You probably know Danny Mullen as the BJJ prank master behind some of the most viral prank videos so far. His “fake black blet’ video got everyone to notice him and made everyone laugh. Did you know that Danny is actually good at BJJ for real?
Today, Danny Mullins is best described s a YouTube comedian, with millions of followers and plenty of viral videos. The grappling community knows him as the BJJ prankster behind the fake BJJ black belt in a video that showed him really getting into character.
Danny got professional makeup, getting fake cauliflower ears and facial scars to look like “scruffed up professional fighters”. With a BJJ black belt, he got from Amazon. He then went on to join and teach a class as a black belt, sharing his “philosophy” with students, and even decided to spar with the “lower belts”.
You can see what happens after in the BJJ prank video for yourself:
BJJ prank videos of this type are not uncommon in the BJJ world.
Danny Mullen is actually a legit grappler, even though he is not a black belt for sure. According to an Instagram post of his, he used to really train back in the day (some good 10+ years ago) and was a legitimate purple belt competitor.
As per his post “Fun times. Stone broke, slacking off in community college, trying to get laid off Facebook, and chasing meaningless plastic trophies and medals on the weekends. That was all it was back then. But I guess the one thing these trophies and medals meant – or what they taught – was that (a) dedicated work toward a definite goal does pay off”
He even has a very solid performance caught on video, in a purple belt superfight which he finishes via triangle choke:
It seems that the BJJ prank master is still a purple belt to this day, with him trying to get some training in despite his busy lifestyle at 10th Planet Headquarters in L.A. a couple of years ago.
“I signed up at Eddie Bravo’s gym at downtown LA…it’s expensive, I think it was $170 bucks a month. They’re really regimented there in a way which is probably good for the students. I think you have to memorize their system and drill their system for 3 months before they let you do any live rolling which if anyone listening trains Jiu Jitsu, they probably know the most fun part of that martial art is live rolling. So, I imagine they lose a lot of students making them do that but they probably are really good once they’re ready to roll.” he told the PKA podcast.
Danny Mullins is having huge success with his comedy videos, not having time to train comes as no big surprise. We do hope that there are more BJJ prank videos coming in the future, given how good he is at them.
