View the full card line-up for Who’s Number One (WNO): Brianna Ste-Marie vs. Mayssa Bastos, which takes place on Friday, November 11. WNO is set for its first-ever women’s main event match, as ADCC silver medalist Brianna Ste-Marie will take on multiple-time IBJJF world champion Mayssa Bastos. View this post
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ADCC silver medalist Brianna Ste-Marie will take on Mayssa Bastos in the first-ever women’s main event match in Who’s Number One (WNO) history. The upcoming WNO card has seen some shuffling. The November 11 event originally featured a main event title match between current WNO light heavyweight champion Pedro Marinho
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John Danaher and Craig Jones both recently discussed issues that led to the breakup of the Danaher Death Squad (DDS). The never-ending saga continues. In 2021, top BJJ coach John Danaher announced that the team he led, the eponymous “Danaher Death Squad,” was splitting up. Shortly thereafter, core team members
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FloGrappling has announced the full main card for the next Who’s Number One (WNO) event, headlined by a light heavyweight title match between current champion Pedro Marinho and challenger Giancarlo Bodoni. WNO will return on Friday, November 11 with a six-match main card featuring a number of the best no-gi
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The dust is settling from the 2022 ADCC World Championships. One of the top teams at that event was The B-Team. Led by Craig Jones, the Austin-based squad of professional grapplers had an impressive seven men competing across all male weight classes. Now a little over a week after the
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The 2022 ADCC World Championships take place on September 17-18, live from Las Vegas, NV. Ahead of the big tournament, Grappling Insider will be previewing each division. Read a preview of the men’s 66 kg. division here, the 77 kg. division here, the 88 kg. division here, the 99 kg. division here, the 99+ kg.
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The 2022 ADCC World Championships take place on September 17-18, live from Las Vegas, NV. Ahead of the big tournament, Grappling Insider will be previewing each division. For the first time since 1998, the 66 kg. division at the ADCC World Championships won’t see a returning champion, as 2019 gold
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We are less than three months away from the ADCC World Championships, and the men’s 66 kg. division is now full. On Friday, the ADCC announced that returning 77 kg. ADCC medalist Garry Tonon will drop down to compete at 66 kg., making him the 16th and final competitor in
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Combat Jiu-Jitsu Worlds 2022: The Lightweights took place on Sunday, June 5. In the opening round of the tournament, B-Team representative Damien Anderson scored one of the most brutal knockouts we’ve ever seen in combat jiu-jitsu, as he “slapped” Adrian Madrid completely unconscious with a pair of palm strikes directly
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Few (if any) competitors have climbed to the top of submission grappling faster than Nick Rodriguez. In 2019, he earned silver at the ADCC World Championships as a blue belt after training in jiu-jitsu for just over a year. On Wednesday, Rodriguez was promoted to brown belt by his coaches
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