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Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (Arabic: أبو ظبي Abu Dhabi, Father of Deer) is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western coast. The city proper had an estimated population of 896,800 in 2009.
Abu Dhabi houses important offices of the federal government, and is the seat for the United Arab Emirates Government and the home for the Abu Dhabi Emiri Family and the President of the UAE from this family. Abu Dhabi has grown to be a cosmopolitan metropolis. Its rapid development and urbanisation, coupled with the relatively high average income of its population, has transformed Abu Dhabi to a larger and advanced metropolis. Today the city is the country's center of political, industrial activities, and a major cultural, and commercial centre due to its position as the capital. Abu Dhabi alone generated 56.7% of the GDP of the United Arab Emirates in 2008.
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Amsterdam (English /ˈæmstərdæm/; Dutch: [ˌɑmstərˈdɑm] (
listen)) is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The city's status as the capital of the nation is governed by the constitution. Amsterdam has a population of 790,654 within city limits, an urban population of 1,209,419 and a metropolitan population of 2,289,762. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. It comprises the northern part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe, with a population of approximately 7 million.
Amsterdam's name is derived from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city's origin: a dam in the river Amstel. Settled as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world during the Dutch Golden Age, a result of its innovative developments in trade. During that time, the city was the leading center for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were formed. The 17th-century canals of Amsterdam (in Dutch: 'Grachtengordel'), located in the heart of Amsterdam, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in July 2010.
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Astana
Astana (Russian/Kazakh: Астана, formerly known as Akmola (Kazakh: Ақмола / Aqmola, until 1998), Целиноград / Tselinograd until 1992) and Akmolinsk (Russian: Акмолинск, until 1961), is the capital and second largest city (after Almaty) of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010. It is located in the north-central portion of Kazakhstan, within Akmola Province, though administrated separately from the province as a federal city area.
The current mayor of Astana is Imangali Tasmagambetov. He was appointed on 4 April 2008.
The word Astana in Kazakh literally means Capital but the word itself originates from Persian Astane (Persian: آستانه means "sublime threshold," "royal porte" implying a royal capital city or a holy shrine town, (from the Persian verb Istadan (آستان) 'to stand' (in respect)), and literally means "threshold" (royal or sacred, where people stand in respect or awe),[citation needed] implying where the court is seated (the capital city) or the body of a sacred person is interred (a shrine town). The city of Turkistan in Kazakhstan that hosts the body of the saint Ahmad Yasavi is also called the "astana" as is the city of Mashhad in Iran that is the burial place of the 8th Shiite Imam Reza. In fact, long before becoming the new capital of Kazakhstan, the city was "an astana," a burial ground of a saint, hence the old name of the city, Ak Mola (Ақмола), "white mausoleum."
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Australia (
/əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.
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Austria
Austria (
i/ˈɒstriə/ or /ˈɔːstriə/; German: Österreich [ˈøːstɐˌʁaɪç] ( listen)), officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich (help·info)), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria became one of the great powers of Europe and, in response to the coronation of Napoleon I as the Emperor of the French, the Austrian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1804. In 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary.
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Brazil
Brazili/brəˈzɪl/ (Portuguese: Brasil, IPA: [bɾaˈziw]), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, listen (help·info)), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km (4,655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas region of French Guiana; on the northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. Numerous archipelagos form part of Brazilian territory, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz. It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until 1815, when it was elevated to the rank of kingdom and the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was formed. The colonial bond was in fact broken in 1808, when the capital of the Portuguese colonial empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after Napoleon invaded Portugal.Independence was achieved in 1822 with the formation of the Empire of Brazil, a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system. The country became a presidential republic in 1889, when a military coup d'état proclaimed the Republic, although the bicameral legislature, now called Congress, dates back to the ratification of the first constitution in 1824. Its current Constitution, formulated in 1988, defines Brazil as a Federal Republic. The Federation is formed by the union of the Federal District, the 26 States, and the 5,564 Municipalities.
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Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon (French: République du Cameroun), is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. The country is called "Africa in miniature" for its geological and cultural diversity. Natural features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rainforests, and savannas. The highest point is Mount Cameroon in the southwest, and the largest cities are Douala, Yaoundé, and Garoua. Cameroon is home to over 200 different linguistic groups. The country is well known for its native styles of music, particularly makossa and bikutsi, and for its successful national football team. French and English are the official languages.
Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camarões ("River of Prawns"), the name from which Cameroon derives. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate in the north in the 19th century, and various ethnic groups of the west and northwest established powerful chiefdoms and fondoms. Cameroon became a German colony in 1884.
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Colorado
Colorado (i/kɒləˈrædoʊ/ or /kɒləˈrɒdoʊ/) is the US state that encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Western United States, the Southwestern United States, and the Mountain States. Colorado is the 8th most extensive and the 22nd most populous of the 50 United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Colorado was 5,116,796 on July 1, 2011, an increase of +1.74% since the 2010 United States Census.
The state was named for the Colorado River, which early Spanish explorers named the Río Colorado for the red colored (Spanish: colorado) silt the river carried from the mountains. On August 1, 1876, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation admitting Colorado as the 38th state. Colorado is nicknamed the "Centennial State" because it was admitted to the Union in 1876, the centennial year of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Croatia
Croatia (i/kroʊˈeɪʃə/ kroh-AY-shə; Croatian: Hrvatska pronounced [xř̩ʋaːtskaː]), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska listen (help·info)), is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of Central Europe, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometres (21,851 square miles) and has diverse, mostly continental and Mediterranean climates. Croatia's Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands. The country's population is 4.29 million, most of whom are Croats, with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism.
In the early 7th century the Croats arrived in area of present-day Croatia. They organised the state into two dukedoms by the 9th century. Tomislav became the first king by 925 AD, elevating Croatia to the status of a kingdom. The Kingdom of Croatia retained its sovereignty for nearly two centuries, reaching its peak during the rule of Kings Peter Krešimir IV and Dmitar Zvonimir. Croatia entered a personal union with Hungary in 1102. In 1527, faced with Ottoman conquest the Croatian Parliament elected Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg to the Croatian throne. In 1918, after World War I, Croatia was included in the short-lived State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs that declared independence from Austria–Hungary and co-founded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A Croatian state briefly existed during World War II as a fascist puppet state. After the war, Croatia became a founding member and a federal constituent of the Second Yugoslavia, a socialist state. In June 1991, Croatia declared independence, which came into effect on 8 October of the same year. The Croatian War of Independence was fought successfully during the four years following the declaration.
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Cyprus
Cyprusi/ˈsaɪprəs/ (Greek: Κύπρος, Kýpros, IPA: [ˈcipɾos]; Turkish: Kıbrıs, IPA: [ˈkɯbɾɯs]), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Greek: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία, Kypriakī́ Dīmokratía, IPA: [cipɾiaˈci ðimokɾaˈtia]; Turkish: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti, IPA: [ˈkɯbɾɯs dʒumhuɾijeˈti]), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria, Lebanon, northwest of Israel and north of Egypt. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and the Republic of Cyprus is a member state of the European Union.
The earliest known human activity on the island dates back to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, which has been declared a World Heritage Site with an "enhanced protection" status in the event of armed conflict by UNESCO, along with the archaeological sites of Paphos and the Painted Churches of the Troodos Region. Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world.
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Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (pronounced [dǔbroːʋnik], note that the stress is on the first syllable) is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641 (census 2011). In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik joined the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
The prosperity of the city of Dubrovnik has always been based on maritime trade. In the Middle Ages, as the Republic of Ragusa, also known as a Maritime Republic (together with Amalfi, Pisa, Genoa, Venice and other Italian cities), it became the only eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the city achieved a high level of development, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries.
The beginning of tourism in Dubrovnik is often associated with the construction of the late 19th-century luxury hotels in Croatia, such as Grand Hotel (1890) in Opatija and the Hotel Imperial (1897) in Dubrovnik. According to CNNGo, Dubrovnik is among the 10 best medieval walled cities in the world and among the 10 best places in the world for a fairytale proposal of the Valentine's Day. Although Dubrovnik was demilitarised in the 1970s to protect it from war, in 1991, after the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was besieged by Serb-Montenegrin forces for 7 months and received significant shelling damage.
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England
Englandi/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.
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France
France (Englishi/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] ( listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km2 (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km2 / 4,383,000 sq mi).
Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.
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Germany
Germany (i/ˈdʒɜrməni/), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward, and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states into the German Empire in 1871 which was Prussian dominated. After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic in 1918, and partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by Fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 Germany was reunified.
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Hong Kong
Coordinates: 22°16′42″N 114°09′32″E / 22.27833°N 114.15889°E / 22.27833; 114.15889
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港) is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is known for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of 1,104 km2 (426 sq mi) and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the First Opium War (1839–42). Originally confined to Hong Kong Island, the colony's boundaries were extended in stages to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and then the New Territories in 1898. It was occupied by Japan during the Pacific War, after which the British resumed control until 1997, when China resumed sovereignty. The region espoused minimum government intervention under the ethos of positive non-interventionism during the colonial era. The time period greatly influenced the current culture of Hong Kong, often described as "East meets West", and the educational system, which used to loosely follow the system in England until reforms implemented in 2009.
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Hungary
Hungaryi/ˈhʌŋɡəri/ (Hungarian: Magyarország [ˈmɒɟɒrorsaːɡ] ( listen)) is a country, which is located in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The country's capital, and largest city, is Budapest. Hungary is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Visegrád Group, and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, also known as Magyar, which is part of the Finno-Ugric group and is the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe.
Following a Celt (after c. 450 BC) and a Roman (AD 9 - c. 430) period, the foundation of Hungary was laid in the late 9th century by the Hungarian prince Árpád, whose great-grandson Saint Stephen I was crowned with a crown sent by the pope from Rome in 1000 AD. The Kingdom of Hungary lasted for 946 years, and at various points was regarded as one of the cultural centres of the Western world. After about 150 years of partial Ottoman occupation (1541–1699), Hungary was integrated into the Habsburg Monarchy, and later constituted half of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy (1867–1918).
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India
India (i/ˈɪndiə/), officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
Home to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four of the world's major religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism—originated here, whereas Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived in the 1st millennium CE and also helped shape the region's diverse culture. Gradually annexed by and brought under the administration of the British East India Company from the early 18th century and administered directly by the United Kingdom from the mid-19th century, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by non-violent resistance led by Mahatma Gandhi.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (i/ˌɪndəˈniːʒə/ IN-də-NEE-zhə or /ˌɪndoʊˈniːziə/ IN-doh-NEE-zee-ə), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia Indonesian pronunciation: [rɛpʊblɪk ɪndɔnɛsɪa]), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 17,508 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies. The Indonesian economy is the world's 17th largest economy by nominal GDP.
The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when Srivijaya and then later Majapahit traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually absorbed foreign cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders brought Islam, and European powers brought Christianity and fought one another to monopolize trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process, and periods of rapid economic change.
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Jakarta
Jakarta ( /dʒəˈkɑrtə/), officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibu Kota Jakarta), is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Located on the northwest coast of Java, Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre, and with a population of 10,187,595 as of November 2011, it is the most populous city in Indonesia and in Southeast Asia, and is the twelfth-largest city in the world. The official metropolitan area, known as Jabodetabekjur, is the second largest in the world, yet the city's suburbs still continue beyond it. Jakarta is listed as a global city in the 2008 Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC) research. and has an area of 661 square kilometres (255 sq mi)
Based on Brooking Institute survey about growth, in 2011 Jakarta ranked 17th among the world's 200 largest cities, a significant jumps from 2007 when Jakarta ranked 171st. Jakarta has seen more rapid growth than Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Bangkok.
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Japan
Japan
i/dʒəˈpæn/ (Japanese: 日本 Nihon or Nippon; formally 日本国 
Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally the State of Japan) is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament called the Diet.
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan (i/ˌkɑːzəkˈstɑːn/ or /ˌkæzəkˈstæn/) (Kazakh: Қазақстан, Qazaqstan, pronounced [qɑzɑqstɑ́n]; Russian: Казахстан [kəzɐxˈstan]), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Europe. The ninth largest country in the world by land area, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of 2,727,300 square kilometres (1,053,000 sq mi) is larger than Western Europe. It is neighbored clockwise from the north by Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and also borders on a significant part of the Caspian Sea. Although Kazakhstan does not share a border with Mongolia, its most easterly point is only 38 kilometres (24 mi) from Mongolia's western tip. The terrain of Kazakhstan ranges from flatlands, steppes, taigas, rock-canyons, hills, deltas, and snow-capped mountains to deserts. With 16.6 million people (2011 estimate) Kazakhstan has the 62nd largest population in the world, though its population density is less than 6 people per square kilometre (15 per sq. mi.). The capital was moved in 1998 from Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, to Astana.
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Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately 4.2-mile (6.8 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada. The Strip is not located within the city of Las Vegas proper— it passes through the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, which are south of the Las Vegas city limits. Most of the Strip has been designated an All-American Road.
Many of the largest hotel, casino and resort properties in the world are located on the Las Vegas Strip. Fifteen of the world's 25 largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 62,000 rooms.
One of the most visible aspects of Las Vegas' cityscape is its use of dramatic architecture. The modernization of hotels, casinos, restaurants, and residential high-rises on the Strip has established the city as one of the most popular destinations for tourists.
Historically, the casinos that were not in Downtown Las Vegas along Fremont Street were restricted to outside of the city limits on Las Vegas Boulevard. In 1959 the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign was constructed exactly 4.5 miles (7.2 km) outside of the city limits. The sign is today about 0.4 miles (0.64 km) south of the southernmost entrance to Mandalay Bay (the southernmost casino).
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Mongolia
Mongoliai/mɒŋˈɡoʊliə/ (Mongolian: Монгол улс (help·info), literally Mongol country/state) is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only 38 kilometres (24 mi) from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest city, is home to about 45% of the population. Mongolia's political system is a parliamentary republic.
The area of what is now Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, the Gökturks and others. The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan in 1206. After the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols returned to their earlier pattern of constant internal conflict and occasional raids on the Chinese borderlands. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Mongolia came under the influence of Tibetan Buddhism. At the end of the 17th century, all of Mongolia had been incorporated into the area ruled by the Qing Dynasty. During the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, Mongolia declared independence, but had to struggle until 1921 to firmly establish de facto independence from the Republic of China, and until 1945 to gain international recognition.
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Mumbai
Mumbai /mʊmˈbaɪ/, also known as Bombay /bɒmˈbeɪ/, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million. Along with the neighbouring urban areas, including the cities of Navi Mumbai and Thane, it is one of the most populous urban regions in the world. Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2009, Mumbai was named an Alpha world city. Mumbai is also the richest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South, West or Central Asia.
The seven islands that came to constitute Mumbai were home to communities of fishing colonies. For centuries, the islands were under the control of successive indigenous empires before being ceded to the Portuguese and subsequently to the British East India Company. During the mid-18th century, Mumbai was reshaped by the Hornby Vellard project, which undertook the reclamation of the area between the seven constituent islands from the sea. Completed by 1845, the project along with construction of major roads and railways transformed Bombay into a major seaport on the Arabian Sea. Economic and educational development characterised the city during the 19th century. It became a strong base for the Indian independence movement during the early 20th century. When India became independent in 1947, the city was incorporated into Bombay State. In 1960, following the Samyukta Maharashtra movement, a new state of Maharashtra was created with Bombay as capital. The city was renamed Mumbai in 1996.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (i/ˈnɛðərləndz/; Dutch: Nederland [ˈneːdə(r)lɑnt] or [ˈneɪ̯də(r)lɑnt] (
listen); West Frisian: Nederlân; Papiamento: Hulanda) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with some islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. It is a parliamentary democracy organised as a unitary state. The country capital is Amsterdam and the seat of government is The Hague. The Netherlands in its entirety is often referred to as Holland, although North and South Holland are actually only two of its twelve provinces (a case of pars pro toto; see terminology of "the Netherlands").
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses ‒ that of the North and South Islands ‒ as well as numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans.
During its long isolation, New Zealand developed a distinctive biodiversity of both animal and plant life. Most notable are the large number of unique bird species, many of which became extinct after the arrival of humans and introduced mammals. With a mild maritime climate, the land was mostly covered in forest. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions caused by the Pacific and Indo-Australian Plates clashing beneath the earth's surface.
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Nigeria
Nigeriai/naɪˈdʒɪəriə/, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.
In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims in the North and Christians in the South; a very small minority practice traditional religion. Since 2002 there have been a spate of clashes, particularly in the North of the country, between government forces and the Islamists Boko Haram, militant jihadists who seek to establish sharia law.
The people of Nigeria have an extensive history. Archaeological evidence shows that human habitation of the area dates back to at least 9000 BCE. The area around the Benue and Cross River is thought to be the original homeland of the Bantu migrants who spread across most of central and southern Africa in waves between the 1st millennium BC and the 2nd millennium.
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Osaka
Osaka (大阪, Ōsaka?) listen (help·info) is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe. Located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, Osaka is the third largest city by population after Tokyo (special wards) and Yokohama.
Keihanshin is the second largest area in Japan by population and one of the largest metropolitan areas highly ranked in the world, with nearly 18 million people, and by GDP the second largest area in Japan and the seventh largest area in the world.
Historically the commercial centre of Japan, Osaka functions as one of the command centers for the Japanese economy. The ratio between daytime and night time population is 141%, the highest in Japan, highlighting its status as an economic center. Its nighttime population is 2.6 million, the third in the country, but in daytime the population surges to 3.7 million, second only after Tokyo (combining the Special wards of Tokyo, which is not a single incorporated city, for statistical purposes. See the Tokyo article for more information on the definition and makeup of Tokyo.) Osaka used to be referred to as the "nation's kitchen" (天下の台所, tenka no daidokoro?) in feudal Edo period because it was the centre of trading for rice, creating the first modern futures exchange market in the world.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (i/ˌpɛnsɨlˈveɪnjə/), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a US state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, and the Great Lakes Region. The state borders Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, Ontario, Canada to the northwest, New York to the north, and New Jersey to the east.
Pennsylvania is the 33rd most extensive, the 6th most populous, and the 9th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's four most populous cities are Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, and Erie. The state capital is Harrisburg. Pennsylvania has 51 miles (82 km) of shoreline along Lake Erie and 57 miles (92 km) of shoreline along the Delaware Estuary.
Pennsylvania is 170 miles (274 km) north to south and 283 miles (455 km) east to west. Of a total 46,055 square miles (119,282 km2), 44,817 square miles (116,075 km2) are land, 490 square miles (1,269 km2) are inland waters, and 749 square miles (1,940 km2) are waters in Lake Erie. It is the 33rd largest state in the United States. Pennsylvania has 51 miles (82 km) of coastline along Lake Erie and 57 miles (92 km) of shoreline along the Delaware Estuary.
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Piatra Neamț
Piatra Neamț (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpjatra ˈne̯amt͡s]), German: Kreuzburg an der Bistritz, Hungarian: Karácsonkő; (population: 77,393) is the capital city of Neamţ County, in the historical region of Moldavia, eastern Romania. Because of its privileged location in the Eastern Carpathian mountains, it is considered one of the most picturesque cities in Romania. It is also the capital of the Nord-Est (North-East) development region, which consists of six Moldavian counties.
The piatra toponym (meaning rock in Romanian) was always part of the settlement's name throughout its history. Other names that the city has been called are: Piatra lui Crăciun (Christmas Rock, thus also corresponding to the Hungarian name of the city, "Karácson-Kő"); Târgu Piatra (Rock Fair, Rock Market) (in the middle ages) or simply Piatra to which was added the county name Neamţ (Neamţ = German), to distinguish it from towns in other counties of the same name.
Piatra Neamţ lies in the Bistriţa River Valley, surrounded by mountains - Pietricica (590 m), Cozla (679 m), Cernegura (852 m), Bâtca Doamnei (462 m) and Cârloman (617 m), at an average height of 345 m (1,131.89 ft).
