BJJ News — grappling

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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Kade Ruotolo's First MMA Knockout Changed the Conversation—Just 6 Weeks Before His Grappling Title Defense

Kade Ruotolo's First MMA Knockout Changed the Conversation—Just 6 Weeks Before His Grappling Title Defense

When Kade Ruotolo stepped into the ONE Championship cage in Bangkok, the narrative around him was still settling. But something was noticeably missing from his highlight reel—and when that hole got filled on May 15, it shifted how people were talking about him entirely.
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