BJJ News — gracie-family

Schultz Claims Gracie Family Blocked ADCC And Destroyed Tapes

Schultz Claims Gracie Family Blocked ADCC And Destroyed Tapes

Mark Schultz doesn't do jiu-jitsu. The 1984 Olympic wrestling gold medalist is a wrestler — a sport that makes BJJ look like tai chi in a sensory deprivation tank.
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Kron Gracie: Rickson Told Me Not to Box. I Ignored Him. It Worked. We Didn't Talk for Three Years.

Kron Gracie: Rickson Told Me Not to Box. I Ignored Him. It Worked. We Didn't Talk for Three Years.

Rickson Gracie gave his son an ultimatum. "Don't box." Two words, no debate.
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Kyra Gracie Says Her Family Told Her Women Aren't Supposed to Do Jiu-Jitsu. She Became a 3-Time ADCC Champion.

Kyra Gracie Says Her Family Told Her Women Aren't Supposed to Do Jiu-Jitsu. She Became a 3-Time ADCC Champion.

The family that turned jiu-jitsu into a global franchise — the billion-dollar brand built on the premise that anyone can do this, that anyone can learn, that the art belongs to whoever puts in the time — told one of their own women to quit. "Kyra, forget about it.
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Kyra Gracie Had to Fight Her Own Family for the Right to Train Jiu-Jitsu

Kyra Gracie Had to Fight Her Own Family for the Right to Train Jiu-Jitsu

The Gracie family has spent a hundred years selling jiu-jitsu as the great equalizer. Technique beats strength.
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Kron Gracie Says Rickson Didn't Speak to Him for Years After His Cub Swanson Fight — The Values Break Inside BJJ's First Family

Kron Gracie Says Rickson Didn't Speak to Him for Years After His Cub Swanson Fight — The Values Break Inside BJJ's First Family

Rickson didn't speak to him. That's the part Kron Gracie just said out loud.
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Kron Gracie Says His Father's MMA Advice 'Is Not Working.' The Most Decorated Gracie in History Is Getting Called Out By His Own Son.

Kron Gracie Says His Father's MMA Advice 'Is Not Working.' The Most Decorated Gracie in History Is Getting Called Out By His Own Son.

Rickson Gracie's advice isn't working. The one actually eating punches inside the UFC cage.
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Kron Gracie Says Rickson Stopped Speaking to Him for Years Because He Used Boxing In MMA — The Gentle Art Family Was Not Gentle About It

Kron Gracie Says Rickson Stopped Speaking to Him for Years Because He Used Boxing In MMA — The Gentle Art Family Was Not Gentle About It

Rickson Gracie built his reputation on one idea: jiu-jitsu beats everything. Against bigger men, against strikers, against wrestlers who didn't yet know what a closed guard could do to their arms.
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Roger Gracie's Heel Hook Myth Is Older Than MMA Itself

Roger Gracie's Heel Hook Myth Is Older Than MMA Itself

Roger Gracie, the Gracie family patriarch and defender of traditional lineage, recently restated a claim that's been bouncing around BJJ circles since before the Fertitta brothers bought the UFC: heel hooks don't work in real fighting because the moment you grab someone's foot, you get punched in th
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