Chael Sonnen’s Submission Underground (SUG) returns on May 23 with an event featuring tag team jiu-jitsu, a women’s number one contender bout, a match-up between MMA and UFC veterans Carlos Condit and Jake Ellenberger, and SUG champion Mason Fowler defending his title against Kyle Chambers. View this post on Instagram
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Chael Sonnen’s Submission Underground Grappling 8 brought some big names together for a night of exciting matches. In a weekend that was tough for MMA legends, Diego Sanchez continued the trend and fell to Jake Ellenberger via quickest OT escapes (EBI overtime rules). Craig Jones had a fantastic showing, furthering
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On Sunday, Submission Underground (SUG) returned to action with SUG 23: Mason Fowler vs. Kyle Chambers. In the main event, Mason Fowler submitted Kyle Chambers to retain his SUG absolute championship. Lower on the card, long-time UFC veteran Carlos Condit picked up a quick heel hook submission over fellow UFC
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Craig Jones is pretty much a guaranteed fixture at SUG events these days as he looks to take his promotional record to 9-0 against Vagner Rocha in the main event of Submission Underground 14 on May 31st. The last of his appearances came against Vinny Magalhaes at SUG 13, where
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Vinny Magalhaes appeared to suffer a catastrophic knee injury in a losing effort against Craig Jones at Submission Underground 13. After refusing to tap to a pretty secure Heel Hook effort, Magalhaes’ leg was contorted into horrific angles and shockingly, he actually continue grappling for a short while until he
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Chael Sonnen appears to be the only major grappling promoter who has decided to plow through the Coronavirus epidemic by scheduling Submission Underground 13 for April 26th as he has just announced the main event, Craig Jones v Vinny Magalhaes. It’s worth noting that most other major promoters, like Fight
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Submission Underground 12 has come and gone this past weekend, leaving us with our only taste of professional BJJ since Coronavirus became part of the popular lexion. It’s remarkable that the event ever even went ahead when you really consider all of the restrictions in place: The event was forced
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Current Submission Underground (SUG) champion Mason Fowler might have the best gig in grappling. Since winning the SUG title last year, Fowler has successfully defended his belt six times with wins over Craig Jones, Vinny Magalhaes, Richie Martinez, and others. Importantly, Fowler is competing and getting paid regularly — something
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Chael Sonnen’s Submission Underground is back for event number 11, with a lineup of MMA fighters and grapplers. Most interesting of course is the main event, which will be a tag team match between Craig Jones and Nick Rodriguez on one side and Vinny Magalhaes and Kyle Boehm on the
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EDIT: Click here for a full and updated preview of the event. Chael Sonnen’s baby is back. Submission Underground 11 is the promotion’s first event of 2020 and boy, is it a big one. SUG is bringing something different to professional grappling with a headline bout of Tag-Team grappling. Nick
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