At the Staples Center in Los Angles Saturday night, Royce Gracie tasted defeat as he came back from an extended UFC absence and lost his comeback fight to Matt Hughes. Hughes had Gracie on his stomach as he punched to the backside of Gracie’s head leaving referee John McCarthy no choice but to halt the fight with less than a minute to go in the first round.
“I have two more fights left in me,” Gracie said to the Press after the fight. Gracie wearing sun glasses added, “It felt good to know that I still have a lot of fans over here in America.”
In regards to why he lost, Gracie had this to say: “In this game, anything can happen. I have a strategy, he has a strategy. It’s a matter of who pulls who out of his strategy.”
