James Barron The delicate balance between wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was finally reached for Jess Martinez. Martinez, a junior-to-be and a two-time state champion at St. Michael's High School, ...
At Takedown City Wrestling and Jiu-Jitsu Academy, young athletes are learning to win the fight — before the fight — inside ...
EDMOND — Taylor Ellis-Hishaw hasn’t been an athlete for the majority of her life. Up until Ellis-Hishaw turned 13, she spent more time selling Girl Scout cookies than doing anything related to sports.
It turns out that the number 13 isn’t unlucky for Craig Doerfert. Doerfert, a Vacaville resident and 1988 Vanden High School alumni, won gold at the 2022 World Master IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship in ...
latest BJJ star to cross over into MMA. Alexandre “Xande” Ribeiro vs. Takashi Sugiura Crafted on an unfortunate idea of kakutogi classicism, our main event pairs a jiu-jitsu master and professional ...
It’s not very often that I get to write about pro wrestlers competing in jiu-jitsu tournaments, much less winning them. But Montel Vontavious Porter, better known as MVP, did exactly that last weekend ...
The eight-time jiu-jitsu world champion was murdered in cold blood in Sao Paulo, Brazil, early Sunday. Leandro Lo Pereira do Nascimento (known as Leandro Lo), 33, was attending a concert at Club Sirio ...
Before working out with the wrestling team last week, Erin Aragon sat down and told a childhood story that was difficult to believe. She was maybe 10 or 11 years when she forced herself to order a ...
Twitter owner Elon Musk said he is ready to throw down with Meta boss and noted martial arts enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg. Musk, 51, challenged the 39-year-old Facebook founder – who recently won his ...
TUCSON, Arizona — Legendary Sunnyside High School and Penn State University wrestler Roman Bravo-Young has long expressed a desire to compete in another combat sport, mixed martial arts. "It's a whole ...