BJJ News–Tagged "wrestling"

Joe Rogan Warned Chimaev About Wrestling After the Title Loss — He Was Already Booked Anyway

Jun 12, 2026 · athlete-news, competition-results

Joe Rogan went on his podcast and spelled out a specific injury concern about Khamzat Chimaev's decision to compete in freestyle wrestling just six weeks after losing the UFC middleweight title. By the time Rogan finished naming that concern, Chimaev was already locked in for RAF 10 on June 13 in St

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RAF 10: Will Chimaev vs Danis Actually Happen?

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-news, ben-askren

Louis on Friday, and if you squint at the card hard enough, it looks legitimate. Khamzat Chimaev vs Dillon Danis headlines.

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Chimaev vs. Danis at RAF 10: Grappling Breakdown

Jun 11, 2026 · allstars, athlete-news

RAF 10 takes place Saturday night in St. Louis, and if you've been following the sport casually, you probably know Khamzat Chimaev is fighting Dillon Danis.

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Rafael Lovato Jr. Won Freestyle Wrestling at 42 — Proof That Grappling Lineage Never Expires

Jun 10, 2026 · athlete-news, college-wrestling

just won the Freestyle Wrestling US Open at 42 years old. Not as a comeback story.

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When the UFC Booked Gable Steveson vs. 'The Snack Panther' — and Nobody Knew Whether to Laugh Yet

Jun 10, 2026 · competition-results, gable-steveson

When Gable Steveson's long-anticipated UFC debut finally materialized, the promotion did something that felt almost too perfectly absurd to be real. They matched the youngest super-heavyweight Olympic gold medalist in history against a guy whose official fight nickname is "The Snack Panther." Fiftee

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Ben Askren's New Lungs, Old Habits

Jun 08, 2026 · ben-askren, comeback

Ben Askren got new lungs. And his first instinct is to go back to wrestling.

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RAF Takes Dvalishvili vs Cejudo and Snyder vs Sadulaev to Tbilisi — First International Event Remakes UFC 298 in a Country That Worships Wrestling

Jun 08, 2026 · cejudo, competition-results

RAF is taking its first international card to Tbilisi, and if you've trained anywhere in the Caucasus region, you already know why that's not a random choice. The Resurrection Athletic Federation — the wrestling promotion that spent the last two years quietly rebuilding after Ryan Bader stepped back

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Colby Covington vs Arman Tsarukyan: Genius Matchup or Last Gasp

Jun 07, 2026 · arman-tsarukyan, colby-covington

Colby Covington and Arman Tsarukyan are fighting July 18 at RAF 11, and the BJJ community is about to find out if this is the most brilliant matchup of the summer or just RAF desperately trying to keep Covington's relevance alive after his UFC departure. Let's be clear about what's happening here.

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