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BJJ Now Has An Anti-Doping Medal Table: Fight Sports 5, Alliance 4, Gracie Barra 3, Atos 2

BJJ Now Has An Anti-Doping Medal Table: Fight Sports 5, Alliance 4, Gracie Barra 3, Atos 2

May 14, 2026 · alliance, anti-doping
Five anti-doping violations: Cyborg, Porfirio, De Sousa, Rocha, and most recently Mica Galvão. Alliance sits second with four (Nogueira, Tayane Porfirio, Andrew, Gabi Garcia).
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Melqui Galvao Is Still Running His Academy — From Prison, Via Phone

Melqui Galvao Is Still Running His Academy — From Prison, Via Phone

May 13, 2026 · accountability, athlete-news
Melqui Galvao was transferred to a São Paulo prison on May 10. Brazilian deputy Alessandra Campêlo went public this week with the claim: Galvao has been making video calls from inside the facility — 20 to 30 minutes at a time — to students connected to his BJJ College project in Manaus.
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Fight Sports Tops BJJ's PED Suspension Scorecard With Five. Alliance, Gracie Barra, And Atos Round Out The Standings Nobody Asked For.

Fight Sports Tops BJJ's PED Suspension Scorecard With Five. Alliance, Gracie Barra, And Atos Round Out The Standings Nobody Asked For.

May 12, 2026 · alliance, anti-doping
Counting was the whole novelty. BJJEE published a piece this week titled "The Dirty Scorecard: Which BJJ Teams Have The Most PED Violations?" and somewhere between the headline and the math, the sport finally got a leaderboard nobody volunteered for.
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Franjinha Miller: No-Gi Has A Cleaner Path To The Olympics Than Gi — And The Old Guard Is Splitting On Its Own Question

Franjinha Miller: No-Gi Has A Cleaner Path To The Olympics Than Gi — And The Old Guard Is Splitting On Its Own Question

May 12, 2026 · adcc, andre-galvao
Franjinha Miller came out this week and said what a lot of people have been quietly thinking: no-gi has a cleaner path to the Olympics than gi does. Then he said the part everyone is skipping past.
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Franjinha Miller: BJJ Will Never Make the Olympics Because Private Entities Control the Sport

Franjinha Miller: BJJ Will Never Make the Olympics Because Private Entities Control the Sport

May 10, 2026 · alliance-bjj, competition
Alliance BJJ co-founder Romero "Franjinha" Miller gave BJJ Doc the most honest answer anyone in the sport has offered on the Olympics question: "I don't think it's gonna be Olympic. It's too much private companies running the show right now." That was last Friday.
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Rigan Machado Got His 9th-Degree Red Belt From The Man IBJJF Demoted Him Under — At A Ceremony The IBJJF Didn't Sanction

Rigan Machado Got His 9th-Degree Red Belt From The Man IBJJF Demoted Him Under — At A Ceremony The IBJJF Didn't Sanction

May 09, 2026 · competition-results, csw
Three weeks ago, on April 10, Rigan Machado walked into the Combat Submission Wrestling World Conference in Los Angeles and walked out a 9th-degree red belt. Rorion Gracie tied it on him.
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Former Police Investigator Melqui Galvão Was Transported to São Paulo in a Police Car Trunk — The Former Cop Is Now the Cargo

Former Police Investigator Melqui Galvão Was Transported to São Paulo in a Police Car Trunk — The Former Cop Is Now the Cargo

May 09, 2026 · arrest, athlete-news
He arrived at Guarulhos International Airport on the night of May 7 with what Brazilian press described as a fixed and defiant gaze. Melqui Galvão spent years with the Amazonas Civil Police, training law enforcement in defensive techniques across the country.
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RIP Macarrão — Rolls Gracie's Famous Five Are Now Four

RIP Macarrão — Rolls Gracie's Famous Five Are Now Four

May 08, 2026 · competition-results, famous-five
Marcio 'Macarrão' Stambowsky died on April 2, 2026. He was one of the original handful of black belts that Rolls Gracie promoted before Rolls's hang-gliding death in 1982, the group still known as the 'Famous Five' even though the count was always a little fuzzy.
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