The most prolific submission-only grappling promotion in the country keeps on rolling, as a pair of high-level black belt match-ups were announced for Fight to Win 169, scheduled for Saturday, April 10. The promotion announced that Danaher Death Squad representative Oliver Taza will meet Gabriel Almeida, and in the main
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On April 3, Evolve Ur Game (EUG) promotions will hold an eight-man gi tournament showcasing some of the best lighter-weight grapplers in the world. Recently, EUG announced that Thiago Macedo and Shane Jamil-Hill have been forced out of the event; replacing them will be Johnny Tama and Kennedy Maciel. View
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Fight to Win 167 is just around the corner, and the promotion has announced four black belt matches featuring some the sport’s most accomplished competitors. Here’s what we know so far about the top of Fight to Win 167: Kennedy Maciel vs. Gabriel Sousa: The current Fight to Win lightweight
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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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There appears to be a new player in the competitive jiu-jitsu scene. Evolve Ur Game (EUG) promotions has announced an eight-man grappling tournament scheduled for April 3 with a $10,000 winner-take-all cash prize. At the time of this writing, the promotion had also announced the first two entrants to the
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Fight to Win continues its breakneck schedule this weekend with Fight to Win 163 on February 13, live from Dallas, TX. The promotion has announced a trio of high-level matches for the event, including a lightweight gi title match between champion Kennedy Maciel and challenger Diego “Pato” Oliveira. View this
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Geo Martinez vs Kennedy Maciel is the co-main event for WNO’s final event of the year on December 11th. Both grapplers are coming off fresh wins. Maciel recently won the No Gi Pans and also secured an arm bar victory over Junny Ocasio at Fight 2 Win 156. Martinez scored
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FloGrappling announced it’s final match-up for WNO’s fifth show. The number one ranked featherweight, Geo Martinez will meet number one ranked lightweight, Kennedy Maciel at 150 lbs. The bout will be the co-main event for the card. Martinez is a 10th Planet black belt and ADCC veteran. He recently won
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Fight 2 Win produced another great show over the weekend (November 7th) in Philadelphia. In the main event of F2W 156, Kennedy Maciel, who was the 2019 ADCC silver medalist and son of ADCC champion, Rubens Charles, took on the F2W undefeated featherweight champ, Junny Ocasio. Ocasio has not only
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This weekend’s F2W 150 event (Aug. 14) brings back the best medium heavyweight in the history of IBJJF competitions, Romulo Barral. Last weekend saw a number of BJJ stars get after it under the F2W banner for Fight 2 Win 149. You can check the results by clicking here. The
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