Cleber Sousa spoke about his upcoming submission grappling match against Osamah Almarwai at ONE 166: Qatar. Cleber Sousa is ready to sell out for the submission in his sophomore appearance in ONE Championship. This Friday, March 1, the veteran black belt will take on 2022 IBJJF no-gi world champion Osamah
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Check out the full card lineup and preview of the IBJJF Absolute No-Gi Grand Prix, set for Thursday, February 29. This Thursday, February 29, the IBJJF will host an openweight eight-man no-gi tournament featuring some of the planet’s top BJJ competitors. The card will also feature several world-class gi matches.
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View the full results and video highlights from WNO 22: Rodriguez vs. Hugo, which took place on Friday, February 9. On Friday, FloGrappling’s Who’s Number One (WNO) returned to Costa Mesa, California for the promotion’s first show of 2024. Headlined by an intriguing heavyweight match between Nick Rodriguez and Victor
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Check out the full card line-up and preview for WNO 22: Rodriguez vs Hugo, set for Friday, February 9. FloGrappling’s Who’s Number One (WNO) returns to action this Friday, February 9, with a stacked card headlined by top heavyweight contenders. The co-main event features a welterweight title bout between fan
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Three pivotal matches have been announced for WNO 22. Mica Galvao, Ffion Davies, and Jacob Couch will all be in action. The next Who’s Number One (WNO) event is rapidly taking shape, and a pair of intriguing matchups have already been announced for the card, set to go down on
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After winning gold at the gi Worlds and double gold at the no-gi Worlds, Ffion Davies is the 2023 Female Grappler of the Year. Ffion Davies came into 2023 widely regarded as the top pound-for-pound female jiu-jitsu competitor in the world, and she’ll start 2024 with that same distinction. Following
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No-gi world champion Junny Ocasio spoke to Grappling Insider about his incredible competition success in 2023. Few black belt competitors have ever enjoyed a more successful no-gi season than Junny Ocasio did in 2023. After years of consistently finding himself on the podium of major IBJJF tournaments but never in
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Roberto Jimenez, William Tackett, and other elite grapplers have been announced for Combat Jiu-Jitsu Worlds: The Middleweights. The middleweights are set to compete at the next Combat Jiu-Jitsu (CJJ) event, and the tournament is already filling up with elite grappling talent. Slated to go down in Tucson, Arizona on December
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Two-time gi world champion Tainan Dalpra will make his no-gi debut against Troy Russell on November 30 at WNO 21. One of jiu-jitsu’s top gi competitors of the past decade will soon make his long-awaited no-gi debut. On November 30, at Who’s Number One (WNO) 21, two-time IBJJF world champion
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Legendary MMA fighter Demetrious Johnson says that earning gold at the IBJJF Masters Worlds is one of his top career accomplishments. Last week, all-time MMA great Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson made a splash in the jiu-jitsu world, winning gold in the featherweight brown belt division at the IBJJF Masters Worlds.
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