It’s been a minute since Renzo Gracie last took a fight in MMA. In fact, it’s been over 4 million minutes, to be a little more precise. The legendary head of the Renzo Gracie BJJ Academy and Renzo Gracie Combat Team was last seen wearing a pair of 4oz gloves back in 2010, when he took a lopsided beating at the hands of Matt Hughes.
In the years since, he’s done some competitive submission grappling, most notably taking on Mario Sperry at the 2011 ADCCs and Kazushi Sakuraba at Metamoris V in 2014. And all during that time, he’s teased the possibility of returning to mixed martial arts competition.