How the Rickson Gracie/Hugo Duarte Fight Went Down - Jean Jacques Machado and Joe Rogan

Who did Hixson fight on the beach? Who was that? Hixson fight Hugo Duarte. That's right. Hugo Duarte went on to fight in pride. He fought Tank Abbott, right? Man. He fought some different people in MMA. I remember that day was so funny because we have a point on the beach in Rio that is it's where most of the... where the pretty girls were. Then all the guys are going there to session the beach. Very famous people and then everybody go in that session. And we keep it here that Hugo challenge Hixson, Hugo challenge Hixson, Hugo challenge Hixson. Here it is right here. There we go. Smacked him in the face. Then Hixson was like, no, he didn't say anything and I'm right. There's some walking right there and light shorts there. My mission were Hixson look at me and say, hey, watch my back. Where were you? I'm the one. Okay. I'm off the screen now. Right on my left. You're going to see me standing there. Oh, I'm right. If I get up, I can show you. So what year is this? What year is this? Man, sometime in the 80s. And do you know who's filming that? We have Hyun Gracie. He was sitting on someone's shoulders with a camera. Crazy to try to see. Oh, no, man. I was getting... So many bodies. I was getting punched in the head and his back just because I was watching Hixson. But everybody didn't jump in. No, no, no. What we did was we made a circle, arms to arms. And Hixson's the one with the green shorts, right? Green stripes. Yes. And he had a long hair that day, which the guy grabbed his hair. Doesn't look like his hair is that long. Oh, no. He's a ponytail there. Really? Yeah. I knew he had a ponytail from a lot of... Now you see Hixson mounting him. Oh, no. He got tired of punching the guy. We felt... And so this is how it ended him punching him? Yeah, there we go. And the guy tap and stop, please stop. And he has a group of guys with him. We want to make sure that nobody jump in his back. Wow. And... But the thing is, we have this... And don't get me wrong, I'm not telling people to go and do that. But in that time, in that generation, a lot of those fights that happened in the street was a need for Jiu-Jitsu to be established the way it should be. And it was better than two guys fighting there. Then that fight ended up in a bar and nightclub. A gang fight. A gang fight. People shooting each other. Right. And I remember Hixson said, we got together in our first original Gracie Bar High School there. Some members of other Jiu-Jitsu schools said, look guys, Hix is going to go there. Going to make a circle. Only him and the guy fight. Nobody else fights. You understand that? Because if everybody fights, then somebody is going to get really hurt because you're not going to be able to control anything. We just made a big circle. We hold hands. Regardless of what happened, we would not interfere. It's Hixson and the guy and that's it. But we want to make sure nobody jumps in. Then everybody say, you got to watch my back. And I go like, okay. Watch his head. Don't do nothing. Got to watch my back. And here we are. I was behind him and getting punched, getting kicked from other people. But the crazy thing was, that happened and Hixson on his mind said, look, I'm going to go there. Slap him on the face and he's going to run. Then we're like, okay. He goes there, slapped that guy and the guy did not run. Then we go, oh shit. Here we go. Game on. Then we hold the shot. And I think this happened on Saturday, Tuesday night, Ugo went to Hixson school with a lot of people. They are all carrying weapons. Hixson wasn't there and they called. He shows up in shorts and he quickly just slapped Ugo around. Somebody called the police later on and they even shoot the ceiling. AR-15, whatever, just boom. And they left, but then Hixson just smashed him quick. Because it was on the cement, not on the sand. But then again, happening away for us as a pride to prove the point is you need to ease the best style of martial arts. We keep going strong. And Ugo was a Luteliebre guy. Ugo was a Luteliebre guy. Very respected, very strong. One of the best guys still today. And they had a grappling style. It just wasn't as comprehensive. Back there, they were doing a lot of foot locks already. They are the ones that are doing a lot of foot locks, a lot of heel hooks. And they have some quality fighters among them, definitely. Eugenio Tadeo. I ended up fighting one of the guys from there and one of the Abu Dhabi's there. But as the time goes by, I think people get older, can understand. And I don't think today has any conflict or any bad feelings. And they must have adopted a lot of the jujitsu techniques too. Everything was jujitsu. You should take the gear out. Right. Today I am training grappling. Okay, what is the definition of grappling? You're underground fighting, then it's jujitsu.