BJJ News

Guy Ritchie Got His 3rd Degree BJJ Black Belt on a Film Set — Tom Hardy Watched

May 16, 2026 · belt-promotion, celebrity-bjj

Guy Ritchie makes films for a living. Snatch, Lock Stock, two Sherlock Holmes movies, The Gentleman, the King Arthur film everybody forgot they hated until someone rewatched it.

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Jeff Glover Wants to Fight Chris Bones to Settle Whether He Has Any Rickson Lineage At All

May 16, 2026 · chris-bones, community

Jeff Glover is not a Rickson Gracie black belt. His lineage runs through a different branch entirely — Rolls Gracie, then Ricardo Miller — not a Rickson in sight, and he's never claimed otherwise.

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Derek Moneyberg Got a BJJ Black Belt in 3.5 Years. Now He's Suing Sean Strickland for Saying It Out Loud.

May 15, 2026 · anti-slapp, athlete-news

Derek Moneyberg is suing Sean Strickland. For a hotel hallway comment, and the implication that a financial influencer with zero competition record might not be a legitimate BJJ black belt.

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77-Year-Old Earns Gracie Black Belt After 12 Years — Somehow The Fastest Promotion Story Of The Week

May 15, 2026 · belt-debates, black-belt

Paul Laniosz got his black belt in Gracie jiu-jitsu on Saturday, February 7. A month later, on March 18, he turned 77.

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Kyra Gracie: The Gracie Family Paid Women Champions $2,000 While Men Earned $50,000 — And Forbade Them From Training In The First Place

May 15, 2026 · adcc, competition-results

That's the pay gap Kyra Gracie says existed inside the Gracie family for its own champions. Not in some rival organization.

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A 62-Year-Old Baseball Manager Just Gave BJJ Its Biggest Mainstream Moment — And Nobody From The Sport Was Involved

May 14, 2026 · angels, bjj-in-the-wild

Jiu-jitsu has spent the better part of a decade trying to crack into the mainstream. Craig Jones built CJI.

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Fabricio Andrey Wants Kade Ruotolo's Belt So Bad He'll Gain 25 Pounds to Get It

May 14, 2026 · athlete-news, fabricio-andrey

Fabricio Andrey has a problem. He's arguably the most exciting submission grappler on the planet right now, he's undefeated in ONE Championship, and his boss won't give him a featherweight title because the division doesn't technically exist yet.

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BJJ Now Has An Anti-Doping Medal Table: Fight Sports 5, Alliance 4, Gracie Barra 3, Atos 2

May 14, 2026 · alliance, anti-doping

Five anti-doping violations: Cyborg, Porfirio, De Sousa, Rocha, and most recently Mica Galvão. Alliance sits second with four (Nogueira, Tayane Porfirio, Andrew, Gabi Garcia).

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