Cesar gracie: GSP is a Team Renzo guy not a Jackson’s guy
Cesar Gracie, head trainer of the Diaz brothers, Jake Shields, and Gilbert Melendez, recently told an interviewer thathe does not…
Cesar Gracie, head trainer of the Diaz brothers, Jake Shields, and Gilbert Melendez, recently told an interviewer thathe does not think GSP is a Jackson’s MMA fighter at all.
“GSP didn’t even go to Albuquerque to train, you know? Greg Jackson flies up there to give a photo-op for the Primetime show and he’s in his corner sitting there talking about silly stuff. I get mad because I don’t think Renzo gets the credit. That’s my problem.”
“It’s not a ‘Me vs Renzo’ kind of thing. We spoke the day before the fight. He was hopping on a plane to go to Brazil and he called me up. My thing is, if you’re gonna train someone, they have to carry your flag. If this guy would have come in there and been a Renzo Gracie representative, we would have no problem with that.”
“We wouldn’t want to obviously have my guys fighting his guys but for a championship fight, it’s going to happen. Let’s face it, both guys want to be the champ and at the end of the day, let ‘em fight. That’s how I look at it. But it doesn’t make sense to me for all these guys to train GSP when GSP is Greg Jackson rep even though he’s not at Greg Jackson’s. He’s only at Renzo’s and Roger’s in London. He’s got all these guys coming in to train GSP because they’re friends with him, all these Gracie guys from the east coast.”
“My whole point was to say to Renzo, ‘Have a talk with him (GSP) and have him be one of your guys’ because I think GSP would jump over, I really do.’ If the roles were reversed I would have said ‘GSP, look. You want to train with us, you carry our flag into battle. That’s it. The public needs to know that we’re the guys that are training you, not Greg Jackson who isn’t training you.'”
“That was my whole point about it. A lot of people have misconceptions that I was saying, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t train him because he’s fighting our guy.’ That wasn’t my point at all. You shouldn’t train him because he’s not representing you.’