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Banned Pile Driver Causes Cervical Spine Injury

Banned Pile Driver Causes Cervical Spine Injury

On August 22, 2026, Willian Hiroyuki Masuda, a 37-year-old jiu-jitsu instructor known in the community as 'Kabuto,' suffered a catastrophic cervical spine injury during a no-gi competition at the Moringão gymnasium in Londrina, Brazil. The injury wasn't caused by a technical slip or an escalation th
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