Teenage standout Dorian Olivarez of The B-Team won gold at the Combat Jiu-Jitsu Worlds: The Bantamweights. The Combat Jiu-Jitsu Worlds: The Bantamweights took place on Sunday, July 30, and 17-year-old standout Dorian Olivarez took home the tournament title after an outstanding, four-win performance. A decorated high school wrestler and BJJ
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These are the five biggest takeaways from CJI 2, which took place on August 30-31, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The dust has settled on CJI 2. Almost exactly one year after the inaugural CJI captivated the grappling community with perhaps the most entertaining event in the sport’s history, CJI
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View complete results and video highlights from the second day of CJI 2, which took place on August 31, 2025. The second installment of the Cragi Jones Invitational concluded on Sunday, and one team of elite grapplers walked away with a $1 million grand prize. Also, the final of the
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View the results and highlights from the first day of CJI 2, which took place on August 30, 2025. The Craig Jones Invitational (CJI) returned to action for its second installment this Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. CJI 2 features an eight-team Quintet-style tournament
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Check out our preview of the Quintet-style team competition at CJI 2, set to take place on August 30-31, 2025, in Las Vegas. The second installment of the Craig Jones Invitational (CJI) is rapidly approaching. In addition to a four-woman, $100,000 tournament, CJI 2 will feature an eight-team, Quintet-style competition
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Mica Galvao will represent Team New Wave in the 77kg division at CJI 2. With CJI 2 rapidly approaching, Team New Wave has added one of the sport’s top pound-for-pound grapplers to its already formidable squad. On Friday, at WNO 29, decorated young phenom Mica Galvao announced that he would
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View results and highlights from AIGA Champions League: The Final Stage, which took place on June 28-29, 2025, in Kazakhstan. The final team-versus-team battles of the third season of AIGA Champions League took place over the weekend in Kazakhstan, and the event drew a number of the planet’s top grapplers.
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View a full and updated list of grapplers and teams competing at CJI 2 on August 30-31 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Following a wildly successful, blockbuster inaugural event in 2024, the Craig Jones Invitational (CJI) is set to return to action for its second event in late August 2025. View
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View results and video highlights from ADCC 2024, which takes place on August 17-18 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 2024 ADCC World Championships kick off on Saturday, August 17 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event features five 16-man divisions and three eight-woman divisions, as well as men’s
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The 2024 ADCC World Championships take place on August 17-18 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Grappling Insider will be previewing every division at the event. Out of every male division at ADCC 2024, the 66kg division is the only one to see no roster changes as a result of the Craig
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