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Ryan Hall Said MMA Is 'Better' Than BJJ — But Mighty Mouse Just Proved Why That Argument Misses the Point

Ryan Hall Said MMA Is 'Better' Than BJJ — But Mighty Mouse Just Proved Why That Argument Misses the Point

When this went down recently—Ryan Hall made the rounds on Matt Serra's podcast on May 29, declaring that MMA is better than Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He's not wrong, exactly.
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When a BJJ World Champion Named Herself

When a BJJ World Champion Named Herself

Brenda Larissa did something the sport of jiu-jitsu wasn't particularly set up to handle: she recorded twenty minutes of testimony, published it under her own name, and described what she said was fourteen years of abuse at the hands of Melqui Galvão, an Alliance black belt, founder of BJJ College i
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SUG 30 Went Down With No Pre-Fight Hype. Here's What Actually Happened.

SUG 30 Went Down With No Pre-Fight Hype. Here's What Actually Happened.

Submission Underground pulled off one of the most audacious promotional non-announcements in grappling history. SUG 30 was scheduled for Saturday, May 18th in Florianópolis, Brazil—and as of Friday evening, May 17th, literally nobody outside the promotion knew who was fighting.
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Kron Gracie Says His Father's MMA Advice 'Is Not Working.' The Most Decorated Gracie in History Is Getting Called Out By His Own Son.

Kron Gracie Says His Father's MMA Advice 'Is Not Working.' The Most Decorated Gracie in History Is Getting Called Out By His Own Son.

Rickson Gracie's advice isn't working. The one actually eating punches inside the UFC cage.
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When ADCC's Kraków Ticket Disaster Became a Case Study in Self-Sabotage

When ADCC's Kraków Ticket Disaster Became a Case Study in Self-Sabotage

When ADCC's ticket sales numbers finally became impossible to ignore, the math told a story that no amount of spin could fix. The numbers were bleak enough that they deserved a second look — and they still are.
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Kron Gracie Says Rickson Stopped Speaking to Him for Years Because He Used Boxing In MMA — The Gentle Art Family Was Not Gentle About It

Kron Gracie Says Rickson Stopped Speaking to Him for Years Because He Used Boxing In MMA — The Gentle Art Family Was Not Gentle About It

Rickson Gracie built his reputation on one idea: jiu-jitsu beats everything. Against bigger men, against strikers, against wrestlers who didn't yet know what a closed guard could do to their arms.
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When Demetrius Johnson Called It Quits on IBJJF Masters — 'My Life Doesn't Change If I Win Or Lose'

When Demetrius Johnson Called It Quits on IBJJF Masters — 'My Life Doesn't Change If I Win Or Lose'

Demetrius Johnson dropped one of the most honest sentences anyone's said about competing in a gi tournament, and it's worth revisiting now that the dust has settled. "My life doesn't change if I win or lose." He meant every word of it, and the reasoning behind that statement revealed something uncom
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When Mica Galvão Dissolved BJJ College And Launched MJJ — A 21-Year-Old Forced To Rebuild After His Arrested Father's Charges

When Mica Galvão Dissolved BJJ College And Launched MJJ — A 21-Year-Old Forced To Rebuild After His Arrested Father's Charges

When the fallout from Melqui Galvão's arrest was still fresh enough to sting, his 21-year-old son Mica posted a clean graphic to Instagram and ended a 15-year project in two paragraphs. BJJ College, the team his father had built from the ground up, the team that had produced Mica himself, the team c
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