Royler Gracie

Royler Gracie
Wellington "Megaton" Dias (left), Royler Gracie (right)
Born	December 6, 1965 (1965-12-06) Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Residence	San Diego United States
Nationality	Brazilian
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight	150 lb (68 kg; 11 st)
Division	Featherweight Lightweight
Style	Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Team	Gracie Humaitá Victory MMA
Rank	8th degree red and black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Mixed martial arts record
Total	11
Wins	5
By submission	4
By decision	1
Losses	5
By knockout	2
By submission	1
By decision	2
Draws	1
Other information
Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog

Royler Gracie (born December 6, 1965) is a retired Brazilian mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner. He ran the Gracie Humaitá jiu-jitsu school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for many years under his father Helio's direction, but currently resides in San Diego, US.
He is perhaps best known for being the first Gracie to lose a professional fight for several decades, when he lost to Kazushi Sakuraba at Pride 8 in 1999. He also became the first Gracie to to lose via submission in a professional fight, when he was beaten by Eddie Bravo at the 2003 Abu Dhabi Submission Wrestling championships.

Royler travels around the world teaching seminars, but still finds time to coach some of his jiu-jitsu protégé such as Fabricio Camoes, who trains and teaches out of the "Victory MMA" gym in San Diego, California.

Biography

Royler is the son of Helio Gracie brother of Rickson Gracie, Royce Gracie, Rorion Gracie, Relson Gracie, Robin Gracie and Rolker Gracie. He holds a 7th degree red/black belt in the style created by his family, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Royler Gracie has competed in the black-belt ranks for 20 years. He and Marcelo Garcia are the only people to win the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship (ADCC) for three consecutive years. Considered as one of the best Jiu-Jitsu technicians, Royler is a four-time World Jiu Jitsu Champion in the Under 67 kg Black Belt Category. Royler has also competed and placed in the Absolute division of numerous tournaments. Royler is known as an excellent teacher, having been the lead instructor at the Gracie Humaitå Academy founded by his father in Rio de Janeiro for over a decade. Some of his famous students include Saulo Ribeiro, Leticia Ribeiro and David Adiv. In 2008, he moved to San Diego, California and established Gracie Jiu Jitsu San Diego where he is the lead instructor.

Royler has a professional mixed martial arts record of five wins, five losses and one draw. His retirement fight came on September 14, 2011 at the age of 45 when he lost to Masakatsu Ueda via split decision. The fight was particularly one-sided and Mario Yamasaki, the referee for the match, said that the one judge who favored Royler in the split decision did so because it was Royler's last fight and he had "[done] so much for jiu-jitsu".

Media appearances

In a season 3 episode of the Wildboyz, Steve-O and Chris Pontius visit Brazil and attend the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu school in Rio De Janeiro. Royler takes on Chris Pontius and chokes him out, while female student Leticia Ribeiro defeats Steve-O via armbar submission.

Books

Gracie has co-written three instructional books on Brazilian jiu-jitsu:

• “Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Theory and Practice” with his cousin Renzo Gracie;
• “Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Submission Grappling Techniques” with author Kid Peligro; and,
• “Gracie Submission Essentials: Grandmaster and Master Secrets of Finishing a Fight” with his late father Helio Gracie and Kid Peligro.

Personal life

Royler is married to Vera Lucia Ribeiro. They have 4 daughters: Rayna, Rayssa, Rhauani and Rarine.

Grappling credentials

ADCC World Submission Wrestling Championships:

• ADCC record (13 wins −1 loss)

• 2001 ADCC – Under 66KG: Gold

• 2000 ADCC – Under 66KG: Gold

CBJJ World Championships:

• 1999 Black Belt Pena: 1st Place

• 1998 Black Belt Pena: 1st Place

• 1997 Black Belt Pena: 1st Place, Black Belt Absolute: 3rd Place

• 1996 Black Belt Pena: 1st Place

CBJJ Pan American Championships:

• 1999 Black Belt Pena: 1st Place

• 1997 Black Belt Pena: 1st Place

Mixed martial arts record

Professional record breakdown
11 matches	5 wins	5 losses
By knockout	0	2
By submission	4	1
By decision	1	2
Draws	1

Result	Record	Opponent	Method	Event	Date	Round	Time	Location	Notes
Loss	5–5–1	Masakatsu Ueda	Decision (split)	Amazon Forest Combat 1	02011-09-14 September 14, 2011	3	5:00	Manaus, Brazil	Retirement fight. Judge who split the vote admitted he scored the fight for Royler because of what he had done for the sport.
Loss	5–4–1	Hideo Tokoro	Decision (unanimous)	K-1 Premium 2006 Dynamite!!	02006-12-31 December 31, 2006	2	5:00	Osaka, Japan
Loss	5–3–1	Norifumi Yamamoto	KO (punch)	Hero's 3	02005-09-07 September 7, 2005	2	0:38	Tokyo, Japan	Hero's 2005 Lightweight Grand Prix quarter-final.
Win	5–2–1	Koji Yoshida	Decision (majority)	Hero's 2	02005-07-06 July 6, 2005	2	5:00	Tokyo, Japan
Win	4–2–1	Kazuyuki Miyata	Submission (triangle choke)	Rumble on the Rock	02004-11-20 November 20, 2004	2	2:46	Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Loss	3–2–1	Genki Sudo	KO (punches)	K-1 MMA ROMANEX	02004-05-22 May 22, 2004	1	3:40	Saitama, Japan
vDraw	3–1–1	Takehiro Murahama	Draw	Deep (mixed martial arts)	02001-01-08 January 8, 2001	2	10:00	Nagoya, Japan
Loss	3–1	Kazushi Sakuraba	Technical submission (kimura)	Pride 8	01999-11-21 November 21, 1999	2	13:16	Tokyo, Japan
Win	3–0	Yuhi Sano	Submission (armbar)	Pride 2	01998-03-15 March 15, 1998	1	33:14	Yokohama, Japan
Win	2–0	Noboru Asahi	Submission (rear-naked choke)	Vale Tudo Japan 1996	01996-07-07 July 7, 1996	1	5:07	Urayasu, Japan
Win	1–0	Ivan Lee	Submission (rear-naked choke)	Universal Vale Tudo Fighting 2	01996-06-24 June 24, 1996	1	1:33	Brazil

Sources

• Professional MMA record
• Royler's web site
• Academia Gracie de Jiu Jitsu