Checked out the guys facebook. Even his 'promoting' instructor sounds like the typical bs'er when questioned. They always use the same fallback position. As if they all read from the same script. GTFO here.

Lol! Looks like Beltchecker has just one verified black belt and one verified blue belt in NM. I've reached out to both of them for comment.

Wow....in 2013 Mr. Kevin Conan Bankens says Mr. Gregory was a Whitebelt, in 2016 he wears a Brownbelt on his fb site till 19th December 2020 then on 23rd December he posted a pic with promotion to 2nd degree blackbelt. So 7 years from white to 2nd degree blackbelt....must be an outstanding bjj player and Coach who everybody should to know in that area, right?

With that meteoric rise, he must have won a world championship or 2 or maybe 3.

So the plot thickens. The guy that called out Mr Gregory is a black belt under mr lasu Rogers himself!

Yup. https://bjjmoves.com/inst[...]n-bankens/ Per the Reddit comment I posted above, apparently most jiu-jitsu practitioners in Rio Rancho have trained under Mr. Rogers at some point.

Am I correctly educated in relation to bjj, that it is not possible to have a blackbelt with 7 stripes, like Mr. Rogers shows on the pic? A 7th degree Bjj belt would rather be a „black+red“ belt 7th degree, wouldn’t it, as the maximum on a blackbelt is 6 degrees, isn’t it?

The guy on Reddit says Rogers is a Jean Jacques Machado black belt. Anyone feel like reaching out? https://jeanjacquesmachad[...]a/contact/

So this guy on Reddit says Mr Rogers is a legit Jean Jacques Machado black belt but added degrees. In the YouTube videos head wearing a Machado gi, but his Facebook said Fadda lineage... I can't see a Machado black belt adding degrees . That title alone is super prestigious

I don’t want to play bjj police, but I just put in the names in google search and google found a bjj Seminar from 2013 with description Mr. Rogers would be a 2.nd degree blackbelt under Carlos Machado:

I can try messaging Joe Rogan, Eddie bravo or even jean Jacques himself. ... with that said has Mr Rogers actually claimed this? I've only seen Rogers claim Oswaldo Fadda through Edmilson Alves

Nah it's only a former student on Reddit that claimed this. (BTW I am Ms. Rarity on Reddit, in case that wasn't clear.)

I just messaged Mr Rogers himself . Let's see if I get a reply

You are braver than I am.

Am I correctly educated in relation to bjj, that it is not possible to have a blackbelt with 7 stripes, like Mr. Rogers shows on the pic? A 7th degree Bjj belt would rather be a „black+red“ belt 7th degree, wouldn’t it, as the maximum on a blackbelt is 6 degrees, isn’t it?

I've been following this one on reddit, to add some context from other comments and conversations, it seems Lasu is likely a legit 2nd (maybe 3rd based on my math below?) degree black belt. The notion that he's a 7th degree black (coral) belt and has been doing BJJ for 45 years seems to be the major falsehood; though it sounds like he's dodgy about his lineage/experience in general that I can't help but feel like something else is going on. https://www.reddit.com/r/[...]ue/gh78v22 I found things from 2012 that he had folks under him, so he's likely been a black belt for close to a decade at this point: https://www.jiujitsuforum[...]forum-here I also found where he was advertising himself as '4th dan in BJJ' for a seminar (seems to be April 2020): http://unm.wsrjj.org/events.htm 'Randy Rogers sensei, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Mr. Rogers holds a 4th dan in BJJ and has studied with the Machado and Gracie families. He will be teaching arm bars and the triangle choke' The equivalent of yondan in BJJ would be 3rd degree (3 stripe) black belt since that's the fourth rank of black belt for us. Having said that, I wouldn't call the application of the dan grading system standard for BJJ. All in all, it seems like he is a black belt in BJJ (potentially under Carlos Machado) but there's definitely something fucky going on.

I can't see a legit black belt promoting his student from brown to 2nd degree black and himself from 2nd degree to 7th. He may have worn a black belt for years, he may have done seminars with the machados and gracies ... but I don't buy his legitimacy

I'm emailing Carlos Machado (or the email of his school in TX) to ask. As noted, something's definitely fucky. It's just so bizarre.

I've been following this one on reddit...

Thanks for the info. Holy heck this entire thing is strange.

Yea and I'm buying very little. Chris Haueter was mentioned on Reddit. Is a 5th degree black belt and one of the dirty dozen. No way this guy have been training longer