Name: Eddie Bravo Breakdown of Royler Gracie Rematch at Metamoris 3 (from Joe Rogan Experience #478)
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Eddie Bravo Breakdown of Royler Gracie Rematch at Metamoris 3 (from Joe Rogan Experience #478)

the Joe Rogan experience. So 2003, we're in Brazil, giant match. Eddie beats
Gustavo Dantes,
who is a very high level jujitsu black belt, and he taps him, gets his back. So
I saw that you're
pumped up, you know, you felt very confident, you felt good, and you were, you
know, you were zoned
in. But the idea that you were going to fight Hoyle Gracie seems so crazy to me.
Just knowing what I
know about the Gracie's, knowing what I know about the history of the family,
knowing what
a legendary family, to see you, my best friend, standing there with Hoyle Gracie,
and you guys
are about to grapple. I'm like, and we're in Brazil. I'm like, dude, this is a
fucking trip.
I was starstruck. I thought I was like watching some 3D TV or something. Feels
like you're right
there on the mat. And Eddie wound up catching him in a triangle. And it was the
craziest fucking
thing I've ever seen in my life. And it was like time stopped. It was like,
when you slapped
that triangle on him, it seemed like time stopped. It didn't even seem real.
And you
kept, you kept jailbreaking, man, which is why was hilarious. That dexterity
that you
have with your legs, and you're setting up this omoplata here. And you got him
in like
full, full rubber guard here. Yeah, that mission control. That was the
beginning of the rubber
guard. Yeah, you what you had then was the ability to control people. You just
didn't have as many
variations on technique to attack with. But you had this unbelievable fucking
flexibility that a lot
of people aren't aware of. You got some weird flexibility and not just
flexibility, but dexterity,
like in places that maybe some people can grab their leg and put it, you could
put your leg there on
its own. But I'm there's so many guys that are out there that it's not that
weird of flexibility.
It's just getting into Lotus. Like if you got into yoga, and you got obsessed
with it, eventually,
two years, three years, five years, you'd have to be able to get into the very
basic Lotus position.
Yes, there's a little more than that, fella, you're being nice. That's what it
is. I know what you're
saying. But the reality is, you got some crazy legs, something weird about your
legs, your legs are
like arms, they move in strange ways. Right here's if he didn't try to pass
right there, and if we had
just stayed in my guard, I wouldn't have gotten him. This wouldn't happen this
transition. Boom.
Boom. That jailbreak transition. Yeah, he got aggressive, and he shouldn't have
got aggressive.
If he would have just been conservative, I wouldn't have been able to go right
here,
right into the triangle. Boom. Overhook.
All Jean-Jacques right there. That's all Jean-Jacques. Yeah, you controlled
that wrist, and then slapped it over.
And now this, right here, where you had the triangle locked in, once here, like
right there, I was like,
holy shit. Because before, it was like one of those things where you're not
breathing, because it's not
totally locked in. But once you had it locked behind the knee, I was looking at
it, I was like, how is this
guy going to survive? And he's tapping. I was like, he can't survive. Like, no
one can. It's a human being.
When you have a guy your size, and you slap a triangle on him this tight. See,
right here, I wasn't sure.
Bam! There I knew. Like, once he dropped down, I was like, holy shit, that's
locked in.
You were screaming, man.
Woo! Oh my God. And we were the only one screaming, because everybody else was
freaking out.
This Brazilian TV station, it set up cameras there. They shut down the other
matches,
so they could better light this match, because Hoyler Gracie's a hero. And they
were going to show
Hoyler Gracie dominating the first time Abu Dhabi came to Sao Paulo. When you
slap this triangle on him,
dude, all you heard was me and Jamie Walsh. Me and Jamie Walsh were yelling out,
pull the head,
pull the head! Oh my God! Oh my God! It was just madness. Like, oh shit, what?
We couldn't even
believe it. And then, once you did pull the head, and once you did tap, it was
like the world froze.
It was weird. It was like, uh, didn't make sense. The world just became some
new place.
The world just, a totally new element opened up. Like, the world became a new
place.
Now, all of a sudden, Eddie Bravo is a champion martial artist.
Well, I didn't win the championship. It doesn't matter. You just tapped Hoyler
Gracie. Like,
you're capable of tapping Hoyler Gracie. That's championship level shit. You
tapped one of the
greatest guys of all time. It was, it was a whole new world opened up. It was
just, all of a sudden,
it was like, whoa, this is weird. Yeah, it was weird. It was weird. It was
weird to watch too,
man. Cause when I met you, you were a purple belt, you know, you were really
good purple belt. We're
crazy moves and shit. And then, um, all of a sudden you're a brown belt and you
were a brown belt in
Abu Dhabi, bro. That's crazy. You tapped him when you were a brown belt. So 11
long years go by.
And this Saturday night, they had a rematch. Um, Eddie and Hoyler had a rematch
and met
at Morris. And that's what we were talking to Halleck Gracie about on the phone.
They're
promoting these professional jujitsu matches and, uh, it's awesome. Uh, Keenan
Cornelius,
uh, fought, um, uh, Kevin Casey, Kevin Casey took your pee. I'll just describe
the whole event.
