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.

 

[invictorious]

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

Yes, I was a big Bellator mark. For several years it was a viable major alternate promotion for fans and fighters.

Those ONE champions were dominant long before that promotion got an American TV deal.
Probably why little has been mentioned about them.

 

[Richard Fannin]

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

Oh man, Akiyama vs Misaki was one of the most important fights of the year for me! It was particularly Big in Japan©

no question about it.

It was also the subject of one of Highlight legend Genghis Con's "Bitter Feud" highlights collections alongside Wanderlei vs Rampage, Gomi vs Chute Boxe, Krazy Horse vs Wand,

 

[MyNameisMyName]

Oh man, Akiyama vs Misaki was one of the most important fights of the year for me! It was particularly Big in Japan©

no question about it.

It was also the subject of one of Highlight legend Genghis Con's "Bitter Feud" highlights collections alongside Wanderlei vs Rampage, Gomi vs Chute Boxe, Krazy Horse vs Wand,

The storytelling at that point in JMMA was wild.
Akiyama cheating against legend Saku goes from hero to villain overnight.
Gets a homecoming back in S Korea against Kang to lose but wins.
Then gets beat in Japan by Misaki who humiliates him post fight only to have it changed to a NC ironically later.
But I must say I dont know what these Highlight legendnCon Bitter Feud thing is.
What is it?A documentary series or?Can you help me with a link or?