![]() ![]() The Gracie tried to intimidate his opponent by bringing a coffin to the arena. Then Helio challenged him to show his talents after defeating Kato which happened after the previous draw. ![]() Kimura was a several times judo champion in Japan, though already retired, who went to Brazil as part of a mission to spread Judo around the globe. The infraction wasn’t counted and Helio was declared the winner. During this time, Helio applied a choke and Kato passed out. Both fighters were at the end of the ring, which made the referee ask the match to stop to drag the fighters to the center. At the second match, which lasted several minutes, a key element happened: Kato had applied several takedowns and tried to submit Helio. Helio demanded another fight which happened three weeks later in 29 of september 1951. In september of 1951 happened the first fight of the athletes, which was very tough and ended in a draw after three rounds. Yukio Kato, 5th degree black belt was the first. Helio sent a challenge to some Japanese judokas which included Yamaguchi, Kato and Kimura. It was due these attacks of Fadda’s students to the legs of Helio’s students that later on some of these locks were forbidden in BJJ. During the 50’s Helio said “All you need is a Fadda to show Jiu-Jitsu isn’t a privilege of the Gracies”. ![]() From then on after this challenge, each team would start to teach its respective BJJ styles. Depending on who you ask, Helio was also defeated by Oswaldo. Oswaldo’s students won 19 out of 20 fights, several times using leg-locks. Some years later, due some arguments, Fadda challenged the Helio Gracie Academy, which accepted. Oswaldo, after being considered the best pupil of Luiz, decided to teach Jiu-Jitsu to the poor people in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Oswaldo Fadda was a student of Luiz França, who was a pupil of Maeda, as well as Geo Omori. Helio kept fighting against other athletes but never accepted fighting George, that later on would open many Jiu-Jitsu academies in several areas, including Rio de Janeiro, using the name Gracie. Years later in 1936 a promoter offered money for both brothers to fight. When George left the family, Helio started to guide the tradition left by Carlos. Helio, on the other hand, was more loyal to Carlos. George Gracie was the most talented fighter among the Gracie brothers. Later on they came back to having good relations once more. George kept fighting and teaching Jiu-Jitsu all around Brazil even after the argument with his brother. After these problems between the brothers, George replaced Carlos as his manager saying Carlos was taking too big of a share of his money as his coach while Carlos said that George wasn’t anymore a representative of the Gracie family’s tradition. This upset Carlos a lot since he thought George should have focused exclusively on Jiu-Jitsu. ![]() One of the reasons for his arguments with his brother Carlos was the fact that he completely ignored the “Gracie diet”, since he didn’t believe the concepts applied by his brother and by not believing it could bring any actual benefits. George Gracie also wasn’t against learning other fighting styles, like Luta Livre. Unknown by many BJJ practitioners, George Gracie was one of the first to dominate what we call nowadays Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, by easily absorbing and applying the techniques taught. Then Geo Omori fought George Gracie, who achieved victory after 10 rounds. First Omori had a draw against Carlos Gracie. During his career, Geo took place in several fights against the Gracie brothers. Omori taught Judo/Jiu-Jitsu since 1909 in Brazil and was one of the instructors of Luiz França, that after taught Oswaldo Fadda (responsible to take Jiu-Jitsu to the Rio de Janeiro suburbs). Back then, Geo said that Carlos Gracie – considered the creator of the BJJ system and the first to start the process that would make the Gracie family known world wide – was not instructed by Maeda, and if he actually was it happened for a short period of time. Geo Omori was a japanese judoka that had gotten known as “the king of mixed martial arts” during the early years when vale-tudo was arriving to Brazil. These are the battles that we are going be talking about, with many battles envolving Helio Gracie, responsible – together with his brother Carlos Gracie – for the popularization of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil and for idealizing Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, known world wide. This version is of course highly different the official Gracie version, which can be read in Kid Peligro’s book ‘The Gracie Way’. Similar things are said in the book ‘Choque’ written by Roberto Pedreira which recounts what really happened according to archives of Brazilian newspapers over 100 years ago. ![]()
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