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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The UFC Fight Pass Invitational 8 goes down on October 10, 2024, and features a main event clash between Nick Rodriguez and Michael Pixley. The UFC Fight Pass Invitational (UFC FPI) is set to return to action this Thursday with a quality card packed with elite no-gi talent. In the
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Ffion Davies will square off with Morgan Black in a no-gi bantamweight match in the co-main event of ADXC 4 in Paris. The top pound-for-pound competitor in BJJ is set to return to action on May 18. That night, at Abu Dhabi Extreme Championship (ADXC) 4 in Paris, France, Ffion
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View results and video highlights from the second ADCC South American Trials, which saw 8 more athletes earn a spot at ADCC 2024. The second ADCC South American Trials took place on Saturday, March 9, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Eight competitors – five men and three women – punched their
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After winning gold at the gi Worlds and double gold at the no-gi Worlds, Ffion Davies is the 2023 Female Grappler of the Year. Ffion Davies came into 2023 widely regarded as the top pound-for-pound female jiu-jitsu competitor in the world, and she’ll start 2024 with that same distinction. Following
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Results of the black belt divisions from the 2023 IBJJF No-Gi Worlds, which took place on December 7-9 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The dust has now settled on the 2023 IBJJF No-Gi Worlds – the largest iteration of that event yet, with over 4,000 registered competitors. The black belt divisions
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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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