The excellent Brazilian MMA and Jiu-Jitsu magazine Tatame has made an article in their November edition about the phenomenom that is killing Jiu-Jitsu: The loss of value of the BJJ black belt…This includes online belts, buying belts etc. The subject, resurfaced after Daniel Cormier “jumped” to a brown belt when he was promoted by Checkmat’s Leandro Vieira, but this is just the tip of the iceberg, as they cover in the pages of the publication.

This is what Leandro Vieira had to say about Cormier’s Jiu-Jitsu in an interview with Graciemag: