Gracie vs. Kimura - October 23, 1951 (Maracanã Stadium - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)

On October 23, 1951, Helio Gracie faced Masahiko Kimura who outweighed him by nearly 80 lbs. It was the first time that a jiu-jitsu world championship match would be held outside of Japan. Kimura was so confident of victory that he declared that if Helio could last for more than 3 minutes, he should be declared the winner. After 13 minutes, Kimura caught Helio in the shoulder lock that, today, bears Kimura's name. Helio wouldn't tap, so Carlos Gracie threw in the towel forfeiting the match to the Japanese giant. His loss to Kimura was consider one of the greatest victories of Helio Gracie's career.

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[jonoderidder]

Kimura's art was Judo! there was no "national jiu jitsu champion" in Japan

[Pyron1992]

Love how they can't even muster the courage to say Kimura was a Judoka.

BJJ = amazing

Gracies = not so amazing

[cshit15]

Helio My # 1 Hero

[igiboy1989]

*breaking

[igiboy1989]

Where did you get that information about Kimura having his elbow broken by an Aikido practitioner.There is no braking in Aikido only restrainment.

[Cloepatra Queen]

Sorry but this Gracie narrative of this event is much to biased. Helio brought a coffin to the venue. That's how confident he was that he was going to beat him, a clear sign of disrespect. He was humbled.

[hunterMH1]

all of the judo moves have japanese names and judo is basically a more refined version of japanese jiu jitsu which is well over a thousand years old

[MUEEN007]

Lol don't even know what newaza is, something so basic if you know about judo/bjj....I think your full of shit, you replied to me looking to win an argument - all I did was respond to your bullshit - don't want to win an argument with you because you have no clue about what your talking about, one of those youtubers that just speak random shit, realised as soon as I read your bullshit.

Lol don't tell me you got small penis syndrome, you that butt hurt...

[hootiepaladin]

"Newaza?" Now you're just inventing words shit for brains. And for what? Is there a prize that you're going to stick up your ass if you "win" this argument? What a joke your life turned out to be.

Kimura was not invincible and he wasn't the all time greatest martial artist that took on everyone or every style. Get off his Japanese dick, you judo queer.

[MUEEN007]

LOL the fact you don't even know Kimura's height shows how much you know....carry on, the knowledgeable guys posting here know a retard when they see one.

I think your feeling butt hurt by the truth, Kimura beat the crap out of Helio in a newaza match - not even Kimura's strength. The reason Gracies get hate, is because they say GJJ is the best & when they lose, make up excuses instead of manning up & saying that they got beat & GJJ is not invincible.

[kabukiman1981]

You don't hear sambo guys claiming their art is completely different/superior do you? No, because they give credit where credit is due. This is the only thing most people want the Gracies to do - show some respect to their parent art.

You do realise you've been indoctrinated, don't you?

[kabukiman1981]

Please direct me to the "official weigh in stats". What's that? you can't? What a surprise, because no such thing exists...

Look, people hate on the Gracies because they deserve it. Claiming that Kimura was a JJ fighter, not giving credit to judo, declaring this loss as a win, is it any wonder people think they're morons?