The European Judo Kata Championships in Sarajevo will host 393 competitors from 28 nations. The 2026 event features divisions across senior, junior, cadet, and adapted judo.
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Brown belt competitors Hazel Butcher-Salazar, Rafael Gamba, Luandra Barbosa, Jeferson Tijolo, and Kellen Arraes secured titles at the 2026 Brasileiro in São Paulo.
Top purple belt athletes competed in the Brasileiro Grand Slam event, with Kellyson Carlos, India Risby, Lucas Yan, Mia Montesinos, Fernando Paiva, Isis Maciel, and Luca Veras securing titles.
The United States won six Greco-Roman gold medals, and Cuba earned two, on the first day of the 2026 Pan-American Wrestling Championships in Coralville, Iowa. The event began on May 8.
The 2026 Brasileiro will feature a collection of female black belts competing across eight weight divisions. The IBJJF Grand Slam event is scheduled to begin Saturday, May 2, and conclude Sunday, May 3.
The IBJJF 2026 Brasileiro black belt male divisions are scheduled for May 2-3 in São Paulo, Brazil. The event features elite competitors across roosterweight, light-featherweight, featherweight, lightweight, and middleweight.
The 2026 ADCC North American West Coast Trials took place on April 19, 2026, at the Fairplex Expo Hall 9 in Pomona, California. Eight grapplers earned qualification for the ADCC World Championship in Krakow, Poland.
The first 2026 ADCC South American Qualifier took place on March 16, 2026, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event determined the initial South American representatives for the ADCC World Championship finals in Poland.
The IBJJF 2026 Brasileiro will feature elite brown belt competitors across various divisions in São Paulo, Brazil. Days seven and eight of the event are dedicated to the brown belt categories.
The 2026 Brasileiro will feature top-ranked purple belts Lucas Yan, India Risby, Kellyson Carlos, Natalee Funegra, Eiki, Mia Montesinos, Fernando Paiva, and Isis Maciel, competing for major titles.
Top blue belt competitors, including Johnny Anderson and Alyson Lima, are scheduled to compete at the 2026 Brasileiro.
The IBJJF 2026 Brasileiro concluded on May 6, 2026, at Ginásio Poliesportivo José Correa in São Paulo, Brazil. Ítalo Almeida, Rerisson Gabriel, Meyram Maquiné, Andy Murasaki, Tainan Dalpra, and Alex Munis secured black belt titles.
The 2026 Pan-American Wrestling Championships will take place in Coralville, Iowa, United States, from May 7 to 11. The United States enters as the dominant team, having won freestyle, Greco-Roman, and women’s wrestling team titles every ye
The 2026 Brasileiro black belt divisions concluded in São Paulo, Brazil. Mayssa Bastos, Ashlee Funegra, Mia Funegra, Sarah Galvão, Elisabeth Clay, Maria Vicentini, and Yara Soares secured titles.
Juliana Cidade, Johnny Anderson, Karol Deleprani, Guilherme Camargo, Matheus Silva, and Chloe Pereira won titles at the 2026 Brasileiro. The IBJJF Grand Slam event took place on May 4, 2026, in São Paulo, Brazil.
The 2026 CBJJ Brazilian Nationals concluded on May 4, 2026, at the Ginásio Poliesportivo José Correa in Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil. The event, organized by the CBJJ, crowned champions across multiple adult black belt divisions.
On August 17, 2024, Kade Ruotolo and Nicky Rodriguez each walked off a mat in Las Vegas with a $1,000,000 check.[1][2] On the same weekend, roughly 60 miles down the road, the winner of the ADCC World Championship absolute division — the most prestigious individual prize in submission grappling — collected $40,000.[3] An ADCC weight-class gold medal paid $10,000, a number that had not moved in over a decade.[4] That gap — two orders of magnitude between the same athletes doing the same thing on the same weekend — is the entire story of what Craig Jones did to professional grappling. Everything that has happened since, from ADCC's first-ever show money to the $10M figure now sitting on the table for July 2026, is a downstream consequence of one Australian black belt deciding the leverage… → Full article: /explore/news/5fe92c46-2466-42c4-989a-9e8ed8558034
A few months ago, a brown belt I've trained with for nine years got promoted to black. Two days later, a different gym across town promoted a guy I'd rolled with at an open mat — a wide-shouldered hobbyist with a flat half-guard, the technical depth of a strong purple belt almost anywhere else. Same color belt. Same title. Both men earned their belts. Both coaches were sincere. Neither was lying. And that is the problem. The BJJ black belt is sold as the goal of the art, but the institution behind it has none of the safeguards every other major martial art figured out fifty years ago. No governing body. No standardized test. No agreed-upon definition. 13.3-year average. $60K–$100K average cost. 97% dropout rate. The variance is not a feature. The variance is the symptom. → Full article: /explore/news/b505106c-3a52-4f9b-bab5-5e90fbd0bbb6
Tóth Krisztián was elected President of the Hungarian Judo Association on 10 May at the Hungarian House of Sport in Budapest.
Kylie Welker pinned world champion Genesis Reasco to defend her Pan-American 76kg title in Coralville, Iowa on May 9.
Day four of the Pan-American Championships in Coralville, Iowa on May 10 featured seven freestyle gold-medal bouts as the continental championship season concluded.
ADCC 2026 faces low ticket sales and multiple organizational controversies four months before the September event at Tauron Arena Kraków, Poland.
Joshua Van retained the UFC flyweight title with a fifth-round TKO over Tatsuro Taira at UFC 328 on Saturday night.
Khamzat Chimaev defended the UFC middleweight title against Sean Strickland in the main event of UFC 328 on May 10 at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.