BJJ News

Three Weeks Out From Worlds, Two Athletes Are Still Alive on the Grand Slam. One Has Never Won It.

Jun 03, 2026 · athlete-news, brasileiros

The 2026 IBJJF Grand Slam is down to two people. That's the state of things three weeks before Worlds.

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Draculino Says BJJ's Global Explosion Was 'Beyond His Wildest Dreams' — He's One of the Architects Who Caused It

Jun 03, 2026 · bjj-history, competition-results

Draculino says he couldn't have imagined this. "Not even in my wildest dreams," said the coral belt legend in a recent interview, surveying a sport that now spans millions of practitioners worldwide, has made professional grappling careers viable without anyone needing to cross over into MMA, and is

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Three Athletes Walked Into Brasileiros Black Belt Finals With A Grand Slam On The Line — Pato, Dalpra, Pessanha Needed One More Gold

Jun 03, 2026 · athlete-news, brasileiros-2026

Three athletes walked into Ginásio Poliesportivo José Correa with the same résumé. Won Worlds in May 2025.

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The Brasileiro Sold Out At 8,000 Entries: How Two AOJ Teammates Nearly Made Back-To-Back Grand Slams Real

Jun 02, 2026 · aoj, athlete-news

Something genuinely rare happened in jiu-jitsu: the IBJJF's oldest major championship hit a ceiling nobody had seen before. The Brasileiro — ten days of competition across every belt level from kids to black belt — sold out at exactly 8,000 registered competitors.

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Erich Munis Lost His Own Weight Class At Brasileiros Then Won The 14-Man Absolute The Same Day

Jun 02, 2026 · absolute, brasileiros-2026

When the dust settled on the IBJJF Brasileiros, one result sat in the data that nobody quite knew what to do with: the men's super heavy black belt final that Erich Munis lost, followed immediately—same day, same venue—by the absolute title that he won. The super heavy final came down to something m

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BJJ World Champion Brenda Larissa Named 14 Years of Alleged Abuse by Melqui Galvão

Jun 01, 2026 · abuse-allegations, athlete-news

The Brazilian jiu-jitsu world faced a reckoning it couldn't ignore. The machinery of institutional response had already been set in motion—the IBJJF and CBJJ announced a permanent ban on April 28, the same day police arrested Melqui Galvão in Manaus.

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Rerisson Gabriel Ended Diego Pato's Nine-Title Streak and Killed His Grand Slam Chase at Brasileiros

Jun 01, 2026 · alliance, athlete-news

Back in late April, Diego "Pato" Oliveira walked into Barueri carrying a streak so absurd it had stopped being a conversation starter and become something closer to accepted fact. Nine consecutive IBJJF major titles.

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Nicholas Meregali Became The Sport's De Facto Whistleblower — And Why That Matters

Jun 01, 2026 · accountability, amit-elor

Back in late April 2026, something happened in Brazilian jiu-jitsu that exposed a fundamental structural problem in how the sport handles allegations, accountability, and the people willing to speak up. When Melqui Galvao turned himself in to police on April 27th on a 30-day temporary arrest order,

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