From one sport from combat to an other

The athletes are very many who are pass you to the mixed martial limbs after to have obtained a remarkable one happening in other sports from combat. We mention some of the more clamorous cases here. The example more clamorous failure in the mixed martial limbs from part of a champion of an other discipline of combat is up of sure to Chad Rowan, best known like Akebono, the hawaiiano that divenne the first not-Japanese to catch up most prestigious the tito one it of yokozuna (the higher level of the sport) in the sumo.
After a disastrous experiment nella kickboxing (a Victoria and eight defeats, five delle which for knock-out), Akebono succeeded also to accumulate three defeats nelle mixed martial limbs without never to gain an encounter. One of the defeats came to it cropped from Royce Gracie, than hung more than 120 chili less than Akebono! To make competition to Akebono it is Yosuke Nishijima, former-champion of boxing for the Wbo, that it is successful to lose four times in as many encounter, with ko and three techniques of submission. With the exception of Akebono, than it has not made that to offer embarrassing performances, Nishijima has demonstrated of being an endowed combatant of talent, but that simply it has still much to work before competing to a good level in the mixed martial limbs.
The only man to put Nishijima to the carpet in its career in the mixed martial limbs is the New Zealand champion of kickboxing Mark Hunt, already winning of the most prestigious Torneo di K1 in 2001. Hunt has esordito in the mixed martial limbs in 2004 fighting for Pride Fc and up to now it has gained five encounter and it has lost two against adversaries of highest bore. Between its victims there are Wanderlei Silva, the champion of the light maximums of Pride Fc, and Mirko Filipovic, one of the maximum weights more high level that fight for Pride. Same Filipovic is kickboxer of deadly ability and a former-finalist in the tornei of K1.
After its debut in 2001, Filipovic (better known as Crocop) has fought regularly for Pride Fc having amassed an optimal record of 21 victories and 4 defeats, and gaining recently the Torneo di Pride of 2006 without weight limits. Filipovic is between the artists of the ko that it is successful to adapt itself to the sport of the mixed martial limbs with more happened. A remarkable job in the fight and the ju jitsu allows it to defend themselves decorous in the combat to earth, while its roots of kickboxer are that that has granted to it to put to the carpet good part of its adversaries, the maggiorparte of which have fallen victim of its leggendario left circular soccer. At the present moment, Filipovic is considered number two to the World between the maximum weights (behind only to the champion of Pride Fedor Emelianenko). Before gaining the title it of the maximum weights and the light maximums for Completed fighting championship, Randy Couture had had an optimal career in olympic the greco-roman fight serving from reservoir in more occasions and placing itself to a high level in It samples Americans to you of the Ncaa. A its companion of the Team quest, of which Couture he was the leader, is the American Matt Lindland. Lindland has gone more times close to gain the title it of the medium weights for Ufc, without but succeeding to us. With the exception of Couture, but, Lindland it has gone yes to the Olympic Games and in 2000, to Sidney, it has gained the silver medal in the greco-roman fight.
An other winner of a medal of silver to the Olympic Games then passed to the mixed martial limbs is judoka the Naoya Ogawa, that he gained its medal in 1992 to Barcelona in the judo for the athletes over the 95 chili. From then, Ogawa has alternated one career in for-wrestling to that one of combatant of mixed martial limbs. After to be remained imbattuto in the first seven encounter of its career, Ogawa has lost last just the two with one technical of judo, the lever to the arm known in the judo like juji-gatame. The champion of Pride Fedor Emelianenko has been the first one to fargli knowing the defeat in this way, but for knowing the identity of according to athlete striking it, pure passages to the next paragraph inasmuch as this combatant is the next subject about which we will speak. 31 December del 2005, Pride Fc put in scene a memorable challenge, a battle between two Japanese combatants, both vincitori of one olympic medal nel judo. Silver Ogawa, medal in 1992, against Hidehiko Yoshida, medal of gold always to Barcelona in 1992 in the category until the 78 chili. After six minuteren of battle, Yoshida put to sign a skillful one gatame that it obligated Ogawa to the yield. Although the fact that a record of 7 victories and 4 defeats in the mixed martial limbs can seem than entusiasmante less, Yoshida has only lost measure against the champion of the light maximums Wanderlei Silva (two times), Mirko Filipovic and Rulon Gardner, all adversaries of highest level. In all the other encounter, Yoshida has demonstrated technical exceptional and has become one of the favourites of the public of Pride Fc for which it still fights to 37 years of age. One of the little athletes to strike Yoshida is Rulon Gardner, that it has defeated Yoshida in 2004, in its up to now only encounter of mixed martial limbs. In that occasion, Pride Fc had organized the encounter between two olympic vincitori in various disciplines, judoka the Yoshida against Gardner, winner of the medal of gold in the greco-roman fight in 2000.
In order to conquer the gold medal, Gardner had struck the leggendario Alexander Karelin, previously winning of three medals of gold in as many Olympic Games in the greco-roman fight. In 2004, Gardner had to be pleased of one bronze medal. In the encounter with Yoshida, Gardner used its advanced force in order to win to the points. An other winner of an olympic medal of gold (in 1996) to being passed to the mixed martial limbs is judoka the Polish Pawel Nastula, famous in order to have collezionato 312 consecutive victories in the judo. Although Nastula is equipped of great talent, in order has not been much lucky person in the mixed martial limbs now. In fact it has only gained an encounter and it has lost three. To its favor, but, it goes said that the defeats have come from three combatants, everyone of which is in top ten of the maximum weights the more forts to the World (Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Aleksander Emelianenko, and Josh Barnett). If hardly Pride Fc left it to fight against adversaries of leggermente inferior level, probably Nastula sbaraglierebbe the competition, but seen the bore of the adversaries who have placed themselves of forehead, they are in several to think that Nastula must have blown the fiancèe to one of the leaders of Pride. An olympic other judoka is the winner of the medal of gold in 2000 between the athletes under to the 81 chili, the Japanese Makoto Takimoto. Like Nastula, in order now, Takimoto it is not successful to make great impression in the world of the mixed martial limbs (2 victories and 3 defeats) but with the exception of Nastula, Takimoto has faced opposing of decidedly more approachable level. The perspectives for he seem limited. Between the champions of the brazilian ju jitsu coming from from the famous Gracie family, the most decorated it is Royler Gracie, winner of four tito them world-wide ones in the ju jitsu, and of three tito them world-wide ones in the submission wrestling to Abu Dhabi. With the exception of other members of the Gracie clan which Royce and Rickson, Royler has had limiting succeeded in the mixed martial limbs (5 victories and 3 defeats, one di.le which at the hands of the leggendario Kazushi Sakuraba).