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In Gracie's case the gi is a definite advantage but not for everyone. Because you can get choked out with your own gi too. Everytime I roll with someone who wears a gi I'll first pull his gi over his face to disorient and disrupt breathing, then i'll try to use his collar to choke him out with his own gi.

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I think it's a reasonable assumption that Hughes is not technical enough to pull off a gi choke on a bjj black belt.

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I'm not sure...I never thought much of Hughes' ground game, except ground n pound, especially considering when he made that horrible rookie mistake against BJ Penn and got choked out. But when I saw his single motion super fast arm-bar on St. Pierre I was very very impressed. St. Pierre is pretty good on the ground and didn't even see it coming.

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I think he probably was surprised that Hughes pulled it off too, but gi chokes are stuff you've got to train and I doubt Hughes does much training against people with gi's. Royce is like a 6th or 7th degree black belt. I think he can probably defend against an attempted gi choke.

I feel weird defending Royce since I'm not real big fans of that family. Too many of them have chips on their shoulder and think they're so badass.