How The Gracie Hunter Spoiled Legacies

The Gracie family is known for using brazilian jiu jitsu to dominate early mixed martial arts promotions, take UFC 1 for example.

But Kazushi Sakuraba is an almost mythical mixed martial arts pioneer who haunted the Gracie family for a decade.

Sakuraba would stand across a Gracie 6 times in 3 promotions, the first of which was Royler Gracie, at Pride 8 in 1999.

And Sakuraba submitted Royler via Kimura.

Then in 2000, Sakuraba met UFC 1,2, and 4 winner Royce Gracie, and got a KO/TKO victory.

Then the Gracie Hunter met Renzo Gracie at Pride 10 later that year and finished him via Kimura.

And just as a legend would, in that same year, Sakuraba met Ryan Gracie at Pride 12 to earn a decision victory.

Sakuraba would eventually lose to Royce in 2007 and Ralek in 2010, but beating 4 formidable Gracie’s in their prime is

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