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My brain is incapable of learning information about new fighters because it is burdened with remembering all sorts of Guys from years, even decades, ago. These are some of the Guys that I remember. Mohan Dragon - Kickboxing Mohan had a simple dream: Win a K1 WGP and take the purse earnings to open a curry stand. His fighting style consisted of enormous looping hooks that missed, but those were just set-ups to get his momentum going so he could land another huge, looping hook with the opposite hand and crush a face. I hope he realized his dream and his happy now. Or maybe he's still out there, punching faces in highly dramatic fashion. I wouldn't know, I don't watch kicky boxy that much these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTZOv5mOwjE Marius Zaromskis - MMA Zaromskis is a fun lil kickman who I thought was hotshit for about a year and a half at the end of the 2000s. He then lost to Nick Diaz in StrikeForce, poked Waachim Spiritwolf (another Guy) in the eyeballs what feels like 6 fights in a row and then I dunno, went back to Lithuania?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW71z7iYwnY Pablo Garza - MMA The Scarecrow was a top-tier Guy for me for 2 whole entire fights in the UFC. How could he not be a Guy with a win by flying triangle and a win by flying knee (RIP to Fredson Paixao and your legendary parties with Jose Aldo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEJYo6sH5OQ Hisae Watanabe - MMA Full disclosure: I was late to the party for Hisae's original MMA run. She was someone I stumbled across after the fact, I watched the fights of hers I could find, and luckily, I got to see her make a return to the sport many years later. She knocks these tiny ladies extremely dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3A--TWAfs Who are some of your Guys?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Soszynski This is Krzysztof "Ivan" Sosynski. He started out in pro wrestling, which was my introduction to him as he wrestled on shows promoted locally by Don "Cyrus/Jackyl" Callis, who trained him. They basically sold him as a Goldberg type. To his credit, he seemed legit scary in person. He bailed on wrestling, and got on TUF. He made it to the semis, and did okay in UFC before getting rocked so hard he doesn't remember the fight, and now does movies (he was in Logan, apparently) and promotes MMA shows. Career record 26-12-1, 5-2 in UFC. Not bad. Also the only period I've watched TUF, I wanted him to do well.
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May 26, 2021 18:34
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El Gallinero Gros posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Soszynski I remember K-Sos! He was or maybe still is the only non-champion that Stephan Bonnar has ever lost to (Cut stoppage) He was pretty good on that season of TUF.
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May 26, 2021 18:56
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ryan jimmo, a cool dude who was horribly taken from us at a young age he got a ko win in 7 seconds in his ufc debut, and then did the robot in front of a cheering crowd that will forever be my favorite post fight celebration https://twitter.com/espnmma/status/1285655533043802114 
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May 28, 2021 13:43
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k-sos was a nice guy and yeah that season was legit fun
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May 28, 2021 13:44
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It's easy to forget that Ryan Jimmo had been in a lot of extremely boring decisions. He did seem like a nice guy though. I was totally on the Zaromskis train when he was having his run. I always have conflicted feelings about when he kicked Sakuraba's ear off because that was super loving cool but Saku  I'll post if I end up remembering a guy. The caffeine hasn't hit my blood yet.
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May 28, 2021 14:08
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I loving love Saku, I wish he'd succeeded more in the US so more folks knew about him. I don't like Dana White at all but I'm glad UFC inducted Saku and acknowledged his contribution to the sport.
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May 28, 2021 14:10
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I loving love Saku, I wish he'd succeeded more in the US so more folks knew about him. I don't like Dana White at all but I'm glad UFC inducted Saku and acknowledged his contribution to the sport. Do you think we should remember Saku? Like, I don't think he was ever forgotten.
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May 28, 2021 14:15
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I think people who do deep dives into stuff like MMA know full well that Saku is legit as they get. But it'd be cool if more of the people who only really follow UFC knew him. As is, I know about him because of his association with wrestling. But if someone wants to do a writeup on the guy, I sure as poo poo won't object.
