Full results and recap from Polaris 36 in Croydon, England. Ethan Crelinsten finishes with a rear naked choke, Kendall Reusing taps Anabel Lopez with an armbar, and Owen Jones shocks Gianni Grippo to win the featherweight title by unanimous decision.
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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…
Your first year in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is going to be one of the most humbling, frustrating, and rewarding experiences of your life. You’ll get tapped by people half your size, forget everything you learned five minutes after class, and question why you signed up in the first place. Then something clicks — a sweep works,…
Victor Hugo dominated the 2026 IBJJF No Gi Absolute Grand Prix, capitalizing on Pedro Marinho’s split-second distraction in the final to win 15-2 on points and claim the $50,000 first-place prize in Costa Mesa, California.
ADCC 2026 heads to Krakow, Poland on September 12-13 with a stacked field of world-class grapplers. Here is every confirmed athlete, weight class breakdown, and the biggest storylines heading into the most anticipated grappling event of the year.
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Nick “Nicky Rod” Rodriguez, arguably the most bankable star in competitive grappling right now, has officially signed with UFC BJJ. The promotion announced his debut during UFC Mexico on Saturday, confirming he will face two-time IBJJF no-gi world champion Elder Cruz at UFC BJJ 6 on March 12 at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas….
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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