BJJ News–Page 14

Dern Defends Her Crown in Robertson's Backyard. Philadelphia Gets a Real Fight.

Aug 09, 2026 · athlete-news, competition-results

Mackenzie Dern travels to Philadelphia on August 15 to defend her UFC strawweight title against Gillian Robertson, and the moment is worth unpacking because everything about it is interesting—and nothing about it is simple. Robertson gets to fight for the belt at home.

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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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Islam Makhachev: Taekwondo Black Belt He Doesn't Deserve

Aug 08, 2026 · belt-standards, belts

Islam Makhachev just got handed a taekwondo black belt he specifically said he doesn't deserve. And he said it out loud, on the record, unapologetically.

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Sean Strickland Cliff Dare: Friend's Near-Drowning

Aug 08, 2026 · athlete-behavior, athlete-safety

On July 30-31, Sean Strickland posted Instagram Stories filming a cliff-diving incident that started as content and ended with someone's life in actual danger. The setup was standard influencer material: a group of friends at a scenic location, a dare, and a camera rolling.

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When Elisabeth Clay's Leg Lock Broke Danilo's Knee

Aug 07, 2026 · couples-training, danilo-moreira

Danilo Moreira has rolled with world-class grapplers across two continents, competed at elite levels in both gi and no-gi, and built a legitimate career as a professional grappler. He also, at various points, refused to tap to his wife while she was literally breaking his body.

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Matt Serra and Mikey Musumeci Said Ecological BJJ Is Just Reinventing the Wheel — 'Don't Make Jiu-Jitsu Only for the Intellectuals'

Aug 07, 2026 · coaching, ecological-jiu-jitsu

On an episode of the Overdogs BJJ podcast, Matt Serra and Mikey Musumeci put a name to something every gym has argued about in the locker room after class: the tension between time-tested drilling and newer, "ecological" approaches to jiu-jitsu instruction. For those not deep in the coaching literat

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Jonah Hill Says His Jiu-Jitsu Would Annihilate Three Comedians. Cub Swanson Made Him an Offer.

Aug 07, 2026 · celebrity, confidence

Actor Jonah Hill confidently declared on a recent podcast that his Brazilian jiu-jitsu training would, in his own words, "fing annihilate" three famous podcast hosts—Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett. Hill, 42, has been training seriously under black belt instructor Josh Griffiths and is wo

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BJJ Nurse Safely De-escalates Aggressive Patient

Aug 06, 2026 · athlete-news, bjj

October 2024, 2 a.m., Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Emergency Department. Daniel Nelson is a registered nurse with ten years of jiu-jitsu training.

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