BJJ News — mma-grappling

Ikigai Submission Grappling removed blue belt competitor Avazbek Akyolov from their tournament bracket this month after discovering his 4-0 professional MMA record and prior freestyle wrestling competition experience. The tournament explicitly restricted entries to competitors with fewer than six ye

In late May 2026, Arman Tsarukyan made noise about wanting to test his sambo-honed grappling against Helen Maroulis' Olympic wrestling gold. The catch was obvious: Maroulis was a freestyle wrestler who had never competed in submission grappling, and Tsarukyan hadn't actually asked her yet.

Gordon Ryan can't train. His gut — destroyed by years of antibiotics fighting recurring staph infections — won't recover on any timeline he controls.

About three weeks before Ian Garry's welterweight title fight against Islam Makhachev was set to shake up UFC 330 in Philadelphia, the real story wasn't about two fighters preparing for August 15. It was about a phone call that never should have surprised anyone but did: Garry's wife reached out to

The only jiu-jitsu moment in Jai Herbert vs Mandel Nallo was also the saddest one. Nallo, eating hammerfists from a guy he had wobbled thirty seconds earlier, rolled for a leglock.