Match Footage Lies: Why Every Grappler Rewrites Their Loss
Hell, you might be the guy. He competed last weekend.
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Jacob Rodriguez Faced Vagner Rocha at Karate Combat 62, Settling a Family Grudge
Jacob Rodriguez returned to competition on July 24 at Karate Combat 62, stepping onto the mat to face Vagner Rocha—and walking straight into a family beef that had been cooking since before he ever got his silver medal. Here's what mattered: the Rodriguezes and Rochas had never grappled directly as
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Danaher Explains Why BJJ's Standup Stays Broken
John Danaher dropped a diagnosis recently that every practitioner who's ever watched their coach spend five minutes on arm drags before pivoting to "the real part" (ground fighting) has felt in their bones: BJJ's standup game isn't broken because we haven't figured it out yet. It's broken by design.
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The Gym Physique Myth: Why Light Conditioning Won't Work
Every BJJ gym has one. Forty-five pounds of functional muscle, vascularity that could map a transit system, the kind of physique that makes people ask, "What's your secret?" And his answer, delivered with complete sincerity over his second açaà bowl, is always: "Just staying after class, bro.
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Gordon Ryan: Brazil Will Be Phased Out in 10 Years
Gordon Ryan appeared on the Overdogs USA podcast with Tim Kennedy on July 19 and did what Gordon Ryan does best: make a take so bold it stops the room, then explain the mechanism behind it well enough that you can't immediately dismiss him. This time, he predicted that Brazil will be "phased out" of
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Blue Belt Sandbagging: Hidden MMA Record Exposed
Ikigai Submission Grappling removed blue belt competitor Avazbek Akyolov from their tournament bracket this month after discovering his 4-0 professional MMA record and prior freestyle wrestling competition experience. The tournament explicitly restricted entries to competitors with fewer than six ye
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ADCC 2026: Fourth Defending Champion Passed—And Bodoni Surfed Instead of Defending
The email dropped mid-July, buried in the ADCC digest no one reads until they're scrolling at 2 a.m. Another defending champion—that's four now, depending on how you're counting—wasn't coming back.
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The Executive Decision: Covington Used Shareholder Status to Override a Fight Contract
That's how long Covington held the line as RAF 12's headliner before bailing. On July 18, Colby Covington beat Arman Tsarukyan 5-3 at RAF 11 in Milwaukee to become the promotion's inaugural Cruiserweight Crossover champion.
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