BJJ News

Banned Pile Driver Causes Cervical Spine Injury

Sep 03, 2026 · banned-technique, brazil

On August 22, 2026, Willian Hiroyuki Masuda, a 37-year-old jiu-jitsu instructor known in the community as 'Kabuto,' suffered a catastrophic cervical spine injury during a no-gi competition at the Moringão gymnasium in Londrina, Brazil. The injury wasn't caused by a technical slip or an escalation th

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Gordon Ryan: Brazil Will Be Phased Out in 10 Years

Jul 25, 2026 · american-trials, brazil

Gordon Ryan appeared on the Overdogs USA podcast with Tim Kennedy on July 19 and did what Gordon Ryan does best: make a take so bold it stops the room, then explain the mechanism behind it well enough that you can't immediately dismiss him. This time, he predicted that Brazil will be "phased out" of

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Fight 2 Win 316 Held 52-Match Card in São Paulo; Willson Bueno Closes Event with Kneebar Victory

Jul 17, 2026 · bjj, brazil

Fight 2 Win 316 held 52 technical grappling matches on May 23 in São Paulo, with multiple submission finishes punctuating the card. Willson Bueno closed one with a kneebar that needed no commentary to justify itself.

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Melqui Galvao's Former Teammates Discouraged Victims From Reporting — 'You're Going to Destroy the Team'

Jul 03, 2026 · athlete-news, bjj-college

Brazilian Deputy Alessandra Campêlo revealed a disturbing dimension to the criminal case against jiu-jitsu instructor Melqui Galvao: even while detained in a Manaus prison on sexual abuse charges, he was allegedly orchestrating an intimidation campaign against alleged victims, pressuring witnesses t

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Coach Sentenced 178 Years for Abusing Young BJJ Athletes

Jun 26, 2026 · abuse, bjj

Brazilian jiu-jitsu was supposed to be the way out. For Matheus Gabriel and at least eleven other children from economically vulnerable backgrounds in Brazil, it became the path that led directly to a predator.

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Fight 2 Win 316 São Paulo Success — F2W's First Brazilian Event Signals Geographic Expansion Beyond North America

Jun 26, 2026 · brazil, competition-results

Fight 2 Win pulled off something that would have sounded absurd a decade ago: it brought professional submission grappling back to Brazil as a foreign import. Not as an innovation from the birthplace of jiu-jitsu, but as a product manufactured in North America and re-exported to its source.

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Fight 2 Win Expands to Brazil for First Time — F2W 316 São Paulo Success Signals Geographic Shift

Jun 23, 2026 · brazil, competition-results

Fight 2 Win 316 took place in São Paulo in late May, marking the promotion's first event in Brazil. It wasn't a guest appearance or a visiting circus—it was F2W 316, a regular sequence event in the city that birthed the Gracie family legacy, redefined through the Miyao brothers, Murilo Bustamante, a

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Fighter Faints After Losing Politically-Themed MMA Bout in São Paulo

Jun 22, 2026 · brazil, drama

In May 2026, Renato Moicano—the UFC vet, the trash talker, the guy who convinced you that his life was more interesting than the fights he was booking—launched his own MMA promotion. The name alone told you everything.

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