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Gordon Ryan Posted About Hanging Politicians. Craig Jones Released His Wife's Arrest Footage and Sold the Merch.

Gordon Ryan Posted About Hanging Politicians. Craig Jones Released His Wife's Arrest Footage and Sold the Merch.

Craig Jones just turned Gordon Ryan's wife's arrest into a merch drop. Backstory: Nathalia Santoro, Ryan's wife, was arrested in Texas last October after a high-speed police chase.
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Derek Moneyberg Got a BJJ Black Belt in 3.5 Years. Now He's Suing Sean Strickland for Saying It Out Loud.

Derek Moneyberg Got a BJJ Black Belt in 3.5 Years. Now He's Suing Sean Strickland for Saying It Out Loud.

Derek Moneyberg is suing Sean Strickland. For a hotel hallway comment, and the implication that a financial influencer with zero competition record might not be a legitimate BJJ black belt.
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Fabricio Andrey Wants Kade Ruotolo's Belt So Bad He'll Gain 25 Pounds to Get It

Fabricio Andrey Wants Kade Ruotolo's Belt So Bad He'll Gain 25 Pounds to Get It

Fabricio Andrey has a problem. He's arguably the most exciting submission grappler on the planet right now, he's undefeated in ONE Championship, and his boss won't give him a featherweight title because the division doesn't technically exist yet.
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Danaher Says Go Back to Your First Armbar. The 20-Hour Back System Can Wait.

Danaher Says Go Back to Your First Armbar. The 20-Hour Back System Can Wait.

John Danaher quoted Heraclitus to 631,000 Instagram followers on April 14. "You never step in the same river twice," he wrote.
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Gordon Ryan Doesn't Respect the Superfight He Vacated — Now Questioning Duarte's Right to Hold It

Gordon Ryan Doesn't Respect the Superfight He Vacated — Now Questioning Duarte's Right to Hold It

Gordon Ryan vacated the ADCC Superfight title in February 2026. He's spent the time since explaining why Kaynan Duarte doesn't deserve it.
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ADCC's Answer to 63% Empty Seats Is a 2019 Rematch — Gordon Ryan Already Calling It a Consolation Prize

ADCC's Answer to 63% Empty Seats Is a 2019 Rematch — Gordon Ryan Already Calling It a Consolation Prize

Sixty-three percent of the seats in Tauron Arena are currently empty. That's the actual math.
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Kyra Gracie Says Her Own Family Tried to Block Her From Training — The Gracies Almost Stopped the Gracies

Kyra Gracie Says Her Own Family Tried to Block Her From Training — The Gracies Almost Stopped the Gracies

The Gracie name is jiu-jitsu. It's on the lineage walls, in the textbooks, baked into every gym that traces its roots to Rio.
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Melqui Galvao Is Still Running His Academy — From Prison, Via Phone

Melqui Galvao Is Still Running His Academy — From Prison, Via Phone

Melqui Galvao was transferred to a São Paulo prison on May 10. Brazilian deputy Alessandra Campêlo went public this week with the claim: Galvao has been making video calls from inside the facility — 20 to 30 minutes at a time — to students connected to his BJJ College project in Manaus.
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