The Day Marco Huas went full Babalu/Toquinho ... #6

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This series 'The Day...' is about 'extraordinary' moments in NHB/Vale Tudo history.

Today:

Holy shh... 1st Death in the ring?! Let it go, Marco...

Vale Tudo fight, was in 1992...@ RVT [Ruas Vale Tudo]...


 
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Poor Francisco was so unprepared that he didn't even have a last name.
 
Full event, for those interested...

Note: the Ref. was really part of the action in this event...Hilarious...

 
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Royce was lucky that Ruas wasn't in/allowed to be in UFC 1
 
Holy SHAT, Talk about going flying
 
He was tapping out, with his feet, as soon as the fight hit the ground...we should give Conor more credit...
 
@gono btw
Do you know in which fight Funaki went full Toquinho?

Some Pancrase Event...he fought a white dude (ok, maybe he wasn't white...i don't know...lol) and was eating some good shots in the stand up, which pissed him off...and as soon as he got side control...he wasted no time in breaking his opponents arm via americana, i think...
Ref jumps between, Funaki doesn't give a shit and gives an extra hard ass yank on his opponents arm...until the ref is screaming...
?


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Its all good mate...just found it...
And i may have a little bit of a different memory of it...but still Toquinho-like
 
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the guy was a beast

He wasn't invited to UFC 1 for obvious reasons...like, uh, well, having a deadly 1-glove boxer instead who taps to non-submission holds.
 
@gono btw
Do you know in which fight Funaki went full Toquinho?

Some Pancrase Event...he fought a white dude (ok, maybe he wasn't white...i don't know...lol) and was eating some good shots in the stand up, which pissed him off...and as soon as he got side control...he wasted no time in breaking his opponents arm via americana, i think...
Ref jumps between, Funaki doesn't give a shit and gives an extra hard ass yank on his opponents arm...until the ref is screaming...
?


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Its all good mate...just found it...
And i may have a little bit of a different memory of it...but still Toquinho-like

Dutch fighters always had this bad reputation back in the days, borderline dirty fighters/trouble makers...
 
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He wasn't invited to UFC 1 for obvious reasons...like, uh, well, having a deadly 1-glove boxer instead who taps to non-submission holds.
Huas himself acknowledged that as a Luta Livre dude, they owned him nuthin...

Besides, like it or not, it was compulsory to have one boxer @ UFC 1.
Heck, at least half of the roster had to be made of 'flashy' [movie-style] TMAs.
 
Huas himself acknowledged that as a Luta Livre dude, they owned him nuthin...

Besides, like it or not, it was compulsory to have one boxer @ UFC 1.
Heck, at least half of the roster had to be made of 'flashy' [movie-style] TMAs.

Still drinking the Kool-Aid after all these years? Jimmerson was a joke. A one-gloved boxer is useless, and he'd already been destroyed before the UFC in a hybrid boxing-kickboxing match by Don "the Dragon" Wilson. Putting him against Royce was a guaranteed way to advance without getting a scratch. Must have been nice fighting Jimmerson, a guy who fought 3 days before in Japan (jet lag going into high altitude of Colorado?) then Gordeau who had a broken hand and foot.

UFC 1 was a lot of fun (especially the fights without Royce) but it was all about marketing, not about testing the Gracie's skills.
 
Still drinking the Kool-Aid after all these years? Jimmerson was a joke. A one-gloved boxer is useless, and he'd already been destroyed before the UFC in a hybrid boxing-kickboxing match by Don "the Dragon" Wilson. Putting him against Royce was a guaranteed way to advance without getting a scratch. Must have been nice fighting Jimmerson, a guy who fought 3 days before in Japan (jet lag going into high altitude of Colorado?) then Gordeau who had a broken hand and foot.

UFC 1 was a lot of fun (especially the fights without Royce) but it was all about marketing, not about testing the Gracie's skills.
hmm... You dont understand the dynamic related to this shit: creating a new roster/MMA Org., Im afraid.

Saying that "The event was a marketing ploy by the Gracies" is quite simplistic.

Them Gracies had their agenda, for sure, but they were the frontrunners of a bigger master plan: build a market
in the American market (perceived as the best base for a NHB expansion).

So they had to adapt their marketing plan to the reality of the American market, which, unlike the Brazilian
or the Japanese one, had zero knowledge of NHB & especially ground game.

The audience & the TV dudes had some expectations and had their head full of myths about traditional disciplines
[kung fu,karate,kenpo,boxing] being the dominant ones.

That´s why the tournament spots HAD to be filled with these "flashy" dudes, not with wrestlers or sambo dudes, both
unknown to the American audience.
 
Royce was lucky that Ruas wasn't in/allowed to be in UFC 1

Ask your self this question if Marco Ruas with 75 kilo at 23 years old can hang with Fernando Pinduka who was 95 kilo at 31 years old and a black belt in BJJ for already six years and then in 1984 fought both there first Vale Tudo match and Marco Ruas almost without real knowledge about ground fighting.

What would Marco Ruas have done too Royce Gracie in 1993 in the first UFC?

Royce was physical weak in comparisment to Ruas!
You could say that Marco Ruas is/was Royce's KRYPTONITE

He would have had more experience in all the arts where he was training in and he would have literally killed him on the feet or on the ground it doesn't matter. He was at his physical prime at that time!

There is a reason that Rickson Gracie didn't want anything of Marco Ruas!
 
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Ask your self this question if Marco Ruas with 75 kilo at 23 years old can hang with Fernando Pinduka who was 95 kilo at 31 years old and a black belt in BJJ for already six years and then in 1984 fought both there first Vale Tudo match and Marco Ruas almost without real knowledge about ground fighting.

What would Marco Ruas have done too Royce Gracie in 1993 in the first UFC?

Royce was physical weak in comparisment to Ruas!
You could say that Marco Ruas is/was Royce's KRYPTONITE

He would have had more experience in all the arts where he was training in and he would have literally killed him on the feet or on the ground it doesn't matter. He was at his physical prime at that time!

There is a reason that Rickson Gracie didn't want anything of Marco Ruas!
78 kg/170 lbs vs Pinduka... according to himself.

Not sure, watching the fight, I would say he was a MW...
 
78 kg/170 lbs vs Pinduka... according to himself.

Not sure, watching the fight, I would say he was a MW...

Oke let it be 78 kg it was still a big mismatch on paper but it turned a 'bit' different then the Gracies suspected!
 

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