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Covering Your Opponent's Face as a Grip Break: Technique or Ethics Violation?

Covering Your Opponent's Face as a Grip Break: Technique or Ethics Violation?

Jun 12, 2026 · competition-results, ethics
The first time someone palmed your face on the mat, your reaction wasn't analytical. A hand on the face hits different from an arm drag — it feels personal in a way heel hooks don't, and heel hooks can end your season.
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Song Yadong Just Beat a Grappler Grappling. Then He Lied About It.

Song Yadong Just Beat a Grappler Grappling. Then He Lied About It.

Jun 12, 2026 · competition, competition-results
Song Yadong just beat Deiveson Figueiredo—a former UFC flyweight champion, a world-class grappler—via guillotine choke. Then he explained his win like it was an apology.
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Fight 2 Win Hit 315 North American Events. Then They Finally Went to São Paulo.

Fight 2 Win Hit 315 North American Events. Then They Finally Went to São Paulo.

Jun 11, 2026 · brazil, f2w-316
Fight 2 Win made a quiet announcement that barely registered as news until you actually thought about what it meant: event 316 was leaving North America for the first time in the promotion's history, landing in São Paulo on May 23. For a submission grappling series that had run 315 consecutive event
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SUG 30 Went Down With No Pre-Fight Hype. Here's What Actually Happened.

SUG 30 Went Down With No Pre-Fight Hype. Here's What Actually Happened.

Jun 11, 2026 · chael-sonnen, event-preview
Submission Underground pulled off one of the most audacious promotional non-announcements in grappling history. SUG 30 was scheduled for Saturday, May 18th in Florianópolis, Brazil—and as of Friday evening, May 17th, literally nobody outside the promotion knew who was fighting.
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Thug Trials 3 and the Lovato Jr.-Rocha Match That Finally Happened

Thug Trials 3 and the Lovato Jr.-Rocha Match That Finally Happened

Jun 11, 2026 · adcc, competition-results
pulled off something that had been floating around the grappling community's wishlist for years. On May 11th, three days after competing at a NAIA collegiate wrestling meet against athletes who were in middle school when he was winning ADCC titles, the 42-year-old showed up in Doral, Florida, rear n
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Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay

Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay

Jun 11, 2026 · brazil, competition
When this went down on April 25 at São Paulo's Ginásio do Ibirapuera, it seemed like a straightforward submission gone wrong. Matheus "The Monster" Araujo caught Anderson Nascimento in a rear-naked choke inside three minutes of Round 1 at Jungle Fight 149.
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Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night

Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night

Jun 11, 2026 · arm-triangle, bryce-mitchell
That's all Bryce Mitchell needed to remind the combat sports world why we stare at our phones at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday waiting for preliminary fight results.
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UFC BJJ 9: Eight Submissions, Fowler Dodges Rodriguez

UFC BJJ 9: Eight Submissions, Fowler Dodges Rodriguez

Jun 10, 2026 · grappling, mason-fowler
Eight of nine matches ended in submission. That's not a grappling tournament—that's a technical beating handed out by one format to another.
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