BJJ News

How Diogo Reis Left BJJ College, Announced His Departure in 4 Days, and Competed 13 Days Later at a Higher Weight Class

Jun 19, 2026 · adcc, athlete-news

The Brazilian jiu-jitsu world watched one of its brightest young competitors navigate an impossible situation with a clarity that's rare in professional sports. Diogo Reis, a two-time ADCC champion and current ONE Championship flyweight world champion, found himself connected to one of the most seri

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BJJ World Champion Brenda Larissa Says It Started When She Was 12 — And Her Sister Was Next

Jun 17, 2026 · abuse, accountability

She said he told her she would have a great future. Brenda Larissa was 12.

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Active Police Investigator Melqui Galvao Allegedly Used His Badge To Block Misconduct Complaints For Years. A 13-Minute Voice Memo Did Not Care.

Jun 16, 2026 · athlete-news, bjj-safety

Melqui Galvao wasn't coaching as a private citizen. He was an active civil police investigator in the state of Amazonas.

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Fabricio Andrey Gets His ADCC 2026 Invite Two Weeks After Formally Leaving the Team Under Criminal Investigation

Jun 13, 2026 · accountability, adcc-2026

In August 2023, Fabricio Andrey explained why he was leaving the team that made him. The explanation wasn't exactly illuminating.

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BJJ World Champion Brenda Larissa Says Melqui Galvao Forced Her to Date a Boy From the Academy as Cover — Detailed on Camera

Jun 11, 2026 · abuse, athlete-news

She was twelve years old when Melqui Galvão began grooming her. She was a world champion by the time she found the words to describe what happened.

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Melqui Galvão Enters Formal Interrogation Phase in São Paulo — What Happens Next in Brazil's Criminal Process

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-misconduct, athlete-news

When Melqui Galvão was transferred to a civil police prison in São Paulo on May 10, the jiu-jitsu world watched a case move into territory that most of the sport had never seen at this scale before. By May 12 — just 20 days ago now — the case against him had crossed a critical threshold in Brazil's

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When a BJJ World Champion Named Herself

Jun 11, 2026 · alliance, athlete-news

Brenda Larissa did something the sport of jiu-jitsu wasn't particularly set up to handle: she recorded twenty minutes of testimony, published it under her own name, and described what she said was fourteen years of abuse at the hands of Melqui Galvão, an Alliance black belt, founder of BJJ College i

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When Mica Galvão Dissolved BJJ College And Launched MJJ — A 21-Year-Old Forced To Rebuild After His Arrested Father's Charges

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-news, bjj-college

When the fallout from Melqui Galvão's arrest was still fresh enough to sting, his 21-year-old son Mica posted a clean graphic to Instagram and ended a 15-year project in two paragraphs. BJJ College, the team his father had built from the ground up, the team that had produced Mica himself, the team c

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