The B-Team’s Ethan Crelinsten previews his squad and details his strategy for the CJJ Worlds Team Duel. Elite no-gi competitor Ethan Crelinsten is already a Combat Jiu-Jitsu (CJJ) champion, and on Sunday, December 18, he’ll look to add another CJJ belt to his mantle as he leads The B-Team into
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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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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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Ethan Crelinsten – an American BJJ black belt under renowned coach John Danaher, and a member of the newly founded ‘B-Team’ – has undergone ACL surgery. Injuries are unavoidable and inevitable in BJJ, especially being a high-level competitor; due to all of the intensive training and strain put on your
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We are now two weeks away from the two-day Who’s Number One (WNO) Championships, and the event has seen some changes to the line-up lately. Andrew Wiltse of the 185-pound division, as well as Kennedy Maciel and Ethan Crelinsten of the 155-pound division, have been removed from the competition. FloGrappling
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Craig Jones’ move from Puerto Rico to Austin, TX is well under way, and the Australian black belt is potentially just days away from opening his B-Team Jiu-Jitsu academy in Austin, TX. In a recent video, we see the B-Team facility and an informal training session in which Jones teaches
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Members of the former Danaher Death Squad are moving on to new endeavors. Consistent with a previous announcement, Craig Jones has officially announced the formation of the “B-Team.” And although Jones’ previous announcement was somewhat cryptic, this one is much more to the point. Jones will be opening a jiu-jitsu
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Over the weekend, the jiu-jitsu world was shook with the news that the famed Danaher Death Squad was disbanding. In head coach John Danaher’s statement regarding the news, he didn’t mention specific plans for any team members moving forward. On Monday, Craig Jones announced that he will continue to train
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Saturday’s Fight to Win 175 event is rapidly taking shape, with a high-level match-up between Ethan Crelinsten and Gabriel Sousa scheduled for the main event. The match was announced via the promotion’s Instagram page. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fight To Win BJJ (@f2wbjj) A representative
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At Friday’s Who’s Number One event, the promotion announced that it will be holding Who’s Number One (WNO) championships which will consist of five eight-person tournaments to crown three male champions and two female champions. The event is scheduled to take place over two days on September 25-26. Below are
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