The day Santa subbed Rudolph
Bráulio Estima capped off a victorious 2011 season with a major holiday bash at GB Birmingham, promoting seven black belts in the process. One of…
Yearly Archives: 2011
When’s the right time to teach students leg attacks?
In the end, when is the right time to teach your students leg attacks and defenses? In the 1980s and early 1990s, anyone resorting to…
Bags packed for Atlanta, Lepri to miss Europeans
Despite his craving to be there, Alliance black belt Lucas Lepri contacted GRACIEMAG.com to make known the fact that he will have to sit out…
Adjust your back attack
The new GracieBarra.com website is going off, with loads of information and positional videos. Below, Professor Rodrigo “Farol,” one of the instructors at GB Campinas,…
Bellator bantamweight GP contestants
Brazilians Marcos “Lôro” Galvão, Luis “Betão” Nogueira, Alexandre Popó Bezerra and Rodrigo “Ratinho” Lima will go up against American Ed West and Travis Marx, Cuba's…
Pass guard with Santa Claus
Our GMA at Carlson Gracie Las Vegas, Ricardo Cavalcanti is known to suit up his Santa Claus outfit to get the kids at the academy…
Eraldo Paes, the BTT’s uncomplaining coach, passes away
On the evening of December 23, Brazilian MMA lost one of its warriors. Eraldo Paes, 33, a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu and luta livre, passed…
Faber goes hairless as tribute to hospital-bound sister
UFC star Urijah Faber has shown he packs just as much punch out of the ring. The “California Kid,” as he is known, shaved he…
Year-end Dream card: Sakuraba takes on two
There's the vale-tudo of old, modern MMA, and the sport the way it's done in Japan, which is a whole different creature. To not let…
Veteran Maurice Smith returns to action, in Brazil
The second installment of Kumite Combate, set for January 20 in the Southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, has more than just third chapter of…
Undefeated in MMA since 2006, Glover gets visa and dreams of UFC
The last time Glover Teixire stepped into the cage, at MMA Contra a Dengue in Brazil, he took it to Ricco Rodriguez, putting the former…
Galvão “pilhado” para narrar UFC no Rio
Em entrevista recente a Clarissa Frajdenrajch, do jornal "O Globo", o narrador mais famoso do Brasil admitiu que o UFC foi um desafio inesperado a…