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Part of the appeal of Brazilian jiujitsu is that smaller men--and women--can triumph over heavyweights. That became clear in 1993, when Royce Gracie, a 170-lb. Brazilian jiujitsu pro, expertly overcame 210-lb. wrestler Ken Shamrock, stunning pay-per-view audiences for the first Ultimate Fighting Championship, held in Denver. That match put Brazilian jiujitsu in the ring and on the map. It also gave the U.S. its initial glimpse of the Gracie clan. Royce's father Helio Gracie and his uncle Carlos Gracie spawned the fighting style in Brazil. Today their charismatic descendants--Gracie brothers, cousins...
DIED. LOU THESZ, 86, wrestling champion of the 1940s and '50s who competed in 6,000 matches over seven decades; in Orlando, Fla. Known as a hooker--a master of the sport's most complex and dangerous moves--Thesz was critical of gimmicky antics. "I'm a wrestler," he said, "not a wrassler, not a clown...
Individual performances also stood out in those cold months. Sophomore swimmer John Cole continued to prove that he was a recruiting coup with a great appearance at the NCAA tournament. Wrestler Jesse Jantzen went to Albany, N.Y. and brought home the bronze in his weight class at the national championships—the highest finish for a Harvard wrestler since 1953. And 149 lbs was probably a heavyweight back in those days...
...with a chiseled physique. A mensch with muscles. His expression is warm, his intelligence keen. He shakes hands and signs autographs and poses for snapshots with wide-eyed kids, smiling and exuding the most perfectly innate grace and noblesse oblige you could ever want in a chair-wielding wrestler turned sword-swinging movie star...
Johnson, who turns 30 on May 2, is a third-generation wrestler and the son of an African-American father and a Samoan mother. His life has not always been so peachy, and in talking about it, he seems to let down his guard. He admits that only six years ago he'd sunk to a low point. His attempt to make it in the NFL had fizzled and he was living on a "p___-stained mattress" in Alberta, Canada. He says that even now he has few real friends on the WWF circuit. "I like doing things by myself...