Judo in the UFC

**DARKSON** · Posted On: 3/08/2004 9:22am

Carlos Gracie jr is a brasilian greco-roman as well as bjj champion. I think both renzo and royler are judo BB's.

**Orion** · Posted On: 4/03/2004 4:56pm

Judo - the SPORTIVE art - isn't particularly suited for MMA. Sportive Judo is all about the Gi, and while a strong Judoka has to be respected anyway, he does not train for the same kind of game.
Now, if you take one of the old judo schools... things do change.

**Guy Mendiola** · Posted On: 4/04/2004 2:52am

There's not that many Judo practitioners in the UFC nor Jiu-Jitsu(Japanese Style) but yeah some fighters took a previous art and then crosstrained with another.

**Greese** · Posted On: 4/04/2004 3:29pm

Originally posted by PeedeeShaolin
But you KNOW they trained other arts but dont know WHO they trained with or where?

How did you come to the conclusion they trained in other arts then?

Because Royce said in an interview before his fight with Yocheata that it wasn't BJJ vs. Judo that he liked Judo and trained in it as a child.

**Greese** · Posted On: 4/04/2004 3:34pm

I expect to see a lot more Judo people coming out in the coming years. There are a lot of people that just stop being enamoured with it and leave, the more rules they put in, the less I really care. There is starting to be a growth in people doing no-gi judo.

**Guy Mendiola** · Posted On: 4/04/2004 8:22pm

Yeah, I too wanted to see more practitioners of other arts also, There were some Judo practitioners but they didn't competed long enough so there MMA fighting record was not that great. Judo is becoming like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu but in BJJ they have gi's but in MMA competitions they use those Vale Tudo shorts which is popular in the MMA and the only fighter I know that fights in a gi would be Royce Gracie.

**sakurabar0x0rz** · Posted On: 4/05/2004 1:43pm

yeah, Yoshida took Vanderlei the distance.....whereas i've seen a good # of people get demolished by Vanderlei. i still haven't been able to find clips of the yoshida/gracie rematch :(

**Osu** · Posted On: 4/05/2004 1:48pm

People are cross-training that much these days that it you can conclude little of a styles worth just by a fighters' style as named in his record. What does it matter if a judo guy enters the UFC? Like he didn't learn some BJJ and striking too...

**bait** · Posted On: 4/05/2004 10:19pm

What other arts? Where did you find this? I've never heard of this.

time to get OWNED in portuguese by magapi gracie family friend (it says rolls took other arts and introduced their techniques ), translate it if you dont believe

"Rolls Gracie "Esse a gente não pode esquecer"

O Jiu-jitsu precisava de um campeão com grande técnica, carisma, liderança para influenciar e orientar a geração mais jovem de praticantes de artes marciais. Em Rolls Gracie, o jiu-jitsu achou este líder. O menino com o nome estranho, começou na Rua São Bolivar 14, em Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, próximo ao Teatro Roxy, um esforço consciente para ser o inovador e peça fundamental para a transição do jiu-jitsu. Ele introduziu educação física em seu programa de treinamento conjuntamente com técnicas de outras artes marciais. Ele promoveu competições jiu-jitsu mas ainda apelou para a juventude, que popularizasse este esporte. participando. Ele se tornou o líder de centenas de pessoas jovens da Zona Sul do Rio.

Não contente com o que já havia aprendido sobre técnicas de lutas marciais, ele viajou o mundo procurando mais conhecimentos, compartilhando seu estilo, e competindo contra lutadores sambô nas regras de seus oponentes. Onde quer que Rolls tenha ido, impressionou todo mundo com sua versatilidade, rapidez e força; pesando 71Kg, ele dava saltos poderosos, chutes e socos, algo nunca visto antes num lutador de jiu-jitsu. Weighing somente 160 libras, ele desempenhou saltos poderosos, chutes, e socos; algo nunca visto num lutador de jiu-jitsu."

http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/magatown/historias.htm

SO THEY CROSS TRAINED A LOT TOO.

**bait** · Posted On: 4/05/2004 10:34pm

about royce and hkd
http://easyreader.hermosawave.net/ne...coverstory.asp
"Thanks to Royler for coming up with this strategy, and for pushing me, keeping me going.

Nono, for teaching me about the stand-up world. I totally threw him (Yoshida) off with the strategy Nono and Royler put together."

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache...hl=pt&ie=UTF-8

"Royce Gracie - I have a French guy. His name is Nono and he's based in LA. He runs a Hapkido school, but he's adapted training around me to suit my needs. Like I said before, I'm not going to stand and exchange firepower. It's more like a couple of hits to come in or a couple of kicks to come out. So he's modified a style of Hapkido, Boxing and Kick Boxing to suit my style. Actually, because I'm not fighting right now he's teaching me some stick fighting."

http://www.roycegracie.tv/fan/interview/5.htm

and NO I AM NOT ASIA WITH ANOTHER ACCOUNT