Forgotten MMA fighters....

[jeskola]

David "The Crow" Loiseau, once feared for his mighty razor elbows

 

[Don Quixote]

As far as champions go Rich Franklin. He had a good run but was overshadowed by Silva in my opinion.

 

[thecoldbloodedone]

Martin Nguyen
Lorenz Larkin
Remegius Morkevicius
Luri Lapicus

 

[wwkirk]

Do people still remember Rin Nakai?

 

[Deathmask]

Do people still remember Rin Nakai?

Not my proudest wank.

 

[ryanrandy]

Yves Edwards hardly gets brought up but he was the uncrowned 155 champ when they didnt even have one. Plus his KO over Josh Thompson is my all time favorite.

 

[TheBrownRanger]

1. Cole Konrad

2. Christian M'Pumbu

3. Joseph Soto

4. Hector Lombard

5. Eddie Alvarez

6. Lyman Good

7. Tara LaRosa

8. Liam McGeary

9. Marius Zaromskis

10. Marloes Coenen

11. Jose Landi-Jons

12. Ray Cooper III

13. Andrey Koreshkov

14. Tarec Saffiedine

15. Rafael Carvalho

16. Brandon Halsey

17. Lyman Good

18. Joe Warren

19. Zoila Frausto

20. Eduardo Dantas

LOL a lot of old Bellator champs on there. Throw Marcos Galvao on that list. Nobody remembered his as soon as he lost the Bellator title to Dantas in a boring decision. Dude was incredibly mediocre for a Bellator champion.

Some of ONE's old champions and contenders need to be on this list too:

Nobutatsu Suzuki - Former ONE WW champion
Koketsu Boku - ONE's first LW champion
Igor Svirid - ONE's first MW champion
Paul Cheng - HW contender
Iuri Lapicus - Quit during a fight with Eddie Alvarez and got fed to Kadestam. Later died.
Tatsumitsu Wada
Ken Hasegawa
Timofey Nastyukhin - Beat Eddie Alvarez in ONE. Went 1-4 afterwards.

I never hear anyone talk about these dudes

 

[TheBrownRanger]

I'll volunteer some RIZIN names that nobody remembers too.

Baruto
Mark Tanios
Szymon Bajor
Brett McDermott
Singh Jaideep
Lei'D Tapa
Anna Malyukova

The 2015 GP also had some dudes named Jiri Prochazka, Vadim Nemkov, and Bruno Cappelozza. Probably didn't do much of note afterwards.

 

[Deathmask]

Some off the top of my head.

Mitsuhiro Ishida
Luiz Azeredo
Satoru Kitaoka
Tatsuya Kawajiri
Marcus Aurelio
Joachim Hansen
Kazuhiro Nakamura
Jorge Santiago
Mizuto Hirota

 

[Ibm]

Brett Rogers

 

[2009lurker]

Melvin Guillard
Thiago Silva
Chris Leben

EDIT: pretty much the entire WW division during the TUF noob/Zuffa era. So many names there that provided good entertainment.

 

[Mr. Snrub]

Timofey Nastyukhin - Beat Eddie Alvarez in ONE. Went 1-4 afterwards.

Not a fan. Gives out way too many soccer kicks. That's some Tong Po shit.

 

[DougieJones]

Luri Lapicus

RIP. Kid had a lot of talent

 

[DougieJones]

Johnny "Hollywood" Case

Norman Parke

Brandon Girtz

Elias Silverio

John Texiera

Nazareno Malegarie

 

[Richard Fannin]

Jean "White Bear" Silva is all I can think about when the youngguns talk about the new UFC Jean Silva. I never even see people in "Jean Silva threads" reference the OG anymore

He was one of my favorite little dudes at the Chute Boxe Academy, and I was so pumped when he got a title shot against Takanori Gomi in PRIDE to avenge his teammates Luiz Azeredo & Jadyson Costa.
I was always wondering why they called this small dude "White Bear", a nickname more befitting someone like Jeff Monson or Sergei Kharitonov than Jean.
But then I learned that it was a remnant from his capoeira days, in which the masters give the most random nicknames to their students, and you have to be in on the joke to get it.

