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Rickson Gracie is the greatest now, then and that will ever be.
-Rickson Gracie-
"Rickson Gracie just took a book out of Bret Hart's chapter, Joe."
Rickson Gracie is the greatest now, then and that will ever be.
-Rickson Gracie-
Thanks, very helpful to see the stats on his grappling career. Much appreciated. I once spent a little while (not long, I admit) fruitlessly searching Google for his BJJ credentials.
As my original post, I'm not questioning at all that he's the best BJJ player ever. Isn't there a story that he lined up about a dozen high-level dudes and subbed them one after the other, while telling them what he was going to tap them with? That's unreal. He would clearly have won UFCs 1-7, or so, if he competed in them.
However, his non-BJJ credentials are, to a large extent, a PR exercise.
Well, he's appreciated more as a pioneer of BJJ than a mixed martial artist. The respect people have for his MMA skills are largely in part due to the fact that he was a much better BJJ practitioner than his brother Royce who had immense success in the early days of MMA.
There's a back story pertaining to why Royce represented the Gracie clan at the first UFC over Rickson that you should try to educate yourself on. Needless to say, and after his victories in the UFC, Royce was asked about his brother Rickson whom Royce himself admitted is '10x better than me'.
Take from that what you will.
I think that even his BJJ record is padded. Any of the top champions (Buchecha, Rodolfo) would destroy him.
Right after the JRE with Rickson I wanted to make a thread just like you did.
But then I researched all of his fights read a lot more about Rickson, so I decided not to make one, because all of his opponents were bigger than him some by a large amount ( except Yuki, who he did not even punch, because he was already hurt so he just punched him twice with NO power )
That aside, I believe in a real street fight Rickson would have beat any MMA fighter from any era !
nobody that weighted most of his career 175 pounds and not 185 pounds the weightclass he is listed fought that many LHW/HW's , I think there will never be anybody like him again.
From the moment I engaged my guard, till the time I was tapping, I felt as if there was nothing I could have done to better my situation. His basic techniques nullified my game almost immediately.
wasteland this thread
Watch him fight, draw your own conclusions