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Melqui Galvão: How A Tenured Police Instructor Allegedly Abused Three Students — One Just 12 — While His Federation Stayed Silent

Melqui Galvão: How A Tenured Police Instructor Allegedly Abused Three Students — One Just 12 — While His Federation Stayed Silent

Jun 10, 2026 · accountability, athlete-news
The headline detail that no story about Melqui Galvão could seem to top was almost absurd in its specificity: the man was on the Amazonas state payroll as a sworn Civil Police investigator with a sub-specialty in teaching other officers personal-defense techniques. That alone would have been darkly
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Jinri Park on Training Discomfort: Why Women Stay Silent in BJJ

Jinri Park on Training Discomfort: Why Women Stay Silent in BJJ

Jun 09, 2026 · community-dynamics, consent
Jinri Park has spent over a decade rolling. She's trained long enough to know the difference between a good training session and one where she leaves the mat feeling small.
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UFC 327 Had Three Submissions And The First-Ever Finish Of Loopy Godinez — Nobody Noticed Because A Man Won The Title On One Leg

UFC 327 Had Three Submissions And The First-Ever Finish Of Loopy Godinez — Nobody Noticed Because A Man Won The Title On One Leg

Jun 08, 2026 · carlos-ulberg, competition-results
UFC 327 at Kaseya Center in Miami delivered one of the most grappling-rich cards in recent memory. A first-ever stoppage of a fighter who had gone 19 professional bouts without being finished.
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Hype Brazil Results: Both Sub-Only Headliners End in Draw — Miyao Submits Oliveira by Scottish Twister

Hype Brazil Results: Both Sub-Only Headliners End in Draw — Miyao Submits Oliveira by Scottish Twister

Jun 08, 2026 · figueiredo, hype-brazil
Hype Brazil ran three grappling matches on Wednesday night in São Paulo. One ended with a 33-year-old berimbolo specialist cranking a man's spine in a direction spines aren't supposed to go.
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Ben Askren's New Lungs, Old Habits

Ben Askren's New Lungs, Old Habits

Jun 08, 2026 · ben-askren, comeback
Ben Askren got new lungs. And his first instinct is to go back to wrestling.
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A Black Belt in a Jiu-Jitsu Shirt Stopped an In-Flight Emergency. CNN Acted Surprised.

A Black Belt in a Jiu-Jitsu Shirt Stopped an In-Flight Emergency. CNN Acted Surprised.

Jun 08, 2026 · gym-culture, heroism
When a passenger attempted to open the emergency exit door at 30,000 feet, the man sitting nearby didn't freeze. He didn't yell for help.
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Roger Gracie's Heel Hook Myth Is Older Than MMA Itself

Roger Gracie's Heel Hook Myth Is Older Than MMA Itself

Jun 08, 2026 · gracie-family, heel-hooks
Roger Gracie, the Gracie family patriarch and defender of traditional lineage, recently restated a claim that's been bouncing around BJJ circles since before the Fertitta brothers bought the UFC: heel hooks don't work in real fighting because the moment you grab someone's foot, you get punched in th
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RAF Takes Dvalishvili vs Cejudo and Snyder vs Sadulaev to Tbilisi — First International Event Remakes UFC 298 in a Country That Worships Wrestling

RAF Takes Dvalishvili vs Cejudo and Snyder vs Sadulaev to Tbilisi — First International Event Remakes UFC 298 in a Country That Worships Wrestling

Jun 08, 2026 · cejudo, competition-results
RAF is taking its first international card to Tbilisi, and if you've trained anywhere in the Caucasus region, you already know why that's not a random choice. The Resurrection Athletic Federation — the wrestling promotion that spent the last two years quietly rebuilding after Ryan Bader stepped back
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