BJJ News

ADCC-Invited Mateusz Gamrot Gets Submitted in Round 1 Three Weeks Before He's Supposed to Compete at Worlds

Aug 14, 2026 · adcc, competition-results

Mateusz Gamrot got submitted in Round 1 at UFC Vegas 120 on August 8. Quillan Salkilld caught him in a rear naked choke at 4:25.

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Renato Moicano's Arm Triangle Victory at BJJ Stars 19

Aug 11, 2026 · arm-triangle, bjj

Renato Moicano proved something this weekend at BJJ Stars 19 that MMA fighters have been trying to prove for years: they can actually grapple. Not in the "I wrestled in college" sense.

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Andrew Tackett: PEDs Are Why BJJ Matches Suck

Aug 08, 2026 · andrew-tackett, drug-testing

Andrew Tackett didn't bury the lede. On a recent Mighty Cast podcast appearance, the UFC BJJ welterweight champion took a flamethrower to the sport's most obvious problem: athletes on steroids have turned grappling into a strength contest, and nobody's going to say it out loud except apparently Andr

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Rear Naked Choke Manslaughter: Perth Case

Jul 26, 2026 · bjj-liability, community

On the morning of July 13, 2026, Christian Jack Joseph appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on a manslaughter charge after a street altercation in Fremantle that left a 63-year-old man dead. Joseph, a 26-year-old junior doctor at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and a BJJ blue belt, had allegedly held a

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Danaher Explains Why BJJ's Standup Stays Broken

Jul 25, 2026 · athlete-news, bjj

John Danaher dropped a diagnosis recently that every practitioner who's ever watched their coach spend five minutes on arm drags before pivoting to "the real part" (ground fighting) has felt in their bones: BJJ's standup game isn't broken because we haven't figured it out yet. It's broken by design.

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Fight 2 Win 316 Held 52-Match Card in São Paulo; Willson Bueno Closes Event with Kneebar Victory

Jul 17, 2026 · bjj, brazil

Fight 2 Win 316 held 52 technical grappling matches on May 23 in São Paulo, with multiple submission finishes punctuating the card. Willson Bueno closed one with a kneebar that needed no commentary to justify itself.

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Bryce Mitchell Called Guard Pulling 'Gay' — Mikey Musumeci Accepted His Challenge Anyway

Jul 07, 2026 · athlete-challenge, bryce-mitchell

On July 3, 2026, UFC bantamweight Bryce Mitchell did what UFC bantamweights do—talked trash on a grappler he shouldn't have. He called Mikey Musumeci, the UFC's first submission grappling world titleholder and five-time IBJJF world champion, a homosexual slur wrapped in a critique of guard pulling.

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Bryce Mitchell Said BJJ Professors Were Teaching 'Gayness' — Also Refused to Watch Musumeci

Jul 01, 2026 · bryce-mitchell, butt-scoot

UFC featherweight Bryce Mitchell aired strong opinions about jiu-jitsu this week on his podcast, ArkanSanity, and in Reddit AMAs, continuing a line of criticism he'd repeated since February. Mitchell's take: some Brazilian jiu-jitsu professors were "teaching gayness." The specific target was butt sc

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