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May 28, 2021 14:38
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I honestly dont remember details of the fighting career, but I vividly remember the missing pec of Tra Telligman I remember watching his fights and just being fixated on it, couldn't help myself getting lost in my thoughts. Just remember being a bit too giddy about thinking of using Tra as a chip and dip platter
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May 28, 2021 14:40
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i remember when joe had to spend half a fight explaining why the pec was missing and that just was adding to the weirdness of it all
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May 28, 2021 15:26
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HEY! i wanna remember adlan amagov I saw him on some Strikeforce cards and he murked a few dudes, so I tried to check his back catalogue, which was also good. he's also the only guy i remember with a stoppage from an oblique kick/knee stomp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgKjtFZdUA I'm pretty sure he's responsible for one of my favorite quotes regarding a fighter having nerves before a fight "i lived in a tent city in chechnya for years, where helicopters strafed machine gun fire. in the cage, it's just another man" he retired, allegedly due to not wanting to cut weight any more. he may have been implicated in some light terrorism post-retirement
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What a thread. I'm a big remembering guys enthusiast. Remember TUF2's Danny Abaddi who served as Matt Hammil's ward and sandwich maker, and he gave that really awkward speech about "Dad I said if I can take your beating I can take anyone's beating" in the precious few seconds of non caretakering screen time. Remember HIROYA who was a 16 year old kid prodigy undercarding post pride mma stadium events with highschool kickboxing? Where do you go on to in life from there? Remember the entire existence of Phil Baroni. You've probably been lucky enough to have not for a while. Remember Sean Sherk eating massive chunks of walleye out of tupperware on camera as a way to sell a PPV fight. What sort of future is there for an early days UFC guy that is too small armed to become a fireman? I hope he's doing ok. Remember the tales of the original "Zombie" grappler in Japan from around just before the Rumina Sato era who was disillusioned with this training so he'd come to tournaments and open mats and just submit everyone with the "clothespin" submission by expertly pinning his ankles against their neck. He used to compete wearing socks. Someone else out there has to Remember This Guy. Remember this guy?  I have no idea who this is anymore but his well lit MMA photo has been in my images folder for an eternity.
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Jun 9, 2021 03:29
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Let's just remember the warrior, Andy Wang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ76VkRe-gA
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Jun 9, 2021 04:29
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Remember Kopylov and Giant Ochiai? I sure do. RIP Ochiai. RIPS to Ryan Gracie, despite the documented record that that guy was an rear end in a top hat at Pepe beach according to Walid. Much RIP to Rockson Gracie. Rolls too. have some RIP. Kopylov ,I'm assured by the absence of a death date on wikipedia is alive an well living that good life of an aging man somewhere in central Russia.  Probably looking exactly the same as he did 20 years ago. Good for him.
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Jun 13, 2021 17:01
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that guy is every school principle
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shadow puppet of a posted:Remember Kopylov and Giant Ochiai? Kopy!! I used to follow him on Facebook and, yes, he looked exactly the same but with a gray mustache.
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IGOR "ICE COLD" VOVCHANCHYN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqWCZHdw2kE he just hit things until the stopped moving, and then would hit them a few more times
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LobsterMobster posted:IGOR "ICE COLD" VOVCHANCHYN The Dan Bobish clips are the best part of that video. Remember Dan Bobish? He's a guy who makes me wish that there was no cap on heavyweight.  Apparently he works as a hearing aid specialist now. https://www.hollyshearing.com/about-us/our-professionals/hearing-instrument-specialists/dan-bobish?m=1 
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I was just looking at an old wrestling show card today that had Dan Bobish on it, against Vader in Japan. He also had a match with former UFC & sumo guy Yoji Anjo in the same company. And a 3 way match in 2004 for Dream Stage Entertainment's wrestling company Hustle: Bobish vs Mark Coleman vs Giant Silva. And had another match where he tagged with Pride ref & guys getting murdered because he's terrible at his job afficianado Yuji Shimada. The idea that he's just a guy with a normal rear end job, helping old people to hear, logically it makes sense but seeing him in that white coat is wild. That is not a man built for normal people work.
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 this was a mixed rules match between jienotsu (kickboxer) and shinya aoki (grappler) where the first round was kickboxing and the second round was full MMA rules. the guy getting knocked out, shinya aoki is a terrifyingly strong and skilled grappler despite looking like a creepy sex pervert nerd. he's also a creepy sex pervert nerd and an all around piece of poo poo. he got through the kickboxing round by running down the clock throwing drop kicks and tons of goofy poo poo that circumvented the rules. this was the start of the second round. jienotsu was everyone's hero that night.
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Foul Fowl posted:
Don't leave out the best part, that Jienotsu is an avid cosplayer, and usually walks to the ring dressed as the prettiest anime babes in the land
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ok what did Shinya Aoki do to get labeled a creepy sex pervert?
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forkboy84 posted:I was just looking at an old wrestling show card today that had Dan Bobish on it, against Vader in Japan. He also had a match with former UFC & sumo guy Yoji Anjo in the same company. And a 3 way match in 2004 for Dream Stage Entertainment's wrestling company Hustle: Bobish vs Mark Coleman vs Giant Silva. And had another match where he tagged with Pride ref & guys getting murdered because he's terrible at his job afficianado Yuji Shimada. Riki Choshu tried to start a promotion where Bobish was being built up, promotion failed though.
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My Naruto book club recently reminded me that Baruto Kaito exists. And now looks like Will Sasso's screen double.  Baruto posted:Interestingly, one of the toughest challenges Baruto faced was the chonmage — the traditional topknot which, in sumo, all wrestlers wear their hair in. 
