Ashton Kutcher Earned His Black Belt. He Spent Six Years at Brown Belt.
Six years at brown belt. That's Ashton Kutcher's number.
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Ronda Rousey Tried to Occupy Two Contradictory Positions at Once, Three Weeks Before Fighting Gina Carano
About two weeks before the Netflix main event that would shake up combat sports, Ronda Rousey did what she'd been doing non-stop for the previous three weeks: she tried to hold two mutually exclusive emotional positions in a single sentence and called it grace. When TMZ caught her on camera on April
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Draculino Says BJJ's Global Explosion Was 'Beyond His Wildest Dreams' — He's One of the Architects Who Caused It
Draculino says he couldn't have imagined this. "Not even in my wildest dreams," said the coral belt legend in a recent interview, surveying a sport that now spans millions of practitioners worldwide, has made professional grappling careers viable without anyone needing to cross over into MMA, and is
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Mikey Musumeci Defended His Title While Planning a Dagestan MMA Debut
The UFC BJJ world watched Mikey Musumeci do something that perfectly encapsulated the structural problem plaguing the bantamweight division: he prepared for a title defense while openly planning a wrestling pilgrimage to Russia. UFC BJJ 8 went down on May 21 at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas, and by the
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Fabricio Andrey's Title Shot and the Team He Left Behind in 2023
When Fabricio Andrey landed his ONE Championship Lightweight Submission Grappling title shot against Kade Ruotolo, the narrative practically wrote itself. A 26-year-old Brazilian grappler with three IBJJF World titles was about to fight for gold—but the real story sat in the background, quietly resh
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ADCC 2026 Was a Ticket Fiasco and Everyone Saw It Coming
When the dust settled on ADCC's qualification cycle for the September event in Poland, one number told the entire story: four tickets per day. That was the sales velocity for what's supposed to be the biggest submission grappling event on the planet, scheduled for September 12-13 at Tauron Arena Kra
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Chimaev Lost the Belt, Got Booked for Wrestling 23 Days Later, and Nobody Checked In
Something peculiar happened in combat sports that deserved more attention than it got. Three days after Khamzat Chimaev went into oxygen deprivation during his weight cut, lost his first professional fight, and watched his 15-0 record end on a split decision at UFC 328 on May 9th, someone booked him
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Chimaev Lost His Title Saturday and Still Had to Honor His Wrestling Match Three Weeks Later
Khamzat Chimaev walked into the Prudential Center as a 13-0 UFC middleweight champion carrying something most title challengers don't: a pre-existing wrestling commitment he'd signed six weeks earlier. When he walked out that Saturday night—May 15, to be exact—as a 13-1 former champion with a split-
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