Helio Gracie’s last tribute at TATAME

On January 29th, fans of martial arts around the world woke up with the sad news of the death of Helio Gracie, at age of 95. With all the magazine of February ready and on the way to the graphics, we changed plans and prepared a whole new edition, in order to provide a last tribute to the great master, the creator of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, along with his brother Carlos, and the responsible for a revolution at the martial arts around the planet.

 

In February’s edition of the TATAME Magazine (#156), we remembered Helio’s last moments, in Itaipava, Rio de Janeiro, and we tell the story of the greatest icon in the history of the sport. We’ve added spectacular photos of his main fights in the MMA and Jiu-Jitsu. We got together some of the best - and controversial - phrases said by the Master in his 95 years of life. We added, also, an exclusive and never published interview with the red-belt, talking about his start in Jiu-Jitsu, family and the battles fought in the rings and matts.

 

Along with the historical edition, our reporter Eduardo Ferreira analyzed the growth of the Jiu-Jitsu around the world. An amateur sport, the Jiu-Jitsu gets new airs with the creation of championships as Capital Challenge and Asian Super Cup, born with the goal of professionalizing the Jiu-Jitsu with large cash prizes and make the sport grow even more worldwide.

 

Talking about Jiu-Jitsu, we’ve visit Kyra Gracie’s house to an unforgettable interview with the fighter that dominated the competitions and became the greatest women athlete in Jiu-Jitsu of all times. In an exclusive interview, the three times world champion spoke about her beginning in the fights, the difficulty of being a Gracie, her idols, the plans for the MMA, the best and worst moments of her life and Ryan Gracie’s death. In an overdose of Jiu-Jitsu, we bring an exclusive chat with Bráulio Estima, who just won the European Jiu-Jitsu, in Portugal, speaking about his beginning on Jiu-Jitsu, the trainings with Roger Gracie and the plans for 2009, that involves Jiu-Jitsu, MMA and ADCC.

 

One of the men of more difficult access of MMA, Lorenzo Fertitta is the man - and bank account - behind Dana White in the control of the UFC, the biggest MMA event in the world. The American billionaire received Paula Sack, reporter of the channel Premiere Combate, for a revealing interview, where he spoke about the fight’s market, the growth of the sport around the world, the plans for the UFC in Brazil and the inevitable question: why Fedor Emelianenko isn’t competing in the UFC octagon?

 

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