Kazuyuki Fujita

Serge421 said:
Yes I misremembered. I thought that he put Ewerton Teixeira in a coma but that was Fujita
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Well, the match you are referring to was in the same year, and he may as well have put Texeira in a coma. Also used knees to end that fight and left him looking dead lol. I'd actually forgotten about that fight, but it was during that period when Uberknees were an actual thing fans referred to with great reverence. I believe this was the fight, or one of them, that led to K1 banning the Muay Thai clinch.
 
Regardless whether he was an elite level fighter, he was one of those Pride guys that had the WOW factor...Yoshida, Saku, and Fujita had terrible records but was always amped to watch.
 
Karelinator said:
Back when Bobbu Sappu was still "The Beast" and people feared him, Fujita casually wrestled him to the ground, and kicked the shit out of him, pretty literally.

Not submission after almost getting killed and gruelling grappling, not sniper left cross, just outbeasting the beast.

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Definitely memorable moment.
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If I recall correctly, Sapp said it was the Fujita fight that got him to start quitting at the first sign of the trouble. Sapp said he couldn't believe how easily he was taken down and overpowered by someone "smaller" than him, since a 250lbs Fujita is puny compared to 375lbs Sapp haha.

This fight also made me realize how true "styles make fights" is. I see zero reason why strong wrestlers like Cain and Stipe don't end Sapp within 1 min, much like Fujita did. Meanwhile, I can see a BJJ guy like Werdum lose to Sapp since he doesn't have Nog's chin and toughness.
 
A.S. Deep said:
I can see a BJJ guy like Werdum lose to Sapp since he doesn't have Nog's chin and toughness.
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Once Werdum peaked in Strikeforce he was the updated, modern and superior version of Nogueira who was a one dimensional BJJ grappler who relied on his chin in every fight. Once that chin was gone, every single bum he faced ko'd him. Once Werdum's chin was gone, he was still beating ranked heavyweights.

As far as Sapp goes, he was proof that a clown on roids could give the primitive HW's of the past a tough fight. or KO some of the best kickboxers ever. It was a travesty. Almost ruined legit combat sports.
 
Inokis a pro wrestler dawg idk what you talkin about even sh##

Shaddows said:
I had to research this gem for a thread, and I think it is a travesty that most fans now a days do not know the true legend of Kazuyuki Fujita... or rather... its thick skull (no, seriously! That's his nickname!!!)

For those who do not know The Last Disciple of Antonio Inoki (another nickname)... this might give you some insight.

Trust me. You will love it! (or not!! Taste is relative!)

Well worth the read!
https://www.cracked.com/blog/worst-life-ever-the-story-of-kazuyuki-fujitas-skull
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OrigFan255 said:
Yoshida, Saku, and Fujita had terrible records but was always amped to watch.
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What do yo mean by "terrible records"?
They continued to fight post prime, took fights on short notice with mimimum preparation, did not have modern mentality of cherry picking fights & not taking risks. They did not stop fighting, they did not refuse fights & calculate risks just to avoid defeat on their record, like fighters nowadays do.

Sakuraba beat: Belfort, Royce G., Shamrock, Randleman, Mezger, Rampage, Newton,

Fujita beat: Kerr, Shamrock, Yvel, peak Sapp, Thompson

Yoshida beat: Don Frye, Hunt, Tamura, Ogawa

Those are quite great records.
 
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mkt said:
Who else went from a 205-pounder to a cartoon character freak who cut from 280 before the UFC busted him? If Fujita was on anything (and very few Japanese were), it was probably about 2% of what Overroid was on. But go back to your homoerotic crush...
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You don’t know what the fuck the Japanese were on in Pride. You base them being clean based off their physiques?!? You live in fantasy. I bet you play the new Final Fantasy.
 
another PRIDE can elevated to legendary status because he almost knocked out your hero Fedor

what a joke.
 
DayV said:
What do yo mean by "terrible records"?
They continued to fight post prime, took fights on short notice with mimimum preparation, did not have modern mentality of cherry picking fights & not taking risks. They did not stop fighting, they did not refuse fights & calculate risks just to avoid defeat on their record, like fighters nowadays do.

