The career of Bas Rutten: the beautiful one

Of Daniele Bolellil

In full etilica drunkness you decide to go up on a theater box where volteggiano dancers in topless. When the jockey pole ucraino, armed with uzi, comes to advise you to abandon the scene, you have the following options: ) you jetties in ginocchio and you ask mercy, b) between gestures and a several compound of European languages, tried to reason with the good man, c) you laugh happy and cropped one schiaffo in head. If yours caratteraccio it pushes to you to choose the third option, Bas Rutten would be likeable. That one as soon as narrated, in fact, it is only one of the many anecdotes that circulate on the account of one of most famous combatant than mixed martial limbs, a man whose nom de guerre, "El guapo" ("the beautiful one"), says it long on its estrosa personality. Authentic pioneer of this sport, the losco Dutch is probably one of the known personages more in the world of the mixed martial limbs. The career of Rutten began in 1993 when Japanese organization Pancrase toed make one's debut with the newborn. In the years to come Rutten, with to combatants which Ken and Frank Shamrock, it became one of little western stars of this sport in Japan. Rutten captured for three times the ambitissimo tito it of king of Pancrase before moving itself in America, where during the last encounter of its career, in 1999, it conquered the title it of the maximum weights in Ultimate fighting championship. It varies accidents to you convinced it to withdraw itself to the apex of its career with an enviable professionistico record of 27 victories, 4 defeats and 1 balancing. Rutten, but, did not vanish from the scene, but it was recycle as official commentator for the encounter of Pride fc, the main Asian organization of mixed martial limbs. If it is true that its career in the ring had rendered Rutten famous for its ferocity, in the commentator garments it succeeded to conquer it gets passionate thanks to you to its demential sense of the humour and to the great human charge. Its history begins to the same way of that one of many luminari of the martial limbs, from Jigoro Kano to Helio Gracie; it begins with a gracile and sickly, taken in turn and maltrattato child from the school companions. And like many other children in its conditions, Rutten endures the fascination of the martial limbs and the promise of being able to forge body and spirit thanks to these. E' the classic history to the Conan the Barbarians: the adversities break to the hearts more weak people and reduce who do not know to them to exceed to pales shadows of that they could have been, but temper the character of who do not stop to fight. Inspired from films of Bruce Lee, Rutten chooses the second solution and dedication to the athletics and the martial limbs earning black belts in the karate ones kyokushinkai and the tae kwon I give before passing to the thai boxing. In the meantime one earns living making the jockey pole and, less expectably, the chef of French kitchen. Then, in 1993, while they are in travel in turn for the World to recruit combatant for their organization, Minoru Suzuki and Masakatsu Funaki imbattono in Rutten and is decided of dargli the possibility to participate in their event before inaugurates them (a pair of months that Completed fighting championship saw the light). From that moment nothing more French kitchen for Rutten. The only thing that will serve in the years to come will be large cazzotti on the other people's snouts. Recently, Rutten has produced a triple one dvd that it is an authentic miliare stone in the history of the mixed martial limbs. Under an only Rutten cover in fact it has put its entire career: all its thirty encounter for the Japanese organization Pancrase in their entire length (carried out between 1993 and 1998) and one synthesis of the two encounter fought in Ultimate fighting championship of 1999. To the contrary of many dvd and video cassettes that only show it is made better in the career than an athlete, this us extension truly all that that Rutten has never made in a ring, included its four defeats against Masakatsu Funaki, Frank and Ken Shamrock (two times). According to Rutten, in fact, the defeats have contributed to its increase like lottatore how much the victories. To see Rutten to the work is one joy for every interested martial artist to the competition. Only five combats decide thanks to the judges. All the others end for ko, ko technical or for submission. Good part goddesses its adversaries is mixed legends delle martial limbs which Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki (the two founders del Pancrase), Ken Shamrock (the only one to strike Rutten two times), the champion goddesses weighs means of Ufc Frank Shamrock (than Rutten it faces three times winning two goddesses three you meet), the champions goddesses you weigh maximums of Ufc Maurice Smith and Kevin Randleman and other large which Tsuyoshi Kohsaka, Guy Mezger and Vernon White. Rutten to a sure point tried also to defy Rickson Gracie, the seed-God of the Brazilian ju-jitsu, but Gracie preferred not to put in racing silk its record imbattuto against one fury like the Dutch. The career of Rutten offers one ghiotta occasion in order to observe the evolution of the sport. To its debuts, in fact, Rutten was a pure artist of the ko: the great soccer and blows by hand opened (Pancrase to the beginnings did not allow the fists), but little fight to earth. After a pair of encounter ended for ko, Funaki thought to teach to us to the Rutten Dutch, than for how much skillful one it was when it was found in feet, had much to learn on the fight to earth. The defeat against Funaki forced Rutten to improve itself. For the months succeeded, Rutten made the more difficult thing to you for a lottatore: to abandon that in which eccelleva in order dedicating itself to its weaknesses. Nothing more training in the thai boxing, instead two times to the day training of fight to earth. Very soon Rutten passed therefore to the being a pure colpitore to become a complete martial artist and began to gain several encounter for submission with strangling techniques, levers to the arms and the levers to the typical legs of the combatants of Japanese school. The only thing that lacked to Rutten in order to become one of the more complete combatants in circulation was one good technique of free fight. Most skillful when it was in feet and most skillful to earth, Rutten was not but granché in the projections neither in defending itself against these. Also now that it is far away from the ring, but, Rutten has not ended to contribute to the sport. Beyond to being the commentator for Pride, Rutten has put with the two more complete books never written on the mixed martial limbs. In fact the hundreds of pages of its Big books of combat, the first one of which are dedicated to the techniques in order to hit are in feet are to earth, while the second is centralized on the fight to earth, are manual technicians of rare quality. For who El guapo "in its original garments of combatant preferred", instead that of author or commentator, the dvd on its career fundamental window opens one on this pioneer of the sport. The interested anglofili to Bas Rutten can write to the email: TNaemi@aol.com.