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Mikey Musumeci Says IBJJF Rules Encourage Strategy Over Fighting — 'It's So Easy to Lose'

Mikey Musumeci Says IBJJF Rules Encourage Strategy Over Fighting — 'It's So Easy to Lose'

"Nobody actually wants to fight." That's Mikey Musumeci on IBJJF competition. Not a disgruntled blue belt venting after losing on advantages at a regional.
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Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay

Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay

When this went down on April 25 at São Paulo's Ginásio do Ibirapuera, it seemed like a straightforward submission gone wrong. Matheus "The Monster" Araujo caught Anderson Nascimento in a rear-naked choke inside three minutes of Round 1 at Jungle Fight 149.
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Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night

Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night

That's all Bryce Mitchell needed to remind the combat sports world why we stare at our phones at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday waiting for preliminary fight results.
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Steveson Shuts Down DC's Warning on Jones Coaching

Steveson Shuts Down DC's Warning on Jones Coaching

Gable Steveson thinks Jon Jones is perfect. Not "good." Not "great." Not "an underrated technical mind." Perfect.
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Bernardo Faria Defends Buchecha And Vieira After UFC Vegas — Not Failure' From The Only Two-Time Worlds Absolute Champ Who Never Tried MMA

Bernardo Faria Defends Buchecha And Vieira After UFC Vegas — Not Failure' From The Only Two-Time Worlds Absolute Champ Who Never Tried MMA

The morning after Buchecha got two-punched into next week and Rodolfo Vieira got out-cardioed by an unranked light heavyweight, Bernardo Faria sat down to defend them both. It's a defensible defense.
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Back When RAF 9 Went Down: A Sitting UFC Champion, An Olympic Gold Medalist, And A Hall of Famer All Showed Up In Arlington

Back When RAF 9 Went Down: A Sitting UFC Champion, An Olympic Gold Medalist, And A Hall of Famer All Showed Up In Arlington

2026, to be exact — it marked one of those moments in combat sports where you had to actually stop and process what was happening. College Park Center at the University of Texas at Arlington hosted RAF 9, and the card that night represented something the freestyle wrestling world had been chasing fo
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Twenty-Year-Old Crowned 'Most Dangerous Man In Grappling' — Still Hasn't Acknowledged It 50 Days Later

Twenty-Year-Old Crowned 'Most Dangerous Man In Grappling' — Still Hasn't Acknowledged It 50 Days Later

When BJJEE published "Why Andrew Tackett is the most dangerous man in grappling right now" on the 12th, it felt like a coronation. The piece laid out the case: elite cardio, submission-first no-gi game, constant pressure, a generational shift away from point-stalling.
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When the UFC Booked Gable Steveson vs. 'The Snack Panther' — and Nobody Knew Whether to Laugh Yet

When the UFC Booked Gable Steveson vs. 'The Snack Panther' — and Nobody Knew Whether to Laugh Yet

When Gable Steveson's long-anticipated UFC debut finally materialized, the promotion did something that felt almost too perfectly absurd to be real. They matched the youngest super-heavyweight Olympic gold medalist in history against a guy whose official fight nickname is "The Snack Panther." Fiftee
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