Den legendariska Jujutsu-utövaren har inte släppt sitt agg gentemot den kontroversiella tränaren.
Royce Gracie (14-2-3) har inte varit blygsam med sina åsikter om uppfinnaren av 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu-systemet, Eddie Bravo. Efter den sistnämndes match mot Gracies bror Royler, på Metamoris 3 i mars detta året, konfronterade UFCs första turneringsmästare Bravo och utmanade honom på en MMA-match.
Sju månader senare ser Gracie fortfarande fram emot det potentiella mötet, vilket han framförde till MMAFightings Ariel Helwani, under reporterns video-show The MMA Hour, i måndags.
”I haven’t got any offers, but I don’t compete in grappling rules,” Gracie said of facing Bravo at a Metamoris event. ”I’m a MMA fighter, man. I’m a MMA fighter, all the way.
I’m pretty much done fighting. With Eddie Bravo, it’s personal. … [Does Metamoris] allow punches to the face? Do this rubber guard stuff and I’ll punch you in the nose.”
”You’re gonna send your kids to learn from a guy that tells everybody that it’s okay to do drugs? It’s ok to drink alcohol? Sorry, man. If you wanna do it in private, do it in private. I have no problem with that. But I can never send my kid to someone that praises alcohol and drugs. Is that what you want your kids to learn? It’s okay to smoke pot? ‘Oh, pot is not a drug.’ So walk into a police station with a pound of pot and tell the cops it’s not a drug. Come on.”
”People that don’t know and hear about it, they start to think that all the people that do jiu-jitsu smokes pot, is a drug addict. Here I am fighting for something good, and the guy is fighting for something bad, in my point of view. I can’t agree with that, what he represents. Nothing to do with his jiu-jitsu, his school. If you want to do something like that, do it in private. Keep it to yourself.”
Då Bravo aldrig gått en MMA-match är det förmodligen osannolikt att han antar Gracies utmaning vid 44 års ålder.
Är det en fight ni vill se?
