Roger Gracie

I don't want to play his game.

And I know he comes in very fast.

Every single fight he had, you know, he comes very aggressive.

So my strategy walking to the fight, I say, five minutes, I'm going to play defense.

I'm not going to try to attack.

I'm not going to try to match his pace.

I already expected, you know, maybe I'm going to start losing the fight because, you know, if he comes in, there's a risk of me maybe getting takedown, you know, or something happen.

I'm like, I'm going to stick to the game plan.

Five minutes, I'm going to start picking up the pace because then it's 10 minutes to go, which 10 minutes is a long fight.

So I don't need to start fast, but I'm going to start being more aggressive and then, you know, try to take him down or pull guard, you know.

By then, I'm like, that's as far as strategy goes.

Yeah, I'm always comfortable being bottom or top.

I prefer to be on top because...

Being in the bottom, the person on top dictates the pace of the fight because he's on top over you.

So I always prefer to be on top because I can dictate the pace.

I can implement my own pace.

And being the bottom, they can slow me down.

So it's harder.

So if I can choose, I will always be on top.

But I think by then I was like, you know, five minutes hit it.