Master Carlson Gracie.
Jiu-Jitsu community mourns. Grandmaster passed today, in Chicago
February 1st, 2006, will go down in sports history. Carlson Gracie died today. The Jiu-Jitsu grandmaster was in Chicago, USA, where he was in hospital since yesterday due to renal complications. According to his best friend, Oswaldo Paquetá, the death was confirmed this morning.
The cause was not yet totally cleared up by doctors. It is known that Carlson Gracie had been suffering from prostate gland problems and at the time he went into the hospital there were stones in his kidney. "