Countdown to the 2016 Worlds: travel from 1998 to 2013 in three historic black belt open class finals
It's Saturday, a nice day to sit back, relax and watch some classic matches that the World championship offered us in the past 20 years.…
2013 Worlds
On Otavio Sousa’s birthday, watch him become a two-time world champion
Gracie Barra's Otavio Sousa is turning 27 years old this wednesday. One of the biggest talents to emerge from Professor Ze Radiola's school in Recife,…
GM #196: The extraordinary arsenal of Jiu-Jitsu world champion Marcus Buchecha
In this month's GRACIEMAG, one of the Jiu-Jitsu world's best blankets the cover and keeps an arsenal within the pages of issue No. 196.…
2013 Worlds: UFC’s Luke Rockhold competed in tournament in search of regained focus
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Following his loss to Vitor Belfort at UFC on FX 8, Luke Rockhold needed to find a place to regain his…
Current open-class runner-up Léo Nogueira not fighting in Long Beach
A knee injury has taken current open-class vice-champion Leonardo Nogueira out of the 2013 BJJ Worlds. Léo, a two-time super-heavyweight world champion, traveled to California…
Who faces who in the 2013 Jiu-Jitsu Worlds? Here are the official brackets
As the Jiu-Jitsu professors use to say, the war just began, as the athletes got to know their brackets and first opponents. Who's going to…