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The year of the Gracies?
My worst fear for this year has come true. We saw early on that all of the Gracies were coming out to fight this year and they've all, for the most part, been demolished. I like most people on here appreciate what the Gracie's did for the sport over the years. But this year has been especially humiliating. The only thing that could cap it off would be if Rickson fought Bas or somebody and got his ass kicked too. In the 90's BJJ schools became popular across the US due to the early BJJ dominance over MMA fighting. Will these schools now collapse to the now popular cross training schools? Can we now close the door for good on any one pure martial arts form dominating? Should the Gracie's be relegated to third tier fighting tournaments until they prove themselves like anybody else? It used to be sacrilege to nitpick Royce and others about their ground fighting. They were Gods on the ground. Now, not even that's safe it seems. Sorry for another Gracie thread, but for history's sake they are still interesting to follow and talk about.
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