August 2026
Everything Jiu-Jitsu Style published this month.
Looking Back: The UK BJJ Youth Squad & BJJ247 Link-Up
In April 2015, a small Manchester sports hall played host to a quietly important moment for UK BJJ: the first event in the new partnership between BJJ247 and the UK BJJ Elite Youth Squad.
Tim Welch's Warning to Jonah Hill Is a BJJ Lesson for Every White Belt
Jonah Hill went viral this week for talking a big game about his BJJ, and the internet did what the internet does with that kind of clip: laughed, shared it, and mostly moved on. Then Tim Welch —…
Dr. Mike Israetel on Gordon Ryan's 'I Could've Done It Natural' Claim
Gordon Ryan said something bold in a recent interview, and this being BJJ in 2026, it didn't take long for someone with an exercise science PhD to weigh in. Ryan, still the reference point for…
Michael Liera Jr.'s BJJ Sit-Up Guard Knee Cut Pass
When this Michael Liera Jr. clip first ran on Jiu Jitsu Style in March 2015, the caption underneath it was one line long: nice pass from a rising Atos star. That was enough at the time. Liera was…
Looking Back: The Super 15 Submission-Only Jiu Jitsu Invitational
In April 2015, a stacked BJJ fight card landed in front of UK Jiu Jitsu fans: the very first Super 15 Submission Only Invitational.
Big Dan Manasoiu Defends Derek Moneyberg's Black Belt in BJJ
Every few months, BJJ's oldest argument resurfaces wearing a new face, and this time it's Derek Moneyberg's. The entrepreneur-turned-grappler has been one of the sport's most talked-about names…
Adele Fornarino Withdraws From ADCC 2026 Over BJJ Pay Equity
Adele Fornarino just did something most competitors spend a career avoiding: she walked away from the biggest stage in the sport on principle. This week the ADCC Absolute champion announced she's…
Elisabeth Clay on the Hardest Training Partner in BJJ: Your Spouse
Every BJJ gym has a version of this story, but few people are willing to tell it as bluntly as six-time No-Gi World Champion Elisabeth Clay did on a recent episode of the Weslee Weighs In podcast.…
Matt Serra: Stop Reinventing the Wheel in BJJ Teaching
A UFC Hall of Famer and a two-time world champion walked into a podcast and told the BJJ coaching world to relax. On a recent episode of the Overdogs BJJ podcast, Matt Serra and Mikey Musumeci…
Jeff Glover's Hanging Triangle: A BJJ Setup Lesson
When this Jeff Glover clip first ran on Jiu Jitsu Style in March 2015, the framing was about as small as a technique post can be — a quick note, a video, and a heading that read "Mr Glover teaches…
Murilo Bustamante Earns BJJ Coral Belt After Decades on the Mats
Murilo Bustamante spent his career as one of the toughest men to share a mat with — a former UFC Middleweight Champion, a Mundials winner, a co-founder of Brazilian Top Team. This week, the BJJ…
Bo Nickal Faces Olympic Champ Muradov: A BJJ Fan's Guide
Every serious Jiu Jitsu gym has that one training partner who wrestled in college, and every serious Jiu Jitsu gym knows exactly what that means for the rest of us on the mat. So it's worth paying…
Sebastian Brosche on Saving Your Neck in BJJ Inverted Guard
When we first pointed our readers at Sebastian Brosche's short video on the inverted guard back in March 2015, BJJ was already starting to lean into a position that the previous generation had…
Dana White: Submissions Are 'A Whole Other Level' Than Punches
Dana White spends a lot of time explaining MMA to people who've never trained it, and this week he did something Jiu Jitsu folks have been saying for decades: he told the world plainly why…
Jake Paul's D1 Wrestling Claim Misses the Point BJJ Already Knows
Jake Paul just handed the BJJ and wrestling world something to argue about, and once again it's exactly the reaction he's built a career on. In a recent Bloomberg Television interview about the…
Gui Mendes: De La Riva & X-Guard Variations in BJJ
When this Gui Mendes clip first ran on Jiu Jitsu Style in February 2015, the De La Riva and X-guard family was already the engine room of high-level competitive BJJ — but most academies were still…
Arman Tsarukyan Suplexes an Influencer — The BJJ Angle
Arman Tsarukyan doesn't have a UFC date on the calendar yet, so he went and found one in India instead — and in the process gave BJJ and Jiu Jitsu fans a two-minute clinic that was over almost…
Moicano's Arm Triangle Chokes Out Patricky Pitbull at BJJ Stars 19
A UFC lightweight just gave a masterclass in one of Jiu Jitsu's oldest chokes, and he did it against a man who has spent his whole career trying not to get caught in one. Renato Moicano submitted…
Sean Roberts's Calf Slicer: A BJJ Leg Attack Lesson
When Sean Roberts's calf-slicer breakdown first ran on Jiu Jitsu Style in February 2015, the move was already a quiet signature of his BJJ game — a Renzo Gracie black belt who kept catching tough…
Rafael Lovato Jr. Explains Why He's Done With ADCC
Rafael Lovato Jr. has spent the better part of two decades as one of BJJ's most respected competitors, a black belt world champion who later reinvented himself as an elite MMA fighter and never…
Rafael Lovato Jr. Returns To ONE For BJJ Clash With Jaworski
Rafael Lovato Jr. is heading back into the ONE Championship cage, and for anyone who's followed his path from BJJ world champion to MMA veteran and back into grappling's biggest promotions, this…
Herbert Burns: 50 BJJ Submissions in Under Four Minutes
Fifty BJJ submissions in under four minutes. That was the highlight reel Evolve MMA put out for then-undefeated featherweight Herbert Burns back in 2015 — a tight, fast-cut clip of armbars,…