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BJJ Coach André Seabra Publicly Demoted A Brown Belt Back To Blue On Camera For 'Disobeying His Mother' — Community Splits On Whether Belts Reflect Skill Or Behavior

BJJ Coach André Seabra Publicly Demoted A Brown Belt Back To Blue On Camera For 'Disobeying His Mother' — Community Splits On Whether Belts Reflect Skill Or Behavior

Jun 16, 2026 · andre-seabra, belt-demotion
André Seabra hit the record button before he hit the belt. The Brazilian coach who runs Instituto Fazendo a Diferença no Jiu-Jitsu posted a video on April 14 in which he removed the brown belt from his student Igor, who he called his 'champion' on camera, and replaced it with a blue in front of the
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Matheus Araujo Held The Choke Past The Tap — Both Camps Stormed The Cage

Matheus Araujo Held The Choke Past The Tap — Both Camps Stormed The Cage

Jun 16, 2026 · brazil, controversy
São Paulo hosted a moment that would define the entire ethics conversation around the Jungle Fight welterweight grand prix. On April 27th, at Jungle Fight 149's main event, Matheus 'The Monster' Araujo got a rear-naked choke on Anderson Nascimento under three minutes into round one.
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BJJ World Champion Brenda Larissa Says Melqui Galvao Forced Her to Date a Boy From the Academy as Cover — Detailed on Camera

BJJ World Champion Brenda Larissa Says Melqui Galvao Forced Her to Date a Boy From the Academy as Cover — Detailed on Camera

Jun 11, 2026 · abuse, athlete-news
She was twelve years old when Melqui Galvão began grooming her. She was a world champion by the time she found the words to describe what happened.
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Melqui Galvão Enters Formal Interrogation Phase in São Paulo — What Happens Next in Brazil's Criminal Process

Melqui Galvão Enters Formal Interrogation Phase in São Paulo — What Happens Next in Brazil's Criminal Process

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-misconduct, athlete-news
When Melqui Galvão was transferred to a civil police prison in São Paulo on May 10, the jiu-jitsu world watched a case move into territory that most of the sport had never seen at this scale before. By May 12 — just 20 days ago now — the case against him had crossed a critical threshold in Brazil's
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Fight 2 Win Hit 315 North American Events. Then They Finally Went to São Paulo.

Fight 2 Win Hit 315 North American Events. Then They Finally Went to São Paulo.

Jun 11, 2026 · brazil, f2w-316
Fight 2 Win made a quiet announcement that barely registered as news until you actually thought about what it meant: event 316 was leaving North America for the first time in the promotion's history, landing in São Paulo on May 23. For a submission grappling series that had run 315 consecutive event
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Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay

Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay

Jun 11, 2026 · brazil, competition
When this went down on April 25 at São Paulo's Ginásio do Ibirapuera, it seemed like a straightforward submission gone wrong. Matheus "The Monster" Araujo caught Anderson Nascimento in a rear-naked choke inside three minutes of Round 1 at Jungle Fight 149.
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When Mica Galvao Killed Mika Jiu-Jitsu Before It Started — 'Became Completely Unviable'

When Mica Galvao Killed Mika Jiu-Jitsu Before It Started — 'Became Completely Unviable'

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-news, bjj-college
Mica Galvao made a decision, then unmade it just as quickly. The gap between announcement and reversal was so compressed that Mika Jiu-Jitsu never even got a proper logo.
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SUG 30 Happened in Florianopolis — Chael Returned, Mason Fowler Stayed Home, and Brazil Had Plenty to Say

SUG 30 Happened in Florianopolis — Chael Returned, Mason Fowler Stayed Home, and Brazil Had Plenty to Say

Jun 10, 2026 · brazil, chael-sonnen
Submission Underground finally came back from the dead. SUG 30 went down on May 17 in Florianopolis, Brazil — a comeback event that felt equal parts inevitable and bizarre when you stopped to think about the full context.
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