T'was back when he was a long-reigning Cage Rage champion (he would train at London Shootfighters when he stayed in England) with acrobatic capoeira kicks and candid interviews in broken engrish that endeared him to UK fans.
He put up a good one against "the Fireball Kid", taking Gomi to a decision while fighting almost in the same way Luiz Azeredo did (and Luiz/Gomi 2 was pretty darn close), but sadly PRIDE never called back.

After that, the loss that stung me the most out of his entire career, when he blundered during a Cage Rage title fight and after a promising start full of action on both sides (perfect mix of stand-up and ground game) tried a leglock against Masakazu "Ashikan Judan" Imanari, one of the biggest leglock monsters of that time alongside Rousimar Palhares.
It didn't end well, and Silva's knee got badly injured in a reverse heel-hook


In another notable bout, "White Bear" would give an early loss to another Brazilian favorite of mine, Leonardo Santos, who at that point had also lost to Gomi in his first MMA bout ever (no shame in that), but he had also submitted GSP at ADCC which is a pretty cool feather in his cap.


Leo Santos then really impressed me during TUF Brazil 2 (which he won) in which he beat, among others, Thiago "Marreta" Santos who was like 2 or 3 weight classes bigger than him (Leo Santos spent his UFC career at LW, and Marreta's last fight at PFL was at HW were he weighed 265lbs of juiced muscle; he pissed hot in one of his latest fights so it's not fighter bashing, just Saiyan' )

Anyway, don't forget one of the unsung Chute Boxe heroes guyz, Jean Silvaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[fendertach]

Tyrone Glover was a hot prospect in the mid 2000's after he beat 19-4 Din Thomas in his 4th pro fight.

Retired undefeated at 6-0 to pursue a career in Legal representation. He seems to have done well for himself

TYRONE GLOVER LAW - ATTORNEYS FOR JUSTICE

tyroneglover.com

 

[fendertach]

Mamoru Yamaguchi (Left)was one of the original flyweight and bantamweight kingpins. I'm pretty sure he was the #1 ranked fighter in both divisions at some point or another


Takeshi Inoue (Right) was one of the top, if not the top featherweights in Japan for awhile. Compiled an impressive 18-3 record before being dethroned by Hatsu Hioki.

 

[DougieJones]

Johnny "Hollywood" Case

Norman Parke

Brandon Girtz

Elias Silverio

John Texiera

Nazareno Malegarie

Forgot to add Andre Harrison (WSoF/PFL)... who started his career 20-0

Jumabieke Tuerxun (UFC/PFL) started his career 15-0

David Branch (UFC/WSoF) was the first (I think) simultaneous 2-division champ in WSoF/PFL (MW and LHW). Was 21-3 before returning to the UFC at age 35 and finishing his career 1-4

Anthony Rocco Martin (UFC)

David Michaud (UFC/PFL)

John "Doomsday" Howard (IFL/UFC/WSoF/PFL)

Smealinho Rama (WSoF/PFL)

Jordan Johnson (UFC/PFL)

Jordan Young (Bellator/PFL) - RIP

Pavel Kusch (M-1 Global/PFL)

Khalid Murtazaliev (M-1 Global/UFC/Bellator)

Myles Jury (UFC/Bellator)

 

[TheBrownRanger]

Some off the top of my head.

Mitsuhiro Ishida
Luiz Azeredo
Satoru Kitaoka
Tatsuya Kawajiri
Marcus Aurelio
Joachim Hansen
Kazuhiro Nakamura
Jorge Santiago
Mizuto Hirota

I like how I recognize half of these dudes from EA MMA. That was such a great roster for a 2010 game tbh.

 

[GSP_37]

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.

Rory was on a Jaxxon podcast not too long ago that I listened to the other day. He said he went to school, did day trading, rental property, continues to train to pass along knowledge.