BJJ News — nick-rodriguez

Eight of nine matches ended in submission. That's not a grappling tournament—that's a technical beating handed out by one format to another.

There is a specific kind of cognitive dissonance that happens when you watch a sport announce, with total confidence, that it has solved a problem—and then immediately creates the exact problem it just solved. Roosevelt Sousa knows that feeling now.

Roosevelt De Sousa had a December to remember. On December 13, 2025, he won the IBJJF gi world title in the ultra-heavyweight division.