BJJ News — grappling

Song Yadong Just Beat a Grappler Grappling. Then He Lied About It.

Song Yadong Just Beat a Grappler Grappling. Then He Lied About It.

Song Yadong just beat Deiveson Figueiredo—a former UFC flyweight champion, a world-class grappler—via guillotine choke. Then he explained his win like it was an apology.
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RAF 10: Will Chimaev vs Danis Actually Happen?

RAF 10: Will Chimaev vs Danis Actually Happen?

Louis on Friday, and if you squint at the card hard enough, it looks legitimate. Khamzat Chimaev vs Dillon Danis headlines.
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Garry Tonon Finally Free: Nine Years Later, ONE Championship's Matching Rights Clause Is Gone

Garry Tonon Finally Free: Nine Years Later, ONE Championship's Matching Rights Clause Is Gone

When ONE Championship quietly released Garry Tonon alongside four other fighters, the immediate reaction was predictable—financial cleanup, roster trimming ahead of a Japan pivot, standard promotion housekeeping. But the real story wasn't the release itself.
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Chimaev vs. Danis at RAF 10: Grappling Breakdown

Chimaev vs. Danis at RAF 10: Grappling Breakdown

RAF 10 takes place Saturday night in St. Louis, and if you've been following the sport casually, you probably know Khamzat Chimaev is fighting Dillon Danis.
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Ryan Hall Said MMA Is 'Better' Than BJJ — But Mighty Mouse Just Proved Why That Argument Misses the Point

Ryan Hall Said MMA Is 'Better' Than BJJ — But Mighty Mouse Just Proved Why That Argument Misses the Point

When this went down recently—Ryan Hall made the rounds on Matt Serra's podcast on May 29, declaring that MMA is better than Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He's not wrong, exactly.
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Gabriel Bonfim Defeats Belal Muhammad 50-45

Gabriel Bonfim Defeats Belal Muhammad 50-45

Gabriel Bonfim didn't just beat Belal Muhammad on June 6 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas. All three rounds, all three judges: 50-45, 50-45, 50-45.
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Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night

Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night

That's all Bryce Mitchell needed to remind the combat sports world why we stare at our phones at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday waiting for preliminary fight results.
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UFC BJJ 9: Eight Submissions, Fowler Dodges Rodriguez

UFC BJJ 9: Eight Submissions, Fowler Dodges Rodriguez

Eight of nine matches ended in submission. That's not a grappling tournament—that's a technical beating handed out by one format to another.
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