Roger Gracie Interview With Tatame - I'm Training for a Fight at March 20th Sengoku

by skwirrl on Feb 7, 2009 5:43 PM EST

Do you know when you'll be back to Sengoku?

I’m training to fight MMA now in March, at Sengoku, Japan. It’s 90% right, but it isn’t confirmed yet and I can’t guarantee. But I believe that will happen. I’m training in my gym. If I do fight in March, I’ll continue doing my training in London and four weeks before the fight I believe that I should go to NY with Renzo (Gracie).

How do you come for your third fight?

I think that I develop a lot my game after every fight I do. This will be the third fight in MMA and I believe I’ll be better every fight, not only physically but also mentally, with more experience, in a different way in the ring. The more I compete, the more I overcome myself.

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Shouldn’t you add ‘Against a Tomato Can’ to the end of the headline? :-)

by Derek Suboticki on Feb 7, 2009 5:56 PM EST reply actions

He should be fighting fairly low-tier guys for awhile. He only has a couple fights and needs to develop before he can be a world beater.

"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR

by Rundownloser on Feb 7, 2009 6:06 PM EST up reply actions

Soon you'll see him square up against a real fighter

This was supposed to be against Jeff Monson. I’m thinking there is a very real chance he’ll fight Xande Ribeiro soon.

Gimme 1 Round!

by skwirrl on Feb 7, 2009 6:14 PM EST up reply actions

And Roger pulls out due to injury in…3…2…1…

If you're not submitting, you're just rolling around with another guy.

by BJJDenver on Feb 7, 2009 7:05 PM EST reply actions

Unlikely, with the money he is being offered.

by smoogy on Feb 7, 2009 8:47 PM EST up reply actions

Sometimes I feel I have to much faith in Roger. I really want to see the guy develop, and transform into a multi-dimensional MMA fighter, but I just don’t know if it’ll happen.

by Gogo Platter on Feb 7, 2009 8:20 PM EST reply actions

I don’t get the sense that he will, but I’d love to be wrong.

by Michaelthebox on Feb 7, 2009 8:48 PM EST up reply actions

I’m so tired of promoters thinking they can launch an event by having a Gracie in the line up. All the Gracies do now is fight cans. Who was Roger’s last fight with? Wasn’t it Ron Waterman? I’m sure the fight was a work. Waterman takes Roger down and doesn’t throw a strike. He let’s himself be arm barred in Roger’s guard. The match was a work!

by pwdminotauro on Feb 7, 2009 10:04 PM EST reply actions