Submission Underground 15 is right around the corner on June 21st and it sees the promotion’s favorite grappler, Craig Jones, return to attempt to extend his unbeaten promotional record. At Submission Underground 13, Jones did what Gordon Ryan could not do, and heel hooked Vinny Magalhaes. In keeping with his
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In the Jiu Jitsu community, we seem to make a big deal over self defense. This is understandable, as Jiu Jitsu rose to prominence with the claim that it was the most effective martial art. The Gracie challenges and the early UFC marketed Jiu Jitsu as being highly effective in
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For many of us, Jiu Jitsu is a coping mechanism or a chance to improve ourselves, what we turn to to help us deal with hard times. When the very nature of the challenge we face means that most of us can’t train, it can leave a lot of us
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After a run of largely lackluster cards, the UFC is finally delivering a solid card for UFC Brasilia. Especially for a fight night, there are a number of very promising bouts. As this card might well have been cancelled completely due to Coronavirus concerns, we should count ourselves lucky. More
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This Saturday UFC 248 will go down in Paradise, Nevada. Headlining the card is Israel Adesanya v Yoel Romero, where the champion Adesanya defends his Middleweight title for the first time. Adesanya is a fascinating figure in MMA. As a former elite-level kickboxer, he is perhaps proving that the age
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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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It seems that Caio Terra has stumbled upon a formula from his last public beef with Gordon Ryan: offer up a bunch of money for a challenge match. This time, it isn’t on his own behalf, but on behalf of his student, Mikey Musumeci. Like Terra, Musumeci is a small
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On the 8th of February, Flograppling will host their first ever event: “Who’s #1?” The main goal of the event is to showcase some less well known talent in the lower belts with fifteen superfights. That, and hopefully to give us a solid idea of who’s #1, or at least
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No matter when you start BJJ, No one has the same expectations. Some have trained something else before, like wrestling or Judo. There are those who are combat sports fans or have done their research ahead of time. And some have no idea what they’re walking into. When I started
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After his amazing performance at Polaris 12, we were all expecting great things from Tommy Langaker. We were not disappointed. Tommy Langaker played a very relaxed game for most of this match, looking almost like he was rolling in the gym. This may just be due to his cerebral, technical
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