Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. and YouTube sensation Logan Paul did a long and intense staredown announcing their clash at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium.

The exhibition match according to special rules will be held on the night from Sunday to Monday, and both participants of this meeting announced in a few sentences a fight that attracted a lot of attention, both from those who can hardly wait for it and from those who criticize it.

“It will be fun. There is a difference between a YouTube fighter and an elite fighter. I have nothing to worry about, I am a fighter, and someone who has worked as a professional for 25 years. I fought the best, saw every style, and always won,”

“So why don’t I fight Logan Paul then? He’s a huge YouTube star. He has a huge number of followers and he managed to achieve that even before I knew about YouTube. I’m a big name in boxing, and when you connect our worlds, then you know something crazy is going to happen. I’m glad he has confidence and believes in himself. But when I think back a little better, all 50 fighters I’ve faced have said the same thing.” Mayweather said.

Mayweather for this match at the weigh-in must not weigh more than 72.6, while Paul is allowed to appear with as much as 86.2 pounds. But that difference doesn’t bother Floyd at all.

“In most of my fights, I weigh about 10 pounds less. I don’t bother with that because you win in fights – by fighting.”

How come he accepted this match?

“I retired from boxing, but not from fun and making money,” Mayweather concluded.

On the other hand, Logan Paul will have the opportunity to stage one of the biggest sensations in the history of the sport.

“I think I have to knock him out. Yes, someone will end up knocked out, someone will give up. I didn’t choose boxing, boxing chose me. I was challenged to box and I decided to accept that. Boxing is easier for the body than MMA. “MMA is a tough sport and my knees are in bad shape. I’m getting old but I still have a strong upper body,” Paul said.

There’s plenty of videos and evidence of how effective Brazilian Jitsu-Jitsu is for police officers. There’s a lot of evidence that suggests that officers need it as it can simply save their lives and do their job more effectively.

According to one of the BJJ Instructors, Police Officers are not really interested in training and he refuses to train them.

Charles Anzalone posted on Buffalo BJJ Instagram profile a post where he’s saying that police officers are no longer welcome at his academy.

“Buffalo BJJ does not offer a law enforcement discount. In fact, we no longer accept law enforcement officers as students. It’s not a big deal. They were never really interested in training anyway.”

“I know there are some very good law enforcement officers out there but I’m no longer willing to shift through all of the assholes to find the good ones. Flame Away” – Wrote Charles Anzalone

Anzalone and Buffalo BJJ were roasted in the comments by BJJ practitioners and especially by Law Enforcement Officer students themselves.

There were around 4 likes and hundreds of comments against Jiu-Jitsu coach Charles Anzalone.

Then, Roberto “Cyborg” Abreu stepped in and wrote a comment:

“What’s up guys, just saw all this madness right now. As you guys have probably seen I know Anzalone for a while and come to his school frequently. I don’t agree or relate with that kind of post, attitude, or mentality. BTW he’s already taking down the posts. He got caught in the heat of the moment and messed up.”

“Chuck is not a bad person at all, but everyone has their own life and choices. I hope everyone is well and doing great.” – wrote Cyborg in the comments section of Charles Anzalone’s post

Maybe cyborg’s right. Maybe the guy is a good guy but caught in a bad day.

It’s not like everyone has to like the police. But the main thing is, as a business owner, to remain professional. That’s what a lot of people comment on the post.

What’s your opinion on this?

Charles Anzalone is completely wrong or it’s his free will to let them train or not?

More about Charles Anzalone:

On May 3, 1991. Anzalone was found guilty of attempted espionage. He was also convicted of adultery with the wife of another marine stationed in the Persian Gulf, and of possession and use of marijuana. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

This was after an undercover operation revealed he was attempting to sell secrets to Russian agents.

The prosecution argued that Anzalone was trying to sell Russian secrets to the Russian government in exchange for millions of dollars. The defense argued that he was simply a dumb man who was misled by undercover agents.

Anzalone was found guilty on all counts.

Anzalone openly posts about it and it is confirmed to be him.

Here are some Facebook posts on Charles Anzalone’s Facebook page that may seem pretty unprofessional to many people.

Recently, John Danaher was a guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast and presented interesting facts that should change in the BJJ training itself.

