According to Erik Paulson, Rickson Gracie’s pay demands from Japan’s PRIDE FC climbed substantially once it became clear how dominant he was in competition. Paulson, who trained directly with the Gracie family in the late 1980s and helped broker Rickson’s entry into Japanese competition, said he sat in on the negotiations firsthand, recalling a meeting: […]
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