BJJ News — freestyle-wrestling

The beautiful thing about grappling narratives is that they don't need much oxygen. You sketch a story in the sand—David vs Goliath, the comeback kid, the redemption arc—and the community fills in the blanks.

For three years, Artem Malykhin was the heavyweight immovable object at ONE Championship. Seventeen fights, zero losses, two divisional titles, submission finishes over legit wrestlers and grapplers.

Gilbert Burns has found his next chapter, and it's not in the Octagon. The former UFC welterweight title contender who hung up his MMA gloves in 2026 has been making waves in the grappling world, and now he's looking to settle one of his oldest scores—except not on the mat, and not in submission gra

Bo Nickal is walking into one of those matchups where everyone pretends to understand the stakes. A three-time NCAA wrestling champion with a 6-1 UFC record is facing off against Shirvani Muradov, who has Olympic gold medals in freestyle wrestling and is making his professional combat sports debut a

2026, to be exact — it marked one of those moments in combat sports where you had to actually stop and process what was happening. College Park Center at the University of Texas at Arlington hosted RAF 9, and the card that night represented something the freestyle wrestling world had been chasing fo

Four-point-one million Americans watched Helen Maroulis win Olympic gold on NBC primetime in 2016. Roughly 180,000 watched her first RAF title defense on FOX Nation Friday night.