Forgotten MMA fighters....

[jeskola]

Amir Sadollah. Won TUF, beat CB Dollaway twice, Matt Brown, Phil Baroni

 

[wolffanghameha]

Kazuo Misaki: beat Hendo, Riggs, Paul Daley, Denis Kang, Jorge Patino (Oliveira's bjj coach), Baroni, Akira Shoji. Impressive how long he stayed relevant.

Mamoru Yamaguchi (already mentioned)

Joachim Hansen. Maybe not so forgotten.

Joe Warren: Bellator champ around 2010, Div1 all-american, greco world champion.

Kiuma Kunioka: never heard of this guy, but saw him on Misaki's record. Pancrase wins over Frank Shamrock, Funaki, Genki Sudo, win/loss Nate Marquadt, win/loss over Guy Mezger and fought Yuki Kondo five times! (draw-loss-draw-win-loss). Also fought Sean Sherk and Shonie Carter.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Yes absolutely. There are many we dont talk about.

1. Rory Mcdonald
2. Mguel Torres
3.Cung Le

These guys are all champion level fighters.

Miguel Torres was championship level at 135 when the global weightclass had about 14 fighters and half of them were Flyweights.

Cung and Rory I agree with, kinda, Cung was really old and got to MMA super late. He also should have been a 170lber. He used to be the striking coach at AKA 20 years ago and Rumble was one of his students.

 

[Bluesbreaker]

Kazuo Misaki: beat Hendo, Riggs, Paul Daley, Denis Kang, Jorge Patino (Oliveira's bjj coach), Baroni, Akira Shoji. Impressive how long he stayed relevant.

Misaki was always a favourite of mine. I think I saw him cornering Kleber Koike the other day, which was disappointing.

 

[MyNameisMyName]

Kazuo Misaki: beat Hendo, Riggs, Paul Daley, Denis Kang, Jorge Patino (Oliveira's bjj coach), Baroni, Akira Shoji. Impressive how long he stayed relevant.

Mamoru Yamaguchi (already mentioned)

Joachim Hansen. Maybe not so forgotten.

Joe Warren: Bellator champ around 2010, Div1 all-american, greco world champion.

Kiuma Kunioka: never heard of this guy, but saw him on Misaki's record. Pancrase wins over Frank Shamrock, Funaki, Genki Sudo, win/loss Nate Marquadt, win/loss over Guy Mezger and fought Yuki Kondo five times! (draw-loss-draw-win-loss). Also fought Sean Sherk and Shonie Carter.

Misski also beat Akiyama but got changed to NC due to a technicality.