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Covering Your Opponent's Face as a Grip Break: Technique or Ethics Violation?

Covering Your Opponent's Face as a Grip Break: Technique or Ethics Violation?

Jun 12, 2026 · competition-results, ethics
The first time someone palmed your face on the mat, your reaction wasn't analytical. A hand on the face hits different from an arm drag — it feels personal in a way heel hooks don't, and heel hooks can end your season.
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The Most Decorated Pure-BJJ Specialist Alive Is Going to MMA Because He's 'Tired of Being Called a Wimp'

The Most Decorated Pure-BJJ Specialist Alive Is Going to MMA Because He's 'Tired of Being Called a Wimp'

Jun 12, 2026 · athlete-news, bjj-identity
Mikey Musumeci has been called a butt scooter for so long he's started talking about punching people. Not because he believes it.
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Melqui Galvão Enters Formal Interrogation Phase in São Paulo — What Happens Next in Brazil's Criminal Process

Melqui Galvão Enters Formal Interrogation Phase in São Paulo — What Happens Next in Brazil's Criminal Process

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-misconduct, athlete-news
When Melqui Galvão was transferred to a civil police prison in São Paulo on May 10, the jiu-jitsu world watched a case move into territory that most of the sport had never seen at this scale before. By May 12 — just 20 days ago now — the case against him had crossed a critical threshold in Brazil's
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When a BJJ World Champion Named Herself

When a BJJ World Champion Named Herself

Jun 11, 2026 · alliance, athlete-news
Brenda Larissa did something the sport of jiu-jitsu wasn't particularly set up to handle: she recorded twenty minutes of testimony, published it under her own name, and described what she said was fourteen years of abuse at the hands of Melqui Galvão, an Alliance black belt, founder of BJJ College i
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When Demetrius Johnson Called It Quits on IBJJF Masters — 'My Life Doesn't Change If I Win Or Lose'

When Demetrius Johnson Called It Quits on IBJJF Masters — 'My Life Doesn't Change If I Win Or Lose'

Jun 11, 2026 · b-team, competition-results
Demetrius Johnson dropped one of the most honest sentences anyone's said about competing in a gi tournament, and it's worth revisiting now that the dust has settled. "My life doesn't change if I win or lose." He meant every word of it, and the reasoning behind that statement revealed something uncom
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When Mica Galvão Dissolved BJJ College And Launched MJJ — A 21-Year-Old Forced To Rebuild After His Arrested Father's Charges

When Mica Galvão Dissolved BJJ College And Launched MJJ — A 21-Year-Old Forced To Rebuild After His Arrested Father's Charges

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-news, bjj-college
When the fallout from Melqui Galvão's arrest was still fresh enough to sting, his 21-year-old son Mica posted a clean graphic to Instagram and ended a 15-year project in two paragraphs. BJJ College, the team his father had built from the ground up, the team that had produced Mica himself, the team c
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When Mackenzie Dern's Father Won Brasileiros Gold at 58 — Megaton Dias Took Master 7 Lightweight As João Miyao Claimed Master 1

When Mackenzie Dern's Father Won Brasileiros Gold at 58 — Megaton Dias Took Master 7 Lightweight As João Miyao Claimed Master 1

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-news, brasileiros
A quiet milestone slipped past the main narrative of what the IBJJF circuit was building toward. On May 1, when the masters block of the 2026 Brasileiros rolled through Barueri, Wellington "Megaton" Dias—who had just turned 58 the previous October—stepped onto the mat and won Master 7 Lightweight go
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Mikey Musumeci Says IBJJF Rules Encourage Strategy Over Fighting — 'It's So Easy to Lose'

Mikey Musumeci Says IBJJF Rules Encourage Strategy Over Fighting — 'It's So Easy to Lose'

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-news, competition
"Nobody actually wants to fight." That's Mikey Musumeci on IBJJF competition. Not a disgruntled blue belt venting after losing on advantages at a regional.
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