Royler Gracie
The featherweight who set the early standard at the Worlds
- Born
- December 6, 1965, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Nationality
Brazil- Height
- 173 cm (5′8″)
- Style
- Technical featherweight passer
- Weight
- Featherweight, ADCC -66 kg
- Active
- 1985–2014
- Status
- Retired · age 60
The record
BJJ Heroes record in major events, 1985-2014: wins by 10 submissions, 19 on points, 4 on advantages, 1 by referee decision; 2 of 6 losses by submission. Professional MMA record 5-5-1 (Wikipedia).
4× IBJJF World Champion (1996-1999), 3× ADCC (1999-2001)
The story
oyler Gracie, a son of Hélio, trained as a boy at his cousin Rolls Gracie's academy and later in his brother Rickson's camp. When the IBJJF World Championship began in 1996 he won the black-belt featherweight title, then repeated in 1997, 1998 and 1999, a divisional record at the time. He carried that form into no-gi grappling, winning ADCC gold in the lightest division three years running from 1999 to 2001. He also fought in Japanese MMA, losing a long 1999 bout to Kazushi Sakuraba at Pride 8, and finished with a 5-5-1 professional record. After Rickson moved to the United States, Royler led the Gracie Humaitá academy in Rio, where Saulo and Xande Ribeiro developed, and in 2010 he moved to California to teach. He is in both the IBJJF and ADCC halls of fame.
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- IBJJF World champion (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999; featherweight)
- ADCC champion (1999, 2000, 2001; -66 kg)
- Pan American champion (1997, 1999)
- IBJJF Hall of Fame
- ADCC Hall of Fame
- Coral belt, 8th degree
Defining matches
- 1996WINvs Vinicius Draculino (points, first IBJJF World final)
- 1999WINvs Alexandre Soca (leg lock, ADCC -66 kg final)
- 1999LOSSvs Kazushi Sakuraba (technical submission, kimura, Pride 8)
- 2003LOSSvs Eddie Bravo (triangle, ADCC quarter-final)
- 2014DRAWvs Eddie Bravo (Metamoris 3 rematch)
Borrow Royler's knee-slice pass: pin the far lapel or win the underhook, drive your knee across the opponent's thigh with your hips low, and settle straight into side control before they can recover guard.
