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British grappling promotion Polaris makes its 2022 debut today with Polaris 19, live from Southampton. In the main event, a number-one contender’s match is set to take place between “Gorilla Hands” Magid Hage and young grappling phenom Roberto Jimenez. The 21-year-old Jimenez has fought under alm...
Who’s Number One puts on a stacked card of grappling tonight in Frisco, Texas, and the king of grappling returns the headlining act. Gordon Ryan takes on Jacob Couch atop a seven-bout grappling event streaming on FloGrappling starting at 8pm ET/5pm PT. Stay tuned right here at MMA Sucka posts liv...
Just hours after it was announced that Nicky Ryan had withdrawn from his Who’s Number One bout with Jacob Couch, FloGrappling announced his replacement. Stepping in is none other than Nicky’s brother Gordon Ryan. Gordon Ryan vs Jacob Couch at WNO Ryan has been out of action since his match at WNO...
Tonight, the Eddie Bravo Invitational returns to host EBI 19 live in Cancun, Mexico, and will be broadcasted on UFC Fight Pass starting at 6pm ET/3pm PT. MMA Sucka brings live coverage of this event and many more. EBI 19 hosts a 16-man tournament packed with several of the world’s best welterwe...
Eddie Bravo’s female-only Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu promotion Medusa Jiu Jitsu returns for its sophomore outing tonight. Medusa Jiu Jitsu 2 will feature strawweights competing in EBI Jiu-Jitsu rules and bantamweights competing in Combat Jiu Jitsu rules, which are EBI rules that include open-hand strike...
A true pioneer of both competitive grappling and Mixed Martial Arts, and livelong icon of BJJ, Renzo Gracie is the next inductee to ADCC Hall of Fame. A BJJ black belt under Carlos Jr. Gracie, like many other family members he started training in his infancy. Also, like his cousins and brothers,...
Baret Yoshida joins the elite group of ADCC Hall of Fame inductees. Hawaiian-born submission grappler and MMA fighter is a BJJ black belt under the Egan Inoue. An ADCC mainstay has competed in 10 World Championship events. Despite not winning any gold medals he is two times runner-up that was bes...
As an MMA and submission grappling pioneer, Mark Kerr will take his rightful place amongst other inductees in the ADCC Hall of Fame. A renowned collegiate wrestler, Kerr stepped into both worlds of Mixed Martial Arts and submission grappling in the late ’90s. He participated in the first-ever AD...
Saulo Ribeiro is your next inductee into ADCC Hall of Fame. Two times ADCC champion is probably best known as an author of a renowned book Jiu-Jitsu Univesity, which is considered one of the best written BJJ instructional. A black belt in both Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Royler Gracie, Ri...
Rubens Charles Maciel, better known under his nickname ‘Cobrinha’ is the next inductee in the ADCC Hall of Fame. A medalist in every major BJJ and grappling competition, Maciel is best known for his discipline, as for most of his life he dedicated himself to training two times a day, seven days a...
Who’s Number One returns to action tonight with a stacked card, featuring three title bouts and some of the world’s top grapplers throughout. It all goes down live from the Sports Academy at the Star, the home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys training facility, in Frisco, Texas. At the top of the card...
BJJ and MMA elite level competitor, Mario Sperry has been announced the newest inductee to the ADCC Hall of Fame. Sperry, who is a BJJ black belt under the legendary Carlson Gracie won his two ADCC championships back in 1998 when he was triumphant in both 99 kg and absolute divisions. He returned...
ADCC informed via Instagram that Rafael Mendes, who is the youngest champion in competition history is the newest inductee into its’ Hall of Fame. Mendes, who is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Ramon Lemos and co-founder of California’s Art of Jiu-Jitsu Academy, has won his first ADCC go...
Another week brings another induction into the ADCC Hall of Fame and the newest inductee is a man known in both the submission grappling and MMA worlds – Dean Lister. A Brazilian black belt under Jeffrey Higgs, Lister spend eight years training and competing in a gi, but always had the ambition ...
Fury Pro Grappling, the submission grappling subsidiary of CFFC, caps of its inaugural year of action with what some consider to be one of the most stacked cards in submission grappling history. Fury Pro Grappling 3 goes down tonight live from the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The mai...
Grand Sumo action will make its return in January 2022 at the Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. This tournament will not only be the first of the year, but also the first tournament following Terunofuji’s zensho yusho in November. How might the top division look entering 2022? Here is what to expect in ...