On Saturday, November 13 at the IBJJF’s Jiu-Jitsu Con, eight elite jiu-jitsu players — four middleweights and four heavyweights — competed in mini tournaments, each with a $20,000 purse on the line. Rookie black belt Tainan Dalpra took home the gold at middleweight, while Victor Hugo won the heavyweight division.
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On Sunday, September 26, the Who’s Number One (WNO) Championships finals took place from Austin, TX. The finals were the culmination of five, eight-person brackets consisting of the best submission-only grapplers in the world. The quarterfinals and the semifinals were 15-minute submission-only matches, and the finals were 30-minute matches. View
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On Friday, March 26, Who’s Number One (WNO) returned to Austin, TX with another star-studded night of submission-only grappling. In the main event, despite plenty of heated trash-talk, some of which happened during the match, Gordon Ryan dominated and eventually submitted Vagner Rocha. Lower on the card, Nick Rodriguez, Mikey
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UFC 244: Diaz vs Masvidal live results, play by pay, highlights, and analysis. Grappling Insider will have round by round results throughout the night.
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The 2019 ADCC Absolute bracket and play by play will be posted here. With $40,000 on the line this is one of the biggest and most prestigious competitions in the grappling world. The action is guaranteed to be fantastic. (This article is part of our week of ADCC coverage. To get
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Grappling Insider will have live results of the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) World Championships, which will be streamed on FloGrappling on Saturday, September 25th. The times and brackets were announced on Friday. For the Absolute Division brackets and play by play, go here. In the meantime, check out our
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Roberto Jimenez scored an incredible come-from-behind choke on Roosevelt Sousa to earn Submission of the Year honors. There was no shortage of highlight-reel submissions in 2023. From ADCC champions being tapped to flying armbars and smother taps, jiu-jitsu fans were treated to a wide variety of dramatic and eye-catching submissions
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“I want to play some fu*king tournaments man. Grappling Industries – hit us up! We want to play a tournament!” Kimura! have recently been a highlight in the grappling news, for their (obvious link to BJJ) debut single release, and they are a four-piece heavy metal BJJ-influenced comedy band from
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The first ever Polaris Squads took place at Central Hall, Southampton, England on Sept 27, at 8 p.m. streamed live on UFC Fight Pass. Polaris Squads consisted of two teams of eight – Team UK & Ireland and Team Europe. There’ was also a super fight at half time between
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Third Coast Grappling is on a streak more dazzling than Comet NEOWISE, having had four stellar Kumites in a little over a month. Third Coast Grappling: Kumite IV, the latest installment, had the same eight-man tournament with updated rules,* seven superfights, a charity exhibition match involving Gordon Ryan, and a rambunctious pack of kids in a “Grapple Royale” a la “Royal Rumble.” Not even a near-melee** mellowed the mood as the firecracker of a show refused to fizzle out, ending the action-packed night with a grappling legend becoming ten grand richer.
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