Elite teenage competitor won gold at the 2023 IBJJF European Championships and was promoted to brown belt. Elite jiu-jitsu competitor Cole Abate is now one step closer to becoming a black belt. On Wednesday, the 18-year-old Art of Jiu-Jitsu product captured gold in the adult purple belt division at the
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He may hold wins over some of the best black belts in the world, and he may have already qualified for the 2022 ADCC World Championships, but in the eyes of the IBJJF, Cole Abate is not yet an adult competitor. That will change next week when the 17-year old
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Purple belts beware. Fresh off his first-place finish at the ADCC East Coast Trials, 16-year old jiu-jitsu phenom Cole Abate has been promoted to purple belt. Abate was promoted by Art of Jiu-Jitsu instructor by Guilherme Mendes. View this post on Instagram A post shared by FloGrappling (@flograppling) View this
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Cole Abate may be the 2021 breakout grappler of the year. Still just 16-years old and a blue belt, the Art of Jiu-Jitsu product has long been touted as one of the sport’s brightest prospect, but he fully arrived on the elite scene earlier this year when he defeated perennial
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Top gi and no-gi competitor Diego “Pato” Oliveira has officially joined the Mendes brothers’ Art of Jiu-Jitsu. The famed Art of Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Costa Mesa, California just added another world-class competitor. Recent ADCC bronze medalist and multiple-time IBJJF black belt world champion Diego “Pato” Oliveira has joined the elite
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View full results and video highlights from Who’s Number One (WNO): Brianna Ste-Marie vs. Mayssa Bastos On Friday, November 11, WNO returned to action with the first women’s main event in the promotion’s history, as recent ADCC silver medalist Brianna Ste-Marie took on multiple-time IBJJF world champion Mayssa Bastos. The
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View the full card line-up for Who’s Number One (WNO): Brianna Ste-Marie vs. Mayssa Bastos, which takes place on Friday, November 11. WNO is set for its first-ever women’s main event match, as ADCC silver medalist Brianna Ste-Marie will take on multiple-time IBJJF world champion Mayssa Bastos. View this post
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ADCC silver medalist Brianna Ste-Marie will take on Mayssa Bastos in the first-ever women’s main event match in Who’s Number One (WNO) history. The upcoming WNO card has seen some shuffling. The November 11 event originally featured a main event title match between current WNO light heavyweight champion Pedro Marinho
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FloGrappling has announced the full main card for the next Who’s Number One (WNO) event, headlined by a light heavyweight title match between current champion Pedro Marinho and challenger Giancarlo Bodoni. WNO will return on Friday, November 11 with a six-match main card featuring a number of the best no-gi
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The first day of the 2022 ADCC World Championships took place on Saturday, September 17, live from Las Vegas, NV. The day had a number of upsets, as returning champions Matheus Diniz and JT Torres both fell in the quarterfinals, while favorites Gordon Ryan, Felipe Pena, and Kaynan Duarte all
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