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Poland
Polandi/ˈpoʊlənd/ (Polish: Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska; Kashubian: Pòlskô Repùblika; Silesian: Polsko Republika), is a country in Central Europe, bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi), making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous post-communist member. Poland is a unitary state made up of 16 voivodeships. Poland is a member of the European Union, NATO, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), European Economic Area, International Energy Agency, Council of Europe, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, International Atomic Energy Agency, G6, Council of the Baltic Sea States, Visegrád Group, Weimar Triangle and Schengen Agreement.
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Romania
Romania (i/roʊˈmeɪniə/ roh-MAY-nee-ə; dated: Roumania; or Rumania;Romanian: România [romɨˈni.a] ( listen)) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the northeast and east, and Bulgaria to the south.
At 238,400 square kilometers (92,000 sq mi), Romania is the ninth largest country of the European Union by area, and has the seventh largest population of the European Union with over 19 million people. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, the tenth largest city in the EU with about two million people.
The Kingdom of Romania emerged when the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia were united under Prince Alexander Ioan Cuza in 1859. Independence from the Ottoman Empire was declared on 9 May 1877, and was internationally recognized the following year. At the end of World War I, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia united with the Kingdom of Romania. Greater Romania emerged into an era of progression and prosperity that would continue until World War II. By the end of the War, many north-eastern areas of Romania's territories were occupied by the Soviet Union, and Romania forcibly became a socialist republic and a member of the Warsaw Pact.
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Russia
Russiai/ˈrʌʃə/ or /ˈrʊʃə/ (Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya; IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə] ( listen)), also officially known as the Russian Federation (Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə] ( listen)), is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the US state of Alaska by the Bering Strait. At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is also the eighth most populous nation with 143 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning nine time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources and is the largest producer of oil and natural gas globally. Russia has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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Seoul
Seoul (Korean pronunciation: [sʌ.ul] ( listen), English /soʊl/), officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world. The Seoul National Capital Area is the world's second largest metropolitan area with over 25 million inhabitants, which includes the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province. Almost a quarter of South Koreans live in Seoul, half of South Koreans live in the metropolitan area, along with over 275,000 international residents.
Located in the Han River, Seoul has been a major settlement for over 2,000 years, with its foundation dating back to 18 B.C. when Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, established its capital in what is now south-east Seoul. It continued as the capital of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire. The Seoul National Capital Area is home to four UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Changdeokgung, Hwaseong Fortress, Jongmyo Shrine and the Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty.
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Slovenia
Slovenia (i/sloʊˈviːniə/ sloh-VEE-nee-ə, Slovene: Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Republika Slovenija, [reˈpublika sloˈveːnija]) is a Slavic nation state, situated in South-Central Europe, at the crossroad of main European cultural and trade routes. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Croatia to the south and southeast, and Hungary to the northeast. It covers 20,273 square kilometres (7,827 sq mi) and has a population of 2.05 million. It is a parliamentary republic, member of the European Union and NATO. Relative to its geography, history, economy, culture, and language, it is a very diverse country distinguished by a transitional character. It is characterised by a high economic and social level. Its capital and largest city is Ljubljana.
The territory of Slovenia is mainly hilly or mountainous and has an exceptionally high landscape and biological diversity and a mosaic structure, which are a result of natural attributes and the long-lasting presence of humans. Four major European geographic units interweave here: the Alps, the Dinaric Alps, the Mediterranean, with a small portion of coastline along the Adriatic Sea, and the Pannonian Plain. The climate is temperate and significantly influenced by the variety of territory, with a strong interaction of the continental climate, the sub-Mediterranean climate and Alpine climate across most of the country. The country is one of the water-richest in Europe, with a dense river network, a rich aquifer system, and significant karstic underground watercourses. Over half of the territory is covered by forest.
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South Africa
Coordinates: 30°S 25°E / 30°S 25°E / -30; 25
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of Africa. It is divided into nine provinces and has 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline. To the north of the country lie the neighbouring territories of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an enclave surrounded by South African territory.
South Africa is multi-ethnic and has diverse cultures and languages. Eleven official languages are recognised in the constitution. Two of these languages are of European origin: South African English and Afrikaans, a language which originated mainly from Dutch that is spoken by the majority of white and Coloured South Africans. Though English is commonly used in public and commercial life, it is only the fifth most-spoken home language. All ethnic and language groups have political representation in the country's constitutional democracy comprising a parliamentary republic; unlike most parliamentary republics, the positions of head of state and head of government are merged in a parliament-dependent President.
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South Korea
South Korea ( listen), officially the Republic of Korea (Hangul: 대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk listen), is a sovereign state in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. The name "Korea" is derived from Goryeo, a dynasty which ruled in the Middle Ages (an initial "G" in Korean is pronounced like an English "K").
Its neighbors are China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the Korea Strait to the south. South Korea lies in the north temperate zone with a predominantly mountainous terrain. It covers a total area of 99,392 square kilometers and has a population of almost 50 million. The capital and largest city is Seoul, with a population of 9,794,304.
Archaeological findings show that the Korean Peninsula was occupied by the Lower Paleolithic period.Korean history begins with the founding of Gojoseon in 2333 BC by the legendary Dan-gun. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea under Silla 668 AD, Korea went through the Goryeo Dynasty and Joseon Dynasty as one nation until the end of the Korean Empire in 1910, when it was annexed by Japan. After liberation and occupation by Soviet and U.S. forces at the end of World War II, the nation was divided into North and South Korea. The latter was established in 1948 as a democracy, though political turmoil and times of military rule and martial law characterized much of the period until the foundation of the Sixth Republic in 1987.
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Sweden
Sweden (i/ˈswiːdən/ SWEE-dən; Swedish: Sverige [ˈsværjɛ] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige (help·info)), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Øresund.
At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of about 9.4 million. Sweden has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometre (54 /sq mi) with the population mostly concentrated to the southern half of the country. About 85% of the population live in urban areas. Sweden's capital city is Stockholm, which is also the largest city.
Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, the country expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire. The empire grew to be one of the great powers of Europe in the 17th and early 18th century. Most of the conquered territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were lost during the 18th and 19th centuries. The eastern half of Sweden, present-day Finland, was lost to Russia in 1809. The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Sweden by military means forced Norway into a personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, practicing "non-participation in military alliances during peacetime and neutrality during wartime". However, Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 1995 and is a member of the OECD.
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Tokyo
Tokyo (東京, Tōkyō?, "Eastern Capital") [toːkʲoː], English /ˈtoʊki.oʊ/; officially Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to?), is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of the world. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family. Tokyo is in the Kantō region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture (東京府, Tōkyō-fu?) and the city of Tokyo (東京市, Tōkyō-shi?).
The Tokyo Metropolitan government administers the 23 special wards of Tokyo (each governed as a city), which cover the area that was the city of Tokyo, as well as 39 municipalities in the western part of the prefecture and the two outlying island chains. The population of the special wards is over 8 million people, with the total population of the prefecture exceeding 13 million. The prefecture is part of the world's most populous metropolitan area with upwards of 35 million people and the world's largest urban agglomeration economy with a GDP of US$1.479 trillion at purchasing power parity in 2008, ahead of New York City metropolitan area, which ranks second on the list. The city hosts 47 of the Fortune Global 500 companies, the highest amount of any city.
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Turkey
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (help·info)), is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia (mostly in the Anatolian peninsula) and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea is to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between East Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. The vast majority of the population are Muslims. The country's official language is Turkish, whereas Kurdish and Zazaki languages are spoken by Kurds and Zazas, who constitute 18% of the population.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emiratesi/juːˌnaɪtɨd ˌærəb ˈɛmɪrɨts/ (Arabic: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, Al Imārāt al ‘Arabīyah al Muttaḥidah), sometimes simply called the Emirates or the UAE, is a country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing sea borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north.
The UAE is a federation of seven emirates (equivalent to principalities), each governed by a hereditary emir, with a single national president. The constituent emirates are Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. The capital is Abu Dhabi, which is also the state's center of political, industrial, and cultural activities.
Prior to independence in 1971, the UAE was known as the Trucial States or Trucial Oman, in reference to a 19th-century truce between the local sheikhs, hereditary rulers of the territories, and the United Kingdom. The term Pirate Coast was also used by some to refer to the emirates from the 18th to the early 20th century, owing to the preponderance of pirates operating from Emirati ports.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Vienna
Vienna ( /viːˈɛnə/; German: Wien (help·info) [viːn]) is the capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million (2.4 million within the metropolitan area, more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 9th-largest city by population in the European Union. Until the beginning of the 20th century it was the largest German speaking city in the world, and before the first world war and the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian empire the city had 2 million inhabitants. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations and OPEC. The city lies in the east of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Yokohama
Yokohama (横浜市, Yokohama-shi?, "Side Shore") ( listen (help·info)) is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area.
Yokohama's population of 3.7 million makes it Japan's largest incorporated city.
Yokohama developed rapidly as Japan's prominent port city following the end of Japan's relative isolation in the mid-19th century, and is today one of its major ports along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata, Tokyo, and Chiba.
Yokohama was a small fishing village up to the end of the feudal Edo period, when Japan held a policy of national seclusion, having little contact with foreigners. A major turning point in Japanese history happened in 1853–54, when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships, demanding that Japan open several ports for commerce, and the Tokugawa shogunate agreed by signing the Treaty of Peace and Amity.
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Łódź
Łódź ([wut͡ɕ] ( listen); Yiddish: לאדז', Lodzh) is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 742,387 in December 2009. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately 135 kilometres (84 mi) south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting: depicting a boat, it alludes to the city's name which translates literally as "boat".
Łódź first appears in the written record in a 1332 document giving the village of Łodzia to the bishops of Włocławek. In 1423 King Władysław Jagiełło granted city rights to the village of Łódź. From then until the 18th century the town remained a small settlement on a trade route between Masovia and Silesia. In the 16th century the town had fewer than 800 inhabitants, mostly working on the nearby grain farms.
With the second partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź became part of the Kingdom of Prussia's province of South Prussia, and was known in German as Lodsch. In 1798 the Prussians nationalised the town, and it lost its status as a town of the bishops of Kuyavia. In 1806 Łódź joined the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw and in 1810 it had 190 inhabitants. In the 1815 Congress of Vienna treaty it became part of Congress Poland, a client state of the Russian Empire.
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Akebono Tarō
Akebono Taro (曙 太郎, Akebono Tarō?, born May 8, 1969 as Chad Haaheo Rowan) is a retired American born-Japanese sumo wrestler from Waimānalo, Hawaiʻi. Joining the professional sport in Japan in 1988, he was trained by pioneering Hawaiian sumo wrestler Takamiyama and rose swiftly up the rankings, reaching the top division in 1990. After two consecutive yusho or tournament championships in November 1992 and January 1993 he made history by becoming the first foreign born wrestler ever to reach yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo.
One of the tallest and heaviest wrestlers ever, Akebono's rivalry with the young Japanese hopefuls, Takanohana and Wakanohana, was a big factor in the increased popularity of sumo at tournament venues and on TV in the early 1990s. During his eight years at the yokozuna rank, Akebono won a further eight tournament championships, for a career total of eleven, and was a runner-up on thirteen other occasions, despite suffering several serious injury problems. Although his rival yokozuna Takanohana won more tournaments in this period, their individual head-to-heads remained very close.
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Alain Ngalani
Alain "The Panther" Ngalani (born 7 July 1975) is a Cameroonian-born kickboxer and two-time Muay Thai world champion, fighting out of and representing Hong Kong. He is known for his speed and trademark move "The Panther High Kick".
Ngalani started learning Judo at the age of six, following his brothers. He started showing ability early, winning back-to-back junior tournaments in Cameroon and all over Africa. His first step really influenced by his mother, who had the love for the sport and wanted her boys to learn discipline and focus their energy positively. He also went on to study Shotokan Karate, Savate, full-contact kickboxing, Koshiki Karate, Muay Thai, Kyokushin Karate and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In addition to martial arts, he worked as a bodyguard for VIPs and high profile personalities in the Ivory Coast before immigrating to Hong Kong in 2001.
While based in Hong Kong, he travelled to Thailand, Japan and China to win numerous titles. When the "Planet Battle" promotion was formed in 2008, Ngalani became a regular fighter for the organization. After defeating Michael McDonald at Planet Battle I in June 2008, he went on to compete in the 8-man tournament at Planet Battle II in November 2008. Ngalani, who was ordered by doctors not to fight due to a severely injured right knee, lost to Brian Douwes via knockout with a knee in the quarter-final. He then bounced back by knocking out Eduardo Maiorino at Planet Battle III on June 6, 2009. At Planet Battle IV on October 7, 2009, Ngalani defeated Bob Sapp via decision, and then on March 26, 2010, he stopped Carter Williams with low kicks at Planet Battle V.
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Alan Karaev
Alan Karaev (Russian: Алан Караев; born May 19, 1977) is a Russian sumo wrestler and former mixed martial artist.
Karaev was born in Digora, North Ossetia and graduated from North Ossetian State University. He became the amateur sumo world champion in 2002 and Russian national champion in 2003. He was also the world arm wrestling champion on seven occasions and Russian national champion multiple times.
He made his debut in mixed martial arts on March 26, 2005 against veteran fighter Gary Goodridge at Hero's 1. Goodridge was able to submit Karaev with a forearm choke in the first round. He returned to face Bob Sapp at Hero's 2 on July 6, 2005 and again lost in the first round, this time via knock out.
On September 17, 2005, he recorded the first win of his career when he knocked out Tomohiko Hashimoto in seven seconds at GCM: D.O.G. 3. This earned his a return to the K-1 Hero's promotion and he took on legendary kickboxer Jérôme Le Banner at K-1 PREMIUM 2005 Dynamite!! on New Year's Eve, 2005. Le Banner defeated Karaev via kicks to the body.
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Alexandru Lungu
Alexandru Lungu (born 3 September 1974) is a Romanian professional judoka, mixed martial artist and kickboxer. Besides the Cage Rage and PRIDE FC, Lungu has fought for a number of other promotions including the K-1, Local Kombat and most recently SuperKombat.
Lungu was also a multiple judo champion and gold medalist of Romania.
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Andrei Arlovski
Andrei Valeryevich Arlovski (Belarusian: Андрэй Валер'евіч Арлоўскі, Belarusian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛj vaˈlʲɛrɛvitʃ arˈlɔwski], Russian: Андре́й Вале́рьевич Орло́вский, born February 4, 1979) is a Belarusian kickboxer, mixed martial artist and a former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion. He holds notable wins over Fabricio Werdum, Roy Nelson, Ben Rothwell, Tim Sylvia, and Vladimir Matyushenko.
Arlovski was born in Bobruisk and raised in Minsk, in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of the former USSR (now Belarus). When he was younger, bullies often picked on him and beat him up. In 1994, when he was 14 years old, he finally had enough and started lifting weights to put on muscle and, he hoped, to help him deal with these bullies. Andrei only took up martial arts at the age of 16 having previously been interested in football. It was an interest in personal fitness and conditioning that led Arlovski to take an interest in combat sports.
Enrolling at the police academy in Minsk, Arlovski combined his interest in a career in law enforcement with his growing martial arts participation by taking up the required police defense course in Sambo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and quickly showed himself to be a highly competent Sambo exponent. In 1999, Andrei won the European Youth Sambo Championship and the World Youth Championship. Not long after, Andrei became the first Master of Sports and then International Master of Sports. He took a silver medal at the Sambo World Cup and another silver medal at the World Sambo Championship.
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Antonio Inoki
Antonio Inoki (アントニオ猪木?) (born Kanji Inoki (猪木寛至, Inoki Kanji?) on February 20, 1943) is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who now resides between New York City and Tokyo. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yukes. He fashioned his name after the wrestler Antonino Rocca as an homage to him.
Inoki was born in an affluent family in Yokohama in 1943. He was the sixth son and the second youngest of the seven boys and four girls. His father, Sajiro Inoki, a businessman and politician, died when Kanji was five years old. Inoki entered the Higashidai Grade School. Inoki was taught karate by an older brother while in 6th grade. By the time he was in 7th grade at Terao Junior High School, he was 180 centimeters tall and joined the basketball team. He later quit and joined a track and field club as a shot putter. He eventually won the championship at the Yokohama Junior High School track and field competition.
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Austria
Austria (i/ˈɒstriə/ or /ˈɔːstriə/; German: Österreich [ˈøːstɐˌʁaɪç] ( listen)), officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich (help·info)), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria became one of the great powers of Europe and, in response to the coronation of Napoleon I as the Emperor of the French, the Austrian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1804. In 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary.
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Big Van Vader
Leon Allen White (born May 14, 1955) better known by his ring names Big Van Vader or Vader, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. White is perhaps best known for his time with New Japan Pro Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation and All Japan Pro Wrestling in the 1990s. A super-heavyweight wrestler capable of significant aerial maneuvers as well as power moves, he was both a face and a heel in several professional wrestling promotions. During his career, he became an eight time world champion (three times in World Championship Wrestling, three times in New Japan Pro Wrestling and two times in All Japan Pro Wrestling).
While working out at a gym, White was spotted by a man who remembered him from his college football days who suggested he look into professional wrestling. Trained by Brad Rheingans, White got his first national exposure in the American Wrestling Association. He went by the moniker "Baby Bull", which was later changed to "Bull Power". White honed his skills during this time, and his ring work improved significantly, so much so that he was given a match with Stan Hansen for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
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Bob Sapp
Robert Malcolm "Bob" Sapp (Japanese: [Bobbu Sappu]; born September 22, 1974) is an American kickboxer, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, actor, comedian and former professional American football player. Sapp currently has a combined fight record of 22–28–1, mostly fighting in Japan. He is well known in Japan, where he has appeared in countless commercials, television programs, and various other media, and has released a music CD, It's Sapp Time. He also appeared in an episode of the HBO program Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. He is currently working sporadically for various MMA promotions in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. In MMA, Sapp holds a win over Kiyoshi Tamura and in K-1, he holds wins over K-1 legend Ernesto Hoost (2x) and Cyril Abidi.
Bob Sapp began his athletic career in high school playing football at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, CO. He received a football scholarship to the University of Washington, where he won the Morris Award. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears 69th overall in the 1997 NFL Draft. Sapp's career took a hit after he was suspended by the NFL for alleged steroid abuse. Sapp signed with the Minnesota Vikings after being released by the Bears. He spent two seasons with the Vikings and only played in one game.
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Bobby Lashley
Franklin Roberto "Bobby" Lashley (born July 16, 1976) is an American mixed martial artist, actor, and former collegiate amateur wrestler as well as a former professional wrestler. During his professional wrestling career, he was best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he was a one-time United States Champion and a two-time world champion, having had two reigns as ECW World Champion.
Lashley attended Missouri Valley College, where he won three national college amateur wrestling championships between 1996 and 1998 and placed fourth in 1995. In 1997 and 1998, he was the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Wrestling Champion. Lashley later joined the United States Army, where he continued to wrestle. He was training for the Olympics in 2003, when he suffered a knee injury while doing business at a bank where a robbery broke out. The injury ended his Olympic plans, and Lashley went into pro wrestling soon after.
In November 2004, Lashley began working in the professional wrestling area and signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment. He was assigned to the development territory Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he was known as Blaster Lashley, and was a member of the Bolin Services stable along with Mike Mondo and Ken Doane. However during that time Bolin Services began to crumble with Lashley refusing to help Doane win matches, resulting in him turning face and going by his Bobby Lashley name.
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Bobby Ologun
Bobby Ologun (born Alaji Karim Ologun on April 8, 1966) is a Nigerian-born TV personality in Japan, and a mixed martial artist. In Japan, he is known simply as Bobby (ボビー?). He speaks English, Yoruba and Japanese. He currently lives in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture. On July 26, 2007, he announced on Mezamashi TV that he had become a naturalized citizen of Japan, taking his wife's surname and registering officially as Bobby Konda (近田ボビー?).
