This is sherdog so I know it's "cool" to hate on the Gracies. But let me look at it from a different perspective...
What Ryron did was basically rope a dope galvao. Let the stronger guy sort of gas himself out and play a lot of defense. When you think his gas tank is low enough, you turn the tide and you attack him. This is what he tried to do. Since the rules had no points, he could execute this strategy and not worry about losing the match. Of course galvao could have subbed him but Ryron is also pretty good at Bjj so he was able to defend. I'm not exactly equating the two people but I remember my dad telling me about watching Ali v foreman and people were howling about how bad Ali was getting his ass kicked as the rounds go on. When Ali turned the tide and knocked him out, it was unbelievable.
Ryron did not execute the strategy as excellently so the fight was a draw but I see what he was trying to do. Do I think Ryron is better than galvao? No. For the record I thought before and still think that Andre's Bjj is better. But that only enhances the fact that he came up with a gameplan that gave him a chance to win the match when EVERYONE on here thought galvao would walk through him.
For me, Galvao is not diminished in my book but Ryron should get a lot of props for doing what he did. Here it's all hate on Ryron which sucks
I'm not ashamed to say that the reason I train Bjj today is because of what I saw Royce do in UFC 1. Maybe that's why I respect the Gracie's so much and give them the benefit of the doubt.
What Ryron did was basically rope a dope galvao. Let the stronger guy sort of gas himself out and play a lot of defense. When you think his gas tank is low enough, you turn the tide and you attack him. This is what he tried to do. Since the rules had no points, he could execute this strategy and not worry about losing the match. Of course galvao could have subbed him but Ryron is also pretty good at Bjj so he was able to defend. I'm not exactly equating the two people but I remember my dad telling me about watching Ali v foreman and people were howling about how bad Ali was getting his ass kicked as the rounds go on. When Ali turned the tide and knocked him out, it was unbelievable.
Ryron did not execute the strategy as excellently so the fight was a draw but I see what he was trying to do. Do I think Ryron is better than galvao? No. For the record I thought before and still think that Andre's Bjj is better. But that only enhances the fact that he came up with a gameplan that gave him a chance to win the match when EVERYONE on here thought galvao would walk through him.
For me, Galvao is not diminished in my book but Ryron should get a lot of props for doing what he did. Here it's all hate on Ryron which sucks
I'm not ashamed to say that the reason I train Bjj today is because of what I saw Royce do in UFC 1. Maybe that's why I respect the Gracie's so much and give them the benefit of the doubt.