BJJ News

Tom Hardy Has Been Training Jiu-Jitsu for 15 Years and Just Made Brown Belt — His Coach Explains How You Keep a Hollywood Star on the Mats

Jun 02, 2026 · belt-promotion, brown-belt

Your first instinct when you hear "Hollywood actor earns BJJ brown belt" is the same as mine. You've seen this movie.

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Tom Hardy's BJJ Coach Reveals: Actor Has Been Training in Secret Since 2018

Jun 02, 2026 · brown-belt, carlos-santos

Celebrity BJJ belt stories follow a predictable arc. Actor gets intrigued, visits a famous gym, gets a photo with the instructor, leaves with a new belt.

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San Diego Closed The Galvão Case For 'Insufficient Evidence.' A Second Atos Athlete Came Forward Anyway.

Jun 02, 2026 · accountability, andre-galvao

The tidy version of the André Galvão story was supposed to end on May 1, when San Diego authorities closed the case for insufficient evidence and no charges were filed. A named athlete inside Atos did not get the memo.

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An Atos Black Belt Just Said Both Galvão Accusers Are Telling The Truth

Jun 02, 2026 · accountability, andre-galvao

For months, Atos had a tidy way to file the André Galvão allegations: jealous outsiders, disgruntled ex-students, a smear campaign. Then one of their own black belts opened his mouth.

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ONE Inner Circle: When Oumar Kane Faced Malykhin in the First Heavyweight Title Defense of 2026

Jun 02, 2026 · competition-results, grappling

ONE Championship staged a rematch that had been simmering for months—a heavyweight title defense that brought together two of the most dominant grapplers on the promotion's roster at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok. Oumar "Reug Reug" Kane defended his ONE Heavyweight title against Anatoly "Sladkiy" Maly

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Mica Galvao Announced His Own Team, Then Shut It Down Before The Gear Was Even Printed

Jun 02, 2026 · athlete-news, bjj-college

Here's the complete history of Mika Jiu-Jitsu: announced, then canceled, with no gear to show for it. The window between "I'm starting a team" and "never mind" was about a week.

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Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson Tried Sumo Wrestling And Actually Meant It

Jun 02, 2026 · competition-results, cross-training

Something unusual happened in the crossover-training space—the kind of thing that should have been a throwaway YouTube moment but turned into something worth actually examining. Stephen Thompson does not wrestle.

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Ed O'Neill Explains Why Most BJJ Practitioners Never Reach Black Belt — 'They Just Stop Coming'

Jun 02, 2026 · black-belt, celebrity-bjj

Ed O'Neill was 45 when he walked into the Gracie Academy in Torrance, California, for the first time. He trained under Rorion Gracie for sixteen years.

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