BJJ News — olympics

The irony is so obvious it hurts: jiu-jitsu spent thirty years fighting for mainstream recognition—for seats at the table, for media coverage, for the legitimacy that comes with Olympic inclusion. Now that it might actually get there, practitioners are looking at what happened to judo and wondering

The Brazilian jiu-jitsu community witnessed something genuinely remarkable: the sport's most realistic Olympic pathway in its history, followed almost immediately by complete organizational chaos. The sequence of events that unfolded over just a few weeks — and the three incompatible ruleset framewo

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.

Alliance BJJ co-founder Romero "Franjinha" Miller gave BJJ Doc the most honest answer anyone in the sport has offered on the Olympics question: "I don't think it's gonna be Olympic. It's too much private companies running the show right now." That was last Friday.

Chimaev fights for the first time as UFC middleweight champion this Saturday. His coach announced Olympic plans on Wednesday.