There is a Podcast, Lytes Out, in which they interviewed Chris Brennan and Todd Medina, both of them knew and trained with Kimo at the time and confirmed it did happen and Fabiano Iha, who was a part of the Gracie team at the time, alluded that it was some sort of issue during UFC 3 with the...
For years there was this rumor that someone paid Rickson Gracie for private lessons so he can rely those techniques to Kimo. The Gracies were oblivious to this until they crossed paths with that guy at UFC 3 and a brawl nearly ensued.
Well, this year it was confirmed that this happened
If I am not mistaken nowadays Combat Wrestling is ran by someone who has a background in Sambo. So, that is why you see a lot of Sambo guys competing in Combat Wrestling these days.
I used to train with this douchebag who trained TKD and was taught all that stuff for "self defense"...the thing is that the guy when we were Grappling did not understand that it was just training so for example, when I had him on a Leg Lock he tried to kick me with the other leg. Well this one...
One name that you are missing that Elton is making a LOT for people to know about him, is Hilbernon de Oliveira, Johils father.
He was the one who trained Joao Ricardo in Luta Livre. What is more, he was fighting in Vale Tudo since the late 50s and Ricardo started in the late 60s to fight...
Black Belt here...like anything, it could be really easy or really hard.
The main thing about Luta Livre is that people have a LOT of misconceptions or ideas about it. For example, a lot of people think that Luta Livre is only weird Neck Cranks, rare and imposible to do Leg Locks and pure brute...
Lee Hasdell vs Ryuki Ueyama...granted, instead of punching they were using palm strikes but nonetheless. Ueyama went straight to Hasdell eyes, the fight got stopped and he was Disqualified.
It was a reverse eye poke victory but it counts
Exactly, and the worst part is that Johil never saw that money because he invested it in "Academia Budokan", he was part owner with Joao Ricardo and he ended up splitting with him a few years after.
I am sharing all this stuff because he has been telling those stories on recent inverviews also
Long story short...he was supposed to fight Matt Serra at Pride 8 and the winner was due to get either a UFC contract or a Pride extension (Serra went to the UFC after this event).
While he was warning up, he stood near one of the flamethrowers they had for the entrance and the guy who was in...
He was the guy to beat in the Vale Tudo days...my Teacher (Johil de Oliveira) fought him twice and was the one who gave Pele his first defeat. He told me that at the time everyone was scared of fighting Pele because of how fierce and brutal he was when fighting, and he was asked like the week...
Hey guys...we mostly know about those fights that did not happen, for example Shamrock vs Vovchanchyn but at times when checking the fight finder from Tapology you find out about really obscure and to be honest crazy fights that did not happen. So, what are some of those fights that you found...
It is an Ezekiel Choke...but different to the way that Olyenik does it. Olyenik uses his fist to put pressure on the trachea, like punching it...in this case Volkov did it similar to the way that is done with the Gi, the forearn pressing on the trachea. I have a feeling that he did it this way...
Dang!! Jason Wilnis had an injury like that and stopped the fight and Rose fought the entire fight like that...won't question his mental toughness anymore now
He ended up training with the Diaz brothers and Cesar Gracie in the early 2010s.
He was nicknamed the dentist because he had a stretch of four or five fights in a row in which he was knocking out teeth left and right. So the ring announcer as a joke decided to introduce him as the "Dentist" and...
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