Eddie Bravo

And they all didn't get what I was doing at all.

And so, no, there wasn't any form of encouragement from my family or from them or from anybody.

Yeah.

Weird.

I started jujitsu when I was 24.

Wow, that's old.

Yeah, that's when I moved.

I was already in Hollywood for a couple years.

So my family and all my friends in Santa Ana,

I was – they never, ever looked at me as a fighter or, like, anybody that was tough.

I was always a pussy.

I cried over anything.

I was always – I was never, like, this tough guy.

Even though I wrestled, I never – I wrestled a couple years in high school, but I never considered that martial arts at all.

I thought it was just one-on-one football.

I thought fighting was, like, you have to be on your feet.

So –

Once they started, now I'm in Hollywood, and every now and then I'd come down for Christmas or Thanksgiving, and then they found out that I was doing jiu-jitsu, but they're like, oh my God, he's taking self-defense classes.

Then I started competing, and they just could never accept that I was getting good at a martial art.

It wasn't until after I went to Brazil and beat Hoyla Gracie, then they're like, wait a minute.