Is the UFC really considering bringing Royce back?

Underground
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let him wear a gi, have him fight like a bottom tier 170lb guy. pure striker. i dont know.

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 TTT for Royce!!

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MMAMAZ - Royce vs Wallid Ismail
Royce vs Damien Maia
Royce vs Carlos Newton
Royce vs Ken Shamrock
Royce vs Shonie Carter

Just suggestions...


Royce vs Wallid is what I want, would settle for him fighting Maia just because it is interesting to me knowing it would be pure grappling.

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Fred Ettish is the perfect matchup. Two old school guys going at it.

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Trackman 2 - Fred Ettish is the perfect matchup. Two old school guys going at it.


 I would to it.  I like and respect Royce and his family and it would be an honor.  I am old, have an excellent gas tank, am a little smaller than Royce, and I know that he and I would both fight as hard as is humanly possible to win.



Respectfully:



Fred

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 Royce vs. Coleman 



Open Weight

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too bad he ripped his ear off or I'd say throw Saku some money to fight Royce in Brazil

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disbeliever - Please no
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 Ettish would be cool.

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I interviewed DeLucia a few days ago. He said he'd love to fight Royce again.

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 Tank Abbott.

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I can't see him fighting but wouldn't be shocked if they brought him in just for a ceremony or something.

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Ettish would be epic.If not him someone old school

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Grakman -  Tank Abbott.

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Royce vs. Oleg

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Wallid!!!

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Phil Baroni

No I am not calling you old Phil, I just think it is a interesting match up

1 guy dominates the stand up the other the ground kinda reminiscent of the beginning

Besides it gets the NYBA back in the UFC

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AceAtGSU - 
MMAMAZ - Royce vs Wallid Ismail
Royce vs Damien Maia
Royce vs Carlos Newton
Royce vs Ken Shamrock
Royce vs Shonie Carter

Just suggestions...


Royce vs Wallid is what I want, would settle for him fighting Maia just because it is interesting to me knowing it would be pure grappling.


I think even a prime Royce would get crushed by Maia. There's a whole different class of top guys today. Royce is not Rickson (or Royler or Renzo).

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I have GREAT respect for Royce. Anybody that knows MMA or trains BJJ cannot but appreciate and admire this man. However I don't want to see him fight in the next UFC regardless if it is in Brazil. His last fight against Matt Hughes was embarrassing to say the least, not something I want to remember him by. Royce is NOT the combatant that he was in the earlier UFC and I dare say that a prime Royce against people and how they train today, he would not have fared as well as he did.

I seen somebody post Royce Gracie vs. Ken Shamrock; the nostalgic part of me finds this interesting but over all I would just like to see Royce at the next UFC as a guest commentator or during a panning of the audience with other Gracie's beside me supporting the fighters.

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Irregular John - 
PoWdA101 - UFC needs an old guy or "Masters" division. 
I really have no interest in watching old guys with no gas tanks fight each other, even for nostalgia's sake.



 Why can't more people understand this?



The Hughes/Renzo fight was the closest thing to a "legends" fight we've had in recent years...it was dreadful.  No desire to watch has beens, most of whom are there simply to collect a check, fight again because I used to enjoy watching them fight.