Ologun is the third brother in a family of thirty-one brothers and sisters. After graduating from a Nigerian university, he came to Japan as an assistant to a trading company which his father manages. In 2001, he worked a part-time job in the kitchen of a cafe in Daikanyama, Shibuya while also first appearing in Sanma Akashiya's television program Sanma's Super Karakuri-TV on Tokyo Broadcasting System as a non-Tarento interviewee. By the end of the year, he was regular on the popular skits featured on Karakuri-TV, The Funniest Language School, as a student.
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Brock Lesnar
Brock Edward Lesnar (/ˈlɛznər/; born July 12, 1977) is an American professional wrestler, actor, former mixed martial artist and amateur wrestler, signed with WWE and appearing on its Raw brand. He is also a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and former #1 ranked mixed martial arts (MMA) Heavyweight by Sherdog; he was ranked #5 before he announced his retirement at the end of 2011. Lesnar is an accomplished amateur wrestler, winning the 2000 NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship and placing second in 1999, losing in the finals to 1999 world freestyle wrestling champion and future New England Patriots offensive lineman Stephen Neal.
He gained prominence in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2002 to 2004, where he is a former three-time WWE Champion, becoming the youngest WWE Champion at age 25 with his first reign. Lesnar was the 2002 King of the Ring and the winner of the 2003 Royal Rumble. After leaving WWE, Lesnar pursued a career in the NFL. He played during the preseason for the Minnesota Vikings, but ended up being a late cut. Lesnar returned to professional wrestling at the end of 2005, and joined New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first match. He was officially stripped of the title by NJPW in July 2006, and took the physical belt with him to Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), where he was still recognized as IWGP Champion until June 2007.
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Cyril Abidi
Cyril "Marseille Bad Boy" Abidi (born on February 25, 1976) is a French former super heavyweight kickboxer. His road to fame started in 2000 when he entered K-1 and created a huge upset with a first round knockout win over legendary Peter Aerts.
Abidi grew up in the north quartiers of Marseille (Consolat), in a modest Moroccan family. When he was 6, his mother took him to judo classes to keep him off the streets. He practiced judo for four years until he was inspired by Bruce Lee, his childhood idol, and started taking karate lessons.
When he was 18, he discovered Thaiboxing and became French champion at the age of 20. A year later he entered K-1, fighting against Petar Majstorovic in Zurich, Switzerland, and winning by a unanimous decision. Later that year, he won two back to back fights in the first round against Dutch fighter Peter Aerts. At their third meeting at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 Finals in the Tokyo Dome, Japan, Aerts beat Abidi in a three round unanimous decision.
In his short foray into mixed martial arts, Abidi lost to Nigerian comedian Bobby Ologun in his first fight in MMA. Abidi was a last minute replacement for Mike Bernardo who was injured. The events surrounding the outcome raised suspicion of a fixed fight and Abidi seemed to lend credence to this in a post match interview.
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Darnell Autry
Harrington Darnell Autry (born June 19, 1976) is a former American football player who played college football at Northwestern University. He is one of the best college football running backs ever. He is one of the best Northwestern running backs ever, and one of the best running backs in the whole NCAA when he was playing.
Before the 1995 college football season began, before Darnell Autry became a celebrity, he told his father about his bold dreams: "He said, `Dad, when I leave Northwestern, I don't want to be a hero--I want to be a legend," said his father, Gene. "I want to rewrite the record books. I want to be the first No. 1 overall draft pick from Northwestern.' " A year earlier, before his very first collegiate rush, Autry wrote down a couple hundred long-term goals. They included everything from making more than $200 million to living in a castle, from starring as the lead in a feature-length movie to winning the Heisman Trophy.
Before Autry’s sophomore season, Darnell was not enjoying his time at Northwestern. He wanted to go home to Arizona. "This is terrible," Autry remembered thinking. "I'm freezing to death. I don't have the right clothes. It's nice in Phoenix. I miss my mom and dad. I miss all my little girlfriends. It's the same thing that plagues all freshmen." "He said, 'Give us a year,'" Autry said. "'If you don't like it in a year, we'll release you from scholarship and you can transfer.'"
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Ernesto Hoost
Ernesto Fritz "Mr. Perfect" Hoost (born July 11, 1965 in Heemskerk, North Holland) is a Dutch former kickboxing legend and four-time K-1 World Champion. He made his debut in 1993 at the K-1 World Grand Prix 1993, where he came just one win short of the world title. He announced his retirement on December 2, 2006 after the K-1 World GP Final tournament in Tokyo Dome, Japan.
In 1993, in his first K-1 World Grand Prix, in quarterfinals Hoost defeated Peter Aerts by decision, knocked out Maurice Smith in semis and advanced to the tournament finals where he was knocked out by Branko Cikatic. Hoost got another shot at a title on December 19, 1993, when he won the K-2 World Championship, knocking out Changpuek Kiatsongrit in four rounds. This was the only time the K-1 organization held a K-2 tournament.
Hoost reached the K-1 World Grand Prix Finals again in 1995, but lost to Peter Aerts by a four round decision. He went on to win every fight the remainder of that year. In 1996, he lost at the K-1 World Grand Prix 1996 finals to Andy Hug by a four round split decision. He finally became K-1 World Champion in 1997 when he beat Hug by a three-round unanimous decision.
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Gary Turner
Gary Turner (born 2 September 1970) is an English professional kickboxer and mixed martial artist who fought in the Cage Rage and K-1 promotions. Turner was the K-1 UK Grand Prix champion in 2003 and 2004. As a mixed martial artist, he currently holds a record of 4-2-1 with notable victories over Tank Abbott and former British Heavyweight boxing champion, Julius Francis.
Turner made his professional MMA debut in 1999 with a win over Joe Akano. After fighting once more seven months later Turner did not fight in a professional MMA bout again until 2007 when he joined Cage Rage. On 21 April 2007, he made his Cage Rage debut in a bout against American former UFC fighter Tank Abbott which he won by TKO after 2:31 of the opening round.
He continued with Cage Rage, winning his next two fights against Brazilian Edson Drago and former British heavyweight boxer Julius Francis before suffering his first defeat against Mostapha Al-turk by submission in March 2008 which was to be his final fight in Cage Rage as the promotion folded at the end of 2008. His last MMA bout was in April 2009, losing a split decision to Valdas Pocevicius in Croatia.
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Gegard Mousasi
Geghard Movsesian (Armenian: Գեղարդ Մովսեսյան, August 1, 1985 - ), better known as Gegard Mousasi, is an Armenian mixed martial artist and kickboxer. He is fighting out of Team Jurojin in Leiden, Netherlands and is a member of Russian Red Devil Sport Club and Netherlands' Golden Glory. He is the current Dream Light Heavyweight champion, former Dream Middleweight Champion, Cage Warriors Middleweight Champion and the former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion. Mousasi is currently ranked as the #8 light heavyweight fighter in the world by MMAWeekly.
In February 2010, Mousasi left M-1 Global Management. Mousasi was quoted as saying "After careful consideration, I have decided that it is in my best interest to part ways with M-1 Global," Mousasi wrote in the e-mail. "During the time I spent under their wing, M-1 Global, as a promoter and management company, allowed me to achieve many great things. I appreciate all they have done for me. My management is being taken care of by someone close to me."
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Genichiro Tenryu
Genichiro Tenryu (天龍源一郎 Tenryū Gen'ichirō), real name Genichiro Shimada (嶋田源一郎 Shimada Gen'ichirō, born February 2, 1950), is a Japanese professional wrestler. At age 13, he entered sumo wrestling and stayed there for 13 years, after which he turned to Western-style professional wrestling. "Tenryu" was his shikona.
As a sumo wrestler, Tenryu was ranked as a sekitori for 27 tournaments, 16 of them in the top makuuchi division. His highest rank was Maegashira 1. He retired from sumo in September 1976 at the early age of 26 after a dispute with the Japan Sumo Association over his transfer to a newly created training stable.
Scouted by Giant Baba, the All Japan Pro Wrestling owner, Tenryu was sent to the Amarillo territory to get trained by Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk, and debuted in Texas in 1976, against Ted DiBiase. After returning to Japan, he stayed in the undercard until about 1982 when he began to get a slight push in that year's Champion's Carnival tournament. In 1983, following a brief stint in Jim Crockett Promotions, his push began in earnest when Jumbo Tsuruta pursued the NWA International heavyweight title, now the main title in the Triple Crown.
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Hiraku Hori
Hiraku Hori (Japanese: 堀啓; born April 3, 1982) is a Japanese super heavyweight kickboxer competing in K-1.
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Hiroshi Tanahashi
Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋 弘至, Tanahashi Hiroshi?, born November 13, 1976) is a Japanese professional wrestler who works primarily for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former five-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, with his fifth reign holding the record for most successful defenses, with eleven.
Before entering the world of professional wrestling, Hiroshi Tanahashi was a baseball player in high school. He started wrestling while attending Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and was fairly successful. During this time he was noticed by New Japan Pro Wrestling talent scouts and was invited to try out for the New Japan Dojo. His try out was successful and he was accepted as a trainee.
After graduating from the New Japan Dojo, Tanahashi made his debut in October, 1999 in a match against Shinya Makabe. He became viewed as a big prospect and was given big wins over lucha libre legend Negro Casas in July, 2000 and American Scott Hall in September 2001. His star continued to rise and in the 2002 G-1 Climax (one of New Japan Pro Wrestling's most important annual tournaments) Tanahashi pinned Kensuke Sasaki in under two minutes. After this Tanahashi was paired with Kenzo Suzuki in a tag team named the Kings of the Hills. This pairing was popular but came to an end after a real life incident. In November, 2002 Tanahashi was stabbed in the back by Hitomi Hara (a TV Asahi news reporter he had dated for a brief amount of time). Tanahashi was hospitalized, but would recover. Ironically this incident may have been the best thing to happen to his career. The stabbing was widely reported across Japan and a strong interest to see Tanahashi return was created. On February 16, 2003 Tanahshi returned as a singles wrestler to a sold out crowd in Tokyo in a match against Manabu Nakanishi.
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Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Hiroyoshi Yamamoto (山本 広吉, Yamamoto Hiroyoshi?, born March 23, 1971) is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for New Japan Pro Wrestling, and is better known by his ring name Hiroyoshi Tenzan (天山 広吉, Tenzan Hiroyoshi?). With Satoshi Kojima, in 2008, they won the Real World Tag League in All Japan Pro Wrestling and the G1 Climax Tag League in NJPW becoming in the only tag team which has done it.
Hiroyoshi Yamamoto first worked for New Japan Pro Wrestling. He debuted in January 1991, wrestling Osamu Matsuda. In 1993, after winning the Young Lions Cup, NJPW sent Yamamoto on a European excursion; one of his stops was in the Catch Wrestling Association in Germany, where in July 1993, he defeated Lance Storm to become the first CWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion. A few weeks later, he lost the title to Storm. Three months later, he would regain and lost the title back to Storm.
After spending nearly two years in Europe, Yamamoto would finally make his return to NJPW on January 4, 1995, at the Tokyo Dome, this time under a new name: Hiroyoshi Tenzan. A month later, he received his very first shot at the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in a losing effort against Shinya Hashimoto. Tenzan then began teaming with Masahiro Chono as Team Wolf. In June 1995, Tenzan and Chono won the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a tournament, which they held for a month until the title was vacated due to Chono missing a match when his father died.
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Ikuhisa Minowa
Ikuhisa Minowa (美濃輪 育久, Minowa Ikuhisa?, born January 12, 1976 in Hashima, Gifu) is a Japanese mixed martial artist and pro wrestler currently competing in Dream as Minowaman (ミノワマン?). He was a long time veteran of Pride Fighting Championships and Pancrase and has also competed in other mixed martial arts promotions such as K-1 HERO'S, Cage Rage, UFC, and DEEP. At 5'9" he is notable for taking fights with much larger opponents and defeating the majority of them. He was the winner of the Dream Super Hulk tournament, and holds notable victories over fighters such as Gilbert Yvel, Phil Baroni, Hong Man Choi, Bob Sapp, Eric Esch, Kimo Leopoldo, K-1 fighters Errol Zimmerman and Stefan Leko, former UFC champion Don Frye, and in his career zenith, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou to become the Dream Super Hulk (Open-Weight) Grand Prix champion.
Minowa was known in PRIDE Fighting Championships for his entertaining entrances and sporting of the Japanese flag as a cape as well as his aggressive, high-risk style of fighting which has seen him employ flying dropkicks amongst other pro-wrestling derived maneuvers.
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Jan Nortje
Johannes "Jan" Nortje (born April 11, 1975) is a South African kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and undefeated pro boxer who has fought for Strikeforce, DREAM, K-1, PRIDE Fighting Championship, and New Japan Pro Wrestling.
He has fought the likes of Mirko Cro Cop, Jérôme Le Banner, Gary Goodridge, and K-1 Champions Ernesto Hoost, Peter Aerts, and Semmy Schilt. His last fight was a loss against Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou at DREAM.9.
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Jonathan Ogden
Jonathan Phillip Ogden (born July 31, 1974) is a former American college and professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for twelve seasons. He played college football for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was recognized as an All-American. Drafted in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft, he played his entire professional career for the Baltimore Ravens. He was an eleven-time Pro Bowl selection and a nine-time All-Pro. Ogden is considered a strong candidate for induction into the 2013 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Ogden was born in Washington, D.C. He received his education at St. Albans School in Washington, excelling not only in high school football but also in track and field. He was a high school All-American in both football and track.
He decided to attend UCLA instead of the University of Florida because UCLA would let him participate in track and field. He later won the 1996 NCAA indoor track title in the shot put. Ogden had an outstanding career with the UCLA Bruins football team, starting as left tackle for four years. In 23 games during his junior and senior years, he allowed just two sacks. In 1995, Ogden received the Outland Trophy and the Morris Trophy, was the UPI Lineman of the Year, and was a unanimous first-team All-American. Ogden's father, an investment banker, told his son to accept UCLA's decision to move him from right to left tackle.
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Jérôme Le Banner
Jérôme "Geronimo" Le Banner (born 26 December 1972), is a French kickboxer and K-1 superstar, famous for his aggressive fighting style and knockout power.
He is a legend in the K-1 sport and is still considered to be the best fighter to never win the K-1 World Grand Prix Title. He has knocked out top ranked fighters such as, Peter Aerts, Ernesto Hoost, Francisco Filho, Mike Bernardo and holds other notable wins over Remy Bonjasky, Tyrone Spong and Mark Hunt. He also holds an MMA victory over middleweight Yoshihiro Akiyama.
His last name "Le Banner" is pronounced like "Re Banna" in Japan. Many Japanese K-1 fans and Japanese mass media calls him "Banna".
Jérôme Le Banner was born in the French city of Le Havre, in the région of Normandy. Le Banner started judo training at the age of 6. When he was 14, Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury influenced him so much that he started practicing karate instead, while trying to incorporate the techniques of Jeet Kune Do he had seen in the film. Jeet Kune Do gave him the southpaw stance which he has maintained throughout his career, even though he is right-handed. He holds a black belt in the Kyokushin kaikan style of karate.
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Jörgen Kruth
Jörgen Ingmar Kruth (born May 8, 1974) is a Swedish super heavyweight Muay Thai kickboxer and mixed martial artist. He is a former two time World Muay Thai Council Super Heavyweight Muaythai World Champion. He is considered to be among the greatest Scandinavian kickboxers of all time.
Jörgen started practicing martial arts first time in 1984. He tried Judo and Jujutsu and couple years later switched over to taekwondo. It was not until 1987 when he came in contact with Muay Thai first time. He started to train under Po Lindwall.
Kruth had his first Muay Thai fight in 1988 at the age of 14. In 1993 he had 3 amateur boxing bouts and as well as two Savate fights. In 1994, at the age of 19, he became Nordic Muaythai Champion.
In 1995, Kruth participated at IAMTF Amateur World Muay Thai Championships in Bangkok. He worked his way all the way to the final where he lost against a Thai and went home with a silver medal in -81 kg.
In 1996, he became the Amateur Muay Thai World Champion for the first time and defended this title in 1997 as well.
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Kazuchika Okada
Kazuchika Okada (岡田かずちか, Okada Kazuchika?) (born November 8, 1987) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is the reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion. From February 2010 until October 2011, he was on a developmental tour, working for American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring names Okada and Okato.
Trained by Último Dragón at his Toryumon professional wrestling school, Kazuchika Okada made his debut on August 29, 2004, and would spend the next couple of years wrestling primarily in Toryumon Mexico. On December 11, 2004, Okada participated in 2004 Young Dragons Cup. After defeating Hajime Ohara in the first round, he was eliminated from the tournament in the semifinals by Rocky Romero. In the following year's tournament, Okada defeated Toshiya Matsuzaki and Fujita Hayato en route to the finals, where he defeated Hajime Ohara to win the 2005 Young Dragons Cup. In March 2006, Okada also participated in the Yamaha Cup, teaming with Hiromi Horiguchi, but the team was eliminated in the first round by Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli.
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Kazuyoshi Ishii
Kazuyoshi Ishii (石井 和義, Ishii Kazuyoshi?, born June 10, 1953) is a Japanese master of Seidokaikan karate and founder of the K-1 fighting circuit, a widely televised international martial arts competition combining Muay Thai, karate, sanshou, taekwondo, kenpo, boxing, and kickboxing. His karate training began with Kyokushin karate, but he formed his own karate organization in 1980, began promoting televised karate competitions, and started staging K-1 events in 1993.
Ishii was born on June 10, 1953, in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. He is one of three siblings. As a boy, he was interested in sumo and baseball, and was also introduced to gymnastics. While Ishii was in junior high school, a book by Masatoshi Nakayama sparked his interest in Shotokan karate, but a Sonny Chiba film later inspired him to pursue training in Kyokushin karate.
Ishii began training in Kyokushin karate under Hideyuki Ashihara, who was then a senior instructor in Kyokushin's International Karate Organization (IKO). By the time he was 16 years old, he had established a local Kyokushin dojo (training hall) under his instructor's supervision. Six years later, in 1975, he opened a Kyokushin dojo in Osaka, and this was a very successful venture.
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Kazuyuki Fujita
Kazuyuki Fujita (藤田 和之, Fujita Kazuyuki?) (born October 16, 1970) is a Japanese professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and a former amateur wrestler. He has fought in mixed martial arts promotions including PRIDE, K-1 and currently fighting in Sengoku.
He is known as the last one to keep the tradition of Antonio Inoki's fighting spirit. Fujita's theme song is "Honno No Fighter" (炎のファイター, Honō No Faitā?, Burning Fighter) Orchestra Version, originally the song for Inoki. During his prime, Fujita was also famous for having one of the strongest chins and strongest necks in mixed martial arts. In MMA, he holds wins over Ken Shamrock, Gilbert Yvel, Mark Kerr, James Thompson and Bob Sapp.
Fujita practiced freestyle wrestling in high school. He participated in the FILA World Championships as a junior in 1988, placing sixth, and in the Espoir division in 1989, placing eleventh. In 1993, Fujita placed fifth at the Asian Championships at the senior level, and in 1993 and 1994, he represented Japan as a senior in the World Cup, a dual meet tournament. He was also a national champion in Japan in Greco-Roman wrestling. He was such a great amateur wrestler, "Iron Head" missed making the Japanese Olympic team by 1 point in the Olympic qualifiers.
