BJJ News — competition-results

Gordon Ryan Retired Four Months Ago. He'd Like to Tell You Who the Good UFC Grapplers Are Anyway.

Gordon Ryan Retired Four Months Ago. He'd Like to Tell You Who the Good UFC Grapplers Are Anyway.

Gordon Ryan can't train. His gut — destroyed by years of antibiotics fighting recurring staph infections — won't recover on any timeline he controls.
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Khamzat Chimaev Turned Down Kyle Snyder, Asked For Bo Nickal Instead — And The UFC Already Said No

Khamzat Chimaev Turned Down Kyle Snyder, Asked For Bo Nickal Instead — And The UFC Already Said No

Khamzat Chimaev signed with Real American Freestyle, then spent the next month declining the one wrestler in the building he could actually face. His RAF debut was set for RAF 10 on June 13 at Chaifetz Arena in St.
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UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs. Gaethje at the White House

UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs. Gaethje at the White House

Professional combat sports stopped being sport and became pure spectacle. UFC Freedom 250 at the White House is the moment that stopped being subtle.
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ADCC Worlds Tickets Stuck 63% Empty Four Months Out — How Yuri Simoes vs Kaynan Duarte Quietly Became The Main Event

ADCC Worlds Tickets Stuck 63% Empty Four Months Out — How Yuri Simoes vs Kaynan Duarte Quietly Became The Main Event

When May rolled around and ticket sales data started leaking, ADCC's Kraków event was already showing signs of serious trouble. When this went down recently—roughly 27 days before the time of writing—the organization found itself in a position that few major combat sports properties ever want to occ
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Buchecha's UFC Collapse: How the BJJ GOAT Went 0-2-1 in Just Three Fights

Buchecha's UFC Collapse: How the BJJ GOAT Went 0-2-1 in Just Three Fights

Ryan Spann delivered what might be the final punctuation mark on Alexandre "Buchecha" Ribeiro's mixed martial arts experiment. A left hook and straight right in the second round at UFC Vegas 116 sent the 13-time IBJJF World Champion to the canvas, and he didn't beat the count.
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When Kade Ruotolo and Diogo Reis Both Fought Through Inflection Points on the Same Bangkok Card

When Kade Ruotolo and Diogo Reis Both Fought Through Inflection Points on the Same Bangkok Card

Two ADCC champions shared a ONE Fight Night 43 card in Bangkok. The coincidence seemed minor at the time.
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When Rousey Called Chimaev a 'F***ing Cleft-Lip Lincoln'

When Rousey Called Chimaev a 'F***ing Cleft-Lip Lincoln'

When Ronda Rousey's Netflix comeback against Gina Carano was supposed to be the story of fight week, nobody had Khamzat Chimaev on the bingo card for creating actual chaos. But on May 15 — just six days before her big return — Rousey said something at the MVP MMA 1 press conference that would oversh
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Diogo Reis's First Fight Without Melqui Galvão's Team — ONE Fight Night 43 Became a Test Nobody Planned

Diogo Reis's First Fight Without Melqui Galvão's Team — ONE Fight Night 43 Became a Test Nobody Planned

Diogo Reis stepped onto the mat in Bangkok on May 15 for what should have been a routine title defense. Instead, it became something far more complicated: the first real glimpse of one of submission grappling's brightest talents operating without the institutional scaffolding that built him.
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