Worlds 2012: Marcus Bochecha double-leg ousts Rodolfo Vieira in absolute
It wasn't the the first great match of the Jiu-Jitsu World Championship, where even the purple belts demonstrated the high technical level the sport is…
Worlds 2012
2012 BJJ Worlds: Rodolfo Vieira’s agony… from the stands
Monsters suffer too. That's what our reporter Ivan Trindade taught us, having recorded 2011 absolute world champion Rodolfo Vieira agonizing during the middleweight final of…
Positions, pointers, matches… see what the Jiu-Jitsu world champions do
The 2012 World Championship is going off in Long Beach, California. Last year, the aces below made it atop the podium. While we wait to…
What we can learn from the female BJJ world champs
All of the mat wizards below made it to the top of the World Championship winners podium in 2011. This Saturday, some of them stepped…
Worlds 2012: Léo Nogueira and Marcus Bochecha through to absolute final
On a Saturday when the biggest winner was Jiu-Jitsu fans, the finalists of the black belt absolute division have come through the works. On one…
Watch two-time world champion Cris Cyborg in Jiu-Jitsu
There isn't much the other purple belt girls can do. Cris Cyborg, who fights in MMA under the Strikeforce banner, was dominant in her weight…
Learn to take the back with 2012 world champion purple belt
The 2012 Jiu-Jitsu World Championship is going full swing in Long Beach, California, and the gentle-art stars of the future have already started to shine…
Letícia Ribeiro’s lessons in BJJ, workout and grit: “Victory is a consequence”
Do you know anyone who's been in 14 Jiu-Jitsu World Championships? Apart from Wellington Megaton, we mean. Well that feat figures on the résumé of…
Royler Gracie leads his Gracie Humaita team to 2012 Worlds
At the Gracie Humaita Del Mar, California location run by black belt João Faria, a very focused Royler Gracie walks into the academy to lead…
CheckMat armed and ready to claim victory at the 2012 Worlds
The CheckMat team is coming into the 2012 Worlds with guns blazing. Jiu-Jitsu black belt stars Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida, Lucas Leite, João Assis, Yuri Simoes,…
First time missing Worlds, Frazatto eyes MMA: “I don’t want to be an underdog”
It was a tough decision to make, but featherweight Bruno Frazatto, one of the biggest Jiu-Jitsu World Championship-medal collectors around, pulled out of this year's…
Out of Worlds, seven-time champ Hannette talks injury and seminar
First some bad news and then some good, to compensate. The bad: Jiu-Jitsu fans won't get to learn from Hannette Staack at the 2012 World…