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Nicholas Meregali Steps Back From Galvao Plea — 'Many Of Those People Are Also Part Of It'

Nicholas Meregali Steps Back From Galvao Plea — 'Many Of Those People Are Also Part Of It'

Jun 10, 2026 · accountability, athlete-news
Nicholas Meregali — three-time IBJJF World Champion and the loudest name in professional BJJ pressing on the Melqui Galvão case — made a very public plea. On April 28, he posted an Instagram video asking victims to come forward with a specific ask: contact him directly and he'd route them to the det
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When Kade Ruotolo and Diogo Reis Both Fought Through Inflection Points on the Same Bangkok Card

When Kade Ruotolo and Diogo Reis Both Fought Through Inflection Points on the Same Bangkok Card

Jun 10, 2026 · adcc, athlete-news
Two ADCC champions shared a ONE Fight Night 43 card in Bangkok. The coincidence seemed minor at the time.
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Diogo Reis's First Fight Without Melqui Galvão's Team — ONE Fight Night 43 Became a Test Nobody Planned

Diogo Reis's First Fight Without Melqui Galvão's Team — ONE Fight Night 43 Became a Test Nobody Planned

Jun 10, 2026 · adcc, athlete-news
Diogo Reis stepped onto the mat in Bangkok on May 15 for what should have been a routine title defense. Instead, it became something far more complicated: the first real glimpse of one of submission grappling's brightest talents operating without the institutional scaffolding that built him.
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Mica Galvao Broke His Silence — Condemned 'Violence Against Women And Children' In General But Did Not Address His Father By Name

Mica Galvao Broke His Silence — Condemned 'Violence Against Women And Children' In General But Did Not Address His Father By Name

Jun 10, 2026 · athlete-news, athlete-statement
When Melqui Galvao turned himself in to Manaus police on a São Paulo arrest warrant referencing alleged sexual crimes against minors, his son Mica posted a statement about seven hours later. The statement was short.
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Melqui Galvão: How A Tenured Police Instructor Allegedly Abused Three Students — One Just 12 — While His Federation Stayed Silent

Melqui Galvão: How A Tenured Police Instructor Allegedly Abused Three Students — One Just 12 — While His Federation Stayed Silent

Jun 10, 2026 · accountability, athlete-news
The headline detail that no story about Melqui Galvão could seem to top was almost absurd in its specificity: the man was on the Amazonas state payroll as a sworn Civil Police investigator with a sub-specialty in teaching other officers personal-defense techniques. That alone would have been darkly
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Livia Barasine Emerges as First Named Competitor on Record in Galvão Case

Livia Barasine Emerges as First Named Competitor on Record in Galvão Case

Jun 07, 2026 · accountability, athlete-news
When Livia Barasine released her statement on May 4, the jiu-jitsu community got its first named adult face attached to the allegations against coach Melqui Galvão. She didn't emerge from anonymity because she'd been hiding.
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Brazilian Deputy Reveals Melqui Galvão Called Former Students From Prison to Pressure Testimony Changes

Brazilian Deputy Reveals Melqui Galvão Called Former Students From Prison to Pressure Testimony Changes

Jun 07, 2026 · abuse, accountability
Brazilian state Deputy Alessandra Campêlo made a public revelation that shifted understanding of the Melqui Galvão case from institutional crisis into something darker: active, ongoing obstruction from inside a jail cell. Galvão had been locked up in a Manaus facility for roughly two weeks when, acc
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BJJ's Abuse Crisis Is Now Being Analyzed in Academic Media — The Sport Marketed As Safer Than Striking Gets Its First Mainstream Institutional Autopsy

BJJ's Abuse Crisis Is Now Being Analyzed in Academic Media — The Sport Marketed As Safer Than Striking Gets Its First Mainstream Institutional Autopsy

Jun 03, 2026 · abuse, academic
The pitch was always the same. You want self-defense without turning your brain to pudding?
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