It's finally here! 

Today marks yet another shakeup to the divisions at the 2019 ADCC Worlds as Romulo Barral pulls out of the -99kg division and to be replaced with 2015 ADCC Absolute Champion Claudio Calasans.

KASAI Elite Grappling Championships will be hosting KASAI Pro 6 on August 17 in Atlantic City, NJ. The event contains the stacked eight-man 135lb tournament, plus superfights Kaynan Duarte vs Patrick Gaudio, and Josh Hinger vs Matheus Diniz. 

Fight 2 Win features a 170lb no-gi main event between Augusto “Tanquinho” Mendes (Soul Fighters) and Marcelo Mafra (Checkmat). 

[Updated August 15, 2019] Here is a list of every person who qualified for or has been invited to the ADCC World Championships, to be held in Los Angeles in September 2019. 

We have already discussed some of the names at master one here, but this is an idea of who to watch at Master 2 (35 years of age) and up in the male black belt divisions.

The stacked KASAI 135lb tournament goes down on August 17 and we finally know how the 4-man round-robin groups will look! 

GF Team standout Patrick Gaudio will look to settle a score with Kaynan Duarte in the main event of KASAI Pro 6 on August 17. 

Beatriz Mesquita is the GOAT of women’s jiu-jitsu. No, seriously– we crunched the numbers, and it's indisputable. 

On Monday, August 12th, a statue was unveiled in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil of grandmaster Carlson Gracie. The statue is an homage to his contributions to the community in the Copacabana neighborhood where Carlson’s legendary academy was located.