Kron Gracie says the famous family legacy that once gave Gracie fighters a massive edge has now become a burden.
Speaking on The Ariel Helwani Show, Kron reflected on how dramatically the landscape has shifted since the early days of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu dominance:
The Gracies had a big advantage because they were training since they were babies.
And when they started competing, there was no one else training that much.But now you look around, there’s people been training since they were kids in so many different ways.
So, the Gracies don’t have that kind of advantage anymore.
Kron went further, saying the family name has not only lost its competitive edge – it now actively works against him:
If anything, it’s a disadvantage because my family is the one teaching all these people I’m competing against.
So all the people that I matched up with have people who are in my family coaching somebody who coached somebody who coached them to compete against me.
He also described how modern MMA has diverged from the rule set and expectations he grew up training for:
It’s like an inflation with competing for me because I’m getting paid less, I’m competing against tougher guys and the time is shorter and all these things that I wasn’t trained for.
I was trained for long time, being able to use jiu-jitsu, (being told about) letting the guy get tired, gassing out, training forever, no weight, no rules…
Those were kind of what I was hearing when I was growing up.
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