Never heard of him
never heard of him
Never heard of him.
He was a top local level talent with a passion for self marketing. That's it.
Nice guy.
Him of heard never.
Nobody likes a smartass!
Funny when I come in to post the same thing I posted 7 years ago LOLNever heard of him
You met him before?
What was he like?
Really nice and respectful guy. I fought on his undercard a few times.
A good local talent that could put bums in seats. I always thought he had a good eye for self marketing. Flashy style. Taekwondo background or something. A fun vibe.
I think he was / is involved in movies as a stuntman. I think one major movie even uses one of his fight events (fake) as a backdrop for a caper. Ocean 11's style. Can’t remember which movie though.
In this day and age of Instagram and Snapchat, he could’ve made some serious cheddar.
Can’t say I’ve ever heard / seen anything negative about him though.
Why you asking ?
I've been looking at this post for years but I never knew how to make an account on this forum, here's all I know about him up until now.
My mom used to train at champions where he teached, and she said he is a very very nice guy. She also said his kicks were killer, and he had alot of stamina. She saw one of his fights, so I guess she would know how good he was. He made such a big impression that my mom decided to name me after him.
When I was about 10 my mother told me how she got my name, and she showed me some videos of him fighting. I thought of him as my hero, and I wanted to do muay thai/kickboxing from then on. I told her I wanted to meet him when I got older aswell.
3 years later I moved and then tried out a couple dojos before I found his, Coquitlam Martial Arts. I went to a trial class and immediately liked it, to my suprise he was the one teaching. Of course he was strict but he was still as nice as my mom said he was.
I've been going to his classes for more than 6 months and I want to get more serious with muay thai/kickboxing, I've never seen him fight since he's long retired but he is still able to do handstands and still has good power kicks. He is a great teacher and has made me like MMA even more.
I am about 14 now, and his classes are still great. Haven't been there for about a month now because of transportation issues but trying to make it work. He inspires others alot, and after his classes he gives us advice to become better people and stuff like that.
This post is long but ive been meaning to share my experience, the others who say he is overrated and not talented have only ever seen him fight in very low quality videos. He's a good dude.
You could have just signed up as yourself, Blake. It's cool.
I know he is retired now but when he was active, how well known was he outside of canada and how good did he do againts other kickboxers?
Here is some of his highlights:
P.S: He was trained by Farid Dordar who I made a thread a while ago on here...
Your name is blade?I was named after his nickname "The Blade" actually (atleast I think that's his nickname lol), when I was younger I was really happy because my named sounded even cooler if you got to hear the backstory of it all, and I am very thankful my mom gave me such a nice name. Those people saying he is overrated and untalented just makes my blood boil, as he's the opposite of both those things and I will keep repeating that as long as I have to. Thanks for replying to my post though.
I've been looking at this post for years but I never knew how to make an account on this forum, here's all I know about him up until now.
My mom used to train at champions where he teached, and she said he is a very very nice guy. She also said his kicks were killer, and he had alot of stamina. She saw one of his fights, so I guess she would know how good he was. He made such a big impression that my mom decided to name me after him.
When I was about 10 my mother told me how she got my name, and she showed me some videos of him fighting. I thought of him as my hero, and I wanted to do muay thai/kickboxing from then on. I told her I wanted to meet him when I got older aswell.
3 years later I moved and then tried out a couple dojos before I found his, Coquitlam Martial Arts. I went to a trial class and immediately liked it, to my suprise he was the one teaching. Of course he was strict but he was still as nice as my mom said he was.
I've been going to his classes for more than 6 months and I want to get more serious with muay thai/kickboxing, I've never seen him fight since he's long retired but he is still able to do handstands and still has good power kicks. He is a great teacher and has made me like MMA even more.
I am about 14 now, and his classes are still great. Haven't been there for about a month now because of transportation issues but trying to make it work. He inspires others alot, and after his classes he gives us advice to become better people and stuff like that.
This post is long but ive been meaning to share my experience, the others who say he is overrated and not talented have only ever seen him fight in very low quality videos. He's a good dude.
I was named after his nickname "The Blade" actually (atleast I think that's his nickname lol), when I was younger I was really happy because my named sounded even cooler if you got to hear the backstory of it all, and I am very thankful my mom gave me such a nice name. Those people saying he is overrated and untalented just makes my blood boil, as he's the opposite of both those things and I will keep repeating that as long as I have to. Thanks for replying to my post though.
Never heard of him
Your name is blade?
I missed this post but I made this thread and its crazy because I also trained at champions as well but the thing was that, by the time I got to champions, the founder Master Farid Dordar and Blake left champions. Master Farid learned how to code and started a software company and Blake and his brother opened their own place first in west van and now they are in Coquitlam.
I believe you, he is a great fighter and seems like a nice guy. They say he fought bums but to be fair, back then you fight whoever signs up in your area. That and to get a big name fighter, you have to either prove that you are big name or you have to fight tons of people. Blake fought whoever was in front of him.
If he was growing up Japan, he would have been a K-1 veteran since k-1 was the IT place for world class kickboxers.
That is actually pretty badass. Blake was the original "Chad" since if you were named Blake, you were probably a badass!
There was a fighter in B.C who fought in kickboxing named Blake and he looked like Blake Lirette as well but smaller. His name was "Bad Blake"
The internet is big now and still nobody pays attention to regional Canadian Kickboxing...I think because the internet wasn't really that big back then people didn't really hear about other MMA artists except the ones in your local area.