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Community Confirms ADCC 2026 Feels Different: This Year After Running Out of Champions to Withdraw

Aug 19, 2026 · adcc, competition

The ADCC Submission-Only World Championship used to be the one tournament nobody wanted to skip. Then, slowly, it became the one tournament everybody had a very specific reason to skip—and the reasons got better every time.

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Elisabeth Clay Just Exposed ADCC's Circular Math on Women's Pay

Aug 14, 2026 · adcc, competition

Elisabeth Clay made a simple argument on the Jits and Giggles Podcast that ADCC has been avoiding: you can't cap participation, then use that artificial scarcity as justification for cutting pay. It's not a novel observation—it's basic logic.

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ADCC Youth Championship Stands Alone for First Time

Aug 09, 2026 · adcc, competition

For fifteen years, ADCC Youth existed in the shadow of the main event. Kids would grind their brackets on the side while the adults got the main stage, the live stream, the sponsorship money.

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ADCC Worlds 2026 Is Losing Athletes to UFC BJJ — Double-Gold Winner Just Chose the Commercial Event Over the Crown Jewel

Aug 06, 2026 · adcc, athlete-migration

Adele Fornarino, a double-gold ADCC medalist — the kind of credential that used to mean everything in grappling — withdrew from ADCC Worlds 2026. Not for a family emergency.

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ADCC Prize Money Is Shockingly Low — Jozef Chen's Take

Jul 27, 2026 · adcc, athlete-pay

Jozef Chen didn't mince words. He's one of the best no-gi grapplers alive—a multiple ADCC title contender, a submission machine, the kind of guy who dismantles everyone they put in front of him.

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Match Footage Lies: Why Every Grappler Rewrites Their Loss

Jul 26, 2026 · bjj, competition

Hell, you might be the guy. He competed last weekend.

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ADCC 2026: Fourth Defending Champion Passed—And Bodoni Surfed Instead of Defending

Jul 25, 2026 · adcc, competition

The email dropped mid-July, buried in the ADCC digest no one reads until they're scrolling at 2 a.m. Another defending champion—that's four now, depending on how you're counting—wasn't coming back.

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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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