BJJ News — ADCC

How Diogo Reis Left BJJ College, Announced His Departure in 4 Days, and Competed 13 Days Later at a Higher Weight Class

How Diogo Reis Left BJJ College, Announced His Departure in 4 Days, and Competed 13 Days Later at a Higher Weight Class

The Brazilian jiu-jitsu world watched one of its brightest young competitors navigate an impossible situation with a clarity that's rare in professional sports. Diogo Reis, a two-time ADCC champion and current ONE Championship flyweight world champion, found himself connected to one of the most seri
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Adele Fornarino Blames Australian Ego for Not Being Able to Sell Seminars in Her Own Country

Adele Fornarino Blames Australian Ego for Not Being Able to Sell Seminars in Her Own Country

Adele Fornarino is the first Australian to win at ADCC. Not just her weight division — the absolute too.
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BJJ Apparel Brand BRAUS Asked A Critic To Sign An NDA Before Sharing Charity Receipts — Roger Gracie And Thalison Soares Are Both Sponsored

BJJ Apparel Brand BRAUS Asked A Critic To Sign An NDA Before Sharing Charity Receipts — Roger Gracie And Thalison Soares Are Both Sponsored

Sign this NDA, then we'll show you the receipts. That is a real sentence in a real exchange between BRAUS, the BJJ apparel brand that sponsors Roger Gracie, Thalison Soares, and the ADCC, and Benjamin Marks, the Australian critic who runs Partizan Media.
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ADCC Removed Its Public Invite List After Fans Found a Fugitive, a Nazi-Salute Account, and a Post-Cardiac Competitor on the Bracket

ADCC Removed Its Public Invite List After Fans Found a Fugitive, a Nazi-Salute Account, and a Post-Cardiac Competitor on the Bracket

ADCC operates on the honor system. You trust that the organization vetting the world's best submission grapplers for its marquee event has done some kind of basic due diligence before emailing out invitations.
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When ADCC Invited Josh Saunders Despite CJI's Public Exclusion on Character Grounds

When ADCC Invited Josh Saunders Despite CJI's Public Exclusion on Character Grounds

When ADCC released its invite list for the year's championship event, Josh Saunders landed in the +99 kg bracket at what remains the most prestigious submission grappling competition on earth. It should have been a straightforward achievement story: a former professional rugby league player turned b
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ADCC Invited Josh Saunders to Worlds — The Same Man Who Performs Nazi Salutes on Video

ADCC Invited Josh Saunders to Worlds — The Same Man Who Performs Nazi Salutes on Video

It landed like a grenade that nobody wanted to pick up. Back on May 3rd, BJJDoc announced that ADCC had extended invitations to several competitors for the 2026 World Championship, and tucked into that list was Josh Saunders, slotted into the Men's +99kg division.
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Gianni Grippo Is Back in ADCC — First Invite in 11 Years, Won Trials at 34 With Zero Conceded Points

Gianni Grippo Is Back in ADCC — First Invite in 11 Years, Won Trials at 34 With Zero Conceded Points

Nobody scored on Gianni Grippo at ADCC West Coast Trials. Seven matches, five submissions, zero points conceded across the entire -66kg bracket.
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Adele Fornarino Is ADCC Absolute Champion. She Can't Sell a Seminar in Australia.

Adele Fornarino Is ADCC Absolute Champion. She Can't Sell a Seminar in Australia.

Adele Fornarino walked out of the 2024 ADCC World Championships with two titles: the -55kg championship and the absolute. She was the first Australian to win anything at ADCC, ever.
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