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Grappling Is Professionalising, and Its Fans Are Starting to Bet Like Diehards

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August 20, 2026

For most of its history, competitive jiu-jitsu was something you did, not something you watched other people do for money. The mats were full, the grandstands were not, and the idea of a betting market on a submission-only superfight would have sounded faintly ridiculous to anyone who came up in the sport. That has changed […]

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