Danaher’s opinion is that the way of training should be changed so that it could adapt to MMA while presenting three interesting facts. Three facts, or problems, that fighters face when they switch from BJJ to MMA.

Joe Rogan:

One of the interesting things about the Gordon Ryan conversation that I had recently is that I didn’t know you’re Garry Tonon’s striking coach as well. It’s pretty amazing that you can do both. I know you have a background in striking, but still…

If you’re training someone like Gordon for Jiu-jitsu, I’m sure there’s some emphasis on takedowns, but it’s not the primary concern. The primary concern is on submissions, right?

Oftentimes you’ll see Gordon will sit and pull guard. All these things are not possible in MMA or they’re very rare.

How much of a shift is it to train them for MMA? You’re clearly training them to strike, but the best part of their skill set is based on submissions.

John Danaher:

The big challenge for most Jiu-Jitsu players when they try to apply their craft in Mixed Martial Arts is, “can they get the fight to the ground?” That’s a challenge in itself. An even greater challenge is, can you keep it on the ground.

It means nothing if you take someone down if they just spring back within three to five seconds. It’s energy spent that had no reward.

The thing about Jiu-Jitsu is that when it’s practiced there’s always kind of gentleman’s agreement that there’s going to be a top player and a bottom player. If you start at the bottom you stay at the bottom.

The moment you get into Mixed Martial Arts that goes right out the window. And now you have two responsibilities.

You don’t just have to pass your opponent’s guard from the top position, you have to hold them down while you’re doing it. And that’s not easy.

When you look at the notion of escape in Jiu-Jitsu the overwhelming majority of escapes are escapes to guard positions.

If you’re mounted you will elbow your escape and put them back to guard.

If the guy has the side pin on you, your elbow escape will put them back to guard.

If the guy is behind you, you do forward rolls and get them back in guard.

90% of escapes in Jiu-Jitsu are escapes back to guard position.

So, when you start in the bottom position you tend to stay in the bottom position.

Now, contrast that with the sport of wrestling where the overwhelming majority of escapes are escapes to standing back up to a neutral position to your feet.

That means when Jiu-Jitsu players meet other forms of grappling they’re not trying to put us back in guard. They’re trying to stand up. And Jiu-jitsu players never practice against that when they’re doing their daily training.

So, suddenly, you’ve got a guy who just assumes for his entire career that if he’s on top the other guy must play guard. But in reality, the other guy is not playing guard at all. He’s just pushing your head while standing up and hit passing up to his feet.

In that situation Jiu-Jitsu guy is like, “I had the top position, why aren’t you playing guard?”. So, they’re now put into an arena where nothing in their training has really prepared them for this. Jiu-Jitsu is going to have to mature.

I’ve always said Jiu-Jitsu is one of the greatest products I ever saw in my life. I wouldn’t have invested 30 years of my life if I didn’t believe that with all my heart and my soul. But, like any greater product, it has its deficiencies.

Jiu-Jitsu always had three major deficiencies.

• Leg Locks
• Takedowns
• The ability to impose top position once it’s gained.

A huge part of my career has been the recognition and the attempt to change these three great faults in Jiu-Jitsu. As much as I love Jiu-Jitsu we’ve got to take a step back and take an honest look at it. It’s got these three deeply entwined faults within it.

Leglocks was the most obvious one in a game that was supposedly all about control leading to submission.

There was an arbitrary rule that 50% of the human body couldn’t be attacked. That was lunacy. Over the last 10 years, I believe it’s fair to say we’ve reached a point where that is no longer the case.

I would match the younger generations of Jiu-Jitsu against any grappling art in the world on leg locks with no fear at all.  I couldn’t accept that 15 years ago but things have changed.

Now we have to address the other two great weaknesses.

Jiu-Jitsu has to do something about the crisis which is starting to emerge around takedowns and the ability to impose top position.

What’s you’ve seen among Jiu-Jitsu athletes, who got into MMA, is they just have to turn to other arts. They have to learn wrestling, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But the truth is Jiu-Jitsu has become a smaller and smaller component of MMA rather than what it was when it first started, which is a dominant force in MMA.

Now, for most MMA athletes, Jiu-Jitsu is something you learn to stay out of some pesky submission holds. It’s not the “be-all” for most of the athletes in mixed martial arts.

