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The Man Who Beat Carlson Gracie Is Reportedly Living On Student Donations. Robert Drysdale Wants To Know Why The Sport Doesn't Care.

The Man Who Beat Carlson Gracie Is Reportedly Living On Student Donations. Robert Drysdale Wants To Know Why The Sport Doesn't Care.

Jun 17, 2026 · bjj-history, carlson-gracie
Quick test for the BJJ obsessive in your gym: name the only man to ever get his hand raised against Carlson Gracie. Most black belts can't do it, which is exactly Robert Drysdale's point.
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Matt Serra Says The First American Gracie Black Belt Was 'Disowned' In The Very Next Family Newsletter

Matt Serra Says The First American Gracie Black Belt Was 'Disowned' In The Very Next Family Newsletter

Jun 17, 2026 · bjj-history, craig-kukuk
The first American BJJ black belt didn't survive to the next newsletter. That's not a metaphor.
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Half The Community Just Realized Their Gym Is Running The Lloyd Irvin Sales Playbook — No Pricing, No Schedule, No Way Out

Half The Community Just Realized Their Gym Is Running The Lloyd Irvin Sales Playbook — No Pricing, No Schedule, No Way Out

Jun 17, 2026 · community, contracts
You walk into the gym. The website didn't tell you the price.
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McGregor vs Holloway Is 'All But Official' for UFC 329 — A 13-Year Rematch Where Both of Them Now Have a BJJ Black Belt

McGregor vs Holloway Is 'All But Official' for UFC 329 — A 13-Year Rematch Where Both of Them Now Have a BJJ Black Belt

Jun 17, 2026 · bjj-black-belt, conor-mcgregor
Thirteen years is a long time to wait for a rematch that nobody asked for. Then again, nobody asked for the first one to go three rounds either — and that one ended with Conor McGregor limping out of a Boston cage on a knee that popped in round two.
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American Black Belt Flies to Tbilisi For 'Real' BJJ Training — Both Gyms He Visits Are Watching the Same Lachlan Giles Tutorial His Academy Uses

American Black Belt Flies to Tbilisi For 'Real' BJJ Training — Both Gyms He Visits Are Watching the Same Lachlan Giles Tutorial His Academy Uses

Jun 16, 2026 · georgia, globalization
The laptop is propped against the mirror. Someone queued up a Lachlan Giles tutorial — the half guard anthology, volume four by the look of it.
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Anthony Bourdain's Secret BJJ Account and the Man Hollywood Never Filmed

Anthony Bourdain's Secret BJJ Account and the Man Hollywood Never Filmed

Jun 16, 2026 · a24, anthony-bourdain
A24 is making a movie about Anthony Bourdain. The film is Tony, directed by Matt Johnson, starring Dominic Sessa as a young Bourdain in a 1976 summer in Provincetown — cooking jobs, drinking, the early outline of a man who would spend the next four decades eating his way across every country that wo
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Black Belt Calls Gym-Branded Gi Mandates 'Outdated And Unamerican' — Names New York Academy That Forces Members To Wear Blue Gis On Saturdays And Buy Their Own Brand

Black Belt Calls Gym-Branded Gi Mandates 'Outdated And Unamerican' — Names New York Academy That Forces Members To Wear Blue Gis On Saturdays And Buy Their Own Brand

Jun 16, 2026 · athlete-news, etiquette
Some gyms make you wear blue on Saturdays. A New York gym (the source didn't name it) enforces this, per a BJJDoc report.
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The Lloyd Irvin Sales Blueprint Is Still Running in American BJJ Gyms — 14 Years After His Team's Sexual Assault Scandal, His Tactics Live On

The Lloyd Irvin Sales Blueprint Is Still Running in American BJJ Gyms — 14 Years After His Team's Sexual Assault Scandal, His Tactics Live On

Jun 16, 2026 · bjj-accountability, community
Go to lloydirvin.clickfunnels.com right now. A sales program for martial arts gym owners is still active.
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