A championship match has been announced for Fight to Win 170. Masters middleweight champion Rafael “Formiga” Barbosa will defend his title against Atos representative Josh Hinger. The event is scheduled for April 17 and will air live and exclusively on FloGrappling. View this post on Instagram A post shared by
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There’s one rule that sets Fight to Win apart from most tournaments and grappling promotions: slams are permitted. At Fight to Win 163 on Saturday, Rafael “Formiga” Barbosa used a slam to finish his match against Johnny Souza. With the win, Formiga retained his Fight to Win middleweight masters championship.
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Fight 2 Win 136 has now left Los Angeles, California after putting on yet another in a long line of fantastic events. This event saw the first appearance of Kaynan Duarte since the news broke of his failure of a post-fight drug test. In the main event of Fight 2
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Fight 2 Win 136 comes to San Diego on 15th February and brings a stacked card, toppe by Kaynan Duarte v Vinicius “Trator” Ferreira. While Duarte has been in the news recently for failing a post-tournament drugs test and being banned from IBJJF events, he is still eligible to compete
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Fight To Win 180 goes down on Friday, August 6, live from Los Angeles, CA. In the main event, former Bellator MMA middleweight champion Rafael Lovato Jr. takes on three-time IBJJF world champion Gabriel Arges. Beyond that match, the card is stacked with elite black belt competitors, including Johnny Tama,
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Did you think we were doing an IBJJF Pans lower weight breakdown only? Well, think again. In the second edition of our IBJJF black belt Pans Breakdown: Middleweights, we are looking at the light-, middle- and medium-heavyweight divisions. As we said in the previous post, Pans are happening despite the
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Nogi Worlds is upon us once more, and as usual, there is an absolute abundance of competitors competing from blue belt through to black. The tournament will span four days, from the 12th to the 15th of December in Anaheim, California. There are far too many athletes competing to even
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It was a great night for Brazilian fighters at the UFC’s first international event of the year in Fortaleza, Brazil, at Centro de Formacao Olimpica on Saturday. A Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Fabio Gurgel, Demian Maia earned his 20th UFC victory on Saturday. He is perhaps most well known
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