Most of them are centered around kickboxing skills and wrestling.

I think we’ve done a great job of overcoming one out of three great problems in Jiu-Jitsu, but there are still two more to go.

WNO (who’s number one): Craig Jones vs Luiz Panza, brought us some good matches between some of the best No-Gi grapplers.

Craig Jones took a match versus Luiz Panza on short notice after Gordon Ryan announced he’s leaving competitive grappling two weeks ago. In less than a minute Craig Jones managed to Heel Hook Luiz Panza. He remains undefeated in WNO.

You can watch the whole event on Flograppling.

WNO: Craig Jones vs Luiz Panza Results:

Main Event:

Craig Jones (Danaher Death Squad) defeats Luiz Panza (Checkmat) via Heel Hook -heavyweight

Co-main event:

Mikey Musumeci Defeats Lucas Pinheiro (Atos) via Heel Hook -135lbs

Other Results:

Vagner Rocha (Fight Sports) defeated Josh Hinger (Atos) via Referee decision – 185lbs

Nicky Ryan (Danaher Death Squad) defeated Gabriel Almeida (Checkmat) via Referee Decision – 185lbs

Jessa Khan (Art Of Jiu-Jitsu) defeated Pati Fontes (Checkmat) via Armbar – 115lbs

Oliver Taza (Danaher Death Squad) Defeated Jonathan Alves (Art Of Jiu-Jitsu) via Referee Decision – 170lbs

Prelims:

Micael Galvao (Fight Sports) defeats Andrew Tackett (Checkmat) via referee decision – 172.5lbs catchweight

Cole Abate (Art Of Jiu-Jitsu) Defeated Sathya “Bird” Wiltse (Pedigo Submission Fighting) via Armbar from Triangle Choke – 150lbs catchweight

Damien Anderson (Danaher Death Squad) defeated Luis Quinones (10th Planet) via submission Rear Naked Choke  – 145lbs

As soon as we all came to terms with how Khabib Nurmagomedov ended his career, stories surfaced about the offers the former UFC lightweight champion had received. His longtime manager Ali Abdelaziz received the same but had to turn them all down, as his client is a man of his word. If Dana White failed to persuade him to continue his career after several attempts, hardly anyone can.

But interest is likely to exist for some time to come, and offers could also be fabulous at the same time. The ones that rarely anyone can remain indifferent to. Khabib, however, is not anyone for now. In Mike Tyson’s Hotboxing podcast, Abdelaziz revealed that offers still exist, and the two stood out in multiple ways.

“Two weeks or ten days ago, Dana called me. He said George St-Pierre wanted to fight Khabib in a 75-pound fight. We waited a long time for Georges. I like Georges, we’re friends, but we’ve been waiting for him four or five years, while he doubted whether he was coming or not. Now that they were both retired, he had the idea to come back and fight each other. But Khabib also got an offer of one hundred million dollars to fight Floyd Mayweather.After One hundred million! Ask Floyd. But he said he was retired, that he said so to his mother, and that he would keep his word. If his mother told him to fight again, he might have done it. But right now he’s telling him that he doesn’t want it anymore” – Abdelaziz said.

He tried to make an even better proposal for the GSP if he wanted to return. Another fighter from his stud farm and the dominant champion of the division that Georges ruled for years.

“Georges wanted to go back and fight someone untouchable. Against a pound-for-pound king. I have a proposal for him. It’s Kamara Usman, a man who didn’t lose in the UFC. No one threatened him, he ran over everyone, didn’t he? If he wants to fight, they’re in the same division. Georges, come back and fight Kamaru, we’ll be more than happy. The UFC will be happy too. It’s a huge fight,” he called on the Canadian, who is unlikely to accept.

Seeing that GSP has repeatedly confirmed that it has ended its professional MMA career, we cannot be sure how well-founded this statement is. On the other hand, he still wants to fight outside the UFC, but currently the promotion he still has a contract with doesn’t allow him to. He had Thriller’s offer for a boxing match against Oscar De La Hoya, but the UFC stopped it, many consider Dane White for personal reasons.

Despite being an excellent athlete in Jiu-Jitsu, Andre Galvao’s muscularity and physical strength are in enviable shape even at the age of 38.

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Andre Galvao?

