The earliest WELL ROUNDED fighters?

[loyalyolayal]

and with Tsuyoshi Kohsaka. That was a trio/quartet (Smith)

I guess Frank left the Lion's Den when the 3 formed the Alliance.


And the Kondo thread had me looking for his early career. He fought 12x in 1 yr period. Going 8-3-1 with a headkick KO victory over Frank. Dude also went 3-1 against K1 goat Semmy Schilt.

Hespect.

 

[Suzpect]

Aldo is new school, you wanna talk about rounded out fighters from the old days look at Vitor Belfort, Marco Ruas, stuff like that....

EFC 1 = 13Years ago.

 

[Liquid Smoke]

 

[cookdaddy]

Marco Ruas is the correct answer. Also, Don Frye, Frank Shamrock and Bas Rutten.

 

[DaPunkMinowaMan]

I guess Frank left the Lion's Den when the 3 formed the Alliance.


And the Kondo thread had me looking for his early career. He fought 12x in 1 yr period. Going 8-3-1 with a headkick KO victory over Frank. Dude also went 3-1 against K1 goat Semmy Schilt.

Hespect.

and bums around here keep sayin´that current fighters are better athlete...

 

[ironfist05]

most would point to Bas, Frank Shamrock and Mach Sakurai as the early generation of "well rounded" fighters

 

[QueenVitor]

Can anyone tell what event this was from?

Pretty sure it was when he fought Couture for the first time.

 

[DaPunkMinowaMan]

Marco Ruas was the first guy to even make the claim or pretense of being a complete NHB fighter, Matt Hume was probably the first guy to actually do it, and Frank Shamrock was the first guy to do it and win a UFC belt, although Saku and Fedor did it better, I don't think anyone with the possible exception of Jon Jones has ever eclipsed their total fight game.

Ruas was not pretending, he was doing it, already in the 1980s...

 

[orca]

Bj penn

 

[chubbman]

Ruas and frye

 

[Davemeddlehed]

'' I heard he once fucked a man to death on account of he was snoring'' Wow Snoring is not an excuse to kill a man to death by anally raping him

That would depend on who you ask, clearly.

 

[blewgums]

'' I heard he once fucked a man to death on account of he was snoring'' Wow Snoring is not an excuse to kill a man to death by anally raping him

Yeah, I can't say I agreed with his methods, effective though they were.

 

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Ruas and Shamrocks