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Regional Academy Updates Website To Reflect Status As 'Official Training Home' Of Two-Time UFC Champion — He Attended A Seminar In April 2019

Regional Academy Updates Website To Reflect Status As 'Official Training Home' Of Two-Time UFC Champion — He Attended A Seminar In April 2019

The website went up sometime last week. Under "About Our Academy" — maybe in the banner, floating over a photo of a crowded mat — there are now four words that weren't there before: Official Training Home.
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Fed Says US Consumer Debt Hit $18.8 Trillion. BJJ Fanatics Released 400 Instructionals And You Watched Twelve.

Fed Says US Consumer Debt Hit $18.8 Trillion. BJJ Fanatics Released 400 Instructionals And You Watched Twelve.

The Federal Reserve published its Q4 2025 household debt numbers this month, and the line at the top was $18.8 trillion — a record, up $4.6 trillion from 2019. Buried in the agency's H.2 commentary was a short note about subscription-based recurring billing, which the Fed called a fast-growing categ
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UFC BJJ Is Moving Behind the Paramount+ Paywall — The Free YouTube Era That Fixed the Product Ends Just as People Started Watching

UFC BJJ Is Moving Behind the Paramount+ Paywall — The Free YouTube Era That Fixed the Product Ends Just as People Started Watching

Here's the timeline of UFC BJJ getting its act together, in case you want to know exactly how long the window was. UFC BJJ launched in June 2025 with all the subtlety of a Dana White press conference — big promises, questionable matchmaking, and viewership numbers that made Craig Jones pull up his s
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Rorion Gracie Created The UFC As A Jiu-Jitsu Infomercial, Sold It For $1M — It's Now Worth $12 Billion

Rorion Gracie Created The UFC As A Jiu-Jitsu Infomercial, Sold It For $1M — It's Now Worth $12 Billion

That's what Rorion Gracie walked away from. Robert Drysdale laid it out on the Jiu-Jitsu Revolution podcasthttps://bjjdoc.com/2026/04/12/adcc-veteran-questions-if-gracies-ever-believed-in-mma-as-a-sport-they-sold-ufc-the-first-chance-they-got/ last week, and the numbers are the kind that keep you aw
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Eddie Bravo Is Wondering If EBI Is Even Worth Doing Anymore. The UFC, Which Copied His Ruleset, Is Busy Cutting His Budget.

Eddie Bravo Is Wondering If EBI Is Even Worth Doing Anymore. The UFC, Which Copied His Ruleset, Is Busy Cutting His Budget.

Eddie Bravo sat down with Jake Shields this week at the 10th Planet headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, rolled for a bit, and then said the quiet part out loud. Not because it stopped working.
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GrappleDB Counted Every BJJ Instructional Ever Made. The Numbers Are Brutal.

GrappleDB Counted Every BJJ Instructional Ever Made. The Numbers Are Brutal.

GrappleDB just did something nobody in the instructional market wanted: they counted. The database — 3,393 titles, 1,228 instructors, 5,800 hours of footage — tells a story that starts as a gold rush and ends as a clearance rack.
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