{"id":110973,"date":"2014-09-05T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=110973"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:34:10","slug":"severn-hints-at-letting-royce-gracie-win-in-legendary-ufc-4-match-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/severn-hints-at-letting-royce-gracie-win-in-legendary-ufc-4-match-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Severn Hints At Letting Royce Gracie Win In Legendary UFC 4 Match Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ye0mJg-vM4I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen I tell people I was more torn with my conscience then ever with an opponent, most people will probably never understand that,&#8221; said the former pro wrestler. &#8220;You know, during the course of that match I&#8217;m actually looking at &#8211; I\u2019m a big believer that the eyes are a windows into a person&#8217;s soul &#8211; I\u2019m staring right through his soul and he&#8217;s looking over at his Dad outside the cage wall there, and I could read exactly what\u2019s going through his mind. He&#8217;s saying &#8216;Dad I\u2019m hanging in here, but if you were to throw in that towel I wouldn\u2019t hold it against you&#8217;, and then I went from Royce\u2019s eyes, I looked over to Helio outside the cage wall, Helio is looking at me, he&#8217;s got the towel in his hands, he brings the towel up, crosses his arms and then just shakes his head &#8216;no&#8217;. And I\u2019m thinking to myself, you old bastard, you\u2019d let me kill your kid out here for Gracie Jiu Jitsu wouldn\u2019t ya? Well nobody knows that Dan Severn is out here tonight, so I\u2019ll just simply say, did I tap out because someone beat me, or did I tap out because I refused to do what I had to do to another human being? I\u2019m the only person that can answer that question. All I\u2019ll simply say is, from UFC number 4 to UFC number 5, I took 32 days out of my life and I trained to become a No Holds Barred fighter, and I destroyed the field.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the modern era, ZUFFA owned, UFC we have come to love today, there was a whole different animal of a sporting event.<\/p>\n<p>In the early days, a super-fight got no bigger than UFC 4&#8217;s featured bout between Dan Severn and Royce Gracie.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Transcription props: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedmartialarts.com\/news\/447097\/Severn-You-can-make-Frankenstein-now-with-PEDs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirik Jenness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedmartialarts.com\/news\/447097\/Severn-You-can-make-Frankenstein-now-with-PEDs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MixedMartialArts.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I tell people I was more torn with my conscience then ever with an opponent, most people will probably never understand that,&#8221; said the former pro wrestler. &#8220;You know, during the course of that match I&#8217;m actually looking at &#8211; I\u2019m a big believer that the eyes are a windows into a person&#8217;s soul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":110974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[3543,11,649,798,9255,15,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Severn Hints At Letting Royce Gracie Win In Legendary UFC 4 Match Up | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/severn-hints-at-letting-royce-gracie-win-in-legendary-ufc-4-match-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Severn Hints At Letting Royce Gracie Win In Legendary UFC 4 Match Up | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWhen I tell people I was more torn with my conscience then ever with an opponent, most people will probably never understand that,&#8221; 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