BJJ News

Urijah Faber's Tech Fall And The RAF Pay Floor That Actually Checked Out

Jun 12, 2026 · arman-tsarukyan, competition-results

Urijah Faber wanted you to know wrestling pays now. He told Ariel Helwani that Real American Freestyle wrestlers can make "as much as a doctor or a lawyer if you have four or five matches in a year." He said that had never been heard of in wrestling, which was why people were going to be tuning in.

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Craig Jones' Training Secret: What Teammates Revealed

Jun 12, 2026 · athlete-narrative, craig-jones

Craig Jones built his no-gi reputation on a specific narrative: he was different. While everyone else was in the gym destroying their bodies with traditional strength training, Jones claimed he was just rolling, flowing, outsmarting people through technique and timing.

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Kyra Gracie Had to Fight Her Own Family for the Right to Train Jiu-Jitsu

Jun 12, 2026 · adcc, competition-results

The Gracie family has spent a hundred years selling jiu-jitsu as the great equalizer. Technique beats strength.

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Robert Valentin Dedicated a First-Round RNC to His Late Mother — And Nobody in the Arena Was Ready For That Speech

Jun 12, 2026 · competition-results, grappling

Two minutes and twenty-two seconds was all it took. Robert "Robzilla" Valentin dragged Julien Leblanc to the canvas, took his back, and sank in a rear-naked choke so textbook it could be the cover of a BJJ instructional.

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