BJJ News–Tagged "jiu jitsu"

When a Blue Belt Tries Whiteboard Teaching for Jiu-Jitsu

Aug 31, 2026 · blue-belt, gym-culture

Paul Wentworth, 44, has trained jiu-jitsu for eleven years across three separate periods—started, quit, came back, quit, came back again. On Tuesday evening, he brought a whiteboard to his rolling class.

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JiujitsuNYC Removes Student With Harassment History

Aug 27, 2026 · accountability, community

A video from JiujitsuNYC in Jackson Heights, Queens—run by Professor Alvaro Tautiva on Northern Boulevard—went viral this week for all the wrong reasons. In it, an instructor executes a textbook takedown on a newly enrolled student, transitions to knee-on-belly control, and holds it while the studen

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Tom Hardy Brown Belt: Why Competition Scares Him

Aug 26, 2026 · brown-belt, celebrities-in-bjj

Tom Hardy has built his entire career on playing fearless characters—a warrior in Mad Max, a soldier in Dunkirk, a lethal symbiote in Venom. He started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at 40 and, in a recent interview, admitted something most action stars won't: "I don't really like competing, because i

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Jake Paul Claims MMA Fighters 'Wouldn't Last a Minute' Against D1 Wrestlers — Dana White Dismisses the Cross-Sport Flex

Aug 16, 2026 · cross-sport, dana-white

Jake Paul, the boxer-turned-promoter, made headlines when he claimed current MMA fighters "wouldn't last a minute" against Division One wrestlers. The statement was bold enough to draw immediate pushback from Dana White, who responded via podcast with the kind of matter-of-fact correction that sugge

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ADCC Youth Championship Stands Alone for First Time

Aug 09, 2026 · adcc, competition

For fifteen years, ADCC Youth existed in the shadow of the main event. Kids would grind their brackets on the side while the adults got the main stage, the live stream, the sponsorship money.

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Islam Makhachev: Taekwondo Black Belt He Doesn't Deserve

Aug 08, 2026 · belt-standards, belts

Islam Makhachev just got handed a taekwondo black belt he specifically said he doesn't deserve. And he said it out loud, on the record, unapologetically.

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Jonah Hill Says His Jiu-Jitsu Would Annihilate Three Comedians. Cub Swanson Made Him an Offer.

Aug 07, 2026 · celebrity, confidence

Actor Jonah Hill confidently declared on a recent podcast that his Brazilian jiu-jitsu training would, in his own words, "fing annihilate" three famous podcast hosts—Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett. Hill, 42, has been training seriously under black belt instructor Josh Griffiths and is wo

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Match Footage Lies: Why Every Grappler Rewrites Their Loss

Jul 26, 2026 · bjj, competition

Hell, you might be the guy. He competed last weekend.

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