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Newsday interviews Royce
By Zach Arnold | May 24, 2006
By Zach Arnold
Joe Fernandez of New York’s Newsday did an interview with Royce Gracie for their Thursday newspaper edition. Two interesting notes from the interview:
Joe Fernandez: How did you get signed for this match?
Royce Gracie: It’s an agreement between UFC and K-1 because I’m under contract with K-1. K-1 called me up and asked me if I wanted to fight and I said ‘sure’.
(Ed. note — This situation of booking a fighter through K-1 happened in March with BJ Penn as well.)
JF: Do you think the long layoff from UFC has hurt you?
RG: I don’t think it will hurt me, I’m still active in Japan. Just because I haven’t fought in the cage, I’ve been in the ring, I’m still fighting in front of crowds of 95,000 people. Just because I’ve been away from the UFC doesn’t mean I’ve been away from fighting. I fought a guy a couple of years ago who was 6-8, 490 pounds.
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