Taekwondo in the UFC???

[Lionheart7167]

The UFC has seen some successful Judo players (Rousey), Karate disciples (Machida, Thompson) and Aikido practictioners (Seagal flexin').

Has there ever been a super successful Taekwondo -based fighter in the UFC?

Also, in before the Rogan /threads .

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

Anthony Pettis is a third degree black belt in Taekwondo

Bas Rutten is also a black belt in TKD, which is handy in spinning kick fools and the juke box in bars

Edson Barbosa is a black belt in TDK, and it shows in his varied spinning strikes

 

[Izzysexboyfriend]

Anderson

 

[goOb]

Bas Rutten

 

[Lionheart7167]

Anthony Pettis is a third degree black belt in Taekwondo

Bas Rutten is also a black belt in TKD, which is handy in spinning kick fools and the juke box in bars

Was TWD his primary discipline?

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[gimmick122]

Yair Rodriguez...

 

[CasualBot]

is today the day of odd ball martial arts references to UFC ?

 

[RightToBareKnuckles]

not 100% sure they were from TKD gyms, maybe some other form of karate, but Dennis Siver and Uriah Hall had some nasty spinning kicks

 

[tomjones]

Anderson in the past toyed with the idea of competing in the taekwondo at the Olympics. He's a 5th dan blackbelt in taekwondo, but he's trained to a high level in multiple arts.

 

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

The UFC has seen some successful Judo players (Rousey), Karate disciples (Machida, Thompson) and Aikido practictioners (Seagal flexin').

Has there ever been a super successful Taekwondo -based fighter in the UFC?

Also, in before the Rogan /threads .

There are Tae Kwon do style kicks all over the ufc.

 

[Lionheart7167]

Let me clarify. Guys that primarily used their TWD to win fights. TWD was their MAIN discipline.

 

[TheMaster]

Edson Barbosa is a black belt in TDK, and it shows in his varied spinning strikes

Gold KO

 

[old school 2]

Actually GSP started as a karate stylist but not TKD and developed a full game including some of the best wrestling in MMA.

 

[MikeyB]

Paul Felder started in TKD.

In the US there's a pretty good shot your first martial art is TKD.

 

[Bearknuckle]

Old video. Someone should do an updated one.

UFC fighters in the video
Rose
Sage
James Moontasri
Yair
Bendo
Bruno Korea
Pettis
Daron Cruikshank

 

[BluntForceTrama]

Pinche Yair

/thread

 

[Necrocrawler]

Chris barnett


And i'm not even joking
Apparently, his training camp is called barnett Taekwondo academy

 

[Yep]

Lots of them. The thing about taekwondo is you have to find the right place. My kids are in taekwondo but it’s heavily based on sparring and competing. Not as great at forms and such. They still do forms. And still a huge money grab, but much more fighting based.

 

[Bearknuckle]

Lots of them. The thing about taekwondo is you have to find the right place. My kids are in taekwondo but it’s heavily based on sparring and competing. Not as great at forms and such. They still do forms. And still a huge money grab, but much more fighting based.

Not all martial arts has to be geared towards mma. I started my son in tkd, they do sparring and kick each other but no head kicks yet. I think its a good start, i told him if he gets his black belt and wants to do more hardcore stuff he can do kickboxing or muay thai, but only if he wants to.