On September 3rd, one week out from ADCC, Mikey Musumeci gave an interview that landed like a depressing reality check: "The state of grappling is really bad right now."
He wasn't being melodramatic. He was being precise.
Craig Jones gave the first official tour of B-Team Jiu-Jitsu's new Zamaya Resort property in Tulum, Mexico, on September 17, and somewhere in a garage in Des Moines a guy named Todd just realized his entire business model has been wrong for twelve years. It's not even technically a training camp in
Actually, it's worse than that. Jones didn't cancel—he's accelerating a September camp in Mexico because Gordon Ryan's running a closed-door session in Budapest three days before ADCC.
Ben Kovacs sits at the intersection of two things most people in grappling try not to think about simultaneously: money and honesty. As the general manager of FloGrappling and founder of the Guardian Jiu-Jitsu Foundation, he's the guy who has to explain why elite athletes are getting paid what they'
On July 2, Craig Jones spent hours on Instagram doing what ADCC apparently can't: naming specific people and citing specific reasons why they shouldn't compete at Worlds. Hays County sex offense warrants.