Royce Gracie

Royce Gracie
Royce Gracie (2007)
Data
size	182 cm
Weight	79 kg
nationality	Brazil
Date of birth	December 12, 1966
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro
team	Gracie Humaita
Fighting style	Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
MMA statistics
Victories	15th
Knockout	2
task	11
Points	2
Defeats	2
Knockout	2
draw	3

Royce Gracie (born December 12, 1966 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA martial artist and actor. Gracie gained international fame outside of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu through his three tournament victories at the UFC in the 1990s and the longest fight in modern MMA history against Kazushi Sakuraba in Japan.

biography

Royce Gracie is the son of Hélio Gracie . As a member of the Gracie family , which dominated numerous Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments in Brazil, Royce Gracie began BJJ training at the age of 8 and was awarded the black belt at the age of 18.

At the UFC tournament with representatives from various martial arts in 1993, his older brother Rickson Gracie was supposed to compete. However, Rorion Gracie decided on Royce Gracie as the representative of Gracie-Jiu-Jitsu, since Royce only weighed 80 kilograms and could thus most clearly show an alleged dominance by pure technology of the Gracies. Royce Gracie surprisingly won the tournament in November 1993 against opponents from higher weight classes (such as Ken Shamrock ). In the following years he also won the UFC 2 and UFC 4 tournaments in 1994. At the UFC 3 tournament, also in 1994, Gracie gave up due to exhaustion and a shoulder injury at the beginning of the second fight.

After a long break from the MMA fight, Gracie was invited to Japan by the Pride FC organization in 2000 . There he should play against Kazushi Sakuraba, who surprisingly already forced Royler Gracie to give up. No time limit was set for the fight. Sakuraba won after 90 minutes when Gracie had to retire with a broken leg.

Gracie was only sporadically active in MMA from now on. In 2006 he was re-invited to the UFC for a fight against welterweight title holder Matt Hughes and lost the fight in the first round. In 2007 there was a rematch against Sakuraba in the US, but the rematch received far less media attention than the debut. Gracie won on points. In the doping test of the athletes' commission, traces of the anabolic steroid nandrolone were found in Gracie's samples and Gracie was suspended.

MMA statistics

Result	Professional record	opponent	date	event	method	round	time
victory	1-0	Kind of Jimmerson	November 12, 1993	UFC 1: The Beginning	Task (Smother Choke)	1	2:18
victory	2-0	"The World's Most Dangerous Man" Ken Shamrock	November 12, 1993	UFC 1: The Beginning	Task (rear-naked choke)	1	0:57
victory	3-0	Gerard Gordeau	November 12, 1993	UFC 1: The Beginning	Task (rear-naked choke)	1	1:44
victory	4-0	Minoki Ichihara	March 11, 1994	UFC 2: No Way Out	Task (Lapel Choke)	1	5:08
victory	5-0	Jason DeLucia	March 11, 1994	UFC 2: No Way Out	Task (armlock)	1	1:07
victory	6-0	Remco "Grizzly" Pardoel	March 11, 1994	UFC 2: No Way Out	Task (Lapel Choke)	1	1:31
victory	7-0	Patrick Smith	March 11, 1994	UFC 2: No Way Out	TKO (blows)	1	1:17
victory	8-0	Kimo Leopoldo	September 9, 1994	UFC 3: The American Dream	Task (armlock)	1	4:40
victory	9-0	"Black Dragon" Ron van Clief	December 16, 1994	UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors	Task (rear-naked choke)	1	3:59
victory	10-0	"The Giant Killer" Keith Heckney	December 16, 1994	UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors	Task (armlock)	1	5:32
victory	11-0	"The Beast" Dan Severn	December 16, 1994	UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors	Task (triangle choke)	1	15:49
No contest	11-0-1	"The World's Most Dangerous Man" Ken Shamrock	April 7, 1995	UFC 5 - The Return of the Beast	time limit	1	36:00
victory	12-0-1	Nobuhiko Takada	January 30, 2000	Pride FC - Pride Grand Prix 2000: Opening Round	Point decision (unanimous)	1	15:00
defeat	12-1-1	"The Gracie Hunter" Kazushi Sakuraba	May 1, 2000	Pride FC - Pride Grand Prix 2000: Finals	TKO (task of the team)	6th	15:00
No contest	12-0-2	Hidehiko Yoshida	December 31, 2003	Pride FC - Shockwave 2003	time limit	2	10:00
victory	13-1-2	/ "Akebono" Chad Rowan	December 31, 2004	K-1 Premium 2004 - Dynamite !!!	Task (wrist lock)	1	2:13
No contest	13-1-3	Hideo Tokoro	December 31, 2005	K-1 Premium 2005 - Dynamite !!!	time limit	2	10:00
defeat	13-2-3	Matt Hughes	May 27, 2006	UFC 60 - Hughes vs. Gracie	TKO (blows)	1	4:39
victory	14-2-3	"The Gracie Hunter" Kazushi Sakuraba	June 2, 2007	K-1 - HERO's Dynamite !! United States	Point decision (unanimous)	3	5:00
victory	15-2-3	"The World's Most Dangerous Man" Ken Shamrock	19th February 2016	Bellator 149 - Shamrock vs. Gracie	TKO (knees & punches)	1	2:22

Filmography

• 2010: Vale Todo
• 2015: The Scorpion King: The Lost Throne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Royce Gracie Suspended, Fined For Steroids ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - by David A. Avila, TheSweetScience.com  

Web links

Commons : Royce Gracie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Royce Gracie (Engl.)
• Royce Gracie Video Interview - BJJLegends.com
• Royce Gracie in the database of Sherdog (English)