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Helio gracie vs waldemar santana12/18/2023 ![]() ![]() But staying truthful to his father he did not quit and went along with it. Carlos Gracie, a firm believer in spiritualism and Aura, asked Rickson not to fight as he didn’t feel this was his fight to win. The fight was in Brasilia under Rei Zulu’s home crowd and Rickson didn’t feel 100%. Rickson was 18 years old at the time and weighed around 20kg less then Zulu, but he accepted his dad’s decision and fought. Rolls Gracie, the family’s star stud jumped on the occasion of fighting Zulu, but Helio had other plans, his own son. No one else wanted to fight him in Brazil and Waldemar who was Zulu’s promoter and instructor was finding it very hard to find matches for his fighter. Zulu was a huge fighter with incredible athletic ability and was undefeated in his NHB record. In 1980 Waldemar Santana, the man who had defeated Rickson’s father – Helio Gracie – on an historic no holds barred event, and with whom he later regained contact with, asked if the Gracie’s had anyone in their class that could challenge Rei Zulu (Santana’s student). Always considering himself of being a Gracie Jiu Jitsu practitioner and not a Vale-Tudo/MMA fighter, he took pride on the fact that he did not cross train in other martial arts in order to compete against the best. ![]() Seeing Rickson’s potential from an early age, Helio prepared his son and raised him to be the next family representative in the fighting world, following his predecessors paths, people like his father, his cousin Carlson (the family representative in the 1950′s and 1960′s) and his other cousin Rolls (in the 1970′s). Rickson is one of the 9 sons of Jiu Jitsu Grandmaster Helio Gracie (in order: Rorion, Relson, Rickson, Rolker, Royler, Royce, Rerika, Robin, Ricci), spending most of his youth on the mats. Rickson Gracie was born in Novemin Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Weight Division: Peso Medio (82kg-181lbs) ![]() However that record can be disputed since there is at least one loss recorded in sport Sambo (by points – throw) against Ron Tripp. Lineage: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Helio Gracie > Rickson GracieĬommon myth is that Rickson’s record is of 400-0.That is including all competitions (BJJ, Judo, Sambo and MMA and closed doors No-Holds-Barred fights – common of the early 80’s Jiu Jitsu era in Brazil) in which he was involved. Rickson Gracie also became a star in the MMA community after the release of the fantastic documentary: Choke. Through victories in a number of Mixed Martial Arts events in both his native Brazil and in Japan during the 1980’s and 1990’s, Rickson Gracie helped establish his family’s style of Jiu-Jitsu as the worlds most effective method of one on one unarmed combat. Rickson Gracie, the son of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Grandmaster Helio Gracie, is considered, by many, to be the greatest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner of all time. ![]()
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