摘要:This research discusses the narratives developed in the 2008 biography Carlos Gracie: o criador de uma dinastia and the perspective spread by some Rio de Janeiro-based newspapers during the early 20 th century on the establishment of jiu jitsu and inter-fight competitions in Brazil. Therefore, we used methodological frameworks about the particularities of biographical and journalistic sources. From the analysis of those sources, it is possible to think about the hypothesis that Reila Gracie used an invented tradition, through biography and its peculiar fictional dimension, thus establishing the Gracie family as a pioneer in jiu-jitsu and inter-fight competitions in Brazil.