BJJ News

ADCC Double Champion Has a Hard Time Selling Seminars in Australia — She Says It's 'How Big Their Ego Is'

Jun 12, 2026 · adcc, adele-fornarino

Adele Fornarino is the most accomplished female grappler Australia has ever produced. Two ADCC World titles.

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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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Melqui Galvao Allegedly Used Prison Phone to Threaten Former Students Into Changing Testimony

Jun 11, 2026 · coaching, gym-culture

When your defense strategy involves prison payphones and veiled threats, you might be Melqui Galvao. The embattled coach, currently awaiting trial on multiple charges, has allegedly been working the phones from his cell to pressure former students into altering their testimony.

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BJJ World Champion Brenda Larissa Says Melqui Galvao Forced Her to Date a Boy From the Academy as Cover — Detailed on Camera

Jun 11, 2026 · abuse, athlete-news

She was twelve years old when Melqui Galvão began grooming her. She was a world champion by the time she found the words to describe what happened.

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Melqui Galvão Enters Formal Interrogation Phase in São Paulo — What Happens Next in Brazil's Criminal Process

Jun 11, 2026 · athlete-misconduct, athlete-news

When Melqui Galvão was transferred to a civil police prison in São Paulo on May 10, the jiu-jitsu world watched a case move into territory that most of the sport had never seen at this scale before. By May 12 — just 20 days ago now — the case against him had crossed a critical threshold in Brazil's

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Helena Crevar Defended Her Polaris Lightweight Title Against Amanda Pamela Nicole — Here's How It Went Down

Jun 11, 2026 · amanda-pamela-nicole, athlete-news

When Helena Crevar stepped onto the Polaris 37 mat to defend her lightweight championship against Amanda Pamela Nicole, she was still 18 years old and already holding two major belts. By June 1st, the dust had settled on what turned out to be one of the more interesting title defenses in the women's

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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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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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