Renzo Gracie recently guested on the MMAJunkie radio and explained his decision to go back to MMA at age 51.
Gracie underwent a series of transformations
Renzo Gracie Lost More Than 14Kg in 2 months
The Gracie family fanfavorite explained:
I never stopped training… I’ll be training actually serious for like over a year and a half and I’m feeling better now than ever … you know I’m really feeling good
Renzo was initially asked by ONE if he’d prefer to fight someone his own age to which he answered a staunch no.
I wanna fight a kid – get a young kid yeah so they got Yuki Konda.
Renzo additionally revealed they initially tried to make Renzo vs Sakuraba happen but sadly due to contractual obligation it couldn’t be done.
In the past Renzo has admitted that having his arm broken by Sakuraba was the most painful experience in his life:
“I thought I would do that in that situation. I would never tap. But you can never be 100 percent sure until that moment arrives and you feel that pain. That was the most pain I ever felt in my life, but I was happy I went through that, even though it hurt a lot. I was smiling the whole time. It was the moment I found out my mind was stronger than my body.”
“If you lock me today in a cage, where there’s no light coming in, and feed me only enough to survive, if you open the cage door 10 years from now, you’ll find me smiling at you. In my head, I accomplished much more than I ever dreamed I would accomplish. I’ve already lived a full life and I’m only halfway there. In my head, I still have another half of my life to live. But I feel like I’ve already lived three normal lifetimes. I was not only a champion in sports, but the friendships I’ve been able to build, the love I’ve received, the love I’ve had to give, and there are moments that will stay with my the rest of my life. I’ll have the best memories anyone ever had.”
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