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Keiji Mutoh
Keiji Mutoh (武藤 敬司, Mutō Keiji?, born December 23, 1962) is a Japanese professional wrestler who first gained international fame in the National Wrestling Alliance. He is mostly known for his work as The Great Muta in New Japan Pro Wrestling during the 1990s, but he has also competed in United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Taiwan. He is a former President of All Japan Pro Wrestling, as well as being a full-time wrestler for the promotion since 2002. Mutoh is widely regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers of all-time, both in Japan and America.[citation needed]
Mutoh is credited as one of the first Japanese wrestlers to achieve a fan base outside of his native Japan in the United States. The Great Muta gimmick is one of the most influential gimmicks in puroresu, having been emulated by many wrestlers including Satoshi Kojima (The Great Koji), Kazushi Miyamoto (The Great Kazushi) and Atsushi Onita (The Great Nita). In addition, countless independent wrestlers have paid tribute to Muta through emulation and imitation.
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Kensuke Sasaki
Kensuke Sasaki (佐々木 健介, Sasaki Kensuke?, born August 4, 1966) is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently wrestles for various promotions through his own agency, Diamond Ring. He is the first of two men ever to hold all 3 of puroresu's major heavyweight titles (the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the AJPW Triple Crown Championship, and the GHC Heavyweight Championship), the other being Yoshihiro Takayama.
Kensuke Sasaki debuted in Riki Chōshū's Japan Pro Wrestling (a satellite of All Japan Pro Wrestling) in February 1986. Sasaki follow Chōshū as he returned to New Japan Pro Wrestling in 1987. During that time, he teamed up with the likes of Osamu Matsuda and Kenichi Oya.
In 1988, Sasaki embarked on an excursion to North America, where he first started wrestling in Puerto Rico in World Wrestling Council, where he held his very first championship, the WWC Caribbean Tag Team Championship, with Mr. Pogo twice between January 14, 1989 and April 1, 1989.
In January 1989, he started splitting his time wrestling in the WWC in Puerto Rico, with Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling promotion in Canada, where he wrestled under the name Benkei Sasaki. He would also be trained in the Dungeon by Hart. During his time in Calgary, he won the Stampede International Tag Team Championship in August 1989, with All Japan loyalist Sumo Hara (Tatsumi "Koki" Kitahara).
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Kimo Leopoldo
Kimo Leopoldo (born January 4, 1968), or simply Kimo, is an American mixed martial artist. He made his MMA debut at UFC 3 in 1994 losing to Royce Gracie by submission. Kimo's fighting style has been described as freestyle, with a mixture of striking and grappling techniques.[citation needed]
He was credited with a black belt in Taekwondo in his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut at UFC 3. Kimo is well known for his Christian beliefs: he sports many religious tattoos, and entered the arena at UFC 3 carrying a large cross on his back.
At UFC 3, Kimo fought the reigning, defending UFC 1 and UFC 2 champion Royce Gracie in the quarterfinals. Kimo gave Gracie his toughest fight to date but eventually lost the fight via submission. Gracie was dehydrated following his bout with Kimo and, as a result, Gracie's corner threw in the towel before the start of his next match. This subsequently made Kimo into an enormous star in the martial arts world.
After three straight wins in Japan, including a dominant, impressive win over UFC 2 finalist Pat Smith, Kimo returned at UFC 8 and fought reigning UFC champion Ken Shamrock in a title match for the UFC Superfight Championship, but lost early in the fight via submission due to a kneebar.
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Kintaro Ohki
Kintarō Ōki (Japanese: 大木金太郎, Korean: 김일, Hanja: 金一, February 24, 1929 Jeollanam-do, South Korea (then just Korea) – October 26, 2006 Seoul, South Korea) was arguably the greatest South Korean professional wrestler of all time[citation needed], also known professionally as Kim Il or KIM Il during his career in the Japan Wrestling Association, All Japan Pro Wrestling and International Pro Wrestling from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Ohki had hopes of becoming a student of Japanese wrestling legend Rikidōzan, another Korean, and entered Japan illegally in 1958 to do so, but was arrested in 1959. After being released he was able to train with Rikidōzan and joined the Japan Wrestling Association, debuting in November 1959 under his real name, losing to fellow rookie Kanji Inoki, later Antonio Inoki. They were part of a rookie trio along with Shohei Baba, later Giant Baba. Ohki was also trained by Mr. Moto and Yoshinosato[1].
With Rikidōzan's murder in 1963 Ohki returned to his homeland to raise the profile of professional wrestling there, but returned to the JWA when Toyonobori and Inoki left the promotion, though he returned the next year. Also in 1967 Ohki became the top star in Korea with his defeat of Mark Lewin to win the World Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Championship. With this the JWA wanted to rename him to Rikidōzan but the plan never went through.[2]
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Kiyoshi Tamura
Kiyoshi Tamura (田村潔司, Tamura Kiyoshi?, born December 17, 1969 in Okayama, Okayama) is a Japanese middleweight professional wrestler and mixed martial artist.
Once a student of legendary Pro Wrestler Akira Maeda, Tamura is known for his skill in catch wrestling as well as his ability to deliver exciting and realistic professional wrestling bouts.
He has competed in some form or another for the following organizations: Universal Wrestling Federation, UWF International, Fighting Network RINGS, K-1, PRIDE, and U-STYLE, his own promotion. He is at his best when fighting at or near his own weight, but since 1999 has made a habit of fighting much larger opponents.
He debuted in 1989 in the old Japanese UWF, but made his mark when he later joined its main successor group, UWFI. Tamura was spunky and could even demand respect from older veterans, as demonstrated during a bout against Yoji Anjo where Tamura broke a hold and delivered several kicks to Anjo's head and kicked him out of the ring.
Despite many pundits (such as Pro Wrestling Illustrated) comparing him to UWFI champion Nobuhiko Takada, Tamura never challenged for the title. As the interpromotional feud against New Japan Pro Wrestling started, Tamura jumped to RINGS, founded by old mentor Maeda. He was briefly pushed as the top star, being given the first (worked) RINGS heavyweight title, but as RINGS transitioned to real MMA bouts, his star began to flicker, as he struggled to keep pace despite winning bouts.
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Manabu Nakanishi
Manabu Nakanishi (中西 学, Nakanishi Manabu?, born January 22, 1967) is a Japanese professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He currently works for New Japan Pro Wrestling. He is a former IWGP Heavyweight Champion.
Nakanishi participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, representing Japan in Greco-Roman wrestling. He did not place in the tournament.
Nakanishi debuted for New Japan Pro Wrestling in October 1992. His in-ring style was very basic early in his career. After winning the Young Lions Cup in 1995, in order to hone his skills and bulk up, he went on an excursion to North America and joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW), under the name Kurasawa.
As Kurasawa in WCW, he was a member of the Stud Stable led by Colonel Robert Parker. He frequently teamed with Meng, with whom he feuded against Sting and Road Warrior Hawk. He broke the arm of Hawk using a seated armbar after their tag team match at Clash of the Champions XXXI, in which they lost. He was also known there for nearly defeating "Macho Man" Randy Savage. It was here that Nakanishi learned the infamous "Road Warrior Workout" from Hawk and Animal, who also taught this routine to Kenta Kobashi and Kensuke Sasaki.
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Mariusz Pudzianowski
Mariusz Zbigniew Pudzianowski (born on February 7, 1977 in Biała Rawska) is a Polish former strongman and current mixed martial artist. His nickname in Poland is "Pudzian".
During his career as a strongman, Pudzianowski has won five World's Strongest Man titles—more than any other athlete—as well as two runner-up titles (including his most recent performance in the 32nd edition). In 2009, Pudzianowski debuted as a mixed martial artist. He is considered as the best strongman that has ever competed in the history of the sport.
Mariusz Pudzianowski was born in Biała Rawska, Poland. His father, Wojciech, was a weightlifter. Pudzianowski quickly became interested in sports. Since the age of 11, he has been training the Kyokushin style of karate. His current grade is 4th kyu green belt. He began strength training at the age of thirteen. When he was fifteen, Pudzianowski also started training boxing, quitting after seven years.
Pudzianowski debuted in professional sports at the age of sixteen, taking part in Polish Weightlifting Championship, in the bench press event.
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Maro Perak
Maro Perak (born September 23, 1982) is a Croatian professional mixed martial artist and the current MFC Heavyweight Champion. Perak trains at Gladijator Croatia in Dubrovnik alongside teammates Ajlin Ahmic, Antun Racic, Ante Delija, Hrvoje Slade and his brother Kristijan Perak.
Strength and Honor Championship
Perak fought Jeff Monson for SHC Heavyweight title and lost the match by unanimous decision. The two was set to face each other again, but fight was postponed as Perak got pneumonia and Monson signed the contract with Strikeforce.
Millenium Fighting Challenge
Maro Perak participated a one day tournament in Hungary "Cage Fight - The Strongest Man in Hungary" where he defeated Serbian mixed martial artist Miodrag Petković called Pele, at that time MFC Heavyweight Champion. The win over champion earned him a title shot. Pele previously won the championship by knocking out James Thompson, former PRIDE fighter. Mean Machine was too fast for Petković tactically outplaying him and eventually winning the match by unanimous decision.
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Masahiro Chono
Masahiro Chono (蝶野 正洋, Chōno Masahiro?), (born September 17, 1963) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He primarily wrestles for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), but has also made appearances for the now defunct World Championship Wrestling, as a member of the New World Order. Chono was also known as Mister Black Jack when he first started as a villain. He is a former NWA World Champion and IWGP Heavyweight Champion. For those less familiar with wrestling, he has become well known for his appearances on the news year's specials of Downtown's Gaki no Tsukai No-Laughing batsu games. His ritual appearance always involves slapping Hosei Yamasaki in the face.
Chōno debuted in 1984 against Keiji Mutoh at a New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) event in Saitama, Japan. In 1987, he defeated Shinya Hashimoto to win the Young Lions Cup. After winning the tournament, he went on an excursion that started in Germany.
After a while in Germany, Chono went on an excursion to North America, starting in the United States, where he wrestled in NWA territories in the Kansas City and Alabama areas. He would also later wrestle in the Canadian Maritimes and in Puerto Rico, where he, Hashimoto, and Mutoh formed The Three Musketeers.
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Masaki Sumitani
Masaki Sumitani (住谷 正樹, Sumitani Masaki?) is a Japanese comedian, retired professional wrestler and tarento ("talent"), best known under his performing name of Razor Ramon Hard Gay (レイザーラモンＨＧ, Reizā Ramon HG?, occasionally HG, Razor Ramon Sumitani or just Hard Gay). His act gained national attention and popularity when featured on the Bakusho Mondai no Bakuten! (Daibakuten) Saturday variety show on TBS Television in Japan, in 2005.
Masaki Sumitani was born December 18, 1975 in Harima, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from Hyogo Prefectural Kakogawa Higashi High School, he entered Doshisha University and majored in Commerce.
While at college he picked up wrestling as a hobby and soon joined the Doshisha Professional Wrestling Alliance (DWA). Under his performing name "GiveUp Sumitani," he won the heavy class Kyoto pro-wrestling championship co-hosted by DWA and the Ritsumeikan Wrestling Alliance (RWA) of nearby Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. Former IWGP Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi was also a participant of these events.
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Michael Bisping
Michael Gavin Joseph Bisping (born 28 February 1979) is an English mixed martial artist. He fights in the middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is the former Cage Warriors Fighting Championship Light Heavyweight Champion, former Cage Rage Light Heavyweight Champion and The Ultimate Fighter 3 Light Heavyweight Tournament winner. As of March 2012, Bisping is ranked the No. 4 middleweight in the world by Sherdog.
Bisping was born in manchester UK in 1979, but moved to Bridlington, East Yorkshire, England when he was a child. Taking an early interest in martial arts, Bisping began training in a traditional form of jiu-jitsu known as Yawara Ryu under Paul Lloyd Davies when he was 8 years old. In 1994, at the age of 15, Bisping competed as an amateur in England's first "no holds barred" competition, a precursor to modern MMA, called Knock Down Sport Budo (KSBO), organised by Davies.
At the age of 18, Bisping decided to abandon his martial arts training in order "to pursue real life". But less than a year later Bisping began training kickboxing and karate on the advice of Alan Clarking, owner of Black Knights gym, who saw potential in the young fighter. Bisping enjoyed a short, but successful kickboxing career, winning the North West Area title and later the Pro British light heavyweight kickboxing title. After again briefly quitting competition in 1998, Bisping returned to kickboxing to take the Pro British light heavyweight title for a second time. Soon after winning his second kickboxing title, Bisping was forced to abandon his full-time training for a "real job". Bisping worked in factories, slaughterhouses, as an upholsterer, a postman, a tiler, a plasterer, a double-glazing door salesman,production line operative making barbecues at Rectella in Clitheroe and also a relatively successful DJ around the north-west club scene.
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Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American professional boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with 12 of them occurring in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to individually unify them.
In 1988, Tyson became the lineal champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks in the first 91 seconds of the fight. Tyson successfully defended the world heavyweight championship nine times, including victories over Larry Holmes and Frank Bruno. Tyson lost his titles to 42-to-1 underdog James "Buster" Douglas on February 11, 1990, in Tokyo, Japan, by a knockout in round 10. Tyson continued in his quest to regain the titles, defeating Donovan Ruddock twice in 1991. Tyson was then scheduled to take on the undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield but pulled out due to injury.
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Mirko Filipović
Mirko Filipović (Croatian pronunciation: [mîrkɔ fǐːlipɔːʋitɕ]; (born September 10, 1974) is a Croatian heavyweight kickboxer, and retired mixed martial artist, politician, and law enforcement officer. Filipović was a member of the Croatian Parliament from 2003 through 2007 on a list of Social Democratic Party of Croatia. His nickname, Cro Cop, short for "Croatian Cop", comes from his membership in the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit, Croatia's elite Police Special Forces tactical unit.
Filipović has been successful in both K-1 and Pride Fighting Championships. On September 10, 2006, he won the 2006 Pride World Open-Weight Grand Prix, and in 2007 entered the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Filipović owed his MMA success to a combination of elite-level kickboxing and near-impregnable takedown defence, making him one of the most dangerous strikers in MMA history and a prototype for the modern sprawl and brawler. Filipović's signature move was his lightning quick left head-kick, once famously describing his kicks as "right leg, hospital; left leg, cemetery." His legacy remains as a true legend in Mixed Martial Arts, and one of the greatest heavyweights in mixed martial arts history.
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Nobuhiko Takada
Nobuhiko Takada (Japanese: 髙田延彦, born April 12, 1962) is a Japanese mixed martial arts fighter and professional wrestler. He is best known for helping to popularize shoot-style professional wrestling, as one of the biggest stars of the Universal Wrestling Federation and Union of Wrestling Force International in the '80s and '90s. He has also competed for PRIDE Fighting Championships and New Japan Pro Wrestling. Presently, he is the owner of the HUSTLE Wrestling Organization.
Nobuhiko Takada made his professional wrestling debut in 1981 against Norio Honaga, for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he started his career as a Junior Heavyweight. He left NJPW in 1984, along with Rusher Kimura, Akira Maeda, Ryuma Go, Mach Hayato, and Gran Hamada, to form the original Universal Wrestling Federation.
The original UWF dissolved in 1986. Takada and Akira Maeda returned to NJPW and formed a UWF stable. Only a few months later, Takada defeated Shiro Koshinaka to capture the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, which he held for four months. In 1987, Takada moved to the Heavyweight ranks. Along with Akira Maeda, he won the IWGP Tag Team Championship from rival, Koshinaka & Keiji Mutoh. He left NJPW in 1988 to form the second incarnation of the Universal Wrestling Federation called Newborn UWF, becoming one of its top stars.
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Olin Kreutz
Olin George Kreutz ( /ˈkruːts/; born June 9, 1977) is a former American college and professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons. He played college football for University of Washington, and earned All-American honors. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Bears and New Orleans Saints of the NFL.
Kreutz was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the youngest of four sons born to Henry Kreutz, Jr., of ʻAina Haina. He attended football powerhouse Saint Louis School in Honolulu, where he lettered in high school football. He also excelled in wrestling and track and field. He received All-State and SuperPrep All-America honors while serving as football team captain during his senior year, and would additionally go on to win the Hawaii state wrestling heavyweight championship.
Kreutz attended the University of Washington, where he played for the Washington Huskies football team under coach Jim Lambright. Olin was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American and earned Pac-10 honors during his junior year, after which he elected to turn pro.
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Patrice Quarteron
Patrice "The Dark Ronin" Quarteron (born March 20, 1979) is a French super heavyweight kickboxer, fighting out of Évry, Essonne. He is two time French and European Muay Thai champion and current IKF Muay Thai Super Heavyweight World champion.
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Peter Aerts
Peter Aerts (born October 25, 1970) is a Dutch super heavyweight kickboxer. Known for his devastating high kicks, which earned him the nickname "The Dutch Lumberjack", he is widely considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight kickboxers ever, along with Remy Bonjasky, Andy Hug, Ernesto Hoost and Semmy Schilt.
Born in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Aerts began training in Muay Thai and kickboxing at the age of fourteen. He won his first world title when he was nineteen years old in 1990, taking the International Kick Boxing Federation's Heavyweight Championship. He would also add the Dutch heavyweight title the World Muay Thai Association's heavyweight title to his mantlepiece before going on to compete in the K-1 organization in Japan. He has competed in every K-1 World Grand Prix except one (2009), which has led to him being referred to as "Mr. K-1".[not in citation given]
A three-time K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, he debuted at the inaugural K-1 World GP in 1993 where he was eliminated by fellow K-1 legend Ernesto Hoost. He won his first Grand Prix in 1994 by knocking out Rob van Esdonk and Patrick Smith in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respectively, before taking a unanimous decision over Masaaki Satake in the final.
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Ray Sefo
"Sugar" Ray Sefo (15 February 1971) is a New Zealand kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist. He is six times Muay Thai World champion and eight time K-1 World Grand Prix Finals tournament participant, currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada and training with Xtreme Couture.
Trained in Wing Chun as a youth, Sefo started developing his Muay Thai fighting style under Thai legend Kiosot, then continued training under Lollo Heimuli (Balmoral Lee Gar gym). Sefo had an impressive unbeaten record as an amateur and a professional in the Oceania kickboxing league. Early in his career Sefo trained at Balmoral Lee Gar gym alongside Jason Suttie, Jayson Vemoa, Doug Viney and his brother Rony Sefo.
Some would say his fight against Andre Manaart was his first major challenge on the world stage. In this fight he overwhelmed Manaart with devastating speed and elusive footwork,knocking him down on numerous occasions. In the ring after the fight, Manaart took the microphone and said "...you should call him Sugarfist, not Sugarfoot"...
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Remy Bonjasky
Remy "The Flying Gentleman" Bonjasky (born January 10, 1976) is a Dutch super heavyweight kickboxer of Surinamese descent. He is a three-time K-1 World Grand Prix champion, who has won the title in 2003, 2004, and 2008. He has been known for his flying kicks and knee attacks, hence the nickname of "The Flying Gentleman".
Bonjasky was born in Paramaribo, Suriname and moved to Tilburg, the Netherlands when he was 5 years old.
He was involved in football (soccer) during his teens, but when he broke his leg he chose to stop playing. At the age of 18, when a friend brought him to the Mejiro kickboxing gym to "see who is the best", Bonjasky decided to stay and train and eventually fell in love with kickboxing, although he declared Muay Thai to be his style.
Bonjasky had his first fight at the age of 19 against an established Dutch mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter named Valentijn Overeem. Bonjasky won by TKO. From this moment on he quit his job as a network operator and focused on training full time. Despite losing his first K-1 fight by split decision he made his second fight against an established K-1 fighter, Ray Sefo. Despite the odds he won the fight by TKO.
