The Kron Gracie vs. John Danaher storyline that’s been building for weeks took a new shape this week when Gracie packaged his skepticism of Danaher into a direct callout of Gordon Ryan.
On the surface it reads like a match challenge. Underneath it, the real target remains Danaher.
Gracie actually posted two versions of the callout. The first read:
“Do a match no time with me if you belly isn’t hurting @gordonlovesjiujitsu only rule is danaher can’t be there to see if you can do it with you big boy pants on”
He deleted that version and replaced it with a sharper edit minutes later:
“Don’t be a big ol p**sy, do a match if your belly ain’t hurtin. I recommend stay off the juice so it don’t pop @gordonlovesjiujitsu no time, and danaher can’t be there to see if you are capable alone”
Both drafts keep the same core condition, and it is not about weight classes or rules. It is that Danaher cannot be in the room. Gracie is not just calling out Ryan’s health or his history with PEDs. He is building the entire challenge around the idea that Ryan cannot be separated from his coach’s presence.
That is consistent with the position Gracie has taken for weeks, arguing that Danaher is more of a theorist than a practitioner, someone who explains jiu-jitsu brilliantly but, as Gracie previously wrote,
“can’t do s**t himself.”
Ryan’s response suggested he was not interested in engaging with the criticism directed at Danaher.
“We can do a match anytime. I dont even need to train for it 🥱”
Ryan wasn’t alone in defending Danaher. Garry Tonon and Big Dan Manisoiu also made their respective posts calling out Gracie.
Gracie followed up by resurfacing an old clip of Craig Jones describing Danaher’s habit of shouting instructions at his athletes during live rolling, including theatrical phrases such as
“super royale”
to goad them mid-round.
Viewed in the context of the ongoing dispute, the clip appears intended to mock Danaher’s coaching style.
Whether a match between Gracie and Ryan ever takes place may ultimately be secondary. It’s unclear who would ever pay to make this happen given the fact Ryan had no issues submitting Ralek Gracie at the last edition of Metamoris despite Ralek being a good deal larger in stature than Kron.
This is a continuation of the ongoing dispute between Kron Gracie and John Danaher previously reported on BJJDoc.com.
