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Chimaev Just Lost His UFC Title. His Next Fight Is Against the Guy Who Cancels Everything.

Chimaev Just Lost His UFC Title. His Next Fight Is Against the Guy Who Cancels Everything.

Two days after losing the UFC middleweight title on a split decision, after reportedly cutting 46 pounds and spending fight week in oxygen deprivation, Khamzat Chimaev signed for a catchweight wrestling main event against Dillon Danis at RAF 10 on June 13. Chimaev went into UFC 328 at the Prudential
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Dean Lister Says BJJ Was Tougher Then But Better Now — Both Halves Of The Sport Are About To Be Mad

Dean Lister Says BJJ Was Tougher Then But Better Now — Both Halves Of The Sport Are About To Be Mad

If you wanted to start a fight in any BJJ academy on earth this week, all you had to do was read Dean Lister's BJJEE interview out loud at the front desk. Lister, ADCC absolute champion and the guy who walked up to John Danaher in 2000 and asked "why would you ignore 50% of the human body?", publish
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Fight Sports Tops BJJ's PED Suspension Scorecard With Five. Alliance, Gracie Barra, And Atos Round Out The Standings Nobody Asked For.

Fight Sports Tops BJJ's PED Suspension Scorecard With Five. Alliance, Gracie Barra, And Atos Round Out The Standings Nobody Asked For.

Counting was the whole novelty. BJJEE published a piece this week titled "The Dirty Scorecard: Which BJJ Teams Have The Most PED Violations?" and somewhere between the headline and the math, the sport finally got a leaderboard nobody volunteered for.
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Kayla Harrison Calls The IJF's Leg-Grab Ban 'Political' And Modern Judo 'Kind Of Boring' — 'How Are You Going To Ban An Original Throw?'

Kayla Harrison Calls The IJF's Leg-Grab Ban 'Political' And Modern Judo 'Kind Of Boring' — 'How Are You Going To Ban An Original Throw?'

Kayla Harrison has two Olympic gold medals in judo, a UFC bantamweight title around her waist, and a public diagnosis of her old sport that the International Judo Federation cannot really argue with: modern judo is, in her words, "kind of boring." The leg-grab ban they've defended for sixteen years?
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CJI 3 Has a $10M Prize Pool — and Still No Date

CJI 3 Has a $10M Prize Pool — and Still No Date

Just a matter of motivation." Craig Jones said that about CJI 3 in July 2025. The prize pool — $10 million, the largest in grappling history by a margin that makes every other promotion feel embarrassed — is sitting there, confirmed and funded.
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Franjinha Miller: No-Gi Has A Cleaner Path To The Olympics Than Gi — And The Old Guard Is Splitting On Its Own Question

Franjinha Miller: No-Gi Has A Cleaner Path To The Olympics Than Gi — And The Old Guard Is Splitting On Its Own Question

Franjinha Miller came out this week and said what a lot of people have been quietly thinking: no-gi has a cleaner path to the Olympics than gi does. Then he said the part everyone is skipping past.
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Franjinha Miller: BJJ Will Never Make the Olympics Because Private Entities Control the Sport

Franjinha Miller: BJJ Will Never Make the Olympics Because Private Entities Control the Sport

Alliance BJJ co-founder Romero "Franjinha" Miller gave BJJ Doc the most honest answer anyone in the sport has offered on the Olympics question: "I don't think it's gonna be Olympic. It's too much private companies running the show right now." That was last Friday.
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ADCC's Absolute Champion Can't Fill a Seminar in Her Own Country — Australians Think They're Already Good Enough

ADCC's Absolute Champion Can't Fill a Seminar in Her Own Country — Australians Think They're Already Good Enough

She submitted Beatriz Mesquita on penalties. She submitted Bia Basilio with an armlock to win her weight class.
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