Fight to Win returned to Miami on Friday for its first-ever all-female card. In the main event, Team Atos representative Rafaela Guedes edged three-time IBJJF world champion Ana Carolina Vieira to earn the Fight to Win no-gi lightweight belt. The rest of the card was filled with top-tier world champions,
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Two more top jiu-jitsu competitors are set to make their ONE Championship debuts. According to a source that spoke to Grappling Insider, Jessa Khan will face Amanda “Tubby” Alequin at ONE 159 on July 22. The non-title match is slated for one, 10-minute submission-only round and will be contested in
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As 2021 winds down, Grappling Insider will be recognizing those athletes that made the biggest impact, had the best performances, and found the most success this year. The women’s no-gi scene in 2021 saw veterans surpassed by newcomers as a handful of high-level grapplers pulled ahead of the competition. When
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At Fight To Win 186 on Friday, October 29, no-gi world champion and Fight To Win champion Elisabeth Clay will take on European Open champion Thamara Ferreira for the Fight To Win lightweight no-gi title. The match was announced via the promotion’s Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post
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Fighting prodigy and MMA prospect Erin Blanchfield has been promoted to BJJ Black Belt by coach Karel “SIlver Fox” Pravec. Blanchfield was just 18 years old when she earned a championship title at EBI 12 as a purple belt back in 2017, on the strength of wins over Livia Gluchowska,
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On Friday, July 30, Fight To Win will return to action with a submission-only grappling card in Phoenix, AZ. In the main event, Josh Cisneros and Kennedy Maciel will meet in a rematch of one of the year’s best matches so far this year. Lower on the card, top competitors
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We are now less than a week away from Fight to Win 174 in Atlanta, GA, and the promotion has announced a match-up between two of the best grapplers in the world, as Atos representative Lucas “Hulk” Barbosa will square off with Aaron “Tex” Johnson. Also, two-division Fight to Win
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One of jiu-jitsu’s most accomplished active competitors is set to make her MMA debut in July. Multiple-time IBJJF world champion Talita Alencar will compete in MMA for the first time when she meets Staci Vega in a strawweight bout at Titan FC 70 on Friday, July 2. Alencar “is posed
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One of the best prospects in all of MMA is (again) scheduled to make her UFC debut. After her short-notice Octagon debut fell through, EBI champion Erin Blanchfield is now scheduled to fight Sarah Alpar in a flyweight fight at UFC 266 on September 4. A location has yet to
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One of the year’s most intriguing match-ups is set to go down this Saturday at Fight to Win 171. In the main event, grappling phenom William Tackett will take on seasoned veteran Vagner Rocha in a no-gi submission-only match. The card also features a pair of title matches, as well
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