Check out our preview and full card lineup for WNO 26: Pato vs. Krikorian, which goes down on Friday, February 7, 2025. FloGrappling’s Who’s Number One (WNO) will soon return to action with a 12-match card headlined by a lightweight title bout. WNO 26 takes place on Friday, February 7
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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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Diego “Pato” Oliveira will make his ONE Championship submission grappling debut against Rodrigo Marello at ONE Fight Night 13. Multiple-time IBJJF world champion and recent ADCC medalist Diego “Pato” Oliveira has joined ONE Championship’s ever-growing submission grappling roster and is set to make his debut later this summer. On August
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Top gi and no-gi competitor Diego “Pato” Oliveira has officially joined the Mendes brothers’ Art of Jiu-Jitsu. The famed Art of Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Costa Mesa, California just added another world-class competitor. Recent ADCC bronze medalist and multiple-time IBJJF black belt world champion Diego “Pato” Oliveira has joined the elite
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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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Diego “Pato” Oliveira was arguably the best overall grappler of the past year. The 2021 gi and no-gi Pans and Worlds champion has announced that he has officially left his longtime team of Cicero Costha and will be joining the rapidly growing Dream Art Project. View this post on Instagram
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As 2021 winds down, Grappling Insider will be recognizing those athletes that made the biggest impact, had the best performances, and found the most success this year. The race for the best no-gi grappler of 2021 was a tight one. A number of competitors could make a strong argument for
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The Evolve Ur Game (EUG) 155-pound no-gi grand prix took place on Saturday, and Diego “Pato” Oliveira took home the tournament title and $10,000 in cash. Oliveira defeated Alika Villiatora, Gabriel Sousa, and, in the finals, Gianni Grippo to capture the title. In his first-round match, Oliveira showed off excellent
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On Saturday, October 23, Evolve Ur Game (EUG) promotions will return for its third event. Like the promotion’s first two events, EUG 3 will feature an eight-man $10,000 grand prix. But unlike the first two EUG tournaments, this one will be no-gi and with a modified ruleset. EUG has released
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The Who’s Number One (WNO) Championships on September 25-26 will feature five eight-person brackets with many of the best grapplers in the world competing in 15-minute submission-only matches. In the days leading up to this event, Grappling Insider will be previewing each of the five divisions. One of the biggest
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