OK, some weird things have happened to Andre lately, as an altercation with Gordon Ryan and a slap, but the first thing that comes to my mind when we think of him is that he’s almost invincible in grappling, and then his physical appearance, muscle, and strength.

Shortly after he became the Black Belt in BJJ, he competed in the categories up to -77 kg, and after that, he became a heavyweight who competes up to 94 kg, and after 2016 in the +100 kg divisions.

While many will say that “juicing” is responsible for his form, we still think that, in any case, a lot of workouts are the key to his strength and power.

In the video below Andre explains his 6 main exercises that are the key to his strength together with the Electrum Performance coach. Andre also explains why he loves those exercises for Jiu-Jitsu

• Front Squats

“What I like from this exercise is that you work with your quads, your lower back, posture, and core. This is something that I use in order to finish a takedown or having a good posture inside of the closed guard. Also, to have a good posture while I’m passing the guard. Not only that, the legs are important when you play guard as well.”

• Sandbag Carries

You can lift any kind of object with this exercise. In the case of a sandbag, it works on your overall strength, and especially on isometric squeezing power.

• Negative Pull-Ups

“This exercise really helps my grips. You grab the bar, step up, and you’ll work only on your way down. Super slow with a really strong core. Every time I do this exercise I feel like my grips are getting really strong.”

• Deficit Reverse Lunges

As squatting is really important in grappling this exercise will go further into hip flexion while working on your glutes at longer lengths.

• Clean Pull

“You pull and let the weight go down. The thing that I like about this exercise is that you work with your legs, your core, your lower back, and your pull.” As you can see every workout that I do work with my grips.”

• Bench Press

“In Jiu-Jitsu we press toward our legs, and over our heads, but the normal bench press will get you stronger in both ways. When somebody is in side control I need to press and explode to escape. I need a press to get my underhook, so we always need the press.”

Andre Galvao’s famous quote:

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

Gordon Ryan wrote on his Facebook Profile:

Before I begin, I’ll explain something.

It is my belief that a man living in New Jersey/New York/California, or any other high tax state can live comfortably on 200k dollars a year. When I say comfortably I don’t mean extravagantly.

Right now I’m paying $5k a month for my rent and I’ve paid 5k a month in NJ for my mortgage. It is high, but not that crazy high. That includes all my bills. One car payment, food, insurance, utilities, etc. That puts me at about 150k dollars a year in bills just to live, giving me around $50k for fun money.

The other money I’m using to pay taxes and invest. If I want a nice watch or some designer stuff, or a new car, etc. I can buy one or 2 of those every year. Comfortable, but not extravagant.

Keep in mind that I am BY FAR the highest-paid athlete in the sport, and IF I competed in all the events I was supposed to by year-end, this would have been the 1st year in my grappling career that I would have made around 200k from competitions ONLY.

When you think about that for a second it seems insane, and that’s competing almost once a month.

Hopefully, in the future, this will change, but before you put all your eggs in one basket (competition), think about if this is what you really want to do.

Young athletes! Competition is a great way to BUILD YOUR BRAND, but because grappling is a participant sport where most who watch are those who participate, most of your income will be from teaching. Use competition to build a brand, and use TEACHING to make money.

Being a good teacher is FAR harder than being a good competitor. Being good at jiu-jitsu and being good at winning competitions aren’t always synonymous. There’s so much more that goes into this, but IG limits caption sizes.

Just a little word of advice for those who are trying to make it.

Gordon Ryan Leaves Competitive Grappling Due To Health Issues

Apart from the fact that the last performance ended with a broken arm, the legendary Brazilian lost his job.

The UFC is slowly getting rid of fighters who have given their best before. The very recent words of Dane White, that his intention in the promotion is to have only fighters who have a chance to fight for the title in the future, so it was clear that the promotion will be increasingly ruthless towards veterans.

This has already been confirmed this year on the example of fighters like Junior Dos Santos and Alistair Overeem, and now we are saying goodbye to another fighter who once represented someone from the very top of the world.

41-year-old Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (26-10, 9-7 UFC) performed last weekend at the UFC 262 event, where he was defeated by Andre Muniz. Aside from being his fourth defeat in a row, the fact that he was defeated for the first time in his career by being forced to tap sounds even worse for this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu legend.

And to make it even worse, he was convinced he could escape from the armbar, so he ended up with a broken arm.

