Gordon Ryan has a position on ADCC that sounds a lot more principled when you're not examining it too closely. The New Wave Jiu-Jitsu owner and competitor recently stated that ADCC would be "non-negotiable" in any contract negotiations with the UFC for a jiu-jitsu-specific event or fighter compensat
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.
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.
Gordon Ryan appeared on the Overdogs USA podcast with Tim Kennedy on July 19 and did what Gordon Ryan does best: make a take so bold it stops the room, then explain the mechanism behind it well enough that you can't immediately dismiss him. This time, he predicted that Brazil will be "phased out" of
Gordon Ryan, the most dominant no-gi grappler of the past decade, recently made a claim that landed somewhere between trash talk and genuine observation: Brazil's grip on jiu-jitsu is slipping, and Brazilian practitioners will be "phased out."
On the surface, it's audacious. An American saying Braz