Royler Gracie vs Eddie Bravo drew a lot of questions more than it has answered and it left fans wanting for more. But while Royler Gracie wasn't impressed by Eddie Bravo's moves, he assured fans that he is open to a third fight.
"I didn't see anything special from his game, again. I only saw him holding me, but who am I to criticize other's games? I have to see my own game. In this tournament, you only win if you submit, so how can he say he won the fight if he didn't submit me? I dominated the first 10 minutes of the fight, but it's not a 10-minute fight and doesn't have points, so I can't say I won because of that." Said Royler in an interview with MMA Fighting.
Gracie wasn't impressed by Bravo's moves, but he recognizes that he was put in positions he didn't want to be in the match.
"I really enjoyed the fight," he said. "I had a good start, dominated from the top for the first eight minutes. Eddie came prepared to counter attack, holding me, and he did that pretty well. He swept me, passed the guard went to side control, and I came back to top position again. We had our good moments in the fight. He created some good positions and some people thought he would submit me, but you don't submit people with those positions. It's a game completely different from the normal jiu-jitsu game.
"It's a 20-minute fight with no points, so we can take risks we normally can't in a regular 10-minute jiu-jitsu match," he continued. "I heard some people say that he would have won if it had points, but it would have been a completely different fight with points, we would have had different strategies. We can go forward and take risks at Metamoris, but we saw in other fights that some people didn't do that."
When asked about a third fight with Eddie, this is what he had to say:
"That's not in my plans today, but it's always possible," he said. "This rematch settled it, or not? It left that taste in the mouth. Would I tap him? Would he tap me? That's what makes it intriguing for the fans, it makes them want to watch Royler fight again. It's awesome. I would like to (fight Bravo again), but that's not in my plans now."
