Lashley lost everytime he fought someone with a pulse. Not bad tho for a pro wrestler, and if he focused more on it he would have been better in MMAI think Shinsuke Nakamura probably had the best record. Katsuyori Shibata got chewed up and spit out, which was a shame since everything about him screams bad ass shoot fighter.
edit: Nevermind, just saw Bobby Lashley's record. Holy shit.
That's the issue with doing both. You can't dedicate enough time to either, and end up struggling to keep up.Lashley lost everytime he fought someone with a pulse. Not bad tho for a pro wrestler, and if he focused more on it he would have been better in MMA
Yuji Nagata, ace of NJPW and king of the G1 tournament. Only had two legit fights, going against prime Cro Cop and prime Fedor. Let's see how that went:
Nagata's MMA career lasted less than two minutes. He had no business even being on the same card as Fedor or Cro Cop, let alone being in the same ring as them. Fucking Inoki and his obsession with pushing wrestlers into shoots. Liger got smashed too, competing with his damn mask on.
Fucked Nagata's pro-wrestling career up too, as who could take him seriously as a headliner after seeing him get wrecked in seconds? The fact that he was a complete novice going up against two of the most brutal killer heavyweights ever didn't matter, just that New Japan's heavyweight ace got starched.
Inoki had lost the plot by this point. Seeing him pushed out of the company he founded was sad, but necessary, otherwise New Japan was going under. Pro wrestling and pro fighting are not the same thing.Inoki basically told him "You've got an amateur wrestling background, you'll be fine"...Not against Fedor and Cro Cop he won't. Inoki put the IWGP heavyweight belt on Fujita like a year afterwards, simply because he gave Fedor a fight, even though he sucked as a prowrestler.
Inoki had lost the plot by this point. Seeing him pushed out of the company he founded was sad, but necessary, otherwise New Japan was going under. Pro wrestling and pro fighting are not the same thing.
This one?Anybody remember that one time a Japanese Indy MMA promotion called DEEP had this deal with a Lucha Libre promotion that led to a number of Lucha wrestlers to participate in MMA fights including old school ones passed their prime like Kato Kung Lee and Canek?
That was weird.