Roger Gracie Gomes is a highly-decorated Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. He is a member of the Gracie family, the son of Reyla Gracie (who is the daughter of Carlos Gracie) and Mauricio Motta Gomes (one of the six Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts of Rolls Gracie).
His most notable achievement to date is winning the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship in 2005, taking first place in the 88–98kg and Open-weight categories by submitting all eight opponents—a feat that had not previously been achieved.
Gracie is the main instructor at The Roger Gracie Academy located in West London, England. His fellow black belt instructors include Jude Samuel and Ray Stevens, who is a multiple judo champion and BJJ black belt.
Gracie defeated Ron Waterman in his mixed martial arts debut by armbar submission in the 1st round at the Bodogfight pay-per-view USA vs Russia.On the 18th May 2008 Roger Gracie competed in the Japanese MMA event Sengoku 2, where he defeated Yuki Kondo at 2:40 min of round 1 by rear naked choke.
TCB MMA'S OPINION
Roger is one of the best BJJ Practitioners not only of recent time but of all time. This probably comes with the territory from a Gracie family member but unlike most of his family Roger is yet to really test himself in the world of MMA and at the time of writing only ever competed twice. In those wins he defeated the wrestling legend Ron Waterman in 2006 and recently took a submission victory over Yuki Kondo via rear naked choke at the Sengoku event. Rumors have circulated recently that Roger may be looking to throw himself into the sport more which is probably making fighters within his weight class run for the hills. There is no doubt soon after he does make that jump, a world title will be just around the corner.
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