Joe Rogan - The Greatness of Rickson Gracie

And Hoist doesn't, you know, at this point when he compared to these athletic guys in MMA today, we saw with Matt Hughes, you know you know, he couldn't compete anymore once people sort of knew the tricks but Yeah, I mean that it's very humbling the whole experience. It's even crazier Hixon, Hoist's brother? Yeah, Hoist will tell you he's ten times better than him Yeah, Hixon would do to Hoist what Hoist would do to other black belts. What was in that sort of the The story was they could have had Hixon, but he was too athletic and too, you know There's a bunch of issues and I would not want to say Exactly what happened for fear of upsetting either side because I think there's two different stories okay, but he was essentially the champion of the family and one of the thoughts was that it would be More impressive if Hoist did it because Hoist was only a hundred seventy-five pounds and yeah with his shirt off He looked like he was fit but look like a volleyball player or something, right? Whereas Hickson was shredded Yeah, Hixon was like really into physical training. He did a lot of gymnastics and yoga. He was unbelievably athletic Yeah, but he was also like way physically stronger It would appear more that he was just dominating something like a cat Yeah He would jump on you so it wasn't as good of an advertisement for wasn't necessarily true though because it was also talked that no one can control Hixon and didn't want Hixon to win because Hixon is a He's like a free spirit like in the greatest sense of the word like legitimately He might throw his phone the ocean disappear for a month and just fucking surf and do jujitsu somewhere Oh, he's he's a freak in the best sense of the word That's awesome So I don't think they ever thought they could control Hixon that was part of the problem of having Hixon be the champion Hixon would probably freeze up the whole organization I want ten million dollars. I'll never fight again like they were offering him fights for years and He had some crazy number that he wanted and he was like if you give me that number I'll fight Fedor if you give me that number I'll fight the best fighters. Oh, yeah It's after after the UFC right? Yes, well after the UFC started, but everybody still knew see when hoist was winning Everyone still knew Hixon was competing in something called Japan Valley Tudo and he won that you have to see that super high level jujitsu pride one was Hixon and Hixon was the guy that everybody knew that if something happened and then Hoist was out of the UFC or there was no other graces in the UFC Hixon is always there to step in and we were always wondering when is he gonna step down? When's he gonna fight the best guys never did no he fought some he fought Funaki who was a really high level guy That was his last fight and he strangled him Put him to sleep. It's a crazy image man of him rear-naked and choke Funaki and Funaki's eyes roll in the back of his head. He goes unconscious and Hixon just throws him off