Sakuraba beat: Belfort, Royce G., Shamrock, Randleman, Mezger, Rampage, Newton,

Fujita beat: Kerr, Shamrock, Yvel, peak Sapp, Thompson

Yoshida beat: Don Frye, Hunt, Tamura, Ogawa

Those are quite great records.
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26-17
9-8
18-14

When losses almost catch up the amount of wins, to me that is not a good record.....That does not mean there weren’t notable quality wins.
 
OrigFan255 said:
26-17
9-8
18-14

When losses almost catch up the amount of wins, to me that is not a good record.....That does not mean there weren’t notable quality wins.
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End of career score is not that important. They all had very positive score in their prime.

At those times fighters were not trying to avoid loss at all costs, nor did they care. They were ready to fight anyone anytime, just bang, often with days of notice and often changed different rules, just for the fun & sake of fighting, or to get some more money. They were also fighting in multiple fights per night tornaments, and Fujita fought untill almost age of 50 because he simply enjos it.

There is too much emphasis on avoiding loss nowadays in small number of fights in career that modern fighters have, almost like keeping that bogus 0 in pro boxing for score. If you did not lose many in small nuber of career fights, it dones not neccesary mean that you are better than someone who lost more, but fought a lot, and took a lot of risk against all kinds of different opponents.
Nowadays fighters do not want to take more than 1-2 fights per year, and only well rested and with long praparation camps with dozen of coaches and nutricionis. Nowadays almost noone is willing to take a risk of fighting high risk- low reward bouts where he could gain little, but lose much. Opponents are nowadays carefully cherry picked.
Times were different before.
 
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DayV said:
End of career score is not that important. They all had very positive score in their prime.

At those times fighters were not trying to avoid loss at all costs, nor did they care. They were ready to fight anyone anytime, just bang, often with days of notice and often changed different rules, just for the fun & sake of fighting, or to get some more money. They were also fighting in multiple fights per night tornaments, and Fujita fought untill almost age of 50 because he simply enjos it.

There is too much emphasis on avoiding loss nowadays in small number of fights in career that modern fighters have, almost like keeping that bogus 0 in pro boxing for score. If you did not lose many in small nuber of career fights, it dones not neccesary mean that you are better than someone who lost more, but fought a lot, and took a lot of risk against all kinds of different opponents.
Nowadays fighters do not want to take more than 1-2 fights per year, and only well rested and with long praparation camps with dozen of coaches and nutricionis. Nowadays almost noone is willing to take a risk of fighting high risk- low reward bouts where he could gain little, but lose much. Opponents are nowadays carefully cherry picked.
Times were different before.
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Well written brother and I agree.
You managed to have me view it from another angle.
Saku is prime example of fighting past his prime for the fans.
Vitor is a very good example too...26-14 HOWEVER, the last 10 years of his career, he faced nothing but killers. Not 1 can

On the flip side. Mayweather was 50-0 and just does nothing for me.

Good job!
 
Fujita isnt really that easy to judge I spose because we never got to see him fight that often in MMA due to the parallel pro wrestling career.

I would say that I think whilst he had his best wins around the millenium against Kerr, Ken, etc he was probably at his best as a fighter a few years latter when he added significantly powerful striking to his game. He was never that technical of course but besides hurting Fedor he did have some very nasty KOs.

I would argue the closest you have to Fujita today is probably Bladyes, Curtis maybe a little more technical standing(although still quite wild) but with a much worse chin.
 
Fujita always looked like his traps and back/shoulder musculature was so developed it actually hindered his movement. like he was legitimately musclebound.

it looked like everything in his shoulder girdle to his traps and neck were all a single solid piece of bone without any joints. Yoel Romero kind of has that similar type of upper body movement but he actually has a fused neck.
 
TS, you buried the lead... the awesome title:

Worst Life Ever: The Story of Kazuyuki Fujita's Skull

Seanbaby has some funny mma articles. Love his nut grabbing cheating one... aka the Gary Goodridge story
 
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