We are now just a few weeks from Fight to Win 173 on June 11, and the card is beginning to take shape. Recently, the promotion announced a black belt match-up between Marcos Tinoco and Yago de Souza. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fight To Win
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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. 2021 saw plenty of rookie black belts making their mark at the highest levels of the sport. In gi jiu-jitsu, one rookie black
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Competing in his first IBJJF Pan Championship as a black belt, 20-year old Art of Jiu-Jitsu product Tainan Dalpra took home gold in a loaded middleweight division. Dalpra defeated elite black belt competitors Ronaldo Junior and Yago de Souza in the final two rounds of the tournament. In the first
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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 black belt middleweight division is one of the best the tournament has to offer, with a number of elite competitors vying for gold. View the
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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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Paulo Miyao has announced that he is departing Unity Jiu-Jitsu which he co-founded in New York City in December 2014.
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Fight 2 Win 138 is coming up this weekend and so far looks like it’s going to be the best event that the American promotion has ever put together. Fight 2 Win normally has one or two big matchups at the top of the card but they’re really pulling out
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