Ok...... before i get my head blown off here me out.
I'd like to start by saying i am a big gracie fan. Royce inspired all of us back in the day.
That being said i want hughes to win this fight because i think a Royce win will be bad for the sport.
I know its an mma fight, but i dont see Royce fighting much differently than he fought in the early UFC's. One style BJJ.
Alot of people jumped on the BJJ wagon, and quite rightly so. But since then the fighters based on other arts have found a way to combat BJJ. Now we have a situation where fighters are mixed, and train in all arts.
So my point is this, if Royce who is prodominently a single art from fighter, can beat a far more mixed fighter then whats the last 13 years shown us. We might as well all go back to training BJJ.
It will be bad because it not like Royce will stick around and keep fighting in the UFC, Hughes's rep will be damaged and people would say that pure BJJ is better than MMA. There's no real upside to Royce winning for the UFC.