The Brazilian grappler scored the first knockout of his MMA career in his ONE debut in December, stopping James McSweeney in the third round, and told MMAFighting.com that he hopes to be back in action in a five-round fight for the light heavyweight gold.
"I asked them about it, but haven’t heard anything back yet," Gracie said of fighting for the vacant belt. "I fought one of their best guys in my ONE debut, so it was kind of good and bad at the same time. He was coming off back-to-back knockouts and was already close to fighting for the title, and now that I beat him there’s no one ahead of the others right now, so I don’t know.