Now less than a year away from the 2022 ADCC Championships, the first official qualifying event is set to take place. The ADCC European, Middle East and African Trials (“European Trials”) take place on Saturday, September 18. As one of the few qualifying events for the prestigious ADCC Championships, it
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One of the UK’s top grapplers has been awarded his black belt. On Wednesday, Polaris veteran and ADCC British champion Jed Hue was promoted to black belt by fellow top UK grappler Ross Nicholls. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jed Hue (@jedhue) Yesterday was a huge
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“Had my first comp as a blue belt, and my first match as a blue belt was against a black belt.” Grappling Insider speaks with ex world champion powerlifter Mark MacQueen about his tremendous win in the absolute division at Grappling Industries in Manchester last week. Alongside him in the
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Team-based grappling will return to a big stage this summer with the third installment of Polaris Squads on July 17. And for the first time, the United States will be represented to take on some of the UK and Ireland’s best grapplers. Those teams are already starting to take shape,
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The Polaris UK Grand Prix has finished and crowned a champion who can claim through hard-earned results to be the presumptive king of British grappling. It was an interesting night and certainly packed with action, a lot more than the results might indicate given how many of the tournament matches
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Almost six months after the event was first announced, the Polaris Grand Prix is finally right around the corner and the bracket has just been released. The event started out with elite grapplers from all around the world, before the Coronavirus outbreak forced a delay, the removal of the crowd
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The thirteenth Polaris event was originally scheduled for the 4th of April and was set to be an Absolute Grand Prix featuring entrants from across the world like Nicky Rodriguez, Nathan Orchard, Adam Wardzinski and Kaynan Duarte. Sadly, the recent Coronavirus pandemic put the entire event in jeopardy and not
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Polaris Professional Grappling is back after a lengthy break due to Coronavirus with their latest event, Polaris 13 on Saturday, 11th July. The event has changed slightly from it’s original intention as an Absolute Grand Prix and due to travel restrictions, it will instead be a UK Grand Prix that
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Ross Nicholls is one of the UK’s biggest grappling stars and has started to become known internationally thanks to a solid ADCC performance against JT Torres, but he’s revealed today that a promotion by the name of Victory Grappling has failed to pay athletes for a previous event. The tournament
Read moreJeremy Skinner came away from Polaris 12 with a solid performance in getting the finish over Eoghan O’Flanagan. He explained that his preparation for this fight felt better than his previous match and that he’s feeling great now that he’s injury-free. He had an interesting choice of callout after the
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