Check out our preview of Main Character Jiu Jitsu 2, which features a stacked 185-pound 16-man bracket with $8,000 on the line. Burgeoning professional grappling promotion Main Character Jiu Jitsu is set to return for its sophomore event, and the card will showcase a number of elite competitors. Notably, 16
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The 2022 IBJJF no-gi Pans took place over the weekend, live from Garland, TX. The tournament served as a showcase for many up-and-coming talents, as a number of new champions were crowned. In brown belt action, Pedigo Submission Fighting’s Jacob “The Hillbilly Hammer” Couch enjoyed perhaps the best tournament performance
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On Saturday, May 28, Fury Pro Grappling will return to action with its fourth-ever submission-only event. The card is headlined by a match-up between current UFC welterweight contender Sean Brady and longtime UFC and Bellator MMA veteran Ben Saunders. The event also features a number of top submission grappling competitors,
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The second Medusa female-only jiu-jitsu event took place on Saturday, March 12. Two new champions were crowned, as Sophia Cassella captured the EBI strawweight title, and Aislinn O’Connell won the combat jiu-jitsu (CJJ) bantamweight title. The card featured a pair of eight-woman tournaments — an EBI rules tournament at strawweight,
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Tom DeBlass is confident in his students, to say the least. Over the past few weeks, DeBlass has watched as Dale Brown, the founder of Detroit Urban Survival Training (D.U.S.T.), has become a viral sensation for his self-defense videos that claim to “increase your survivability.” Within the grappling community, Brown
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