Royce Gracie is very critical of the new generation of Gracies fighting in MMA (Roger, Rolles, Igor, Neiman etc..)

Over the past decades, Royce, Renzo and Rickson Gracie have racked up 32 wins in 44 bouts combined, a winning rate of 72.72 percent. Since 2000, however, that number has dropped to 58.82 percent with the Gracie family’s 60 wins in 102 fights. Royce Gracie believes the reason why his family isn’t winning most of their fights anymore is because they are forgetting their roots and not focusing enough on Jiu-Jitsu. Royce Gracie told MMAFighting.com:

“Jiu-jitsu is enough. I’ve trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won’t get there to fight my opponent’s game. The (new) guys (from the Gracie) family want to complement their game, like if jiu-jitsu was incomplete. I guess they forgot a little about history.”

“I do jiu-jitsu my whole life, so why would I try to stand and bang with Mike Tyson?,” he said. “I’m going to learn boxing in six months because my opponent is good in boxing? That makes no sense.”

“Roger, like any other member of the family, is trying to learn wrestling, boxing. I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That’s what I’ve done in the past. You have to go back to your roots and train Gracie jiu-jitsu. Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion. If Roger had defeated him, he’d have deserved a title shot. Tim Kennedy is really, really tough. Why they cut Roger I really don’t know either, I have no idea.”

As Bellator’s new ambassador, Royce Gracie, however, has defined which family member will be the next Gracie to have success in mixed martial arts: Kron.

Kron Gracie

“It has to be Kron right? He is coming strong, starting to train hard, I think he had a fight scheduled. He was suppose to fight in August in Japan, but the event was canceled – now he’s just waiting. Let’s see how he’ll do in MMA. He’ll not just fight,he’ll clinch and take down. He’ll have to use his head. Sometimes being too aggressive is not as good, it is better to be patient. To be less exposed, “Royce said in an interview with E! Net.

At 26, Kron Gracie is the son of one of the greats of Jiu-Jitsu, Rickson Gracie . A submission specialist, he holds victories over names like Leandro Lo, Michael Langhi, among others. His MMA debut should be happening shortly.