Ben Askren's New Lungs, Old Habits
Ben Askren got new lungs. And his first instinct is to go back to wrestling.
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BJJ News — mma
Roger Gracie's Heel Hook Myth Is Older Than MMA Itself
Roger Gracie, the Gracie family patriarch and defender of traditional lineage, recently restated a claim that's been bouncing around BJJ circles since before the Fertitta brothers bought the UFC: heel hooks don't work in real fighting because the moment you grab someone's foot, you get punched in th
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Netflix Lost Mokaev to Visa Issues Five Days Before Its First MMA Card Aired
When Netflix's first major MMA card was supposed to land on May 14th, the whole thing had the makings of a statement moment. The Intuit Dome was booked.
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Renato Canuto Suspended For Modafinil — A 'Focus Drug' That The BJJ Community Pretended Never Worked
The Nevada Athletic Commission temporarily suspended Renato Canuto following a post-bout test from his March 13 win at Tuff-N-Uff 152 that came back positive for modafinil and its metabolites, according to BJJ Doc. Canuto had knocked out Dylan Aparis at 1:45 of round one, run his MMA record to 4-0,
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Islam Makhachev Says Ian Garry's Wrestling Camp Won't Help — 'Short-Term Training Doesn't Provide Meaningful Improvement'
Ian Garry flew to Georgia. Not the state, the country — home of Nox, khinkali, and apparently the only wrestlers on Earth who can prepare an Irishman to take down a Dagestani champion.
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Gamebred Bareknuckle Produced Three RNCs On One Card — Remove The Gloves And Grapplers Just Choke Everyone
When Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA ran its return show on Friday the 10th at Ovalo Feria Ganadera in Santo Domingo, something remarkable happened. All three were rear-naked chokes.
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Mikey Musumeci Defended His Title While Planning a Dagestan MMA Debut
The UFC BJJ world watched Mikey Musumeci do something that perfectly encapsulated the structural problem plaguing the bantamweight division: he prepared for a title defense while openly planning a wrestling pilgrimage to Russia. UFC BJJ 8 went down on May 21 at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, and by the
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Chimaev Lost His Title Saturday and Still Had to Honor His Wrestling Match Three Weeks Later
Khamzat Chimaev walked into the Prudential Center as a 13-0 UFC middleweight champion carrying something most title challengers don't: a pre-existing wrestling commitment he'd signed six weeks earlier. When he walked out that Saturday night—May 15, to be exact—as a 13-1 former champion with a split-
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