Rafael Mendes Retirement: Brothers Debunk Doping Myth
Rafael Mendes should've been one of the faces of jiu-jitsu for the next decade. Double ADCC champion.
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BJJ News — no-gi
Craig Jones' Training Secret: What Teammates Revealed
Craig Jones built his no-gi reputation on a specific narrative: he was different. While everyone else was in the gym destroying their bodies with traditional strength training, Jones claimed he was just rolling, flowing, outsmarting people through technique and timing.
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SUG 30 Happened in Florianopolis — Chael Returned, Mason Fowler Stayed Home, and Brazil Had Plenty to Say
Submission Underground finally came back from the dead. SUG 30 went down on May 17 in Florianopolis, Brazil — a comeback event that felt equal parts inevitable and bizarre when you stopped to think about the full context.
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RAF's Global Conquest: Everywhere Except Where Wrestling Fans Actually Are
Here's the thing about Real Arena Fighting's expansion strategy: they've figured out how to build a combat sports promotion on every continent except the one where wrestlers congregate. RAF has events in Japan, Brazil, Singapore, London, the Philippines, and now — finally, finally — Las Vegas in Oct
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Gilbert Burns Returns to Grappling at UFC BJJ 9 vs. Monteiro
When you're Gilbert 'Durinho' Burns, a UFC welterweight contender fresh out of a grueling war, what's a guy to do with some downtime? Apparently, you don't take a vacation.
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Gordon Ryan's New Gym Sold $20,000 Lifetime Memberships — Limited to Five People — While He's Retired
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.
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UFC BJJ 9 Is June 4 — Nicky Rod vs. Roosevelt Sousa and Ffion Davies Return Are the Headline
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?
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Franjinha Miller: No-Gi Has A Cleaner Path To The Olympics Than Gi — And The Old Guard Is Splitting On Its Own Question
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.
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