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Hugo Duarte

Hugo Duarte's career is bookended by humiliation. His moments on top of the mountain came at the start of his MMA tenure, going 5-0 in vale tudo and becoming one of the hottest prospects in the sport at the time, half for being the star Luta Livre pupil of Marco Ruas and half for his dramatic history (more on that shortly). He then showed up in the UFC, where Tank Abbott knocked him dead in forty seconds (with rabbit punches, in fairness), and in Pride, where Mark Kerr defeated him in a deeply frustrating fight that saw Duarte repeatedly refuse to engage, and after two more fights (one in which he was eye-gouged for a DQ victory and the other knocked out by Dirty Bob Schrijber) his career was over.

And in a terrible way it may be appropriate, because the beginning of his career wasn't his martial training or even his fights: It was his role as an unwilling part of the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu marketing campaign, which used a video of the big, hulking Duarte in tiny blue swim trunks being manhandled on a beach by Rickson. Duarte became one of the figures at the center of the Jiu-Jitsu/Luta Livre feud, which proved to be as much about narrative as fights--and unfortunately, Duarte lost at both.

Moveset, stats, logic and four attires (UVF 3 vs Howard / Pride 4 vs Kerr / UFC 17 vs Tank / the infamous beach fight vs Rickson).