THE GREATEST BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU fighter in the world is looking to fight me. “Put your hands up,” Rickson Gracie tells me as he advances. “Like you’re talking like an Italian.” I raise my hands as he ...

Yesterday we started looking at some classic crazy fights from Brazil’s rich MMA history in order to get ready for UFC 134: Rio this Saturday. First up was Renzo Gracie vs. Eugenio Tadeu in a piece of ...

Rickson Gracie, one of the greatest jiu-jitsu artists of this or any time, has laid bare the truth about his art's efficacy in modern mixed martial arts. And the picture he paints isn't a pretty one ...

Rickson Gracie is very proud of being humble. And that is only the beginning of the paradoxes that surround the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu legend. An alpha personality in the dojo, within his family he took ...

One seemingly nondescript street fight over a surfboard ended up popularizing a fruit and changing the landscape of jiu-jitsu forever. The Brazilian acai berry has taken the world by storm. Whether in ...

Rickson Gracie believes jiu-jitsu has “lost its capacity” in today’s MMA. | Photo: Denis Martins More than a decade has passed since Rickson Gracie competed in mixed martial arts, but the 52-year-old ...

To those who bought the UFC 1 pay-per-view and took the ride on Nov. 12, 1993, it must have seemed like a wild gamble.

Rickson Gracie revealed in an interview with Kyra Gracie he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease "two years ago." Gracie, 64, who was undefeated as a vale tudo fighter between 1980 and 2000, said ...