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Riki Chōshū
Mitsuo Yoshida (Japanese: 吉田光雄; hangul: 곽광웅 , hanja: 郭光雄 , Kwak Gwang-ung) (born December 3, 1951), better known by his stage name Riki Chōshū (長州力 Chōshū Riki), is a Korean-Japanese professional wrestler who is most known for his longtime work in New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) as a wrestler and a booker. He is considered one of the most influential wrestlers in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s and known as the first wrestler to popularize the Sasori-Gatame, better known in English as Scorpion Deathlock or Sharpshooter. After Chōshū left New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2002, he formed Fighting World of Japan Pro Wrestling (WJ), which was later known as Riki Pro as he was the main promoter of the promotion. In October 2005, he returned to New Japan as a site foreman, a booker, and a part-time wrestler.
Kwak Gwang-ung represented South Korea in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, as a wrestler. He didn't place in the tournament.
He debuted in New Japan Pro Wrestling in August 1974. In the mid-1970s, Chōshū was sent to North America to gain experience. Wrestling under his real name, he appeared in George Cannon's "Superstars of Wrestling" promotion as a heel, managed by Superstar (or Supermouth) Dave Drasen. Chōshū had a brief feud with the top fan favorite of Cannon's promotion, Luis Martinez.
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Salman Hashimikov
Salman Hashimikov, also spelled Hasimikov (Russian: Салман Хасимиков), is a prominent Soviet heavyweight wrestler. A Chechen from Russia, he holds two European and four World Championship gold medals in freestyle wrestling (1979, 1981, 1982, 1983). He had also won European and World gold as a Junior in 1970-71.
After an unsuccessful business career, Salman spent five years as a professional wrestler in Japan. There he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship from Big Van Vader in May 1989 when Steve Williams refused to lose the title to him.
Hashimikov was the first actual Russian to win a professional wrestling title in the capitalist countries before the Cold War was over (most "Russians" or "Soviets" in North America were in fact gimmicks). He was brought to Japan by Antonio Inoki and stayed at the dojo to train as a professional.
Hashimikov later competed in UWF International but did not challenge for titles again.
Hashimikov's one major North America professional wrestling appearance was as part of the International Tag Team Tournament held at Starrcade 1990 with partner, Victor Zangiev.
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Sam Greco
Sam "Slam 'em" Greco (born 3 May 1967) is a retired Australian super heavyweight kickboxer, heavyweight mixed martial artist and professional wrestler of Italian descent, who fought in Kyokushin karate, professional kickboxing, and K-1 tournaments.
When growing up in Melbourne, Australia Sam's Italian-born father Vittorio encouraged him to get involved with soccer from an early age and Sam became the youngest player ever to sign up with the Italian premier league team Juventus. He played as well for Heidelberg soccer club in Melbourne.
He trained in Kyokushin karate, and started competing in full contact karate tournaments.
Sam had his K-1 debut in 1995 at K-1 Hercules. Following year he appeared in his first K-1 World Grand Prix tournament where he suffered his first loss in semifinals against Musashi.
After retiring in 2005 from professional competition, Sam Greco worked as trainer for other fighters, including Bob Sapp.
He played the stunt double for retired professional wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin in the 2007 action thriller The Condemned and also had a small part in the 2008 Australian boxing drama film, Two Fists One Heart which was shot in Western Australia. He has also appeared occasionally in movies as a fight consultant and martial arts advisor.
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Satoshi Kojima
Satoshi Kojima (小島 聡, Kojima Satoshi?) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling. He is currently in his fourth reign as one half of the IWGP Tag Team Champions. As a singles wrestler, he was the first wrestler to hold NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship and All Japan Pro Wrestling's Triple Crown Championship simultaneously. As a team, he and Hiroyoshi Tenzan became the first team to won G1 Climax Tag League and World's Strongest Tag Team League on the same year.
Like many Japanese wrestlers, Kojima has a background in Judo, but he chose not to continue the sport when he went to college. He got his start loading trucks for New Japan Pro Wrestling & after some months of persuasion finally convinced head trainer Animal Hamaguchi to accept him into the dojo.
Kojima entered the New Japan Pro Wrestling dojo in February 1991. He debuted as a wrestler on September 14 in a match against Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, who would later adopt the stage name of Hiroyoshi Tenzan. In 1994 he defeated Manabu Nakanishi in the Young Lions Cup finals, winning the tournament. In the end of that year he went to Europe, and returned to NJPW in January 1996. When he returned, he formed The Bull Powers with Nakanishi, who had returned from WCW. In May 1997 he defeated Riki Chōshū and Kensuke Sasaki with Nakanishi to become an IWGP Tag Team Champion for the first time. At the end of 1998 he joined nWo Japan, by Keiji Mutoh's leadership. Kojima and Tenzan (known together as Ten-Koji, a portmanteau of their last names) formed a tag team and ended up holding the IWGP Tag Team titles together twice.
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Scott Norton
Scott Michael Norton (born June 15, 1961) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling.
Scott Norton started out as a professional arm wrestler. He won over 30 championships during his days as an arm wrestler, including four U.S. National championships. His status in the arm wrestling world earned him a role in Sylvester Stallone's arm wrestling movie, Over the Top. While touring the arm wrestling circuit in Japan, Norton was approached by New Japan Pro Wrestling about becoming a professional wrestler, but he turned it down initially. Norton also toured with Prince in 1983 as his bodyguard.
After finally deciding to go the pro wrestling route, Norton was trained to wrestle by former Olympic wrestler Brad Rheingans. Verne Gagne decided to debut Norton before he was totally finished with his training, putting him on TV as a regular performer for the American Wrestling Association in 1989. He sometimes teamed with John Nord as the "Yukon Lumberjacks". Norton soon earned the nickname "Flash" for his quick arm wrestling victories. By the end of 1989, Norton left the AWA and went to the Pacific Northwest territory to further his career. In PNW, he started out as a fan favorite lumberjack known as "Flapjack" Scott Norton, and would team up with John Nord once more to reprise their lumberjack characters from the AWA. Norton became a heel in 1990 and broke away from Nord to become a singles competitor. He won the Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship from Brian Adams on May 12, 1990, but was stripped of the title two weeks later after attacking several wrestlers.
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Seth Petruzelli
Seth Christopher Petruzelli (born December 3, 1979) is an American mixed martial artist, former kickboxer and entrepreneur. He is famously known as the first man to defeat Kimbo Slice in mixed martial arts competition, knocking him out in 14 seconds. Seth went to school at the University of Central Florida to study Psychology.
Petruzelli started training martial arts at the age of seven and continued on training through high school, where he also played football and wrestled at Mariner High School. Petruzelli was a three-sport letterman all four years of high school. He was also all state center for football. Petruzelli was offered a scholarship to wrestle and play football in college but ended up turning pro in MMA right out of high school. He holds a 3rd degree black belt in Shitō-ryū Karate and a Black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Petruzelli was a member of the cast of the Ultimate Fighting Championship's The Ultimate Fighter 2 as a heavyweight. He was eliminated in the semi-finals by Brad Imes after having defeated Dan Christison by unanimous decision in an elimination bout. He later had the opportunity to fight in the UFC in 2006, but was cut after losses to Matt Hamill and Wilson Gouveia.
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Shinsuke Nakamura
Shinsuke Nakamura (中邑 真輔, Nakamura Shinsuke?, born February 24, 1980) is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former three-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion.
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Shinya Hashimoto
Shinya Hashimoto (橋本 真也, Hashimoto Shin'ya?, July 3, 1965 - July 11, 2005), was a Japanese professional wrestler. Along with Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh, Hashimoto was dubbed one of the "Three Musketeers" that began competing in New Japan Pro Wrestling in the mid 1980s and dominated the promotion in the 1990s.
He is one (the other being Keiji Mutoh) of two wrestlers that have held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, the AJPW Triple Crown Championship and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. He is often compared to All Japan Pro Wrestling's Toshiaki Kawada, as both are widely known for their stiff kicks and violent matches. As of 2010, he has the longest IWGP Heavyweight Championship reign in history, lasting 489 days.
Hashimoto grew up in Toki City in Gifu, and began training in judo in his late teens. His training helped him in his transition to professional wrestling, as he joined the New Japan Pro Wrestling Dojo in April 1984. He made his debut for NJPW in September 1984 at the age of 19, wrestling against Tatsutoshi Goto. Hashimoto worked on becoming a skilled wrestler over the next few years, travelling whenever necessary to gain more seasoning, such as over in the United States (Continental Wrestling Association), Canada (Stampede Wrestling), and Puerto Rico (World Wrestling Council). During his excursion in the United States, he visited the Elvis Presley museum in Memphis. Instantly, Hashimoto became a huge fan and because of this, his dressing up in Elvis costumes, and his sideburns, many of his peers commonly refer to him as "Fat Japanese Elvis."
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Soa Palelei
Soa Palelei (born 12 July 1977) is an Australian mixed martial artist. He competes in the Heavyweight and Superheavyweight divisions.
Born in 1977, Newcastle, New South Wales, Soa “The Hulk” Palelei started his fighting career at an early age. Wrestling was his first choice in the earlier years and nearly saw him compete for Australia at the Sydney Olympics. His interest quickly grew in the arena of martial arts and from there his love of the Mixed Martial Arts grew.
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Stav Economou
Stavros Economou (Greek: Σταύρος Οικονόμου, born 7 July 1986) is an English mixed martial artist of Cypriot descent, who fights at heavyweight. He is known for his rotund figure, strange hairsyles and nickname "Crazy Bear".
Economou had his first professional fight at the age of 20 against Carlo Massara in his home town of Southend-on-Sea. He won the fight via KO in the first round and went on to win his next five fights in similar fashion. He was given his chance to shine in the UK's biggest MMA promotion, Cage Rage. He took on Polish muscleman Piotr Kuśmierz in July 2008 at Cage Rage 27: Step Up. The fight wore on as both fighters tired themselves out and Economou emerged the victor by way of unanimous decision. Cage Rage then went bankrupt, however, and Crazy Bear returned to the Ultimate Warrior Challenge, where he had the majority of his early fights.
In July 2009, he recorded his first loss to current UFC fighter Karlos Vemola at the Cage Fighters Championship 7 when he was submitted by rear-naked choke. His next fight saw him rebound against Linton Vassell to win the Ultimate Warrior Challenge Heavyweight Title at Ultimate Warrior Challenge 11: Onslaught.
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Tank Abbott
David Lee Abbott (born April 26, 1965) is an American mixed martial arts fighter and former professional wrestler. He has described his fighting style, which he developed brawling in the bars and streets of Huntington Beach, California, as "street fighting". Abbott was the first fighter to regularly wear what would be known as traditional MMA gloves in the UFC.
Abbott was a frequent participant in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Abbott made his mixed martial arts debut in 1995 at UFC 6 Clash of the Titans in Casper, Wyoming. In his opening fight, he knocked out John Matua, who weighed 400 lb, in 18 seconds. Later that night he fought Oleg Taktarov for over 17 minutes before succumbing to a rear naked choke. Both men collapsed in exhaustion after the fight, and Taktarov had to be carried out of the cage. In his first 4 UFC tournament appearances, Abbott advanced at least 1 round in all of them. Around the same time the UFC began switching away from the tournament format, his fortunes declined, as he won only 2 of 5 bouts in '97-'98 before retiring from MMA.
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Tatsumi Fujinami
Tatsumi Fujinami (藤波 辰爾, Fujinami Tatsumi?) (born Tatsumi Fujinami (藤波 辰巳, Fujinami Tatsumi?)) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is famous for his gimmick as "The Dragon." He is the one who is credited for inventing the Dragon Sleeper and the Dragon Suplex. He is also the owner & founder of the Dradition wrestling promotion.
Fujinami started in the old Japanese Wrestling Association under Antonio Inoki's wing at the age of 17. When Inoki was fired from JWA in 1971, Fujinami and a few others followed him in forming a new promotion, New Japan Pro Wrestling. Inoki, Fujinami, Osamu Kido and Kotetsu Yamamoto are recognized as NJPW's founding fathers.
In those early days, he served as opponent for debuting rookies, such as Mr. Pogo, Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Gran Hamada. Fujinami, Fujiwara, Hamada and three other rookies competed in the 1974 Karl Gotch Cup (a tournament for rookies, forerunner to the later Young Lions Cup).
In the late 1970s, Fujinami was sent abroad, to Mexico's Universal Wrestling Association and to Jim Crockett Promotions in the U.S. In the late 1970s he went to the WWWF where he first made a name for himself. He won the WWWF Junior Heavyweight Championship on January 23, 1978. and brought it back to Japan, establishing it as the premier junior heavyweight title in Japan. In October 1981, he graduated to the heavyweight division. Fujinami would be the first wrestler to be successful in both the junior heavyweight and heavyweight divisions.
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Togi Makabe
Shinya Makabe (真壁 伸也, Makabe Shin'ya?, born September 29, 1972), better known by his ring name Togi Makabe (真壁 刀義, Makabe Togi?) is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Tag Team Champion.
Debuting in 1997, Makabe originally wrestled under his birthname as a junior heavyweight (100 kilograms (220 lb)), before gaining several kilograms during a global excursion in 2001 and 2002. He changed his given name to "Togi" during the 2004 G1 Climax tournament. His status in New Japan rose significantly in 2007, making it to the finals of the New Japan Cup and the semifinals of the G1 Climax, and challenging Yuji Nagata for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. After a number of unsuccessful challenges at the title, Makabe finally won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship on May 3, 2010, by defeating Shinsuke Nakamura.
Makabe's wrestling style and character is heavily influenced by the late Bruiser Brody. Known as the "Unchained Gorilla", Makabe is known for his violent, bloody style, often illegally employing steel chairs and chains into his offense, including a lariat with a chain wrapped around his arm (like Brody). He also uses Brody's All Japan Pro Wrestling theme "Immigrant Song" (albeit a cover made by Tomoyasu Hotei) as his own.
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Toshiaki Kawada
Toshiaki Kawada (川田 利明, Kawada Toshiaki?) (born December 8, 1963) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is most known for his work in All Japan Pro Wrestling. In 2005, he started freelancing in other promotions.
His matches against Mitsuharu Misawa, Jun Akiyama, and Kenta Kobashi in the 1990s are argued by many fans and experts in the industry as some of the greatest professional wrestling matches of all time. He is widely known for his extremely stiff wrestling style, and has the distinction of having competed in 17 matches that were given a 5-Star Rating by Wrestling Observer Newsletter writer Dave Meltzer; he is third behind long-time rivals Kobashi (23) and Misawa (24).
Kawada was very active during his high school years in amateur wrestling, becoming a national champion in his senior year after defeating Keiichi Yamada (who later became Jushin "Thunder" Liger in professional wrestling) in the finals. He made his professional wrestling debut at the age of 18 on October 4, 1982 for All Japan Pro Wrestling, competing against (future partner) Hiromichi Fuyuki. Kawada was then sent to North America for a year in November 1985, where he gained experience as a pro wrestler in Fred Behrend's Texas All-Star Wrestling (San Antonio, Texas), Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling (in Calgary) and Frank Valois' International Wrestling (in Montreal); Kawada was billed as "Kio Kawada from Seoul, South Korea" in Stampede Wrestling for a very short time around June 1986. He was under adverse circumstances, and rarely has he talked about his days in American/Canadian wrestling.
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Tsuyoshi Nakasako
Tsuyoshi Nakasako (Japanese: 中迫剛; born January 29, 1974) is a Japanese heavyweight kickboxer competing in K-1.
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Yoshihiro Nakao
Yoshihiro "Kiss" Nakao (Japanese: 中尾芳広) is a Japanese heavyweight mixed martial artist and former K-1 kickboxer who has defeated the likes of Don Frye, Jim York, Wesley Correira, and Edson Draggo. He is currently under contract to fight for DREAM and World Victory Road promotions. Yoshihiro has fought for PRIDE FC Nakao lost to Antonio Silva at World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku Rebellion 2009 after suffering an ACL injury as a result of a leg kick from Silva in the first round. Nakao most recently fought Henry Armstrong Miller at Sengoku 12.
On December 31, 2005, Nakao was involved in a memorable MMA moment during K-1's Dynamite 2005 show.
During the pre-fight staredown with opponent Heath Herring, Nakao leaned in and kissed him on the lips. Herring reacted, delivering a right hook to the jaw of Nakao, knocking him out cold. Herring was immediately disqualified and Nakao was carried from the ring. Shortly thereafter, Nakao's cornermen attacked Herring and a brief melee ensued.
The fight result has since been changed by K-1 from a disqualification loss for Herring to a no contest, as K-1 judges ruled that Nakao's kiss and Herring's subsequent knockout punch were both fouls.
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Yoshihiro Takayama
Yoshihiro Takayama (高山 善廣, Takayama Yoshihiro?, born September 19, 1966) is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Takayama is well known for his ability to endure massive amounts of punishment, especially after his fight at PRIDE 21 against Don Frye. He is the second of two men to hold all 3 of puroresu's major heavyweight titles (the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the AJPW Triple Crown Championship, and the GHC Heavyweight Championship), the other being Kensuke Sasaki.
Takayama started in UWF International, but due to the focus of the promotion on star Nobuhiko Takada, he wasn't able to go past the mid-card level. In 1995-96, with the interpromotional feuds with New Japan Pro Wrestling and WAR, he formed the "Golden Cups" stable with Yoji Anjo and Kenichi Yamamoto to compete in tag team and six-man matches. In New Japan he and Anjo assumed masks as the "200% Machines" to mock "Super Strong Machine" Junji Hirata. In WAR, they feuded with Gedo, Jado and Hiromichi Fuyuki.
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Yuji Nagata
Yuji Nagata (永田 裕志, Nagata Yūji?, born April 24, 1968) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He was known for his perennial tweener status, currently a solid fan favorite, and his stiff, shoot style wrestling technique.
A two time IWGP Heavyweight Champion and Zero1 World Heavyweight Champion, Nagata is the fourth longest-reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion with a reign of 392 days. He held the record for most successful title defenses with 10, until Hiroshi Tanahashi broke the record at Wrestle Kingdom VI.
Before turning professional, Nagata was a successful amateur wrestler. Competing in the Greco-Roman style, Nagata represented Japan in the Asian Championships twice, placing fifth in 1993 and placing fourth in 1994, in one World Cup at the Espoir level in 1988, and in the 1991 World Championships, placing twenty-first.
Nagata joined New Japan Pro Wrestling in April 1992 and trained in the New Japan Dojo. He debuted on September 14 of that year, facing Hiroyoshi Yamamoto. Nagata increased in stature during the 1995 inter-promotional angle pitting NJPW loyalists against UWF International wrestlers. Taught the shoot-style by Kazuo Yamazaki, who had returned to NJPW after leaving UWFI, Nagata learned the style that has been his trademark ever since.
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Sapp, Bob Filmography
- Conan the Barbarian (2011)
- Blood and Bone (2009)
- Comedy Is Pain (2009)
- Odds & Ends (2009)
- Dream. 11: Featherweight and Superhulk GP Finale (2009)
- Dream. 9: Featherweight GP 2009 Second Round (2009)
- Frankenhood (2009)
- Strikeforce: Strikeforce at the Dome (2008)
- The Breakout (2008)
- Player 5150 (2008)
- Remarkable Power (2008)
- Big Stan (2007)
- Perfect 10: Model Boxing Vol. 2 (2005)
- Elektra (2005)
- The Longest Yard (2005)
- Debiruman (2004)
- Waraking (2004)
- Izo (2004)
- NJPW Samurai TV (2002)
- Taiho shichauzo (2002)
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Bob Sapp vs Kimo
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- Duration: 6:53
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
THIS IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT. You have to watch it to believe it.
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THIS IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT. You have to watch it to believe it.
Rolles Gracie vs. Bob Sapp One FC 2
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
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James Thompson vs Bob Sapp (SFL 1)
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- Duration: 8:43
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Bout 8 - Heavy Weights
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Bob Sapp V Hong Man Choi
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- Duration: 9:56
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Bob Sapp v Hong Man Choi
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Bob Sapp vs. Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson)
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- Duration: 6:09
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
At the Bellagio in 2003
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CroCop VS Bob Sapp
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- Duration: 2:29
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Nice KO
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Arm Wrestling (Bob Sapp, Alistair Overeem, etc.) 1
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- Duration: 33:25
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
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Bob Sapp Sucks
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- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Funny Vid
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Arm Wrestling (Bob Sapp, Alistair Overeem, etc.) 2
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- Duration: 28:53
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
The final winner challenges the Japanese world champion at the end.
