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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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When Mica Galvão's Rebranding Lasted Exactly 96 Hours

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

Something happened at BJJ College that crystallized one of grappling's most persistent structural problems in real time. That's how long Mika Jiu-Jitsu lasted before it was put on indefinite hold.

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How Mica Galvao Named His New Team After Himself—While Walking Away From One Named After His Father

Jun 11, 2026 · adcc, athlete-news

The jiu-jitsu world watched something rare unfold: a clean organizational break, executed without the usual corporate apologies or half-measures. When Micael "Mica" Galvão announced he was leaving Melqui Galvão Jiu-Jitsu and launching Mika Jiu-Jitsu, the move wasn't just a name change.

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Diogo Reis's Return to Competition After Leaving Fight Sports Manaus

Jun 11, 2026 · adcc, athlete-news

When Diogo Reis stepped into the ONE Championship cage for Fight Night 43 on May 15, he was doing something that looked routine on the surface but carried weight underneath it. He was defending his ONE flyweight submission grappling championship against Yuki Takahashi.

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When Mica Galvao Killed Mika Jiu-Jitsu Before It Started — 'Became Completely Unviable'

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

Mica Galvao made a decision, then unmade it just as quickly. The gap between announcement and reversal was so compressed that Mika Jiu-Jitsu never even got a proper logo.

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