Nick Ronan has officially won his place at the upcoming Polaris Absolute Grand Prix after fighting his way through a field of 32 competitors on a rainy Saturday in Bristol. Now that he’s made it through that first tournament, he get’s the chance to fight some of the best grapplers
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Chael Sonnen’s Submission Underground 11 has come and gone, after bringing us a night full of elite grappling, the full results are finally in. The event featured a number of high-profile bouts including an unusual headliner as Vinny Magalhaes teamed up with 10th Planet’s BJJ Fanatics Grand Prix Champion Kyle
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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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Nick “The Tooth” Gullo. The man, the myth, the legend. You quite possibly have never heard of him unless you are a hardcore UFC fan. But he is a very interesting character, with a colorful personal history which crosses paths with the sport of MMA. A personal friend of Dana
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Grappling Insider’s Louis Martin sat down with Tom Deblass to get his thoughts on one of the most important weeks in combat sports: ADCC
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The second Medusa female-only jiu-jitsu event took place on Saturday, March 12. Two new champions were crowned, as Sophia Cassella captured the EBI strawweight title, and Aislinn O’Connell won the combat jiu-jitsu (CJJ) bantamweight title. The card featured a pair of eight-woman tournaments — an EBI rules tournament at strawweight,
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Tom DeBlass is confident in his students, to say the least. Over the past few weeks, DeBlass has watched as Dale Brown, the founder of Detroit Urban Survival Training (D.U.S.T.), has become a viral sensation for his self-defense videos that claim to “increase your survivability.” Within the grappling community, Brown
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The largest ever ADCC Trials event is set to go down this weekend. With approximately 800 total competitors registered, the ADCC East Coast Trials is scheduled for November 6-7. The complete competitor list has now been released, and features a number of North America’s top grapplers. Male East Coast Trials
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