The good thing is that Souza is already feeling ok after the surgery, and his broken arm is doing good.

Once a great fighter, he is no longer a member of the UFC. Although he could’ve expected that considering his latest results, it is certainly not nice to find out that you’re no longer in the promotion that you were a candidate for the title fight not so long before.

In fact, Jacare is considered to be the best fighter who has never fought for the championship belt.

The closest to the title was in December 2015. He was 5-0 in the UFC when he fought against Yoel Romero for the challenger position. He lost the fight by a split referee’s decision, but many feel he was deprived of the win.

Soon after he was in a situation where he could’ve been set as a challenger, but the UFC felt he had to beat Robert Whittaker. He failed to do so and Whittaker was set to fight for the title which he later won.

After that, Jacare started losing his fights, so the title fight was far away from him.

Is Jacare going to continue to fight?

Well, that’s probably a decision that he’ll make after he sees how the fracture recovery will go.

 

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One of the most famous Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitors, and GOAT by many, Gordon Ryan, announced he’s leaving competitive grappling due to ongoing health issues with his stomach.

On his Instagram profile, he explained in detail what’s really going on with his health for the last 3 years calling it “the saddest post he ever made next to his father’s, “Big Gord”, death.

“As most of you know, I’ve been in an uphill battle for 3 years now. Staph Infection antibiotics messed up my stomach. I’m leaving the competition.”

“My stomach is at the point where I can’t train properly anymore. I always had the issue but now it’s getting even worse as time goes on.”

“I’m always so nauseous and that’s why I’m essentially useless in training.”

“I was always showing up at competitions, but I don’t believe it’s professional for me to have camps, and show up on competitions like this.”

I feel like it’s a big disservice for my team, my opponent, myself, and the sport to show up in less than 100% of what I am.”

Ryan’s competitive career is uncertain, but he definitely sees himself as a coach in the future.

“The future for myself as an athlete is uncertain, but my future as the coach is definite.”

Gordon canceled all his contracted fights until he feels 100% ready without ongoing health issues.

“I was supposed to compete once a month until October. I’ve pulled out of all of the competitions and I’m not making a comeback until my stomach is 100% better. If it ever will be.”

Gordon Ryan signed a contract with One Championship and he was supposed to fight Shinya Aoki on August, 27. Also, he agreed to fight with Cyborg and Luiz Panza this month, but it won’t happen and Ryan apologized for it.

“I want to make a professional apology to Flo Grappling, One Championship, and Yod Chantri, my business partners who have put a lot of time into me, as I have them.”

“Also, I want to apologize to Luiz Panza and Cyborg who I was supposed to compete against this month. They both signed contracts to compete against me. “

“Sorry, I had to pull out and I look forward to competing against both of you in the future.”

Gordon Ryan’s apology to his team, family, and his coach John Danaher

“I also want to issue a personal apology to my team, family, and specifically, John Danaher. Danaher is the most selfless person I’ve ever met.

“He has an almost infinite amount of physical disabilities. He sometimes can hardly get in and out of a car before and after training, and yet he is here 365 days a year giving us his undivided attention.”

“Knowing he has been dealing with the things he has been for 30+ years on the mat and still showing up is all the inspiration you need to make it to class.”

“A big apology to @heysonnyy2, who has been an absolute angel day in and day out. While I lay on the couch, too nauseous to do anything or even have a conversation, she wakes up every day with a smile and asking how she can help.”

“I’ve been a miserable prick for 3 years straight and she’s put up with it every day 😂 the absolute best.”

The last apology from Gordon Ryan goes to fans and the haters

You may love or hate Gordon Ryan, but his success and the way he fights can’t leave anyone indifferent. We can say with certainty that Gordon Ryan Jiu-Jitsu is a fighter with the most followers, and also haters who cannot deny his abilities to produce a great show and leave anyone breathless.

“And most of all, an apology to my fans. I know how much you all love to see me compete, but it’s just not something I can do at the moment.”

“I will continue searching for treatments, teaching you all, and doing everything I can to push the sport to new heights until I’m back if I am.”

“Love you all, even the haters who have, and will continue to make me tons of money.”

We’re sure both fans and haters will miss seeing him competing.

Check both posts Gordon Ryan wrote on his Instagram profile.

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