Nicky Ryan has set up an absolutely classic match at ADCC 2019. After beating Shane Jamil Hill-Taylor by decision in the opening round, Ryan goes on to face Paulo Miyao in the Quarter-Finals. The US Trials winner was an outside chance to win this year but if he can overcome
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Check out the full card lineup and preview of the IBJJF Absolute No-Gi Grand Prix, set for Thursday, February 29. This Thursday, February 29, the IBJJF will host an openweight eight-man no-gi tournament featuring some of the planet’s top BJJ competitors. The card will also feature several world-class gi matches.
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The 2022 IBJJF Pan-American Championships take place on April 6-10, with black belts competing on Saturday and Sunday. It is the first major North American IBJJF competition of the year, and has brought out most of the world’s top gi competitors. From young talent on the rise to established champions,
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After a 2020 that saw countless event cancellations due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, competitive jiu-jitsu and submission grappling returned with an essentially full schedule in 2021. In honor of the year’s best moments, FloGrappling has released a highlight video of what it deems the best 21 submissions of 2021.
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The 2021 IBJJF Pans take place from September 1, 2021, to September 5, 2021, with adult black belts competing on Saturday and Sunday. The men’s featherweight division is loaded with many of the best jiu-jitsu players in the world, and it will be a division to keep an eye on.
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Last week, Evolve Ur Game (EUG) promotions announced an eight-man grappling tournament scheduled for April 3 with a $10,000 winner-take-all cash prize on the table. The promotions has now announced all of the tournament participants. Here’s the complete roster for the EUG tournament: Matheus Gabriel: A Checkmat representative, Gabriel was
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The Spyder Invitational has packed up and shut up shop for the year. After bringing the promise of two stacked tournaments to Korea, they delivered on this promise tenfold. The event went off without a hitch and champions were crowned after some excellent performances all around. Some of the more
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The Spyder Invitational 2019 takes place this coming weekend and sees two different brackets running at the same time. With a -100kg and -76kg tournament being run, we’ll see two champions crowned at opposite ends of the weighing scales. The event takes place in Korea and will see some of
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One of the youngest talents that the ADCC saw this year was 18 year old Nicky Ryan. After an impressive run at the 2019 ADCC, Nicky beat Jamil Hill-Taylor and lost to the legend that is Paulo Miyao, (by only 1 point). He has already beaten the likes of Urijah
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ADCC 2019 is fast approaching and the line-up changes are coming in fast and hard. AJ Agazarm and Mikey Musumeci are both already out of the field and it has recently emerged that Cobrinha will be replaced by his son, Kennedy Maciel. Check out the full competitor list below: 1st
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