Rickson Gracie

But professional wrestlers, they have fighting backgrounds.

They're coming from judo, wrestling, catch-catch-gun, striking, box.

So they're tough fighters, but they fix fights.

And I was invited to fight under their arena.

And I said in the magazine, I could not ever fight the champions and stuff, even though the rules are good, because they supposed to be fake, fixed fights and doesn't give me legitimacy.

So when you're losing there has no, plays no role on my realistic view.

And I said that, and I said, I'm welcome to bring those fighters to the real arena, which has rules, which are for real.

And I hear nothing.

And then a couple of months later, the number one guy was challenged before, changed the scenario for the number two guy, which was mean, bad guy, like the villain of the whole scenario, one of the big villains of the wrestling world.

And he said, I want to go to Los Angeles.

I'm going to kick your ass.

I'm going to beat you.

And my friends, Japanese friends coming, oh, Anjo said he coming to fight you and gonna say.

And I could not say nothing about it because I'm not sure if he's coming.

I'm not sure when he's coming.

So I keep living my life naturally as nothing happened because I could not be prepared for, I don't know when or what.

Eventually one day I was sleeping in my house because I don't teach the morning classes, the very early morning classes.

So about 10 o'clock, my instructor called me

And said, Hickson, we have a couple here wants to talk to you, some Japanese guys.

And immediately I imagined the fighter was there to fight me.