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The final winner challenges the Japanese world champion at the end.
- published: 31 Dec 2012
- views: 249108
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Bob Sapp Vs Butterbean (Sumo Contest)
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- Duration: 2:56
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
From K-1 Sumo Tournament 2001.
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Bob Sapp Training for Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou at Dream 11
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
for more videos log onto: www.fighthubtv.com Bob Sapp working with MFC lightweight Champion Antonio Mckee for his upcoming fight against Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou at Dream 11. like us on facebook goo.gl follow us on twitter: goo.gl Subscribe for new videos daily! goo.gl
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for more videos log onto: www.fighthubtv.com Bob Sapp working with MFC lightweight Champion Antonio Mckee for his upcoming fight against Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou at Dream 11. like us on facebook goo.gl follow us on twitter: goo.gl Subscribe for new videos daily! goo.gl
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Ultimate Chaos: Bobby Lashley vs. Bob Sapp - fight video
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- Duration: 7:24
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Visit mma-hits.com for more Ultimate Chaos Bobby Lashley vs. Bob Sapp
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- published: 28 Jun 2009
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Michael Jai White punks Bob Sapp
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- Duration: 2:12
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
Michael Jai White just having fun with Bob Sapp check this out- it's funny www.youtube.com find michael at www.facebook.com www.twitter.com Special Workshop: Michael Jai White Master Class Wednesdays Dec. 12 -- Feb. 13*, 8:30-10pm. Michael teaches this 9-week workshop covering fighting, grappling and self defense techniques. All levels welcome! Fee is $25 per class or $180 for entire workshop. RSVP required, space is limited. Contact Senpai Robert Christophe at email Dojofitness@gmail.com or call 818.567.1100 1st come 1st serve but please don't come if UR not serious! (no class 12/26)
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Michael Jai White just having fun with Bob Sapp check this out- it's funny www.youtube.com find michael at www.facebook.com www.twitter.com Special Workshop: Michael Jai White Master Class Wednesdays Dec. 12 -- Feb. 13*, 8:30-10pm. Michael teaches this 9-week workshop covering fighting, grappling and self defense techniques. All levels welcome! Fee is $25 per class or $180 for entire workshop. RSVP required, space is limited. Contact Senpai Robert Christophe at email Dojofitness@gmail.com or call 818.567.1100 1st come 1st serve but please don't come if UR not serious! (no class 12/26)
- published: 18 Jan 2010
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Karyn Bryant Breaks Bob Sapp's Thumb
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- Duration: 2:10
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
*** Watch Complete 1/2hr HD Episodes on www.MMAheat.com *** Taken from Episode 9 of MMA HEAT While getting ready for an interview, things get competitive and host Karyn Bryant challenges Bob "The Beast" Sapp to a thumb wrestling match. The wager makes no sense, but the fight is on. Fingers get broken, egos get bruised and one of them leaves in tears. For more interviews and our 1/2 hour show, check out MMA HEAT - The show that celebrates Heart, Endurance, Aggression and Technique in both MMA and Hollywood. www.MMAheat.com Nós falamos Português! * We're on Facebook www.facebook.com * Follow MMAheat on Twitter: www.twitter.com * Follow Karyn on Twitter: www.twitter.com
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*** Watch Complete 1/2hr HD Episodes on www.MMAheat.com *** Taken from Episode 9 of MMA HEAT While getting ready for an interview, things get competitive and host Karyn Bryant challenges Bob "The Beast" Sapp to a thumb wrestling match. The wager makes no sense, but the fight is on. Fingers get broken, egos get bruised and one of them leaves in tears. For more interviews and our 1/2 hour show, check out MMA HEAT - The show that celebrates Heart, Endurance, Aggression and Technique in both MMA and Hollywood. www.MMAheat.com Nós falamos Português! * We're on Facebook www.facebook.com * Follow MMAheat on Twitter: www.twitter.com * Follow Karyn on Twitter: www.twitter.com
- published: 29 Jan 2010
- views: 73864
- author: KarynBryant
Ernesto Hoost vs Bob Sapp(1st)
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- Duration: 4:33
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
Ernesto Hoost vs Bob Sapp(1st)
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Bob Sapp vs. Kimo - K-1 WGP 2003 in Las Vegas Ⅱ
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- Duration: 8:51
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
K-1 WGP 2003 in Las Vegas Ⅱ / Super Fight (August, 2003) Bob Sapp vs. Kimo (K-1 rules)
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K-1 WGP 2003 in Las Vegas Ⅱ / Super Fight (August, 2003) Bob Sapp vs. Kimo (K-1 rules)
- published: 28 May 2012
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Bob Sapp
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- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Compilation of Bob Sapp matches.
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K-1 Classic - Mirko Cro Cop vs. Bob Sapp - K-1 WGP 2003 in Saitama
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- Duration: 3:37
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
K-1 WGP 2003 in Saitama (March, 2003) Mirko Cro Cop vs. Bob Sapp (K-1 rules)
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K-1 WGP 2003 in Saitama (March, 2003) Mirko Cro Cop vs. Bob Sapp (K-1 rules)
- published: 29 Mar 2012
- views: 61785
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Cro Cop Vs Bob Sapp
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- Duration: 2:07
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
One of the biggest matches in K-1 history. The hype leading toi this match was second to none. Croatian Commentator loses his mind.
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One of the biggest matches in K-1 history. The hype leading toi this match was second to none. Croatian Commentator loses his mind.
- published: 15 Dec 2006
- views: 1176379
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bob sapp broken cheek bone
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- Duration: 1:31
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
mirko cro cop runs bob sapp to the ground.
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ULTIMATE FIGHT - Dusan Panajotovic VS Bob Sapp
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- Duration: 4:47
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Dusan Panajotovic VS Bob Sapp, ultimate fight Serbia Rtv Pink, 15.09.2012.
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Dusan Panajotovic VS Bob Sapp, ultimate fight Serbia Rtv Pink, 15.09.2012.
- published: 15 Sep 2012
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Alan KARAEV vs Bob Sapp
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- Duration: 7:03
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
Ossetian fighter.
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IT'S SAPP TIME
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- Duration: 4:06
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
IT'S SAPP TIME! HELL YEAH
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Arm Wrestling (Bob Sapp, Alistair Overeem, etc.) 1
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- Duration: 33:25
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
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Arm Wrestling (Bob Sapp, Alistair Overeem, etc.) 2
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- Duration: 28:53
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
The final winner challenges the Japanese world champion at the end.
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The final winner challenges the Japanese world champion at the end.
- published: 31 Dec 2012
- views: 249108
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Bob Sapp Denies Throwing Fights
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- Duration: 45:40
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Bob Sapp talks about his recent losses as an MMA fighter, and much more, in a lengthy interview on The MMA Hour. "Subscribe to our channel for more MMA videos! Click here: www.youtube.com - Check us out on Facebook (Facebook.com/MMAFighting) and follow us on Twitter (@MMAFighting)! - MMA Fighting www.mmafighting.com"
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Bob Sapp talks about his recent losses as an MMA fighter, and much more, in a lengthy interview on The MMA Hour. "Subscribe to our channel for more MMA videos! Click here: www.youtube.com - Check us out on Facebook (Facebook.com/MMAFighting) and follow us on Twitter (@MMAFighting)! - MMA Fighting www.mmafighting.com"
- published: 23 May 2012
- views: 10665
- author: MMA Fighting
Bob Sapp vs Musashi - HD
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- Duration: 21:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
K-1 Premium Dynamite! 2005 12-31-2005
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PRIDE legend "Big Cat" Tom Erikson talks Bob Sapp, Fedor, and the Golden Age of MMA
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- Duration: 67:15
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
Check out this exclusive from Casey Oxendine and Cyrus Fees, as they get into the head of wrestling/MMA legend "Big Cat" Tom Erikson. A variety of topics in this one, including Tom's take on Bob Sapp's fall from grace.
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Check out this exclusive from Casey Oxendine and Cyrus Fees, as they get into the head of wrestling/MMA legend "Big Cat" Tom Erikson. A variety of topics in this one, including Tom's take on Bob Sapp's fall from grace.
- published: 15 Dec 2012
- views: 432
- author: MMAInsideTheCageTV
UFC 147, Problems in MMA, and is Bob Sapp throwing fights?
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:57
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
UFC 147 will feature the rematch between Rich Franklin and Wanderlei Silva, as well as some top middleweight hopefuls from "The Ultimate Fighter Brazil." MMA as it grows is facing new problems, point system, the use of PED's, and fighters throwing fights.
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UFC 147 will feature the rematch between Rich Franklin and Wanderlei Silva, as well as some top middleweight hopefuls from "The Ultimate Fighter Brazil." MMA as it grows is facing new problems, point system, the use of PED's, and fighters throwing fights.
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 39510
- author: UncutSports
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs Bob Sapp - Full Fight HQ
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:43
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Shockwave 2002 8-28-2002
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K-1 The Best... Bob Sapp- Kimo -2003.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:23
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
K-1 The Best.
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K-1 The Best...Bob Sapp-Musashi - 2005.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:09
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
K-1 The Best.
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K-1 The Best... Bob Sapp - Akebono-2003.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 39:55
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
K-1 The Best.
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K-1 the Best... Bob Sapp- Lebanner -2004.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:51
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
K-1 The Best.
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Blood and Bone. FULL MOVIE
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 93:28
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Blood and Bone is a 2009 American direct-to-DVD martial arts film directed by Ben Ramsey and written by Michael Andrews. The film stars Michael Jai White, Eamonn Walker and Julian Sands, and features martial artist Matt Mullins and MMA fighters Bob Sapp, Kimbo Slice, Maurice Smith, Gina Carano and Ernest "The Cat" Miller. Fresh out of prison, Isaiah Bone (Michael Jai White) moves to Los Angeles, where underground fights are being held. One night, after watching a match involving local champion Hammerman (Bob Sapp), Bone makes a deal with promoter Pinball (Dante Basco) to get him into the fight scene for 20% of his earnings (40% if Pinball puts his own money on the line). On that same night, Bone encounters mob boss James (Eamonn Walker) and his girlfriend Angela Soto (Michelle Belegrin). It is revealed to Bone by Pinball that Angela was previously married, but James set her husband up on a triple-homicide, sending him to jail. When James learned that she was pregnant, he had her undergo an abortion. Since then, Angela has fallen into drug addiction. Over the next few nights, Bone makes a name for himself in the underground fighting scene, defeating every fighter in his path and earning himself and Pinball thousands in cash. At the same time, he bonds with the people who live at his apartment building: Tamara (Nona Gaye) - the landlady who manages his apartment, Roberto (Dick Anthony Williams) - an elderly man whom he plays chess with, and Jared (Brody Lee and Cody Lee ...
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Blood and Bone is a 2009 American direct-to-DVD martial arts film directed by Ben Ramsey and written by Michael Andrews. The film stars Michael Jai White, Eamonn Walker and Julian Sands, and features martial artist Matt Mullins and MMA fighters Bob Sapp, Kimbo Slice, Maurice Smith, Gina Carano and Ernest "The Cat" Miller. Fresh out of prison, Isaiah Bone (Michael Jai White) moves to Los Angeles, where underground fights are being held. One night, after watching a match involving local champion Hammerman (Bob Sapp), Bone makes a deal with promoter Pinball (Dante Basco) to get him into the fight scene for 20% of his earnings (40% if Pinball puts his own money on the line). On that same night, Bone encounters mob boss James (Eamonn Walker) and his girlfriend Angela Soto (Michelle Belegrin). It is revealed to Bone by Pinball that Angela was previously married, but James set her husband up on a triple-homicide, sending him to jail. When James learned that she was pregnant, he had her undergo an abortion. Since then, Angela has fallen into drug addiction. Over the next few nights, Bone makes a name for himself in the underground fighting scene, defeating every fighter in his path and earning himself and Pinball thousands in cash. At the same time, he bonds with the people who live at his apartment building: Tamara (Nona Gaye) - the landlady who manages his apartment, Roberto (Dick Anthony Williams) - an elderly man whom he plays chess with, and Jared (Brody Lee and Cody Lee ...
- published: 24 Dec 2012
- views: 2505
- author: thecrosscultural
Mariusz Pudzianowski VS Bob Sapp - Pełna walka
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:53
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Mariusz Pudzianowski VS Bob Sapp Kompletny materiał nagrany wprost z Polsatu. Sama walka zaczyna się dopiero od 13 minuty.
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Mariusz Pudzianowski VS Bob Sapp Kompletny materiał nagrany wprost z Polsatu. Sama walka zaczyna się dopiero od 13 minuty.
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 7157
- author: SuperRavenPL
Ray Sefo discusses the debut WSOF event
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:04
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
The legendary Ray Sefo stopped by Pro MMA Insider just 48 hours before the inaugural WSOF event in Las Vegas, NV. Ray discusses the key to success for the fledgling organization, how he got involved, and which fights he is looking most forward to. He even talks a little bit about his fight with Bob Sapp back in 2004 For more exclusive videos from Pro MMA Insider please SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube page at www.youtube.com or visit our site at www.proboxinginsider.com or www.prommainsider.com. Follow Jeff Mayweather on twitter @JeffMayweather1 or @PBInsider
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The legendary Ray Sefo stopped by Pro MMA Insider just 48 hours before the inaugural WSOF event in Las Vegas, NV. Ray discusses the key to success for the fledgling organization, how he got involved, and which fights he is looking most forward to. He even talks a little bit about his fight with Bob Sapp back in 2004 For more exclusive videos from Pro MMA Insider please SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube page at www.youtube.com or visit our site at www.proboxinginsider.com or www.prommainsider.com. Follow Jeff Mayweather on twitter @JeffMayweather1 or @PBInsider
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 49
- author: Jazzy Jeff
Conan the Barbarian (2011) Movie Review
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 27:10
- Updated: 23 Apr 2012
Conan the Barbarian is a 2011 sword and sorcery fantasy film based on the character Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard. The film is a new interpretation of the Conan mythology, and is not related to the films featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It stars Jason Momoa in the titular role, alongside Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, and Bob Sapp with Marcus Nispel directing. The film had spent seven years in development at Warner Bros. before the rights were shifted to Nu Image/Millennium Films in 2007, with a clause wishing for immediate start on production. Lionsgate and Sony Pictures entered negotiations for distribution, with the film seeing many directors, prominently Brett Ratner, before settling on Nispel in 2009 and subsequently bringing together a cast and crew. Filming began on March 15, 2010 and concluded on June 5, 2010.
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Conan the Barbarian is a 2011 sword and sorcery fantasy film based on the character Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard. The film is a new interpretation of the Conan mythology, and is not related to the films featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It stars Jason Momoa in the titular role, alongside Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, and Bob Sapp with Marcus Nispel directing. The film had spent seven years in development at Warner Bros. before the rights were shifted to Nu Image/Millennium Films in 2007, with a clause wishing for immediate start on production. Lionsgate and Sony Pictures entered negotiations for distribution, with the film seeing many directors, prominently Brett Ratner, before settling on Nispel in 2009 and subsequently bringing together a cast and crew. Filming began on March 15, 2010 and concluded on June 5, 2010.
