BJJ News — lineage

Chris Bones has built a career telling you what's wrong with jiu-jitsu. Competition guys can't fight for real.

On Saturday, April 25, IBJJF founder Carlos Gracie Jr. received his ninth-degree red belt at the Gracie Barra 40th anniversary summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Kron Gracie already called it. Jeff Glover wants to prove it.

Jeff Glover is not a Rickson Gracie black belt. His lineage runs through a different branch entirely — Rolls Gracie, then Ricardo Miller — not a Rickson in sight, and he's never claimed otherwise.

Chris Bones has spent years building one of the most aggressive online presences in BJJ on a very specific foundation. He calls himself a "3rd Degree Black Belt under Master Rickson Gracie and Professor Jason Roebig." That credential — Rickson Gracie's name literally attached to his rank — is load-b

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.