Breaking News: Rickson Gracie Confirms He Plans to Fight on New Years Eve

August 26, 2007

Over a year ago here on The FightWorks Podcast, we spoke with Breno Sivak, who is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu from Gracie Humaita in Rio de Janeiro. Sivak has been a long time friend of Rickson Gracie, and in our conversation claimed that Rickson was preparing to fight another mixed martial arts fight in December 2006.

Sivak’s claim was dismissed as rumor by some, but this weekend at the Brazilian jiu-jitsu Mundials in Los Angeles, I spoke with Rickson Gracie personally and asked if there was any truth to Sivak’s statement. Rickson confirmed that he does indeed still intend to fight and is currently in negotiations with multiple MMA promotions to fight on December 31, 2007.

So while Breno’s statement was not entirely spot on, in essence he was indeed correct that Rickson Gracie is still looking for another chance to demonstrate the skills of the “Lion of the Gracie family”. Rickson will be travelling back to Brazil and has plans for Japan before the end of the year. We will let you know when we learn more.

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15 Responses to “Breaking News: Rickson Gracie Confirms He Plans to Fight on New Years Eve”

  1. FightOpinion.com - Your Global Connection to the Fight Industry. on August 28th, 2007 4:38 am

    [...] Gracie is going to fight on New Year’s Eve. Only one promotion runs on NYE now – [...]

  2. Rickson Gracie wird am 31. Dezember wieder in den Ring steigen! « MMA-News in deutscher Sprache on August 28th, 2007 5:11 am

    [...] HomePage Admin von TheFightWorksPodcast traf Rickson Gracie im Rahmen der BJJ Mundials in Los Angeles und hat bei ihm nachgefragt, ob er [...]

  3. MMA Sportcenter » Blog Archive » Rickson regresa on August 28th, 2007 8:39 am

    [...] The FightWorks Podcast [...]

  4. bjjguy on August 28th, 2007 11:44 am

    rickson by armbar

  5. Rickson Returns? | Grapplemonkey.com on August 28th, 2007 12:58 pm

    [...] was just kidding about Randy vs Rickson, but apparently Rickson has confirmed that he’s in negotiations with a few fight orgs to fight on New Years Eve. Now if only Randy could just lose 40 [...]

  6. Five Ounces of Pain | Kang vs. Sakuraba appears to be off; Rickson Gracie likely to fight on New Year’s Eve on August 28th, 2007 2:04 pm

    [...] there are strong signals that Rickson Gracie intends to fight MMA again on New Year’s Eve. Gracie doesn’t specify for who or for where, but K-1 is the only major MMA promotion left in [...]

  7. Wstrząsająca wiadomość: Rickson wraca! at MMA Blog on August 28th, 2007 2:49 pm

    [...] temu czarny pasek i przyjaciel Ricksona, Breno Sivak, powiedział dla The FightWorks Podcast, że Rickson przygotowuje się do walki w grudniu 2006 r. Temat został uznany za [...]

  8. tykwa on August 28th, 2007 3:55 pm

    omfgicantwait

  9. Rickson and Royler demo. « Martial Farts on September 2nd, 2007 6:32 am

    [...] did you hear? Rickson is back! Possibly. My money is on K1 throwing huge amounts of money at him to fight Masakatsu Funaki, a [...]

  10. MMAPredictions | Blog on October 22nd, 2007 11:34 pm

    [...] the “lion of the Gracie family” who enjoys an MMA record of eleven wins and no losses, stated that he is in negotiations to fight on New Years Eve this year while he was at the 2007 Brazilian jiu-jitsu world championship in Los [...]

  11. MMAPredictions | Blog on November 13th, 2007 3:54 am

    [...] of Rickson Gracie fighting again in mixed martial arts have been circulating since his departure from the sport in the year 2000. [...]

  12. pete on December 14th, 2007 3:27 am

    would rickson fight in ufc?

  13. vania on February 6th, 2008 4:16 pm

    Gostei muito de assistir todas suas lutas, quer casar comigo?

  14. vania on February 18th, 2008 10:46 am

    Tudo bem, peguei pesado, gostaria de entrar em contato com Rickson, acho um atleta completo, tanto fisico como mentalmente, assistir a um documentário dele e fiquei encantada, sou admiradora da arte e pratico jiu-jitsu…seria muito bom poder aprender com ele pelo menos 1/13 de seu conhecimento…

  15. Joseph Spinelli on March 11th, 2010 1:01 pm

    Rickson is the greatest MMA ever. I sincerely believe he would defeat Fedor in his prime. He was the most adept technician I have ever seen, and if he does in fact decide to fight again, his opponent no matter who it is, will be in for a long [or should I say short] night!

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