UFC Unleashed yesterday - Royce Gracie (Gracie vs Hughes coming soon)

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The funniest fight of the night was against the 51 year old grey headed dude. WTF!? Gracie had his back and was choking him, I said, "hurry man! tap before you have a [censored]' heart attack!"

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Yeah, that dude was a fossil. The opening announcemnts said that he had black belts in 9 or 10 MA styles though.

I remember in another of the fights, Gracie had his opponent in an armbar, and the dude was tapping for like 10-15 seconds before the ref noticed.


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Royce had a mean streak that hardly anyone talks about. In UFC 1, he choked Shamrock. Shamrock tapped and Royce let go. The ref (not Big John) didn't see the tap. Royce never made that mistake (letting go before the ref tells him) again.

The last fight of UFC 1, he choked out the guy and kept the choke on because it took a while for the ref to see him.

UFC 2, the fight you're thiking of is Jason DeLucia. Jason tried to stand up, but Royce got the arm bar on, hanging from Jason while Jason was tapping. The ref didn't see, so Royce kept it on.

UFC 2, the real mean one. Royce mount Pat Smith and was punching him in the face. Pat tried to tap. Royce grabbed Pat's tapping arm and kept punching him!

And, for an earlier example of the mean streak, he had another fight with Jason DeLucia. He easily could have choked him out, but didn't. Twice. Preferring instead to punch Jason. You can see that fight here.