- published: 25 Nov 2011
- views: 843
- author: ramboraph4life
MMA HEAT - The Fight Game
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:40
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
From the Vault: this TV episode originally aired November 17, 2010 on MAVTV. We check out the premiere of EA Sports MMA with Fedor Emelianenko and Randy Couture, we go behind the Scenes at Strikeforce: Diaz vs Noons II and we talk to Bob Sapp about the work involved incorporating a fighter into a video game. Be sure to visit www.MMAHEAT.com for more interviews and MMA content. Nós falamos Português! * We're on Facebook www.facebook.com * Follow MMAheat on Twitter: www.twitter.com * Follow Karyn on Twitter: www.twitter.com
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From the Vault: this TV episode originally aired November 17, 2010 on MAVTV. We check out the premiere of EA Sports MMA with Fedor Emelianenko and Randy Couture, we go behind the Scenes at Strikeforce: Diaz vs Noons II and we talk to Bob Sapp about the work involved incorporating a fighter into a video game. Be sure to visit www.MMAHEAT.com for more interviews and MMA content. Nós falamos Português! * We're on Facebook www.facebook.com * Follow MMAheat on Twitter: www.twitter.com * Follow Karyn on Twitter: www.twitter.com
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 6805
- author: KarynBryant
Pride on PS3 11:Liddell vs Jackson
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 34:14
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
MAIN EVENT: Chuck Liddell vs Rampage Jackson CO-MAIN EVENT: Bob Sapp (Pride Era) vs Mark Coleman (Pride Era) Brad Pickett vs Nick Diaz Josh Koscheck vs Paulo Filho (Pride Era)
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MAIN EVENT: Chuck Liddell vs Rampage Jackson CO-MAIN EVENT: Bob Sapp (Pride Era) vs Mark Coleman (Pride Era) Brad Pickett vs Nick Diaz Josh Koscheck vs Paulo Filho (Pride Era)
- published: 01 Jul 2012
- views: 76
- author: LingeringRegime
El Gran Stan
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 109:07
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
TÍTULO ORIGINAL Big Stan AÑO / PAÍS 2007 / Estados Unidos ESTRENO 22 de Enero de 2009 DURACIÓN 105 min. DIRECTOR Rob Schneider REPARTO Rob Schneider, Jennifer Morrison, Tsuyoshi Abe, TJ Amato, Chris Astoyan, Erik Betts, David Carradine, Randy Couture, Barbara Dodd, Federico Dordei, Robert Flores, Joseph Fossum-Perez, Don Frye, Bob Sapp GUIÓN Josh Lieb MÚSICA John Hunter FOTOGRAFÍA Victor Hammer PRODUCTORA Crystal Sky Pictures GÉNERO Comedia. Artes marciales. Drama carcelario SINOPSIS Stan, aterrado ante el hecho de ir a la cárcel, por culpa de un delito fiscal, tratará de aprender una misteriosa arte marcial gracias a un maestro que le instruirá. Título en Latinoamérica: "Un abogado enjaulado". (FILMAFFINITY) Titulos de las canciones de la pelicula: www.mediafire.com
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TÍTULO ORIGINAL Big Stan AÑO / PAÍS 2007 / Estados Unidos ESTRENO 22 de Enero de 2009 DURACIÓN 105 min. DIRECTOR Rob Schneider REPARTO Rob Schneider, Jennifer Morrison, Tsuyoshi Abe, TJ Amato, Chris Astoyan, Erik Betts, David Carradine, Randy Couture, Barbara Dodd, Federico Dordei, Robert Flores, Joseph Fossum-Perez, Don Frye, Bob Sapp GUIÓN Josh Lieb MÚSICA John Hunter FOTOGRAFÍA Victor Hammer PRODUCTORA Crystal Sky Pictures GÉNERO Comedia. Artes marciales. Drama carcelario SINOPSIS Stan, aterrado ante el hecho de ir a la cárcel, por culpa de un delito fiscal, tratará de aprender una misteriosa arte marcial gracias a un maestro que le instruirá. Título en Latinoamérica: "Un abogado enjaulado". (FILMAFFINITY) Titulos de las canciones de la pelicula: www.mediafire.com
- published: 23 Jul 2012
- views: 45297
- author: AXIONMANDJ
WWE Bash & Ultimate Chaos Review
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 26:08
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
OVERALL PPV Rating:7/10 Scramble Match for the ECW Championship **1/2 Tommy Dreamer(c) vs Christian vs Jack Swagger vs Finlay vs Mark Henry w/Tony Atlas Mask vs Intercontinental Championship ****1/2 Rey Mysterio vs Chris Jericho(c) No DQ Match *1/4 Dolph Ziggler vs The Great Khali Women's Championship *3/4 Melina(c) vs Michelle McCool w/Alicia Fox World Heavyweight Championship *** CM Punk(c) vs Jeff Hardy John Cena vs Miz *1/2 3 Stages of Hell ***1/4 Randy Orton(c) vs Triple H OVERALL PPV Rating:6.5/10 Catchweight Bout James Orso(5-2-0) def Danny Abbadi(3-5-0) via Unanimous Decision Lightweight Bout Brandon Harder(1-0-0) def John Harris(0-2-0) Catchweight Bout 160 lbs Tom Atencio(2-0-0) def Randy Hedderick(0-1-0) via TKO(couldn't answer the bell before round 3) Welterweight Bout Waachiim Spirtwolf(6-4-0) def Brett Cooper(9-5-0) via KO Lightweight Bout Chris "The Polish Hammer" Horodecki(13-1-0) def William "The Bull" Sriyapi(12-5-0) via Submission Featherweight Bout Javier "Showtime" Vasquez(13-2-0) def Mark Kergoison(0-1-0) Weltereweight Bout Colin "The Gift" McKee(4-2-0) def Lance Thompson(1-1-0) via Submission(Strikes) Heavyweight Bout Gilbert "The Hurricane" Yvel(36-13-1 1NC) def Pedro "The Rock" Rizzo(16-9-0) Super Heavyweight Bout Bobby Lashley(4-0-0) def Bob "The Beast" Sapp(10-5-1)
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OVERALL PPV Rating:7/10 Scramble Match for the ECW Championship **1/2 Tommy Dreamer(c) vs Christian vs Jack Swagger vs Finlay vs Mark Henry w/Tony Atlas Mask vs Intercontinental Championship ****1/2 Rey Mysterio vs Chris Jericho(c) No DQ Match *1/4 Dolph Ziggler vs The Great Khali Women's Championship *3/4 Melina(c) vs Michelle McCool w/Alicia Fox World Heavyweight Championship *** CM Punk(c) vs Jeff Hardy John Cena vs Miz *1/2 3 Stages of Hell ***1/4 Randy Orton(c) vs Triple H OVERALL PPV Rating:6.5/10 Catchweight Bout James Orso(5-2-0) def Danny Abbadi(3-5-0) via Unanimous Decision Lightweight Bout Brandon Harder(1-0-0) def John Harris(0-2-0) Catchweight Bout 160 lbs Tom Atencio(2-0-0) def Randy Hedderick(0-1-0) via TKO(couldn't answer the bell before round 3) Welterweight Bout Waachiim Spirtwolf(6-4-0) def Brett Cooper(9-5-0) via KO Lightweight Bout Chris "The Polish Hammer" Horodecki(13-1-0) def William "The Bull" Sriyapi(12-5-0) via Submission Featherweight Bout Javier "Showtime" Vasquez(13-2-0) def Mark Kergoison(0-1-0) Weltereweight Bout Colin "The Gift" McKee(4-2-0) def Lance Thompson(1-1-0) via Submission(Strikes) Heavyweight Bout Gilbert "The Hurricane" Yvel(36-13-1 1NC) def Pedro "The Rock" Rizzo(16-9-0) Super Heavyweight Bout Bobby Lashley(4-0-0) def Bob "The Beast" Sapp(10-5-1)
- published: 29 Jun 2009
- views: 2865
- author: dadirrtywhyteboi
Perry Saturn Shoot Interview 2 Hours
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 100:29
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Perry Saturn Shoot Interview 2 Hours Exclusively from Title Match Wrestling LLC. The old school Eliminator Perry Saturn went all out on this one! Before the face tattoos...long before he went missing, Saturn gave us a series of epic stories, detailing every aspect of his incredible career. Topics Include: * Who indirectly influenced his decision to become a pro wrestler * Why he chose to join Killer Kowalski's wrestling school * His pro debut * What he realized about Triple H from the first day they met * Why his tag team with Terry Ryzing (Triple H) ended * His first tour of Japan and why he felt he didn't belong there * How he broke John Kronus into the business and why he made Kronus his tag team partner * Memories of working USWA in Memphis * Memories of The Eliminators tour of Japan for WAR, including working with Chris Jericho, Ultimo Dragon, Gedo, Hiromichi, Fuyuki, Warlord, Hector Garza, Bob Backlund, Genichiro Tenryu, John Tenta, and Mil Mascaras (who Saturn hates with a passion) * The reasons he and Kronus were asked to work ECW and how they convinced Paul Heyman to let them stay * ECW memories, working with the Steiner Bros, Pit Bulls, 911, Rey Misterio Jr., Francine, Cactus Jack, Mikey Whipwreck, Terry Gordy, and Steve Williams * Why he hated working with The Gangstas * Why The Eliminators were put in a program with the Dudly Boyz * Memories of being a trainer for the House of Hardcore and his assessment of the first graduates * His program with Sabu & Rob Van ...
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Perry Saturn Shoot Interview 2 Hours Exclusively from Title Match Wrestling LLC. The old school Eliminator Perry Saturn went all out on this one! Before the face tattoos...long before he went missing, Saturn gave us a series of epic stories, detailing every aspect of his incredible career. Topics Include: * Who indirectly influenced his decision to become a pro wrestler * Why he chose to join Killer Kowalski's wrestling school * His pro debut * What he realized about Triple H from the first day they met * Why his tag team with Terry Ryzing (Triple H) ended * His first tour of Japan and why he felt he didn't belong there * How he broke John Kronus into the business and why he made Kronus his tag team partner * Memories of working USWA in Memphis * Memories of The Eliminators tour of Japan for WAR, including working with Chris Jericho, Ultimo Dragon, Gedo, Hiromichi, Fuyuki, Warlord, Hector Garza, Bob Backlund, Genichiro Tenryu, John Tenta, and Mil Mascaras (who Saturn hates with a passion) * The reasons he and Kronus were asked to work ECW and how they convinced Paul Heyman to let them stay * ECW memories, working with the Steiner Bros, Pit Bulls, 911, Rey Misterio Jr., Francine, Cactus Jack, Mikey Whipwreck, Terry Gordy, and Steve Williams * Why he hated working with The Gangstas * Why The Eliminators were put in a program with the Dudly Boyz * Memories of being a trainer for the House of Hardcore and his assessment of the first graduates * His program with Sabu & Rob Van ...
- published: 04 Aug 2012
- views: 14017
- author: TitleMatchWrestling
Funny videos - Just For Laughs - Pathan pashto funny videos collection must watch hahahaahahah
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 38:00
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Just For Laughs Gags New Pashto Song 2012 By Dil Raj Shawal Ta Rosha Romantic Song 2012 kabul,peshawar.Afganistan PAKHTOONsDEDICATED TO AFGHANISTAN, JALALABAD, KABUL,PAKIA, LAGHMAN,HILMAND,PTV NATIONAL,ARY ONE WORLD,THE MUSIC,MTV,SHAMSHAD TV,TULU,TOLO,LAMAR,KHYBER AGENCY,WAZIRISTAN AGENCY,MIRALI,BANNU,KARAK,DIKHAN,LUCKY MARWAT,KOHAT,PESHAWAR,BHATKHELA,MALAKAND ,SWAT,MARRI,KOHAT,PARACHINAR,HANGU,TAL,M IRANSHAN,ANP,NWFP,SANDARE,FUN,ENJOY,OLD TRADITION MUSIC,ATTARN,ATTAR,ATARN,DANCE,FM101,FM1 04,FM106,FM BURAQ,DUBAI,DAWAR,MASOOD,SARDAR ALI TAKKER,HAROON BACHA,SANGEEN AFRIDI,AMJAD KHAN,SARFARAZ,KHALID MALIK,ASHRAF GULZAR,GULZARALAM,FARHAD DARYA,NAGMA,WAGMA,NAZIA IQBAL,RANI,SHAHINSHAH,ZEEK AFRIDI,HAMAYUN KHAN,FAZA FIAZ,BAKHTIYAR KHATTAK,ADNAN SAMI,SONU NIGAM,UDIT NARAYAN,LATA MANGESHKAR,ASHA BOSLE,SHAHRUKH KHAN,AAMIR KHAN,PASHTO,PUSHTO,NEWS,BBC,FUNNY,ENTERT AINMENT,MOVIE,GAME ETCFlabbergasted come from? Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto salmon oil heart health See exclusive footage of Bob Sapp on Fight Network Radio where he discussed the use of performance enhancing drugs. For more - go to www.THEFIGHTNETWORK.com - ALL FIGHTS! ALL THE TIME!preview of the Disney channel original movie Camp Rock. Coming this June staring Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, and Demi Lovato. Copyright © Disney Channel Lucas scored the equalizer for Liverpool in the FA Cup fourth round tie against Havant & Waterlooville.Last games final ...
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Just For Laughs Gags New Pashto Song 2012 By Dil Raj Shawal Ta Rosha Romantic Song 2012 kabul,peshawar.Afganistan PAKHTOONsDEDICATED TO AFGHANISTAN, JALALABAD, KABUL,PAKIA, LAGHMAN,HILMAND,PTV NATIONAL,ARY ONE WORLD,THE MUSIC,MTV,SHAMSHAD TV,TULU,TOLO,LAMAR,KHYBER AGENCY,WAZIRISTAN AGENCY,MIRALI,BANNU,KARAK,DIKHAN,LUCKY MARWAT,KOHAT,PESHAWAR,BHATKHELA,MALAKAND ,SWAT,MARRI,KOHAT,PARACHINAR,HANGU,TAL,M IRANSHAN,ANP,NWFP,SANDARE,FUN,ENJOY,OLD TRADITION MUSIC,ATTARN,ATTAR,ATARN,DANCE,FM101,FM1 04,FM106,FM BURAQ,DUBAI,DAWAR,MASOOD,SARDAR ALI TAKKER,HAROON BACHA,SANGEEN AFRIDI,AMJAD KHAN,SARFARAZ,KHALID MALIK,ASHRAF GULZAR,GULZARALAM,FARHAD DARYA,NAGMA,WAGMA,NAZIA IQBAL,RANI,SHAHINSHAH,ZEEK AFRIDI,HAMAYUN KHAN,FAZA FIAZ,BAKHTIYAR KHATTAK,ADNAN SAMI,SONU NIGAM,UDIT NARAYAN,LATA MANGESHKAR,ASHA BOSLE,SHAHRUKH KHAN,AAMIR KHAN,PASHTO,PUSHTO,NEWS,BBC,FUNNY,ENTERT AINMENT,MOVIE,GAME ETCFlabbergasted come from? Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto salmon oil heart health See exclusive footage of Bob Sapp on Fight Network Radio where he discussed the use of performance enhancing drugs. For more - go to www.THEFIGHTNETWORK.com - ALL FIGHTS! ALL THE TIME!preview of the Disney channel original movie Camp Rock. Coming this June staring Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, and Demi Lovato. Copyright © Disney Channel Lucas scored the equalizer for Liverpool in the FA Cup fourth round tie against Havant & Waterlooville.Last games final ...
- published: 14 Oct 2012
- views: 21861
- author: KhabarnakChannel
Wrestling Roundtable 8/9/09 Part 1 Lesnar Vs. Mir 2/UFC 101/MMA Heavyweights
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:23
- Updated: 27 Oct 2012
The panel discusses the unification title match at UFC 100 in Las Vegas pitting former NCAA & WWE World Champion Brock Lesnar against Frank Mir to unify the UFC Heavyweight & Interim Heavyweight titles. We also discuss Pride & WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko signing with Strikeforce, Bobby Lashley, and Ultimate Fighting Championship's 101 debut in Philadelphia featuring Middlweight champ Anderson "The Spider" Silva Vs. Forrest Griffin & Lightweight Champion BJ Penn Vs. Kenny Florian. Hosted by Eric Santamaria. * The views expressed on The Wrestling Roundtable are solely those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other entity, person or organization *
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The panel discusses the unification title match at UFC 100 in Las Vegas pitting former NCAA & WWE World Champion Brock Lesnar against Frank Mir to unify the UFC Heavyweight & Interim Heavyweight titles. We also discuss Pride & WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko signing with Strikeforce, Bobby Lashley, and Ultimate Fighting Championship's 101 debut in Philadelphia featuring Middlweight champ Anderson "The Spider" Silva Vs. Forrest Griffin & Lightweight Champion BJ Penn Vs. Kenny Florian. Hosted by Eric Santamaria. * The views expressed on The Wrestling Roundtable are solely those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other entity, person or organization *
- published: 14 Aug 2009
- views: 12931
- author: WrestlingRoundtable
RSS Bannu Annual Result Ceremony Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:45
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
RSS Bannu Annual Result Ceremony Part 1 RSS Bannu, Reliance School System Nizam Bazar Bannu kpk ph 0928-631315 khyber pakhtunkhwa pashto song 2011 peshawar.Afganistan PAKHTOONsDEDICATED TO AFGHANISTAN, JALALABAD, KABUL,PAKIA, LAGHMAN ,HILMAND,PTV NATIONAL,ARY ONE WORLD,THE MUSIC,MTV,SHAMSHAD TV,TULU,TOLO,LAMAR,KHYBER AGENCY,WAZIRISTAN AGENCY,MIRALI,BANNU,KARAK,DIKHAN,LUCKY MARWAT,KOHAT,PESHAWAR,BHATKHELA,MALAKAND ,SWAT,MARRI,KOHAT,PARACHINAR,HANGU,TAL,M IRANSHAN,ANP,NWFP,SANDARE,FUN,ENJOY,OLD TRADITION MUSIC,ATTARN,ATTAR,ATARN,DANCE,FM101,FM1 04,FM106,FM BURAQ,DUBAI,DAWAR,MASOOD,SARDAR ALI TAKKER,HAROON BACHA,SANGEEN AFRIDI,AMJAD KHAN,SARFARAZ,KHALID MALIK,ASHRAF GULZAR,GULZARALAM,FARHAD DARYA,NAGMA,WAGMA,NAZIA IQBAL,RANI,SHAHINSHAH,ZEEK AFRIDI,HAMAYUN KHAN,FAZA FIAZ,BAKHTIYAR KHATTAK,ADNAN SAMI,SONU NIGAM,UDIT NARAYAN,LATA MANGESHKAR,ASHA BOSLE,SHAHRUKH KHAN,AAMIR KHAN,PASHTO,PUSHTO,NEWS,BBC,FUNNY,ENTERT AINMENT,MOVIE,GAME ETCFlabbergasted come from? Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden desi paki themali 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto salmon oil heart health See exclusive footage of Bob Sapp on Fight Network Radio where he discussed the use of performance enhancing drugs. For more - go to ALL FIGHTS! ALL THE TIME!preview of the Disney channel original movie Camp Rock. Coming this June staring Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, and Demi Lovato. Copyright © Disney Channel Lucas scored the equalizer for Liverpool in the FA Cup fourth round tie against ...
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RSS Bannu Annual Result Ceremony Part 1 RSS Bannu, Reliance School System Nizam Bazar Bannu kpk ph 0928-631315 khyber pakhtunkhwa pashto song 2011 peshawar.Afganistan PAKHTOONsDEDICATED TO AFGHANISTAN, JALALABAD, KABUL,PAKIA, LAGHMAN ,HILMAND,PTV NATIONAL,ARY ONE WORLD,THE MUSIC,MTV,SHAMSHAD TV,TULU,TOLO,LAMAR,KHYBER AGENCY,WAZIRISTAN AGENCY,MIRALI,BANNU,KARAK,DIKHAN,LUCKY MARWAT,KOHAT,PESHAWAR,BHATKHELA,MALAKAND ,SWAT,MARRI,KOHAT,PARACHINAR,HANGU,TAL,M IRANSHAN,ANP,NWFP,SANDARE,FUN,ENJOY,OLD TRADITION MUSIC,ATTARN,ATTAR,ATARN,DANCE,FM101,FM1 04,FM106,FM BURAQ,DUBAI,DAWAR,MASOOD,SARDAR ALI TAKKER,HAROON BACHA,SANGEEN AFRIDI,AMJAD KHAN,SARFARAZ,KHALID MALIK,ASHRAF GULZAR,GULZARALAM,FARHAD DARYA,NAGMA,WAGMA,NAZIA IQBAL,RANI,SHAHINSHAH,ZEEK AFRIDI,HAMAYUN KHAN,FAZA FIAZ,BAKHTIYAR KHATTAK,ADNAN SAMI,SONU NIGAM,UDIT NARAYAN,LATA MANGESHKAR,ASHA BOSLE,SHAHRUKH KHAN,AAMIR KHAN,PASHTO,PUSHTO,NEWS,BBC,FUNNY,ENTERT AINMENT,MOVIE,GAME ETCFlabbergasted come from? Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto shippuden desi paki themali 44 Naruto shippuden 44 Naruto salmon oil heart health See exclusive footage of Bob Sapp on Fight Network Radio where he discussed the use of performance enhancing drugs. For more - go to ALL FIGHTS! ALL THE TIME!preview of the Disney channel original movie Camp Rock. Coming this June staring Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, and Demi Lovato. Copyright © Disney Channel Lucas scored the equalizer for Liverpool in the FA Cup fourth round tie against ...
- published: 01 Apr 2012
- views: 2376
- author: RelianceSchool
28:53
Arm Wrestling (Bob Sapp, Alistair Overeem, etc.) 2
The final winner challenges the Japanese world champion at the end....
published: 31 Dec 2012
author: TAKU220
Arm Wrestling (Bob Sapp, Alistair Overeem, etc.) 2
The final winner challenges the Japanese world champion at the end.
- published: 31 Dec 2012
- views: 249108
- author: TAKU220
45:40
Bob Sapp Denies Throwing Fights
Bob Sapp talks about his recent losses as an MMA fighter, and much more, in a lengthy inte...
published: 23 May 2012
author: MMA Fighting
Bob Sapp Denies Throwing Fights
Bob Sapp talks about his recent losses as an MMA fighter, and much more, in a lengthy interview on The MMA Hour. "Subscribe to our channel for more MMA videos! Click here: www.youtube.com - Check us out on Facebook (Facebook.com/MMAFighting) and follow us on Twitter (@MMAFighting)! - MMA Fighting www.mmafighting.com"
- published: 23 May 2012
- views: 10665
- author: MMA Fighting
21:22
Bob Sapp vs Musashi - HD
K-1 Premium Dynamite! 2005 12-31-2005...
published: 19 Sep 2012
author: FightFan180
Bob Sapp vs Musashi - HD
K-1 Premium Dynamite! 2005 12-31-2005
- published: 19 Sep 2012
- views: 2336
- author: FightFan180
67:15
PRIDE legend "Big Cat" Tom Erikson talks Bob Sapp, Fedor, and the Golden Age of MMA
Check out this exclusive from Casey Oxendine and Cyrus Fees, as they get into the head of ...
published: 15 Dec 2012
author: MMAInsideTheCageTV
PRIDE legend "Big Cat" Tom Erikson talks Bob Sapp, Fedor, and the Golden Age of MMA
Check out this exclusive from Casey Oxendine and Cyrus Fees, as they get into the head of wrestling/MMA legend "Big Cat" Tom Erikson. A variety of topics in this one, including Tom's take on Bob Sapp's fall from grace.
- published: 15 Dec 2012
- views: 432
- author: MMAInsideTheCageTV
24:57
UFC 147, Problems in MMA, and is Bob Sapp throwing fights?
UFC 147 will feature the rematch between Rich Franklin and Wanderlei Silva, as well as som...
published: 18 Jun 2012
author: UncutSports
UFC 147, Problems in MMA, and is Bob Sapp throwing fights?
UFC 147 will feature the rematch between Rich Franklin and Wanderlei Silva, as well as some top middleweight hopefuls from "The Ultimate Fighter Brazil." MMA as it grows is facing new problems, point system, the use of PED's, and fighters throwing fights.
