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Fan Who Purchased $847 Mat-Side Seat At World Submission Grappling Championship Reports Optimal Viewing Angle For Athletes' Pre-Match Butt-Scooting Ritual — Plans To Return

Fan Who Purchased $847 Mat-Side Seat At World Submission Grappling Championship Reports Optimal Viewing Angle For Athletes' Pre-Match Butt-Scooting Ritual — Plans To Return

You paid eight hundred dollars to be this close. The mat-side seat at a major submission grappling event puts you right there: no screens, no distance, just you and two of the best grapplers alive separated by a strip of mat.
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Beatrice Jin on 'Being Too Nice' in BJJ — The Sport's Most Passive Aggression Debate Gets a Name

Beatrice Jin on 'Being Too Nice' in BJJ — The Sport's Most Passive Aggression Debate Gets a Name

The practitioner who gives back side control a beat early so their partner can "reset." Who apologizes when they almost catch a submission. Who pulls guard reflexively — not because of their game plan, but because shooting a takedown feels impolite somehow.
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Fitness Influencer With 8 Years Of Body Combat Tries Real BJJ — Choked Out By A 14-Year-Old In Week Three

Fitness Influencer With 8 Years Of Body Combat Tries Real BJJ — Choked Out By A 14-Year-Old In Week Three

Every gym has watched this arc. A new student walks in confident, glowing.
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Kamaru Usman Says Brock Lesnar Would Beat Jon Jones In A Pure Wrestling Match — Both Wrong For Different Reasons

Kamaru Usman Says Brock Lesnar Would Beat Jon Jones In A Pure Wrestling Match — Both Wrong For Different Reasons

Kamaru Usman went on the Pound for Pound podcast he co-hosts with Henry Cejudo and answered a fan question: who would win a freestyle wrestling match, Real American Freestyle rules, no MMA, between Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar. Cejudo, an Olympic gold medalist in freestyle and a two-division UFC champ
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Georgio Poullas Arrested for Felony Battery

Georgio Poullas Arrested for Felony Battery

Georgio Poullas got arrested again. This time, the charge is felony battery.
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Mikey Musumeci Condemns the 106-0 Match — 'That's Not Skill, That's Bullying'

Mikey Musumeci Condemns the 106-0 Match — 'That's Not Skill, That's Bullying'

A scoreline circulated through the BJJ community that sparked one of those rare moments when the sport's biggest names actually say what everyone's thinking. Then a submission to end it.
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Fight to Win Held Its First Brazil Event After 315 Shows in North America

Fight to Win Held Its First Brazil Event After 315 Shows in North America

Fight to Win did something it had never done in its entire operational history: it left North America. After 315 consecutive events locked exclusively on the continent, the promotion held its inaugural Brazil show on May 19th — and the grappling community's reaction was somewhere between curiosity a
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Raja Jackson Cut Plea Deal — Rampage's Son Got 90 Days and $81K Restitution for Beating Wrestler Unconscious

Raja Jackson Cut Plea Deal — Rampage's Son Got 90 Days and $81K Restitution for Beating Wrestler Unconscious

Raja Jackson pleaded no contest to felony battery with serious bodily injury on May 9, 2026, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. The son of former UFC heavyweight Quinton "Rampage" Jackson admitted two special allegations: personal infliction of great bodily injury and en
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