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Gordon Ryan issues fiery response to Craig Jones announcing retirement, leaving team

BAD MMA News — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Craig Jones is getting set for his final match. The grappling ace announced that he will be retiring after his match with Gable Steveson at the second Craig Jones Invitational event, which takes place Aug. 30 and 31 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

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Bellator champ Johnny Eblen blasts Gordon Ryan for anti-doping stance: ‘There’s a reason your health sucks’

BAD MMA News — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:54:59 +0000

Johnny Eblen and Gordon Ryan couldn’t have more opposing views when it comes to anti-doping in combat sports. The Bellator middleweight champion took to X (formerly Twitter) this week to challenge and criticize Ryan’s recent comments on the UFC’s decision to drop USADA and work with a new company , Drug Free International, to run its athlete anti-doping program. Ryan, a decorated grappler, implied in an Instagram post that if the UFC was to ease down on drug testing, it would be good for the sport since performing-enhancing drugs would make MMA more entertaining, and it would raise the level of competition. “If the UFC ‘regresses’ back to the old days, this is amazing news,” Ryan wrote on Instagram. “… The higher the testosterone, the more physical the athletes are, the less prone to injury they are, the faster they recover, the longer they can compete, and the more entertaining and high paced they are. The better they look, the more attention they draw, the more money they make.” Ryan would go on a lengthier elaboration on why less drug testing is a good thing for sports, a stance Eblen took issue with.

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Gordon Ryan explains involvement in Jon Jones’ UFC 295 camp ahead of Stipe Miocic title defense

BAD MMA News — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:29:52 +0000

The link-up between Jon Jones and Gordon Ryan ahead of UFC 295 has many people talking. But how big of a role has he played in Jones’ training camp?

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Video: Jon Jones grapples with Gordon Ryan ahead of UFC 295 title defense vs. Stipe Miocic

BAD MMA News — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:30:20 +0000

UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones is prepping with a decorated jiu-jitsu champ ahead of his first title defense. Jones (27-1 MMA, 21-1 UFC) faces Stipe Miocic (20-4 MMA, 14-4 UFC) in the UFC 295 headliner on Nov. 11 at Madison Square Garden. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims expected on ESPN and ESPN+. Jones will be taking on one of the best wrestlers in the division in Miocic, and has sought help from three-time ADCC champion, IBJJF no-gi champion, and four-time Eddie Bravo Invitational champion Gordon Ryan . Check out a short clip of them training courtesy of Jones’ Instagram .

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Decorated jiu-jitsu champion Gordon Ryan signs with ONE Championship

BAD MMA News — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:37:29 +0000

It looks like Gordon Ryan ’s MMA debut is soon to come. The decorated grappler has signed a contract with ONE Championship and is set to compete in both submission grappling and MMA. ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong announced the news of the signing Monday on Twitter . Details of Ryan’s debut were not announced. BREAKING NEWS: Gordon Ryan has signed with ONE Championship for both mixed martial arts and submission grappling! — Chatri Sityodtong (@yodchatri) March 22, 2021 Related Chael Sonnen offers $25K to any team who can beat Craig Jones, Gordon Ryan at Submission Underground Is Gordon Ryan the world's best grappler? Ryan is regarded by many as the best pound-for-pound grappler in the world.

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Chael Sonnen offers $25K to any team who can beat Craig Jones, Gordon Ryan at Submission Underground

BAD MMA News — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:53:30 +0000

So, you wanna be a submission fighter? Chael Sonnen hung up his MMA gloves earlier this year, but his days of issuing challenges are far from over. Sonnen’s submission grappling promotion, Submission Underground, continues to go from strength to strength, with events streamed live on UFC Fight Pass and attracting big names from the worlds of both MMA and grappling. This past weekend at Submission Underground 10, Sonnen engineered a callout of a different kind as he threw down the gauntlet for anyone to step up and challenge two of the planet’s very best submission specialists. His promotion’s next event, Submission Underground 11, will feature a special tag-team matchup, with Australian ace Craig Jones telling Sonnen he hoped to convince his teammate – and arguably the best grappler in the world – Gordon Ryan to team up with him for the event

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Chael Sonnen offers $25K to any team who can beat Craig Jones, Gordon Ryan at Submission Underground – MMA Junkie

Is Gordon Ryan the world’s best grappler?

BAD MMA News — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 16:25:39 +0000

At just 23, Gordon Ryan may very well be the best grappler on the planet. Sure, it’s a bold claim, but one can certainly make the argument. The 2017 Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Champion at 88 kilograms (approx. 194 pounds), Ryan is a black belt under Garry Tonon and is also a member of the vaunted Danaher Death Squad. Earlier this month, Ryan showed up as a late addition to the Team Alpha Male roster at Quintet 3, the latest edition of UFC Hall of Famer Kazushi Sakuraba’s submission-only team competition .

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