BJJ News

Fitness Influencer Tries Actual BJJ — Eight Years Of Body Combat Did Nothing Against A 14-Year-Old

May 12, 2026 · body-combat, community

A 14-year-old kid put Riley Rehl to sleep in a regular jiu-jitsu class, and she had eight years of cardio kickboxing in the bank when it happened. That's the entire story.

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Dean Lister Says BJJ Was Tougher Then But Better Now — Both Halves Of The Sport Are About To Be Mad

May 12, 2026 · adcc, athlete-news

If you wanted to start a fight in any BJJ academy on earth this week, all you had to do was read Dean Lister's BJJEE interview out loud at the front desk. Lister, ADCC absolute champion and the guy who walked up to John Danaher in 2000 and asked "why would you ignore 50% of the human body?", publish

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Fight Sports Tops BJJ's PED Suspension Scorecard With Five. Alliance, Gracie Barra, And Atos Round Out The Standings Nobody Asked For.

May 12, 2026 · alliance, anti-doping

Counting was the whole novelty. BJJEE published a piece this week titled "The Dirty Scorecard: Which BJJ Teams Have The Most PED Violations?" and somewhere between the headline and the math, the sport finally got a leaderboard nobody volunteered for.

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Kayla Harrison Calls The IJF's Leg-Grab Ban 'Political' And Modern Judo 'Kind Of Boring' — 'How Are You Going To Ban An Original Throw?'

May 12, 2026 · competition-results, grappling-rules

Kayla Harrison has two Olympic gold medals in judo, a UFC bantamweight title around her waist, and a public diagnosis of her old sport that the International Judo Federation cannot really argue with: modern judo is, in her words, "kind of boring." The leg-grab ban they've defended for sixteen years?

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CJI 3 Has a $10M Prize Pool — and Still No Date

May 12, 2026 · athlete-news, cji

Just a matter of motivation." Craig Jones said that about CJI 3 in July 2025. The prize pool — $10 million, the largest in grappling history by a margin that makes every other promotion feel embarrassed — is sitting there, confirmed and funded.

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Gisele Bündchen Married Her BJJ Instructor — The Man Who Introduced Her to Jiu-Jitsu Got a Kid and a Valente Brothers Rebrand Out of It

May 12, 2026 · celebrity-bjj, community

Tom Brady lost to a BJJ instructor. Not on the mat — Brady hasn't trained, as far as anyone can tell.

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Franjinha Miller: No-Gi Has A Cleaner Path To The Olympics Than Gi — And The Old Guard Is Splitting On Its Own Question

May 12, 2026 · adcc, andre-galvao

Franjinha Miller came out this week and said what a lot of people have been quietly thinking: no-gi has a cleaner path to the Olympics than gi does. Then he said the part everyone is skipping past.

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Ffion Davies Withdrew From Polaris Squads — Team Europe Is Now Captained By Nia Blackman

May 12, 2026 · ffion-davies, nia-blackman

Here's something you don't get to say often in professional grappling: the biggest star in the sport just pulled out, and the person replacing her might end up being the actual story. Ffion Davies — multiple-time IBJJF world champion, ADCC champion, the dominant force in women's no-gi grappling for

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