The Gracie Way
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – When it was announced that Royce Gracie was returning to the UFC in 2006 to meet then-welterweight champion Matt Hughes, the jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts worlds were abuzz with talk of the man who dominated the early UFC’s with his then-mysterious brand of grappling known as Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. But for all the praise being thrown in his direction at that moment, Royce would not accept it.