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forkboy84 posted:I was just looking at an old wrestling show card today that had Dan Bobish on it, against Vader in Japan. He also had a match with former UFC & sumo guy Yoji Anjo in the same company. And a 3 way match in 2004 for Dream Stage Entertainment's wrestling company Hustle: Bobish vs Mark Coleman vs Giant Silva. And had another match where he tagged with Pride ref & guys getting murdered because he's terrible at his job afficianado Yuji Shimada. HUSTLE was the best drat company, and I wish that Coleman/Randleman had gotten a run somewhere else because they were a goofily fun tag team. Also I think Bobish one of the guys who was "transformed" into a vaguely monster gimmick after failing the Takada Monster Army too many times. El Gallinero Gros posted:Riki Choshu tried to start a promotion where Bobish was being built up, promotion failed though. Huh. Saying that suddenly makes it make a LOT more sense when I think of how Choshu walked Bobish through a match and made him look like a million bucks.
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Remember the MixFight.ru guys? https://web.archive.org/web/20010808084628/http://www.mixfight.ru/eng/sportsmen/sportsmen.html Like Roman Zentsov and cancerous hitman Amar Suolev? Remember eYada.com's Eddie Goldman's streaming radio show and how horrible his voice and mouth sounds were on a microphone and 56k audio streaming compression? Remember Sakuraba's first trip to America and how everyone dressed up in their Saturday best?  Remember the irascible promoter of UFC Iran whose tenacious use of free webhosting in the very late 90s presented a fascinating bizarro universe where basement and outbuilding orgs like HooknShoot were the peak of MMA org development and SEG never got gazumped by Zuffa.  Speaking of HooknShoot Remember watching guys punch eachother in a drywalled home with blue mats on the floor in mpeg files and accepting that as a normal and legitimate 90's MMA event? I hope all those guys are doing OK now. Execpt Amar Suolev.
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lmao I bet everyone's favorite undersized rikishi Takanoyama never had this problem since, well  he bald
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coconono posted:ok what did Shinya Aoki do to get labeled a creepy sex pervert? he used to creep on female journalists in japan
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Where are the great MMA svengalis of yesteryear? Remember Gokor Chivichyan? King of the 1 fight undefeated record? Tim Catalfo the guy who bravely ripped off WCW's goldberg with his nickname of "Obake" earned in the Japanese fighting underground as a master of small joint manipulation? Colin Oyama who ripped off Rampage or was ripped off by Rampage? Billy Rush the dehydration and rehydration master that always got half the commentary airtime when Joe Riggs had a fight? Dale "Apollo" Cook who turned mild-mannered Todd Hays into an Stoppable force? Remember that old asian lady matinal arts grand master with big hair in heavy makeup who had an early 2000s web presence and a dojo full of paying misfits who posted their beachfront training photos on the web and it ended with this IT guy in a torn up shirt sitting in lotus position on a piling having achieved mcdojo nirvana? What was that martial art called again? Anyway, these were guys. Let us remember them.
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Remembering this guy who entered an amateur MMA tournament and stuck to his drunken kung fu guns to the bitter end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8jOGceedfw
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I was randomly remembering some guys today and was thinking about what became of those guys that had like 300+ semi-amateur fight records. Your Jeremy Horns, your Aaron Rileys, your Dan Severns, Your that 60 year old guy who was still fighting, your Shannon Ritches, your Travis Fultons.... Don't look up that last one if you want to keep your wistfully fond memories of Travis. He died this week Some guys shan't be remembered in the future.
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Bushmeister posted:Remembering this guy who entered an amateur MMA tournament and stuck to his drunken kung fu guns to the bitter end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8jOGceedfw Good god that shouldn't have taken so long.
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Remember Jorge Santiago? 25-10 Career, but 24-4 without his UFC fights? Repeatedly ranked as a top-worldwide middlweight, with a couple FOTY nominations, but a wet fart in his 3 UFC runs?
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CommonShore posted:Remember Jorge Santiago? Santiago vs Misaki 4lyfe
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LobsterMobster posted:Santiago vs Misaki 4lyfe Agreed. I'm due to rewatch them soon. I might spend some time in August rewatching old fights. If I do, maybe I'll use this thread to post about it.
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LobsterMobster posted:Santiago vs Misaki 4lyfe Gonzaga vs Jordan 5ever
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Also remember that time Shogun Rua lost an important match in pride and he directly blamed the loss on having to help his girlfriend move? Great days. People don’t make excuses like that that anymore.
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shadow puppet of a posted:Where are the great MMA svengalis of yesteryear? I missed this at the time but the best part of the Tim Catalfo story isn't even his fighting, it's what came after: quote:Catalfo returned to Florida for one more regional win in 2003 before retiring at 4-2--already 44, with his chance at the big leagues gone, it was time to turn in and enjoy a nice, quiet life of teaching and financial success across his multiple business ventures. never stop grifting
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Danny “Boy” Downes.
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