Marcelo Garcia highlight reels are never hard to come by, his career was typified by fans one elite grappler after another falling victim to what is probably the best Butterfly Guard game that the world has ever seen. Garcia regularly over-achieved as one of the lightest men in the Absolute
Read moreBo Nickal has already lost to Gordon Ryan once at Third Coast Grappling 3 in a match contested under a hybrid ruleset that attempted to level the playing field between the 3 x NCAA Wrestling Champion and the BJJ Black Belt with three ADCC Gold Medals. It is worth mentioning
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UFC On ESPN 12 marks the ninth consecutive UFC event to take place without a crowd and the promotion is really getting into the swing of things now, especially with the first four Fight Island events right around the corner now. They’ve had to make use of an incredibly strict
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Fight 2 Win 145 took place in Dallas Texas as the promotion continued it’s fantastic run of recent results in the lone star state. Before the main event, Garry Tonon made a welcome return to the F2W stage as he made short work of Osvaldo Quexinho Moizinho with a slick
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It’s an unusual turn of events, but multiple-time UFC Tournament Champion Royce Gracie has announced via his official Instagram page that he has now become a reserve police officer for Pocatello Police Department in Idaho. Even the most casual of MMA or BJJ fans should need absolutely no explanation of
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It’s only been a few days since the Miyao brothers, Paulo and Joao, announced their intention to part ways with Unity Jiu-Jitsu and although they were originally rather cryptic about the reasons behind the separation, they’ve now gone into more detail to give fans an insight into the decision. Originally,
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Grace Gundrum v Danielle Kelly has just been announced for the new Jiu-Jitsu Overtime event on July 19th as 10th Planet’s teenage prodigy gets a huge step up in competition. The special match was revealed on the new promotion’s Instagram, shortly after they announced the sixteen competitors in the tournament
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We’re only less than two weeks away from Gordon Ryan’s next big superfight as he takes on Kyle Boehm at FloGrappling’s Who’s Number One? event on July 5th, but it looks as though the most successful American No Gi grappler in history and self-proclaimed No Gi GOAT is not content
Read moreLachlan Giles is one of the best leglockers in the modern game and realistically, one of the best all-round grapplers on the planet, here he shows us the best way to defend against the Single Leg X Sweep. While it’s not a guard that he uses all of the time
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Chael Sonnen’s Submission Underground 15 finished off the first truly packed weekend of professional grappling in months with the first results coming in for Fight 2 Win 144 as Lucas “Hulk” Barbosa defeated Rafael Lovato Jr. It was only twenty four hours later when Third Coast Grappling Kumite 2 took
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