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Daniel Gracie, the cousin of Renzo and Roger Gracie, woke up one morning and knew it was time to return to MMA.
His last fight — a loss to to Allan Goes in the now-defunct IFL — took place in November 2006. Since then, the 38-year has remained active as a jiu-jitsu instructor, most recently taking over the Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Stamford, CT.
But when Gracie stopped by The MMA Hour on Monday, he announced that his time away from MMA was coming to an end later this year.
“I can’t just watch it. I was getting cranky because I wasn’t fighting. Actually, I decided to take a little while from MMA because my English was terrible. I could talk but not teach jiu-jitsu, so I said, I have to learn to teach in English, because I know that my future is going to be having a jiu-jitsu school and teaching jiu-jitsu.”