Um, a lot of really, really high level fighters fought a lot of really good, uh,
jujitsu fighters
fought. And, um, the main event was Eddie versus Hoyler Gracie and, uh, 11
years running. I mean,
it's a long time in between matches and there was so much talk, so much, so
many haters, so many
believers, so many, I mean, there's so much back and forth between, you know,
the people that thought
that Eddie winning the first time was a fluke and the people that legitimately
thought that Eddie has
a brilliant mind and a creative mind for jujitsu. That's really unique. And he
can come up with a lot
of techniques and his deck, like he's talking, he doesn't want to admit that he's
got weird
dexterity in his legs, but he can move his legs in weird ways. He can wrap you
up in triangles and
stuff and in weird ways without a lot of people have to grab their foot and
place it in places.
Um, so he has these techniques that he's developed and like really created a
bunch of paths like been
and a lot of jujitsu guys do this. This is not unique. Um, but his paths were
uniquely his in
that he came up with a lot of different techniques and approaches and refined a
lot of other approaches
that he sort of adopted or adapted to jujitsu. And, um, the system in 2003 was
really, um, not even a
tenth of what it is now. Um, after 2003, Eddie started teaching and then it
became crazy. Then
the system started growing and new techniques were added and there became guys
like Danny Propagos,
who's a, uh, a world champion as a brown belt. Guys came out of there that were
showing that your,
your techniques weren't just for you and your crazy dexterity, but you had
broken down things
in a way that, you know, uh, other people hadn't done before in a weird way.
Your, your, your positions,
you're very unique. And, um, there was a lot of people that didn't want to
accept that for whatever
reason. And there was all this, oh, he got lucky. Oh, fluke, all this. So
Saturday night rolls around and I
couldn't imagine there being more anticipation in a room before something. And
it was a cool
anticipation too, because one of the things I like about jujitsu is no one's
going to get knocked the
fuck out. Even if you get choked out, you know, there's something about like
seeing a friend fight,
it gets real rough. I mean, we've been friends with MMA fighters, but I've
never been as friendly with
an MMA fighters. I am with you, you know, I've, but knowing a guy and liking a
guy and then watching
him get head kicked, it's hard to do, you know? So it didn't have the date that,
that aspect to it,
but it was all positive is what I'm trying to say. It was all just, holy shit,
it's going down. Um,
and once it did, there was no points because it's a 20 minute match. So for 20
minutes,
it's either submission or no points. But in that 20 minutes, you swept him on
multiple occasions,
you got side control. He never threatened you in any way, shape or form. You
swept him with electric
chairs. You threatened him with a neck crank and you threatened him with this
nasty fucking submission
move on his knee, which I don't, you know, I don't know how he didn't tap.
Cause that was hard to
watch, man. We were sitting there watching. That was the move I got you on the
high time.
That move is so painful. Just that photo shoot, that shit hurt, man. It hurts.
And somehow or another,
uh, Hoyler just, I mean, look, he's a warrior. He just, he didn't want to tap.
He just decided he
wasn't going to tap. Um, for people who, um, have never seen jujitsu before. Um,
that was like the
perfect introduction match because it was so exciting. There was so much
madness. And there
was a bunch of times where you were, uh, you were working on shit and he rolled
you over onto your
back and then he swept him again. So there's all these like seesaws when he
would roll, you'd be on
your back. Oh shit. He's on his back. But you on your back is different than a
lot of people on your
back because that's how you tapped him in the first fight. You tapped him from
your back. Your back is,
you know, your, your guard is crafty. So it was, it was an incredibly thrilling
match because
there was constant threat at all times. And even from him, man, he's still Hoyler
Gracie.
You always knew. I mean, he's still that champion. If something went wrong, if
you didn't
dot your I's and cross your T's. I was not sure I was going to win this fight.
How could you be sure?
He's fucking Hoyler Gracie. I mean, he's Hoyler fucking Gracie. I never said
that I'm going to go out
there and just strangle him. I was just, I didn't know. I hadn't competed in so
long. Look right
here. I'm faking like I'm going to wrestle because I didn't think he was just
going to let me pull
him into quarter guard. I thought at this point my, wow, he just, I thought he
was just going to try
some totally different shit, but this is what he always does. Every morning
before I work out,
I warm up on the Stairmaster. I go to YouTube, put Hoyler, ADCC, pick one of
his matches. And that's how I get,
that gives me all the motivation. I just watch him roll and he's so good at
this, but I thought he
would try to pass to the other side. And I thought this position, I thought
this position was going to
be the hardest to get. And this was the key. If I could just get quarter guard
in this position,
I felt like I could get them. And there's a bunch of crazy rules in this match
as well.
One of the rules was that Hoyler was wearing like these skin tight shorts.
Eddie was wearing
gee pants. Um, and Hoyler was allowed to grab Eddie's gee pants, but Eddie wasn't
allowed to
grab Hoyler shorts. So it was weird to watch man. Cause there's times where he's
like giving you a
wedgie and pulling on your pants and yeah, he's pulling them down. I could see
my underwear.
Yeah. And when, and when he got to that, uh, leg lock and he was trying to
defend that leg lock,
I mean, you're tearing his knee apart and he's hanging onto your, your cuff.
It saved him. The pants saved him.
Yeah.
Cause if he didn't have the pants, I would have stomped on that foot and got
the extra power.
Cause he, oh, I mean, uh, man, his, I think his knee popped at least seven
times.
We were talking. I'm like, we could stop this now. Are you sure? Cause no, I'm
fine.
And I'm popping. I'm like, what about that? Cause I'm fine. I'm like, it just
kept popping.
I'm like, damn, are you sure? Cause everything's good. That's everything's fine.
Like we're talking
throughout this whole match. Like right here, he wanted the underhook really,
really bad.
So I was saying, it's hard to get this time, huh? Cause the first time we got
the u