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He had epic interviews back then. Crazy guy
Big feud with the gracies
Finished royce in bjj at the peak of his career, when royce was the man. Fought in pride and ufc too.
Also involded in some crazy shit:
In 1996, Wallid was involved in a violent incident with Edson Carvalho, a judo black belt and fellow Carlson Gracie trainee. The matter took place in Georges Mehdi's judo school, which both Ismail and Carvalho were attending at the time. After heated words among the two, a sparring turned into an all-out fight when Ismail and Carvalho attacked each other. Mehdi intervened to break up the brawl and expel them out of the academy, but the two fighters resumed fighting as soon as they were in the street. Seeing the situation, Mehdi opted for calling the police, but it arrived too late and didn't compromise to break up the violence, and meanwhile Wallid was brutally beaten down and left unconscious and profusely bleeding. After the incident was finally over, Ismail had to be attended by Mehdi himself and spent a week in an ICU, with 20 stitches in his head, both orbital bones broken and many other facial injuries.
The incident had deep repercussions. Carvalho's coach, Antônio "Mestre da Morte" Lacerda, declared himself prideful of his trainee's act and actually paraded through the city with the bloody gi jacket of Ismail.[1] Carlson Gracie, who was teaching in United States at the time, returned to Brazil and attacked Lacerda in a public meeting, challenging him to a fight, but nothing came from it. Ismail claims that Edson's brother Ricardo Carvalho intervened actively in the brawl and that it became a 2-on-1,[11] but Mehdi himself dismissed this version and assured that the fight was fair.[12]
