Nicholas Meregali and Pedro Marinho will meet in a gi match in the main event of WNO on May 18. FloGrappling’s promotion Who’s Number One (WNO) will return to action on Thursday, May 18, this time featuring a gi match in the evening’s main event, as reigning WNO light heavyweight
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View all the black belt results and video highlights from the 2023 IBJJF Pans, which took place in Kissimmee, Florida. Over the weekend, adult black belts competed in the 2023 IBJJF Pans – the second IBJJF grand slam tournament of the year. View the full tournament results, courtesy of the
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The second IBJJF grand slam tournament of the year goes down this weekend from Kissimmee, Florida.
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Nicholas Meregali and Kaynan Duarte are hoping to face each other in both gi and no-gi matches next year. Elite BJJ competitors Nicholas Meregali and Kaynan Duarte have been going at it over social media as momentum is building toward a fifth and sixth showdown between the two. In a
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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. Read a preview of the 66 kg. division here, the 77 kg. division here, and the 88 kg. division here. Unlike the lighter divisions, the 99
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Multiple-time IBJJF gi world champion Nicholas Meregali is set to compete in his second-ever no-gi match. On Thursday, July 14 at Who’s Number One (WNO), Meregali will fill in for his injured teammate Luke Griffith and will face Breylor Grout in a 15-minute submission-only match. Meregali announced the match-up on
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Last week, the IBJJF and USADA announced that Felipe Pena had tested positive for PEDs and, as a result, was stripped of his 2021 IBJJF Worlds absolute title. On Tuesday, the IBJJF announced that Fellipe Andrew — who had tied for third in the absolute division — has now been
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On Thursday, USADA and the IBJJF announced that 2021 IBJJF absolute world champion Felipe Pena has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and, as a result, has accepted a one-year period of ineligibility from IBJJF compeition. Consistent with the organization’s rules, the IBJJF has stripped Pena of his 2021 Worlds
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Gordon Ryan looked in strong form after a year away from official competition. On Friday, March 25, Who’s Number One (WNO) returned to Dallas for a card headlined by Ryan and Daisy Fresh’s homegrown talent Jacob “The Hillbilly Hammer” Couch. The main event saw Ryan utilize a stifling top game
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Nicholas Meregali won by submission in his no-gi debut, but it didn’t come easily. On Friday at Who’s Number One, the two-time gi world champion defeated Checkmat’s Arnaldo Maidana by armbar in the final minute of the 15-minute submission-only match. For nearly all of the match, Meregali and Maidana grappled
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