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Draculino: “BJJ Was Almost Marginalized – People Used To Think That We Were Thugs”
Vinicius “Draculino” Magalhães is a sixth-degree black belt under the legendary founder of Gracie Barra, Carlos Graci...
Joe Rogan Reminisces Over Eddie Bravo’s Historic Win: “I Get Emotional Talking About It”
Joe Rogan and Eddie Bravo have been friends for a long time, with one of the things in common between them being the ...
Fabio Gurgel: “Jiu-Jitsu Is A Constant Evolution”
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a live organism – it keeps changing and evolving as the years pass. Even just five years ago, ...
Kade Ruotolo Wins ONE World Title After Heel Hooking 4x Sambo World Champion Uali Kurzhev
2022 ADCC champion Kade Ruotolo faced 4x world Sambo champion Uali Kurzhev for the inaugural ONE Lightweight Submissi...
Video: Gordon Ryan rolls with Royce Gracie
An all-time jiu-jitsu great and an all-time MMA great recently linked up for a friendly roll. Multiple-time ADCC cham...
Is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Really Basically Just (Kosen) Judo?
Rivalry between Judo and BJJ practitioners is not unusual. Most of the times it’s good natured debates on which marti...
Abraham Lincoln: Hall of Fame Wrestler
Wrestling was a big part of Lincoln’s life Abraham Lincoln holds the reputation of being one of the greatest American...
Who has beaten more ADCC medalists, Gordon Ryan or Andre Galvao?
Gordon Ryan often makes the claim that he has beaten more ADCC medalists than any other grappler in history. The reig...
Gracie Family: Where Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Began
Go back around 100 years – yes, only 100 years – and that is around the time that Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was born. While...
Baret Yoshida Inducted Into the ADCC Hall of Fame
Hawaiian Baret Yoshida has officially joined the ADCC Hall of Fame, and is the latest athlete to do so. Yoshida secur...
Highlight Video: FloGrappling’s Top 21 Submissions of 2021
After a 2020 that saw countless event cancellations due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, competitive jiu-jitsu and su...
Dean Lister Inducted Into ADCC Hall of Fame
The ADCC — commonly referred to as the “Olympics of submission grappling” — continues to grow its official Hall of Fa...