Craig Jones has just sent shockwaves through the Brazilian jiu-jitsu community by announcing a staggering $10 million prize pool for CJI 3, the next iteration of his Craig Jones Invitational tournament. This astronomical figure completely dwarfs any prize money in grappling history and positions CJI 3 as the most lucrative submission grappling tournament ever conceived….
Gordon Ryan stands alone at the summit of competitive grappling. No other athlete in the history of submission-only competition has achieved the level of sustained, suffocating dominance that Ryan has maintained over the past half-decade. With ADCC double gold medals, a Craig Jones Invitational title, and a competition record that reads like fiction, the question…
Craig Jones didn’t just start a new grappling event. He detonated a bomb under the entire professional jiu-jitsu establishment, forced a reckoning with athlete pay, and single-handedly proved that combat sports entertainment and elite-level grappling don’t have to be mutually exclusive. The Craig Jones Invitational (CJI) burst onto the scene in 2024 and immediately reshaped…
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