BB: Has anyone in Japan ever asked you to do a fixed fight?
GRACIE: Yes. But that's totally against my principles. Takada's people wanted us to fix the fight, but we said, "No, we don't fight fake." I call myself only a fighter, a martial artist and a teacher. I'm definitely not an entertainer. I don't have any desire to use my skills to just entertain people-by sometimes losing and sometimes winning fake fights. It's against my honor.
I didnt know that they had attempted to set up a work with Rickson losing.
There is no way anyone could convince me that Rickson didn't carry Takada in their second fight. I'm not a Rickson hater but damn, that was way too fucking obvious. I know Rickson wouldn't do a fixed fight, but I bet he'd take an offered pay incentive to let the fight go past XX number of seconds/minutes.