BJJ News–Page 51

Trump's White House UFC Card Just Got Sued for Corruption. Yes, Really.

Jun 08, 2026 · competition-results, corruption

Let me walk you through something that actually happened today: a federal lawsuit was filed — formally, in court, with lawyers and everything — alleging that a White House UFC event is an illegal corrupt scheme because the sitting president is personally profiting from VIP ticket sales while holding

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ADCC 2026 Was Selling 4 Tickets a Day With 15,030 Seats and Four Months to Go

Jun 07, 2026 · adcc, competition-results

As ADCC 2026 approached with four months remaining, ticket sales painted a bleak picture: 2,880 seats sold over five months of presale, averaging just four per day. The 15,030-capacity venue was only 19% full.

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When ADCC Ran Five Simultaneous Opens Across Five Countries—And Revealed Its Real Problem

Jun 07, 2026 · adcc, adcc-2026

ADCC pulled off something ambitious—or desperate, depending on your read on it. On May 30, the organization coordinated qualifier events across Portugal, the United States, Wales, Moldova, and Slovakia, all happening on the same calendar date.

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Livia Barasine Emerges as First Named Competitor on Record in Galvão Case

Jun 07, 2026 · accountability, athlete-news

When Livia Barasine released her statement on May 4, the jiu-jitsu community got its first named adult face attached to the allegations against coach Melqui Galvão. She didn't emerge from anonymity because she'd been hiding.

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Mikey Musumeci Announced He Was Going Full Dagestani—Then Finished His Title Defense the Same Way He Always Does

Jun 07, 2026 · mikey-musumeci, mma-crossover

Mikey Musumeci made one of the stranger career announcements in recent grappling history. Sixteen days before his title defense against Kevin Dantzler on May 16th, the world's most dominant leg locker went on record saying he was essentially retiring from leg locks.

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JCI 3 'The Dominion' Had 25 Submission-Only Fights and Five Title Bouts — It Was Free on YouTube and Nobody Noticed

Jun 07, 2026 · grappling, jci

Something genuinely unusual happened in the Midwest grappling world, and almost nobody noticed. When JCI 3: The Dominion went down on May 9 at The Vixen in McHenry, Illinois, it represented exactly the kind of event that should have been generating serious conversation across the submission-only lan

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Netflix Lost Mokaev to Visa Issues Five Days Before Its First MMA Card Aired

Jun 07, 2026 · adriano-moraes, event-preview

When Netflix's first major MMA card was supposed to land on May 14th, the whole thing had the makings of a statement moment. The Intuit Dome was booked.

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Renato Canuto Suspended For Modafinil — A 'Focus Drug' That The BJJ Community Pretended Never Worked

Jun 07, 2026 · checkmat, mma

The Nevada Athletic Commission temporarily suspended Renato Canuto following a post-bout test from his March 13 win at Tuff-N-Uff 152 that came back positive for modafinil and its metabolites, according to BJJ Doc. Canuto had knocked out Dylan Aparis at 1:45 of round one, run his MMA record to 4-0,

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