The 57-year-old singer – Tool Frontman Maynard James Keenan has been training Jiu-Jitsu for years and now he’s been awarded BJJ Brown Belt.

He earned his BJJ Brown Belt after Six years when at the age of 51, he was awarded a Purple Belt in recognition of his skill and dedication to the sport.

Maynard James Keenan, who is also a member of A Perfect Circle and Puscifer, has been practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jisu under Jiu-Jitsu legend Rickson Gracie. He’s been sidelined by many injuries over time but he never gave up.

He was a guest in Joe Rogan Podcast multiple times and Jiu-Jitsu has always been an unavoidable theme between two true fans of this sport. Keenan recounted how he went through many injuries during his BJJ training time but that never stopped him from continuing with Jiu-Jitsu and earning his Brown Belt.

Keenan is even co-founder of Jiu-Jitsu school where he trains and that school is playing a huge part in his Jiu-Jitsu journey. As he says, that’s the only place where he can be completely happy and relaxed.

In the video below you can check Keenan’s story told in Joe Rogan Podcast together with the incident from 1997 during a set with Tool when a fan rushed the stage but was subdued by Keenan. He even sits on a fan for 10 mounts in a Full Mount position.

We would like to congratulate Maynard James Keenan on this achievement and a major accomplishment and we wish him a lot more hours of happy rolling. And we hope to him with a Black Belt soon.

Second-ranked UFC welterweight challenger, Gilbert Burns, is known as a fighter who is willing to fight anyone, anytime, anywhere. Burns often accepted short-notice fights, and even more often he offered himself as a fighter ready to jump into many matches that one of the actors canceled at the last minute.

Still, it seems that Burns is not ready to accept all the opponents that the UFC offers him. Namely, ” Durinho revealed in an interview with MMA Fighting that he was offered Vicente Luque as an opponent, but he refused. Namely, Burns and his compatriot are great friends, and at the same time teammates, and all that is an insurmountable obstacle to arranging this match.

”I’m frustrated by the long wait for the match. But that’s part of the job. The UFC told me they wanted a fight between Vicente and me, but since there is a friendship between us, it won’t happen. The fraternity screwed us up, otherwise, we would have already fought. If we did that, the second-ranked challenger against the fourth-ranked. I would jump further with that win, and Vicente would also progress with the win. I think our situation is holding us back more than the other guys in the category,” Burns began, then explained further.

‘‘The match makes sense if we look at the rankings. They know we don’t want to fight each other, but they asked and tried anyway. However, we refused. Vicente is the only opponent in the whole category against whom I refused the match, and the same goes in the opposite direction. Other than that, I’ve already said I would fight anyone.”

By the way, Kamaru Usman was also a teammate, but also a friend of Gilbert Burns, but the duo still fought. Usman knocked out Burns in the second month of this year, and the Nigerian also changed the gym to prepare for that match. Later, Usman remained in Trevor Wittman Gym, while Burns and Luque are still members of the Sanford MMA Gym.

Vicente Luque earlier this year, in an interview with BJPenn.com, also referred to a potential match against Burns. His answer gives a broader picture of why Burns was willing to fight Usman who was also his teammate and friend, but he doesn’t want to fight Luque.

“We have already said that we will not fight each other. We are more than friends, we are brothers. Our families are very close and we have a different relationship than with other teammates. We both want to be champions and we are working on that. We also want each other to be champions. There are a lot of other guys we can fight” Luque explained in April this year.

Kenny Kim is a 3rd-degree black belt and has been training for over 20 years. He owns and operates a gym in Marietta, GA just right outside of Atlanta

As he traveled for competitions and teaching seminars he realized the benefits Jiu-Jitsu had on people and thought it would be great to tell those stories while enjoying the new city and its culture.

Coming from a very poor upbringing the mats are what made him successful in Life so he wrote a book called MAT MADE telling his personal success story.

The mat-made show will showcase a similar success story in a different city, gym, and everything the city has to offer.

Kenny has traveled the world, eaten some delicious meals, met some amazing people on the mats, and heard some heartfelt stories of how Jiu-Jitsu has changed and their lives…

So, he’s on a quest to document these personal success stories and shares them with our viewers.

He wants to visit YOUR city, YOUR gym, eat the best meal your city has offered, and hear your personal success story on the new show MATMADE.

He’s spent over 3 decades on the mats, traveled the world and on those mats, there is always someone with a story to tell. Whether it’s overcoming substance abuse or dealing with PTSD Jiu-jitsu has helped hundreds if not thousands of people.

If you have a story to tell and want to show him around your city please email [email protected] ” with your information and story.

Check out this first episode filmed in Nashville, TN at Liberdade Jiu-Jitsu

The former UFC champion, Miesha Tate, has decided there is no need to go to the doctor for a small procedure.

Miesha Tate failed to meet her ambitions in the second fight after returning from a combat retirement. After five rounds of fighting, Ketlen Vieira was better than her, and Miesha earned several cuts in the Octagon. The largest of these was under the left eye and this required medical intervention immediately after the fight.

The former UFC champion is “stitched up,” and a week later she decided to get rid of the stitches on her own. She decided to record the process and publish it on her YouTube channel.

“Who needs a doctor !? I heal very quickly and I’m ready to go back, but first and foremost these stitches have to come out,” Miesha wrote in a description of the video we share below.

Over the course of this week, Miesha has posted some of her views several times for which she has earned only praise. In addition to congratulating her opponent, she repeatedly emphasized that she was very satisfied with the whole experience of the fight and that she learned a lot about herself in it.

Would you have decided on this same move or maybe you have done it before? Either way, Miesha must be congratulated on her courage, but also on her true champion behavior after a fight that she unexpectedly lost.

According to this, the former American president could be one of the greatest martial authorities.

The 75-year-old former US President Donald Trump owns one of the most valuable belts in taekwondo martial art. Although he had never practiced the sport, the president of the Kukkiwon taekwondo organization, Lee Dong-sup, decided to award him an honorary belt, as mentioned above. But the problem is on that 9th day, which is really only awarded to those who have achieved the most or have helped the sport a lot. Trump is not one, after which many criticisms of the move have emerged.

The mentioned president of the organization stated that he himself is proud to have had the opportunity to award the belt and that the move has absolutely no political connotations. Trump accepted it with pleasure and said he would like to see a presentation of a skill he had recently become a master of. In short, he didn’t check that segment either. But photography has fallen and Kukkiwon is mentioned. Who knows, maybe that was the main ambition.

This belt was also given to Vladimir Putin in 2013, so we can hardly accept the latter. Especially since he has never played that sport either.

The skill that is the pride of South Korea was practiced by many famous “practitioners” of martial arts, such as Chuck Norris, who reached the 8th day. Norris is the only man in history to wear black belts from at least one martial art within each of the four groups (kicking, punching, grappling, throwing). But Trump and Putin have surpassed him in this one. Who knows, they might take his position in-jokes as well.