BJJ News — elite-grappling

Craig Jones's B-Team Resort Play Is Exactly Where Elite Grappling Was Always Heading

Craig Jones's B-Team Resort Play Is Exactly Where Elite Grappling Was Always Heading

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
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Jordan Burroughs: Can Elite MMA Wrestlers Actually Compete

Jordan Burroughs: Can Elite MMA Wrestlers Actually Compete

Jordan Burroughs, 38, two-time Olympic gold medalist and one of the few wrestlers who actually translates his dominance into combat sports, was asked a straightforward question in August 2026: Can elite MMA fighters genuinely compete with elite wrestlers at the highest level? His answer was a master
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Community Confirms ADCC 2026 Feels Different: This Year After Running Out of Champions to Withdraw

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

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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ADCC Youth Worlds Reshape Elite BJJ Pipeline

ADCC Youth Worlds Reshape Elite BJJ Pipeline

There's a tournament happening in Austin this weekend that nobody outside the sport is going to watch, and that's exactly the point. The ADCC Youth World Championships are coming to Texas with the quiet inevitability of a slow-motion takedown.
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ADCC 2026: Fourth Defending Champion Passed—And Bodoni Surfed Instead of Defending

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

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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14-Year-Old Becomes Youngest ADCC Competitor

14-Year-Old Becomes Youngest ADCC Competitor

ADCC just extended a competitor invite to a 14-year-old. Let that sit for a second.
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UFC BJJ 10 to ADCC Worlds: Three-Week Crisis

UFC BJJ 10 to ADCC Worlds: Three-Week Crisis

UFC dropped the date for UFC BJJ 10 on August 20, 2026, and nobody said the quiet part out loud yet: that's three weeks before ADCC Worlds. Not eight weeks to recover from a major tournament and rebuild for the next one.
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