Who's Royce Gracie?

[Ryan Marshall]

I'm talking to this guy today and he says he is a huge UFC/MMA fan. I think we're having a good conversation when the topic of total wins comes up. He starts mentioning guys like Anderson Silva, GSP etc when I say "Royce Gracie has quite a few" He asks "Who's Royce Gracie?" I just wanted to share this with all of you. Generally, everyone knows who Royce Gracie is. Right?

[derrick ikwueme]

i used to hate talking to those dudes, now even newbies know who royce is, or even casual fans, but to flat out not know who royce is, is like soccer fans not knowing who pele is. & those are fans who never take time out to educate themselves on the sport, & if they did they would appreciate it more

[K Madden]

douchebags they may be...but...to further the sport, we need um.
btw, who is he?

[Ric]

We are in an interesting time today where things don't "stick" like they used to. I'm really old ( ) and when I was young people still talked about a movie like the Godfather years after it was released. People still loved the Doors and the Beatles even though they had broken up years earlier. Shows like Star Trek and the Brady Bunch were popular years after they were canceled.

Today, a movie like the Matrix will be a really big deal for a few months, and then it is very quickly forgotten. A show like "Lost" has thousands of obsessed rabid fans one year, and suddenly the next year it has no following at all. The same goes for scandal. One minute Kim Kardashian is known for being in a sex tape, and before you know it, she's known for having a TV show and the tape is all but forgotten. So it's not surprising that someone like Royce Gracie can be forgotten so quickly. That's pretty much the way things go today.

The upside is that for every Matrix or Royce that is "forgotten" some new movie or person pops up that captivates the public for a while. There is more innovation today than there was in the old days. So the lack of stickiness for things today is neither good nor bad in my view. It's a trade off.

[derrick ikwueme]

funny thing is a lot of rookies may not even realize how close we were to not having mma or jiujitsu at all, the ufc was in the tank. & we could all be stuck on boxing, thats like using a time machine & getting trapped in the 50's