Kron Gracie -- jiu-jitsu royalty -- says he never wanted to be a fighter when he was a kid.
he never wanted to choke people for a living ... he was about kickflips and ollies until a tragedy changed the course of his life.-- regarded as one of the greatest BJJ practitioners ever -- and his grandfather's"When I was younger I wanted to skateboard. I liked skateboarding. I had like little skateboard sponsorships and surfing, and that was all fun to me. I had no real interest in jiu-jitsu. As a young kid, it was kinda just the family business.
"I wanted to give my dad a son who was a champion, and I wanted to make my brother proud and I had all the resources to do such. So, it would be stupid and ignorant to not do what I did."
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