If you weren't aware, MMA fighter Renzo Gracie is a Gracie Barra Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and a two-time ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship gold medalist. He is not the guy you want to mug on a Thursday night in New York City.
Unfortunately that's what happened, allegedly, and Renzo added insult to the injuries you assume he dished out by live-blogging the entire thing on his Twitter account, @Renzo_Gracie_BJJ. I say "allegedly" because the tweets are thorough but don't provide a lot of context, so depending on your point of view, one of two things happened:
1. Renzo foiled an attempted mugging by being a jiu-jitsu bad-ass. He incapacitated one of the muggers, humiliated him and got a picture on his phone before chasing down the second guy, putting the fear of God in him and heading home unharmed. This version makes Renzo look like real life's Batman, dishing out justice to street thugs with extreme prejudice. At some point you expect him to shoot a grappling gun at the sky and zip away.
2. Two guys on the street asked Renzo for a cigarette. He responded by beating the shit out of them for no reason. He even drove his car around the block to find the guy who'd run away, choked him out three times, punched him in the eyes while he was unconscious and blogged the entire thing on his Twitter like a proud, psychopathic creep. If you need a Christian Bale reference for this one, it's like that scene in American Psycho where Patrick Bateman pretends like he's gonna help a hobo before berating and stabbing him to death.
I'm not sure which direction I lean. I want to trust Gracie's word that they were gonna mug him, in which case sure, beat them within an inch of their lives for f**king with the wrong Brazilian. At the same time, his early tweets reveal that he's pretty excited about beating the hell out of two random dudes, and never includes any important facts like "after asking me about a cigarette they pulled a gun" or anything. Just UNHOLY VIOLENCE and WHISPERS ABOUT DEATH to random strangers.
Check out the story yourself and make the call. I'm gonna go a head and side with Gracie, in the event the he ever sees this, drives to my house and starts trying to "raccoon" me.
[h/t to Cage Potato]
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3rd Scenario: The 2 people never existed. And this guy is just running around NY screaming and whispering about death to anyone he can find.
But i’ll side with his side of the story. Being ‘Racoon’d’ sounds terrible.
I’m going with “Renzo Gracie is a crazy, paranoid man that beat up two dudes asking for a cigarette”.
Yeah, I’m with you on this one. He certainly sounds like a kook.
But they had it coming. I mean, they made his hands hurt…
It should be noted that a lot of Brazilians, at least in the MMA world, are out of their minds crazy.
On the Brazilian note, I’m guessing Renzo’s accent is what made him seem drunk.
That’s certainly what it SOUNDS like, but I hope it was just a vivid hallucination.
They were following and he smelled their mullet, it seems like to me.
Took me a second to remember that picture, it’s from Renzo’s fight with Frank Shamrock, where Renzo won after Frank got disqualified for throwing knees from that position into the back of Renzo’s head.
By “Batmanned”, do you mean “Left them for the commissioner to deal with for 8 years while he sat around his estate in seclusion”?
All the text in the comments section of this thread is centering, at least for me.
I like it! It makes everything vile I type look like poetry.
Same for me, too. Yay for weird formatting!
Yeah…where does it say anything about these two guys being muggers? This is hilarious. And scary. You just kicked the shit out of some dude because he asked you for a cigarette and you watch too much TV. I love how he throws in there “I miss Brazil.” In Brazil, no one walks down the street a behind you asking for cigarettes. “This is what death feels like.” This dude is crazy.
I think both 1 AND 2 are accurate. There’s no doubt in my mind, after reading those tweets, that Renzo is a psychopath who was looking forward to kicking the crap out of some guys. That said, the first few tweets are telling, too: even the most inveterate nicotine addict I know wouldn’t follow a person for THREE BLOCKS before asking for a cigarette.
So, (1) Yes, Renzo Gracie beat up two muggers, but also (2) Yes, Renzo Gracie is a violent sociopath.
maybe, just maybe, if he would have kept walking they would have went another way. According to his tweets he waited for them to catch up. Once they caught up to him they decided to ask for a cigarette. He feigned being drunk. Why? Why didn’t he keep it moving towards his destination? I think Renzo is full of shit. Why does the pic he say is the guy bleeding not show anything? maybe it was his partner throwing up after they left the bar.