MMA
Mar 19, 2018BJJEE
BJJ and ADCC World champion Rodolfo Vieira had an MMA fight against the German-Serbian BJJ black belt Alexander Neufang recently at Berkut. Vieira started out training at...
Werdum Went Pro-Wrestling At Today’s UFC Weigh-Ins
Mar 17, 2018BJJEE
All the WWE hype might be getting to Fabrizio Werdum. The former ADCC and UFC champ found himself displaying some WWE antics Ronda Makes Surprise Debut At Royal Rumble Werdum vs...
Bruno Malfacine signs with Brave – Debut Set for April
Mar 13, 2018BJJEE
Bruno Malfacine is 9x IBJJF World Champion. On top of that he’s been prepping to venture into mma for quite some time. In May of last year he announced: Very happy to finally be...
3 Techniques John Danaher bannes At His Classes
Mar 12, 2018BJJEE
John Danaher is widely considered one of the best contemporary bjj coaches around. Through the years he’s developed some of his own personal tweaks. Now in spite of being...
Tegumi: The Traditional Wrestling Art from Okinawa
Mar 08, 2018BJJEE
Guest post by Brandon Hetzler who is a Gracie Jiu-Jitsu black bet under Rickson & Kron Gracie, and creator of Jugoshin Ryu JuJutsu. It is believed by many masters that tegumi was probably...
Why Practicing Breakfalls Should Be One Of The First Things You Learn In BJJ
Feb 28, 2018BJJEE
Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a martial art dedicated to fighting on the ground. But regardless of this all competition matches start standing and in addition to it in any street type scenario...
Here’s How To Build A Game Plan For Your First BJJ Competition
Feb 27, 2018BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve Vacation. The Evolve Vacation Program offers travelers the rare opportunity of a lifetime to combine a tropical vacation under the sun with authentic training under World...
EBI 15 Pokes Serious Holes In 10th Planet System – Full Results Inside
Feb 18, 2018BJJEE
Yesterday when Eddie Cummings announced he would be out of the competition many heads turned. This seemed to be a great time for the home team to take the title home – with the...
Rodolfo Vieira Will Face Eccentric Serbian-German Fighter in 3rd MMA Bout
Feb 13, 2018BJJEE
BJJ and ADCC World champion Rodolfo Vieira has an incoming MMA fight and now in a new organisation. After confirming his contract signing with Absolut Championship Berkut, an organisation that has...
From Mafia Boss’s Daughter to Turkey’s First Female BJJ Black belt: Melo’s Story
Feb 09, 2018BJJEE
Last week, Asena Melike Ağansoy of Corvos MMA in Istanbul, Turkey made history when she was promoted to black belt in BJJ, becoming Turkey’s first ever female BJJ black belt. Her instructor, Burak...
New Grappling Tournament, QUINTET: 5-member Teams battle it out in a “Winner Stays On”
Feb 06, 2018BJJEE
It seems like every day a new grappling competition promotion is coming out. However there’s something quite unique about this latest development – it’s meant to put...
Turkey Crowns Its 1st Female BJJ Black Belt in Emotional Ceremony
Feb 03, 2018BJJEE
Asena Melike Ağansoy of Corvos MMA in Istanbul, Turkey made history this week when she was promoted to black belt in BJJ, becoming Turkey’s first ever female BJJ black belt. Her instructor,...
BJJ & Luta Livre Black Belts Show Different Turtle Escapes in BJJ & Luta Livre
Feb 02, 2018BJJEE
Luta Livre seems to be the forgotten son of the grappling arts. Its “big brother” rival Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has had the tremendous success that we all know, and has changed the martial arts world...
