So sad, but also so important—no abuser should ever feel safe, whether they’re a highly regarded black belt or not

That audio transcript is crazy scary. He’s offering the parents the world, what did he do that gets him so scared?

Why would Melqui offer her an ENTIRE GYM if he just put his hand on her stomach?  CURIOUS.

Ayo brother sorry for my broken english. A lot MMA/BJJ media is afraid to talk about because this weirdo threatened a lot of people. Unfortunately, because the guy is a former police officer, has money, and Brazilian laws are so shit, he'll probably be released from prison soon. If that happend on a serious country he was facing life sentence or deathrow. Btw, thanks for your content really appreciate 👊

He tried to blame her for not treating him like a coach.....and then tried to blackmail the parents. Like, whaaaaaat?

He just finally got caught

This Video opened my eyes❤

I know its supposed to be innocent until proven guilty but this plus the allegations that have started even a couple years ago makes this look so bad

also props for the black keys shirt

Who even talks about the Moneyberg black belt controversy after all this madness?😂

Jiu-Jitsu is absolutely translatable to MMA still today. The difference is that one needs to separate sport jiu-jitsu from basic, fundamental jiu-jitsu, knowing which will work best and how to use a BJJ concept appropriately.

15:27 Keith Krikorian vs Landon Elmore is also a rematch from their EBI Finals match

Damn...😞

There are countless NCAA wrestlers succeeding in the UFC and BJJ. Not the other way around. The Grappling wars were settled decades ago.

And every Brazilian I know has known about Melqui's accusations for a while.

Absolutely no discipline nor lane of work is exempt of predators and abusers.

If anything they'll seek position of authority and perception of role models to shield themselves from accusations.
What we cand do, it's put solid safeguards, prevention through information and learn from victims.
As more times than not, abusers are very prévisible even boring in their patterns of predation.

1:34 nah, it's Marcelo Garcia 🏅

as a brazilian, i'm gonna explain everything: No, legal age is 18. And there was this report of the 17 girl, but after she exposed the abuse, more girsl started to expose their relates, and there was a girl that said when she had 12, melqui started touching her, and when he got to 14, he took her v-card. In the interview she said she started bleeding and said to him stop, then he stopped.
Yes guys, the hole is deeper than we tought, melqui is f..
And here, the cops can't just lock him up to get the proofs, if the cops did this, he could get away because it's not lawful, so the cops to lock him, even preventive, they needed good proofs of the abuse, so with melqui preventive locked, this means yes, he probably did all the things alleged... very sad...

Mikey is great, we'll just never know how great unless he gets some high profile matches

Idgaf if you have a black belt or some sort of bjj celebrity, prodigy, whatever. My respect is earned and I’ve always moved to the beat of my drum. Training jiu jitsu for eight years now, it’s a niche hobby that has bunch of weirdoes and creeps in it. I’ve just been doing my best to dodge those weirdos.

Brings new meaning to the "Brazilian tap"