The field is set at The Crown for lightweight, with all eight participants announced on Instagram last week by the IBJJF. The bracket will be headlined by defending Crown champion and reigning World champion Luiza Monteiro, who announced her retirement from Worlds after taking gold. Now she will return to the Pyramid for perhaps the last time with one last chance at the top of the podium.

Faltando pouco mais de um mês para a segunda edição do IBJJF The Crown, que ocorre no dia 17 de novembro, os competidores estão na reta final de suas preparações, enquanto a federação aos poucos revela os nomes que irão compor o torneio deste ano. Com oito atletas por chave, quatro divisões de peso no masculino e duas no feminino, o evento promete superar sua edição anterior e trazer ainda mais ação para os tatames na famosa Walter Pyramid, em Long Beach. Vale lembrar que todos os duelos do evento serão transmitidos ao vivo e exclusivamente pela FloGrappling.

With a few months to go before the IBJJF Pans & Worlds, the Art of Jiu-Jitsu team has announced another big name that will be joining their already stacked roster and bolstering their strength ahead of the 2024 IBJJF season. Janaina Lebre and AOJ announced via Instagram that Lebre would be joining the team based in Costa Mesa, California.

Mais uma contratação no mundo do Jiu-Jitsu para sacudir ainda mais o cenário profissional do esporte. Com o Mundial há poucos meses de sua realização, no mês de junho, a Art of Jiu-Jitsu anunciou mais um reforço ao seu já galáctico time de faixas-pretas. A nova atleta do time é Janaína Lebre.

The IBJJF will be holding their inaugural premier tournament 'The Crown' this November, and divisions continue to fill up with invited athletes. Now, we know all four competitors in the first lightweight bracket, worth $15,000 in prize money to the champion.

The IBJJF has announced a slate of superfights that will take place on September 1 at the IBJJF Absolute Grand Prix, part of Jiu-Jitsu Con weekend in Las Vegas, NV.

The black belts came ready to put on a show at the 2023 IBJJF Pan Championships. Filled with some of the best matches of the year, Pans delivered a mix of submission thrills and gritty fights that went the distance. Here are 10 of the best bouts from Pans 2023:

Após uma explosiva noite de lutas em Austin, no Texas, os fãs conheceram os novos campeões do GP dos Leves e GP dos Pesos Pesados, além dos vencedores das super lutas.

Follow along for real-time results, updates & more from the Tezos Flograppling IBJJF Grand Prix, live from Austin, Texas, on March, 3rd 2023.  Packed with premier talent, grapplers from the men's lightweight and women's heavyweight will be battling for the title of champion!

The Tezos IBJJF Flograppling Grand Prix is set for March 3 in Austin, Texas. The women’s heavyweight bracket, complete with four world champions, includes Andressa Cintra, Ana Carolina Vieira, Melissa Cueto, and the return of Nathiely De Jesus.

Lloyd Irvin’s Elijah Dorsey will replace Samuel Nagai in the Tezos IBJJF Flograppling Lightweight Grand Prix. The GP will be held in Austin, Texas on Friday, March 3.

The fourth showdown between Gordon Ryan and Felipe Pena is less than a week away. In the last two weeks, we've caught up with both athletes to check in on their training camps, and to hear their takes on the upcoming bout at Tezos WNO: Ryan vs Pena II presented by Fat Tire.

Last week, the IBJJF unveiled the new rules it plans to enforce to deter stalling at specific events — namely, the Tezos IBJJF FloGrappling GP Series. Broadly, the new rules reduce the time of inactivity which will be deemed stalling, clarifies which athlete should be penalized in unprogressing situations, and applies harsher stalling calls to the 50-50 lapel position.

The IBJJF announced new rule changes designed to combat stalling which will impact matches in the IBJJF FloGrappling Grand Prix series.

If you didn’t know who Janaina Lebre was prior to last weekend’s IBJJF FloGrappling Grand Prix in Austin, TX, you probably weren’t the only one.