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Half The Community Just Realized Their Gym Is Running The Lloyd Irvin Sales Playbook — No Pricing, No Schedule, No Way Out

Jun 17, 2026 · community, contracts

You walk into the gym. The website didn't tell you the price.

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Anthony Bourdain's Secret BJJ Account and the Man Hollywood Never Filmed

Jun 16, 2026 · a24, anthony-bourdain

A24 is making a movie about Anthony Bourdain. The film is Tony, directed by Matt Johnson, starring Dominic Sessa as a young Bourdain in a 1976 summer in Provincetown — cooking jobs, drinking, the early outline of a man who would spend the next four decades eating his way across every country that wo

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The Lloyd Irvin Sales Blueprint Is Still Running in American BJJ Gyms — 14 Years After His Team's Sexual Assault Scandal, His Tactics Live On

Jun 16, 2026 · bjj-accountability, community

Go to lloydirvin.clickfunnels.com right now. A sales program for martial arts gym owners is still active.

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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

Jun 16, 2026 · adcc, adcc-2026

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

Jun 16, 2026 · accountability, adcc

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

Jun 16, 2026 · accountability, adcc

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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Tom DeBlass Said 'Don't Be That Guy' About Messaging Women — His Actual Argument Was About Consistency, Not Silence

Jun 16, 2026 · community, gym-culture

Tom DeBlass posted an Instagram Reel about messaging women after class, and it did what these videos always do: split the room. Half the BJJ community nodded along, half felt defensive, and almost everyone missed what he was actually arguing.

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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

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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