Ben Askren's New Lungs, Old Habits
Ben Askren got new lungs. And his first instinct is to go back to wrestling.
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A Black Belt in a Jiu-Jitsu Shirt Stopped an In-Flight Emergency. CNN Acted Surprised.
When a passenger attempted to open the emergency exit door at 30,000 feet, the man sitting nearby didn't freeze. He didn't yell for help.
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Roger Gracie's Heel Hook Myth Is Older Than MMA Itself
Roger Gracie, the Gracie family patriarch and defender of traditional lineage, recently restated a claim that's been bouncing around BJJ circles since before the Fertitta brothers bought the UFC: heel hooks don't work in real fighting because the moment you grab someone's foot, you get punched in th
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RAF Takes Dvalishvili vs Cejudo and Snyder vs Sadulaev to Tbilisi — First International Event Remakes UFC 298 in a Country That Worships Wrestling
RAF is taking its first international card to Tbilisi, and if you've trained anywhere in the Caucasus region, you already know why that's not a random choice. The Resurrection Athletic Federation — the wrestling promotion that spent the last two years quietly rebuilding after Ryan Bader stepped back
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Trump's White House UFC Card Just Got Sued for Corruption. Yes, Really.
Let me walk you through something that actually happened today: a federal lawsuit was filed — formally, in court, with lawyers and everything — alleging that a White House UFC event is an illegal corrupt scheme because the sitting president is personally profiting from VIP ticket sales while holding
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ADCC 2026 Was Selling 4 Tickets a Day With 15,030 Seats and Four Months to Go
As ADCC 2026 approached with four months remaining, ticket sales painted a bleak picture: 2,880 seats sold over five months of presale, averaging just four per day. The 15,030-capacity venue was only 19% full.
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When ADCC Ran Five Simultaneous Opens Across Five Countries—And Revealed Its Real Problem
ADCC pulled off something ambitious—or desperate, depending on your read on it. On May 30, the organization coordinated qualifier events across Portugal, the United States, Wales, Moldova, and Slovakia, all happening on the same calendar date.
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Livia Barasine Emerges as First Named Competitor on Record in Galvão Case
When Livia Barasine released her statement on May 4, the jiu-jitsu community got its first named adult face attached to the allegations against coach Melqui Galvão. She didn't emerge from anonymity because she'd been hiding.
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