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Mario Sperry: Sport BJJ Has Made Competitors Forget The Stand-Up Fight

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September 28, 2026

Mario Sperry has a story he likes to tell about arriving in America as a purple belt, walking into a karate gym that claimed to teach Jiu-Jitsu – and finding the room hadn’t taken him seriously. Without his own kimono, he borrowed one for the session, sensing right away that the locals had misjudged what […]

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