{"id":115825,"date":"2014-10-19T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=115825"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:16:36","slug":"royce-gracie-believes-brazilian-fighters-lack-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/royce-gracie-believes-brazilian-fighters-lack-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Royce Gracie Believes Brazilian Fighters Lack Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/royce-explains-move-im-here-to-help-bellator-grow\/royce-gracie-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115625\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Royce-Gracie.jpg\" alt=\"Royce Gracie\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Royce-Gracie.jpg 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Royce-Gracie-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Royce-Gracie-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With UFC 179 coming up this Saturday, Jose Aldo stands alone as the only Brazilian fighter to currently hold a UFC championship.  After Anderson Silva lost the middleweight title in 2013, and Renan Barao lost the bantamweight title earlier this year, it was quickly noted that 8 of 9 UFC champions are Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Royce Gracie attributes this to Brazilians having a lack of game plan when they fight.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2014\/10\/19\/7002447\/royce-gracie-believes-brazilian-fighters-lack-strategy-you-can-t-just\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It\u2019s a strategy game. You can\u2019t just be tough and talented.  People outside (of Brazil) knows how to work with strategy really well. You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game. It might look easy at the end, but he trained really hard to make you do this, make this wrong step, and then knock you out in 30 seconds. That\u2019s strategy. I think (Brazilian fighters) are lacking that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A fighter does jiu-jitsu, boxing or kickboxing his whole life, and then he wants to do something else in the ring.  If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s why I like Demian Maia and Fabricio Werdum.  Demian will take you down and do his game. Werdum learned the stand-up to know what\u2019s coming, but he never stopped using his jiu-jitsu. He will clinch, take you down and submit you. It\u2019s a strategy game. It\u2019s not being talented only, you have to use strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy. He\u2019s showed that already, but that\u2019s only one way to find out if here\u2019s going to win: getting inside the Octagon and fighting.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With UFC 179 coming up this Saturday, Jose Aldo stands alone as the only Brazilian fighter to currently hold a UFC championship. After Anderson Silva lost the middleweight title in 2013, and Renan Barao lost the bantamweight title earlier this year, it was quickly noted that 8 of 9 UFC champions are Americans. 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