I feel like this is one of two pretty huge elephants in the room of competitive BJJ right now, athletes running the risk of not getting paid. The second being the general usage of steroids from the lowest levels, all the way to the best grapplers on the planet. The
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Yesterday we dropped the bomb that Substars won’t be paying its athletes, a fact made doubly sad when you consider that along with unpaid Substars athletes, Gordon Ryan was going to donate his pay to the We Defy Foundation. Among the reactions to the news, Josh “Star Lord” Leduc announced
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The SubStars at the Fillmore card for the 21st of February has had a flurry of last-minute changes to the line-up.
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The final line-up for the latest SubStars event has been announced and it is already in the early running for most-stacked event of the year.
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Garry Tonon has unfortunately been forced to withdraw from his upcoming grappling match against Dustin Poirier due to an eye injury. The match was scheduled to happen less than a week from now at Substars and was due to raise a substantial amount of money for charity (The We Defy
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It has just been announced that Garry Tonon will be joining Gordon Ryan in donating all of his ticket money from his upcoming appearance on Substars against Dustin Poirier, to the We Defy Foundation. The announcement was made by the We Defy Foundation’s Vice President and Director of National Ambassador Network and
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Gordon Ryan has announced that he will be donating every penny he would make from ticket sales for his appearance on Substars on 21st February to charity. I guess it turns out that Ryan isn’t anywhere near as bad as a lot of people make him out to be, the
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