BJJ News — no-gi

When you're the most dominant no-gi grappler of your generation but take an indefinite competition hiatus, what's your next move? If you're Gordon Ryan, you launch a gym with $20,000 lifetime memberships — and limit them to five people.

When UFC decided to get into the grappling event business, a lot of practitioners had questions. Like: will these be real grappling matches, or just celebrities awkwardly pummeling each other while Dana White grins at a production monitor?

Franjinha Miller came out this week and said what a lot of people have been quietly thinking: no-gi has a cleaner path to the Olympics than gi does. Then he said the part everyone is skipping past.