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Marcelo Garcia’s Condition For A Grappling Comeback: NO TRASH TALK

Marcelo Garcia’s Condition For A Grappling Comeback: NO TRASH TALK

Marcelo Garcia rattled the entire community couple of months ago when he hinted of a return to competitive grappling. Garcia, 36, is widely considered one of the greatest grapplers of all time. But he’s also fairly appalled by the current state of jiu jitsu – namely Gordon Ryan like antics. In fact he’s so principled he kicked out two of his star prodigies for similar antics: Mansher Khera and much more famous Dillon Danis.

“I want to go to a big event, that treats people good, that respects all the fighters. An event who don’t make their fighters talk trash about each other. That’s what I’m looking for.”

– Garcia told flograppling

Back in November he said:

I’m going to come back to compete but I just don’t know when because I’m just enjoying so parenting and I put so much effort into it. But there will be one time when like you know, I’m already not changing diapers anymore. My kids are already like getting too big for me and Kasai being next door and from the memories that I have competing in Sao Paulo and New Jersey in Abu Dhabi, I mean why not one day…

He added that he’s also looking at competing in other events and maybe even a IBJJF world at adult:

There’s a possibility to compete in other event like IBJJF master who knows maybe mundial again! I mean I’m not saying it’s easy to go there and do it and maybe even Abu Dhabi…

He revealed that part of his motivation is to show his kids:

Maybe one have my kids watching me do this that would be very special. Like my son telling me ‘Daddy I don’t know too much about this like jiujitsu stuff but can you go and do it for me?’

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