Henry Cejudo Set To Be An Executive Producer Of A Hollywood Movie
Oct 07, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Henry Cejudo is an Olympic champion in wrestling and a former UFC champion who’s been retired since May 2020, when he was KO’d by Dominick Cruz. He’s eyed a comeback since then,...
Travis Stevens:’If You Did Judo with Me, We Probably Wouldn’t be Friends. If We Did BJJ, We Would Be.’
Sep 23, 2021BJJEE
Judo and BJJ: Similar Jacket, different rules and mentality. Judo training will vastly improve your Jiu-Jitsu and vice versa. However, both sports have their own set of rules and have different goals...
UFC Headliner Says Former NBA player with Wrestling Background “Whooped’ Him in Training
Sep 18, 2021BJJEE
Former UFC light heavyweight challenger Anthony Smith will fight Ryan Spann in the UFC Vegas 37 Main Event. A convincing win for Spann would make him a challenger for the title. In the fight week,...
Wrestling World Champion Bo Nickal To Make His MMA Debut On September 24
Sep 17, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Wrestling U-23 world champion & NCAA All American wrestler Bo Nickal has just made a huge leap! The Penn State alumnus will make his MMA debut in an amateur fight against David Conley, on...
Here’s How To Find The Best Martial Arts Program For Kids
Sep 06, 2021BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
UFC Legend Matt Lindland Promoted to BJJ Black Belt by Renzo Gracie
Aug 27, 2021BJJEE
Matt The Law Lindland is a reired former UFC middleweight champion, Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling silver medalist. Lindland fought primarily in the Middleweight division for the UFC, Strikeforce....
Olympic Wrestling Champion Gable Steveson On Why He Didn’t Meet Dana White In Vegas
Aug 27, 2021BJJEE
Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Gable Stevenson and UFC president Dana White were supposed to meet to discuss a potential collboration, but in the end it didn’t happen. In an interview with MMA...
Elderly Man Competes & Wins in Combat Catch Wrestling Against Much Younger Opponents
Aug 23, 2021BJJEE
This gentleman, Victor John Morton not only stepped out on the mats for Combat Catch Wrestling at the Billy Robinson Classic, Catch Wrestling Championship but WON very tough matches! AT 56 YEARS OF...
Wrestling World Champ J’Den Cox Explains Biggest Takedown Mistakes That BJJ Athletes Make
Aug 22, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Be honest with us… Do you feel as if your takedowns somewhat suck? That no matter how good your ground game is, that it isn’t enough to foreshadow your lack of wrestling skills? If the...
Khabib Nurmagomedov’s 7 BEST Wrestling & Grappling Tactics
Aug 20, 2021BJJEE
Khabib Nurmagomedov is famous for many things – one of them being a saying: “If Sambo was easy, it would be called jiu-jitsu” . Khabib Nurmagomedov is an undefeated Russian mixed martial artist...
How To Improve BJJ Guard Retention
Jul 05, 2021BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
Nicky Rod Wrestling with 2018 Wrestling World Champ J’Den Cox
Jun 28, 2021BJJEE
ADCC silver medalist Nick Rodriguez has taken the grappling world by storm. The division III wrestler only took up BJJ training 2 1/2 years ago, and in a record time reached the impressive silver...
Combat Wrestling: The Ultimate Grappling Tournament Format?
Jun 25, 2021BJJEE
Written by Ivan Miroslavov Dimitrov During the 90s in Japan, a gentleman with cauliflower ears and a thick neck, called Kiguchi Noriaki was wondering about a rule set, convenient enough for all...
Before He Started Training BJJ, Chael Sonnen Had Self-Promoted Himself to Black Belt
Jun 24, 2021BJJEE
Through the years many cases of self promoted jiu jiteiros were outed. While some excused themselves saying it was japanese jiu jitsu, a discipline they made out some outright owned it. Chael Sonnen...
Sambo, Kickboxing, & Muay Thai Receive Provisional Olympic Recognition by the IOC
Jun 21, 2021BJJEE
The FIAS (International Sambo Federation), WAKO, (World Association of Kickboxing Organizations) and Muay Thai Federation have finally obtained provisional recognition by the International Olympic...
You Can Be a ‘Creonte’ and Proud: Introducing ‘Matsurfing’
Jun 11, 2021BJJEE
I’ve left ExileMMA three times. Once at the end of uni, once when I left to do an internship, and most recently upon moving to London. I’ll be back to visit, of course, but I do think...
John Danaher On The Decisiveness of Jiu-Jitsu Submissions vs Judo & Wrestling
Jun 03, 2021BJJEE
Jiu-Jitsu coach extraordinaire John Danaher was recently a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast where they talked about life and more interestingly, about Jiu-Jitsu and the best way forward for it to...
Why Catch Wrestling Isn’t More Popular?
May 28, 2021BJJEE
On June 7, 2014, for the first time in 100 years on American soil, the sport of Catch wrestling was reborn at UCLA’s John Wooden Center. 14 catch wrestlers competed in seven wrestling matches as...
Can A BJJ Guy With No Wrestling Experience Be Good At Takedowns?
Apr 22, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
So you’ve been training BJJ for some time now, and you came to a frightening conclusion – your takedowns suck! But, luckily enough, you aren’t willing to let it remain that way…...
Andre Galvao Only Started To Learn Wrestling When He Moved to US; Explains His Formula For Takedown Success
Mar 18, 2021BJJEE
For the latecomers to BJJ and grappling in general, one aspect of the sport can sometimes prove itself to be even more difficult to understand and do well than jiu jitsu: wrestling. Most of the...
Mark Schultz, Olympic Wrestling Champ Needs Help To Restore His Teeth
Mar 14, 2021BJJEE
Olympic and 2-time World champion freestyle wrestler, Mark Schultz, whose life story was featured in the movie ‘Foxcatcher’ has been a Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Pedro Sauer for about 4 years....
Buchecha’s Opponent For His MMA Debut Just Had a Highlight Reel KO On Wrestling World Champion
Mar 09, 2021BJJEE
The winningest IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu champion of all time with 13 wins, Marcus Buchecha Almeida was set to make his MMA debut date set for his MMA on February 24th for One Championship in Singapore,...
Wrestling World Champion Bo Nickal Embraces Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in The Gi
Dec 27, 2020BJJEE
Wrestling under 23 world champion & NCAA All American wrestler Bo Nickal has finally made the plunge and embraced Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in the Gi. He took a picture at one of his training sessions...
WWE Pro Wrestler MVP wins Brazilian IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu World Championship
Dec 26, 2020BJJEE
You don’t often hear of WWE wrestlers training BJJ and much less competing in BJJ competitions. WWE’s MVP aka Montel Vontavious Porter competed last weekend at the 2020 World Master IBJJF...
