Rorion Gracie recently revealed that ESPN are currently in the process of making a brand new documentary about the Gracie family. The project has been in the works for quite some time now, as the channel originally announced it back in 2023. The idea has been to create a series that maps out the journey of one of the world’s biggest fighting family all the way from the start until the current era. It’s supposed to track their history all the way from Scotland to Brazil over a century ago, and then eventually over to the United States of America in the last few decades.
Rorion is one of the oldest living members of the Gracie family now that both Carlos and Helio Gracie have passed away, so he must have a decent amount of involvement in the documentary. He confirmed that several members of the family are involved in a recent interview:
“ESPN, in a coincidence, it’s been filming a documentary. They interviewed me, they interviewed people of the Gracie family, (and that) is what this story tells. History, this saga of the Gracie family.”
He even gave his own perspective on the Gracie family history, and exactly why he thinks it will be such an interesting series:
”Two brothers began, they had children, they taught their children, that passed to children, they built a dynasty of competitors and they took a match to the rest of the world learned. Jiu-Jitsu today, I dare to say, if it is not the most practiced match of planet, is among the most.”
“This piece has a lot of absurd storytelling. It’s not because it’s my life, you know? But is because, cinematically speaking, it is a piece that really connects Brazil with the rest of the world, expands to the whole world.”
The full interview with Rorion Gracie where he reveals that ESPN is making a Gracie Family documentary was uploaded to the official YouTube channel of Connect Cast:
