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January - 2015
SCRAPP! FIGHT MAGAZINE
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Roger Gracie – a name that
holds much weight in the world
of martial arts. It is hard not to
spot him in a crowd, especially
in an Asian audience where he
easily towers over everyone at
a height of 1.9 metres. Seem-
ingly somewhat reserved, Gra-
cie is a man of few words but
not without a sense of humour.
A proud member of the leg-
endary Gracie family, he car-
ried the name solidly through
his career in martial arts, im-
pressively stacking up 10 world
championship titles in Brazilian
Jiu-jitsu (BJJ). Currently residing
in London England where he
runs his own academy, he re-
cently hit headlines around the
world when he came out of
retirement and signed for ONE
Fighting Championship (ONE
FC), Asia’s largest mixed martial
arts (MMA) organization.
ROGER GRACIE
“COMEBACK KID”
The 10-time BJJ world champion came out of
retirement and nailed a successful comeback
in mixed martial arts, winning on his feet for
the first time
Text by Kale Havervold - Photos by Cheryl Tay