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 39510
- author: UncutSports
22:43
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs Bob Sapp - Full Fight HQ
Shockwave 2002 8-28-2002...
published: 22 Sep 2012
author: FightFan180
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs Bob Sapp - Full Fight HQ
Shockwave 2002 8-28-2002
- published: 22 Sep 2012
- views: 16024
- author: FightFan180
20:23
K-1 The Best... Bob Sapp- Kimo -2003.
K-1 The Best....
published: 27 Feb 2012
author: Вася Мишин
K-1 The Best... Bob Sapp- Kimo -2003.
K-1 The Best.
- published: 27 Feb 2012
- views: 1571
- author: Вася Мишин
28:09
K-1 The Best...Bob Sapp-Musashi - 2005.
K-1 The Best....
published: 27 Feb 2012
author: Вася Мишин
K-1 The Best...Bob Sapp-Musashi - 2005.
K-1 The Best.
- published: 27 Feb 2012
- views: 6511
- author: Вася Мишин
39:55
K-1 The Best... Bob Sapp - Akebono-2003.
K-1 The Best....
published: 27 Feb 2012
author: Вася Мишин
K-1 The Best... Bob Sapp - Akebono-2003.
K-1 The Best.
- published: 27 Feb 2012
- views: 4154
- author: Вася Мишин
28:51
K-1 the Best... Bob Sapp- Lebanner -2004.
K-1 The Best....
published: 27 Feb 2012
author: Вася Мишин
K-1 the Best... Bob Sapp- Lebanner -2004.
K-1 The Best.
- published: 27 Feb 2012
- views: 1232
- author: Вася Мишин
93:28
Blood and Bone. FULL MOVIE
Blood and Bone is a 2009 American direct-to-DVD martial arts film directed by Ben Ramsey a...
published: 24 Dec 2012
author: thecrosscultural
Blood and Bone. FULL MOVIE
Blood and Bone is a 2009 American direct-to-DVD martial arts film directed by Ben Ramsey and written by Michael Andrews. The film stars Michael Jai White, Eamonn Walker and Julian Sands, and features martial artist Matt Mullins and MMA fighters Bob Sapp, Kimbo Slice, Maurice Smith, Gina Carano and Ernest "The Cat" Miller. Fresh out of prison, Isaiah Bone (Michael Jai White) moves to Los Angeles, where underground fights are being held. One night, after watching a match involving local champion Hammerman (Bob Sapp), Bone makes a deal with promoter Pinball (Dante Basco) to get him into the fight scene for 20% of his earnings (40% if Pinball puts his own money on the line). On that same night, Bone encounters mob boss James (Eamonn Walker) and his girlfriend Angela Soto (Michelle Belegrin). It is revealed to Bone by Pinball that Angela was previously married, but James set her husband up on a triple-homicide, sending him to jail. When James learned that she was pregnant, he had her undergo an abortion. Since then, Angela has fallen into drug addiction. Over the next few nights, Bone makes a name for himself in the underground fighting scene, defeating every fighter in his path and earning himself and Pinball thousands in cash. At the same time, he bonds with the people who live at his apartment building: Tamara (Nona Gaye) - the landlady who manages his apartment, Roberto (Dick Anthony Williams) - an elderly man whom he plays chess with, and Jared (Brody Lee and Cody Lee ...
- published: 24 Dec 2012
- views: 2505
- author: thecrosscultural
21:53
Mariusz Pudzianowski VS Bob Sapp - Pełna walka
Mariusz Pudzianowski VS Bob Sapp Kompletny materiał nagrany wprost z Polsatu. Sama walka z...
published: 13 May 2012
author: SuperRavenPL
Mariusz Pudzianowski VS Bob Sapp - Pełna walka
Mariusz Pudzianowski VS Bob Sapp Kompletny materiał nagrany wprost z Polsatu. Sama walka zaczyna się dopiero od 13 minuty.
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 7157
- author: SuperRavenPL
22:04
Ray Sefo discusses the debut WSOF event
The legendary Ray Sefo stopped by Pro MMA Insider just 48 hours before the inaugural WSOF ...
published: 02 Nov 2012
author: Jazzy Jeff
Ray Sefo discusses the debut WSOF event
The legendary Ray Sefo stopped by Pro MMA Insider just 48 hours before the inaugural WSOF event in Las Vegas, NV. Ray discusses the key to success for the fledgling organization, how he got involved, and which fights he is looking most forward to. He even talks a little bit about his fight with Bob Sapp back in 2004 For more exclusive videos from Pro MMA Insider please SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube page at www.youtube.com or visit our site at www.proboxinginsider.com or www.prommainsider.com. Follow Jeff Mayweather on twitter @JeffMayweather1 or @PBInsider
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 49
- author: Jazzy Jeff
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1:05
"Big in Japan" Starring Bob Sapp
Reality television show promo, created for The Travel Channel...
published: 14 Feb 2011
author: Anthony Trotter
"Big in Japan" Starring Bob Sapp
Reality television show promo, created for The Travel Channel
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27:10
Conan the Barbarian (2011) Movie Review
Conan the Barbarian is a 2011 sword and sorcery fantasy film based on the character Conan ...
published: 25 Nov 2011
author: ramboraph4life
Conan the Barbarian (2011) Movie Review
Conan the Barbarian is a 2011 sword and sorcery fantasy film based on the character Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard. The film is a new interpretation of the Conan mythology, and is not related to the films featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It stars Jason Momoa in the titular role, alongside Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, and Bob Sapp with Marcus Nispel directing. The film had spent seven years in development at Warner Bros. before the rights were shifted to Nu Image/Millennium Films in 2007, with a clause wishing for immediate start on production. Lionsgate and Sony Pictures entered negotiations for distribution, with the film seeing many directors, prominently Brett Ratner, before settling on Nispel in 2009 and subsequently bringing together a cast and crew. Filming began on March 15, 2010 and concluded on June 5, 2010.
- published: 25 Nov 2011
- views: 843
- author: ramboraph4life
22:40
MMA HEAT - The Fight Game
From the Vault: this TV episode originally aired November 17, 2010 on MAVTV. We check out ...
published: 14 May 2012
author: KarynBryant
MMA HEAT - The Fight Game
From the Vault: this TV episode originally aired November 17, 2010 on MAVTV. We check out the premiere of EA Sports MMA with Fedor Emelianenko and Randy Couture, we go behind the Scenes at Strikeforce: Diaz vs Noons II and we talk to Bob Sapp about the work involved incorporating a fighter into a video game. Be sure to visit www.MMAHEAT.com for more interviews and MMA content. Nós falamos Português! * We're on Facebook www.facebook.com * Follow MMAheat on Twitter: www.twitter.com * Follow Karyn on Twitter: www.twitter.com
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 6805
- author: KarynBryant
34:14
Pride on PS3 11:Liddell vs Jackson
MAIN EVENT: Chuck Liddell vs Rampage Jackson CO-MAIN EVENT: Bob Sapp (Pride Era) vs Mark C...
published: 01 Jul 2012
author: LingeringRegime
Pride on PS3 11:Liddell vs Jackson
MAIN EVENT: Chuck Liddell vs Rampage Jackson CO-MAIN EVENT: Bob Sapp (Pride Era) vs Mark Coleman (Pride Era) Brad Pickett vs Nick Diaz Josh Koscheck vs Paulo Filho (Pride Era)
- published: 01 Jul 2012
- views: 76
- author: LingeringRegime
109:07
El Gran Stan
TÍTULO ORIGINAL Big Stan AÑO / PAÍS 2007 / Estados Unidos ESTRENO 22 de Enero de 2009 DURA...
published: 23 Jul 2012
author: AXIONMANDJ
El Gran Stan
TÍTULO ORIGINAL Big Stan AÑO / PAÍS 2007 / Estados Unidos ESTRENO 22 de Enero de 2009 DURACIÓN 105 min. DIRECTOR Rob Schneider REPARTO Rob Schneider, Jennifer Morrison, Tsuyoshi Abe, TJ Amato, Chris Astoyan, Erik Betts, David Carradine, Randy Couture, Barbara Dodd, Federico Dordei, Robert Flores, Joseph Fossum-Perez, Don Frye, Bob Sapp GUIÓN Josh Lieb MÚSICA John Hunter FOTOGRAFÍA Victor Hammer PRODUCTORA Crystal Sky Pictures GÉNERO Comedia. Artes marciales. Drama carcelario SINOPSIS Stan, aterrado ante el hecho de ir a la cárcel, por culpa de un delito fiscal, tratará de aprender una misteriosa arte marcial gracias a un maestro que le instruirá. Título en Latinoamérica: "Un abogado enjaulado". (FILMAFFINITY) Titulos de las canciones de la pelicula: www.mediafire.com
- published: 23 Jul 2012
- views: 45297
- author: AXIONMANDJ
photo: AP / Juan Karita
04 Jan 2013
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has released a public letter urging the United Kingdom to relinquish its control over the disputed Falkland Islands. ... The veterans delivered a letter addressed to the British Ambassador in Argentina, John Freeman, criticising the British government for refusing to discuss the sovereignty of the islands with the Argentine government ... 508 Source.. Al Jazeera and agencies. Share....(size: 19.6Kb)
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
03 Jan 2013
A gang of men accused of repeatedly raping a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi in a deadly crime that repulsed the nation are to appear in court today for the first time. A British tourist join others in a candlelight vigil to mourn the death of a gang rape victim, in Kolkata, India Photo. AP. 3.52AM GMT 03 Jan 2013 ... Police have ordered a bone test to determine his age and whether he can stand trial in an adult court....(size: 11.3Kb)
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
05 Jan 2013
Tweet. New Delhi, Jan 5 (ANI). The male friend of the 23-year-old medical student, who was gang-raped and left unclothed and bleeding in the street and later died in hospital two weeks after she was attacked on December 16 on a private bus in New Delhi, has said that things would have gone differently if someone had stopped to help ... "It would have been a very different scenario today, had even one person come to our help that day ... (ANI)....(size: 3.8Kb)
photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives
03 Jan 2013
Washington. Aiming to get cooperation through dialogue, the US said that it is working hard to create an environment within Afghanistan and also in the region to have support for Afghan-Afghan reconciliation ... Responding to questions, Nuland said the US supports an Afghan-led process of reconciliation ... Saying that Pakistan needs to engage with Afghanistan directly, Nuland said the US supports dialogue between the two ... PTI ... First Published....(size: 2.3Kb)
photo: AP / SANA
05 Jan 2013
Syrian government forces have bombarded several rebel strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus to quell the fighters battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad from reaching the capital. Activists on Saturday said troops leveled their bombardment campaign on the districts of Hajar al-Aswad and Qaboun in southern Damascus while they continued to shell the suburbs of Daraya, Beit Hahm, Zibdeen, Maadamiya and Jisteen ... 445 Source. ... ....(size: 19.0Kb)
The Examiner
03 Jan 2013
UFC President Dana White must really enjoy putting on superfights for the fans ... “She can get to this weight,” White said, as translated by BJPenn.com. “We have an expert who can help you lose weight in a healthy way. We have Mike Dolce, who has wrestlers lose weight and still feel good and it’s all about your diet.” ... Arm Wrestling (Bob Sapp, Alistair Overeem, etc.) 2 Video of the day. Arm Wrestling (Bob Sapp, Alistair Overeem, etc.) 2 ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
The Examiner
01 Jan 2013
The following matches are confirmed for the biggest Pro Wrestling show in Japan, New Japan Pro Wrestling's Wrestle Kingdom VII at Tokyo Dome on January 4th ... Special 8 Man Tag Match. Manabu Nakanishi, MVP, Strongman & Akebono vs. Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka, Yujiro Takahashi & Bob Sapp. NEVER Openweight Championship Match ... Location ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
The Examiner
27 Nov 2012
Fresh off what can be considered a success in their debut, the World Series of Fighting needs to capitalize on the mostly positive press and entertaining fights they put on at their November 3rd event ... This is why fighters like Bob Sapp, Tank Abbott and others continue to receive fights long after their peak years have passed ... Tyrone Spong was certainly a nice start ... The one exception to these types of fighters would be Bob Sapp ... ....(size: 7.0Kb)
The Examiner
07 Oct 2012
Related topics. Dave BautistaWWEbautistaMMAfight result. Advertisement. Listen, I don’t want to criticize Dave Bautista. For a couple of reasons, actually. One, he’s a giant man that’s covered in tattoos from head to toe. Two, he was a pro wrestler ... And folks, Dave Bautista is not a very good mixed martial artist ... Sort of ... Unfortunately, I’d rather watch Bob Sapp fight. Wait a minute, Bob Sapp vs ... Tweet ... Bob Suicide t.co/F7Iu5l70 34 minutes ago....(size: 8.0Kb)
Sun Star
31 Jul 2012
MIX MARTIAL arts star Eduard Folayang’s faces off against a Swiss upcoming fighter as part of the stacked One Fighting Championship event in Manila come August 31 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum ... Win US$500. Join Sun.Star Cebu Yearbook Video Contest ... Gracie has been on a roll as of late, winning three straight fights capped off by a victory over Bob Sapp at ONE FC 2 ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
The Times of India
05 May 2012
SHARE. AND. DISCUSSTweetJames Thompson, who was a bouncer, a bodybuilder and a debt collector before he joined the world of MMA is well aware of what Lashley will bring to the fight. (TOI Photo) NEW DELHI. If the vibe and clamour around the weigh-in is any indication, then Delhi-ites can't wait to get their share of the Super Fight League ... Book tickets for SFL ... This will be Thompson's second SFL main event - he beat Bob Sapp in Mumbai ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)
The Times of India
01 May 2012
SHARE. AND. DISCUSSTweetSuper Fight League begins in Delhi on May 6. (TOI Photo) NEW DELHI ... Pavia and his team have been going all out to make sure the MMA world sits up and takes notice of the SFL ... We had Bob Sapp for the main event in SFL-1 ... James Thompson, who fought Sapp in Mumbai and will fight in Delhi again, has been with some of the best promotions around the world . SFL-2 went a notch higher with the quality of fights ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
30 Apr 2012
ASA To Become ONE FC's North American Brand Embassador ... Now, ONE FC and ASA have joined forces ... Events thus far have featured well-known fighters such as Phil Baroni, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Melvin Manhoef, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Andy Wang, Rolles Gracie, and Bob Sapp, while also introducing talented combatants such as Zorobabel Moreira, Ole Laursen, Fabricio Monteiro, and rising star Eduard Folayang ... About ONE Fighting Championship ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
19 Apr 2012
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06 Apr 2012
(Getty)Brock Lesnar dominated Cagewriter's Facebook page this week, as many, many, many people had opinions on the big man's return to professional wrestling ... If you want to join in on Reader Rants, like Cagewriter on Facebook and comment on our posts. Readers thought the planned bout between Bob Sapp and Mariusz Pudzianowski would be interesting to watch ... See Bob Sapp either A) tap out due to strikes before 1 min ... -- Gabriel Martinez ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
Toronto Sun
04 Apr 2012
Vancouver native John Alessio is set to return to the UFC after more than a five-year hiatus from the world’s largest MMA promotion. Alessio will replace injured Matt Wiman against Toronto’s Mark Bocek on the main card of UFC 145 in Atlanta April 21 ... 10, 2006 ... ET ... Its first card took place last month in Mumbai and saw James Thompson defeat Bob Sapp after Sapp sustained a knee injury only minutes into the bout ... PAST HISTORY ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
02 Apr 2012
Mariusz Pudzianowski has agreed to fight Bob Sapp for KSW on May 12 ... Sapp, who has fought, starred in movies and played pro football, lost his last five fight ... Sapp's last fight ended ......(size: 0.9Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
02 Apr 2012
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| Born | Robert Malcolm Sapp (1974-09-22) September 22, 1974 (age 37)[1] Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. |
| Other names | The Beast |
| Nationality | American |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Weight | 149.2 kg (329 lb; 23 st 7 lb) |
| Division | Super Heavyweight |
| Fighting out of | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Team | Team Beast MMA |
| Trainer | Prince Amir |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 26 |
| Wins | 11 |
| By knockout | 9 |
| Losses | 15 |
| By knockout | 9 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 25 |
| Wins | 11 |
| By knockout | 8 |
| By submission | 3 |
| Losses | 13 |
| By knockout | 6 |
| By submission | 7 |
| Draws | 1 |
| Other information | |
| University | University of Washington |
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Robert Malcolm "Bob" Sapp (Japanese: [Bobbu Sappu]; born September 22, 1974)[2][3] is an American kickboxer, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, actor, comedian and former professional American football player. Sapp currently has a combined fight record of 22–28–1, mostly fighting in Japan. He is well known in Japan, where he has appeared in countless commercials, television programs, and various other media, and has released a music CD, It's Sapp Time. He also appeared in an episode of the HBO program Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. He is currently working sporadically for various MMA promotions in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. In MMA, Sapp holds a win over Kiyoshi Tamura and in K-1, he holds wins over K-1 legend Ernesto Hoost (2x) and Cyril Abidi.
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American football career[link]
Bob Sapp began his athletic career in high school playing football at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, CO. He received a football scholarship to the University of Washington, where he won the Morris Award. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears 69th overall in the 1997 NFL Draft. Sapp's career took a hit after he was suspended by the NFL for alleged steroid abuse. Sapp signed with the Minnesota Vikings after being released by the Bears. He spent two seasons with the Vikings and only played in one game.
Professional wrestling[link]
Bob Sapp's pro-wrestling career started in NWA Wildside in 2001. He was quickly contracted by World Championship Wrestling as a developmental wrestler, before the company was bought out by the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) (at that time WWF).
In 2004, Sapp competed for New Japan Pro Wrestling, winning their IWGP Heavyweight Championship and becoming the first black man to accomplish this feat, though it was vacated shortly thereafter due to a mixed martial arts fight loss and film commitments.[4]
On October 16, 2007, Bob Sapp made a surprise appearance at HUSTLE's Korakuen Hall event. Attacking Razor Ramon HG and his partner. Sapp aligned himself with Generalissimo Takada's MONSTER Army. He also announced that he would wrestle at the HUSTLE Mania 11/25 Yokohama Arena event.[5] His opponent was later confirmed to be Razor Ramon HG [6] and Sapp defeated him in the resultant match. His last match was against "Big" Dan Meehan.
Since 2008, Sapp began to participate in WWA, a pro-wrestling organization in South Korea. On October 26, 2009, Bob Sapp captured the WWA Heavyweight title by defeating Lee Wang Pyo, a famous professional wrestler in Korea who was taught by legendary Korean professional wrestler Kim Il, at Olympic Fencing Gymnasium event. Sapp is scheduled to perform at Dramatic Dream Team Pro Wrestling's "2011: A RYOGOKU Peter Pan" event on July 24, 2011 using a "Beast will fight for money" gimmick.[7]
Kickboxing and mixed martial arts career[link]
Pride Fighting Championships[link]
Sapp was subsequently recruited by the Japanese MMA organization Pride, where he quickly became a fan favorite due to his size, charisma and aggression. After a number of successes in Pride, Sapp was then invited to K-1 by Kazuyoshi Ishii, the creator of the fighting sport K-1. Ishii saw the combination of great potential and great marketability in Sapp.
After arriving in Japan, Sapp fought three matches in Pride. His first match pitted him against pro wrestler and longtime RINGS Fighting Network competitor Yoshihisa Yamamoto, who he finished by TKO at 2:44 of the first round.[8] Sapp's second Pride match was against two-time RINGS Open-Weight Champion Kiyoshi Tamura. Though Tamura was a highly respected fighter who held wins over the likes of Pat Miletich, Jeremy Horn, and Renzo Gracie, he was giving up 150 lbs to his foe and was quickly overwhelmed by the much-larger American, succumbing to strikes just 11 seconds into the bout.[9] During this time fans were first introduced to Sapp's "bullrush" technique, whereby he would rush an opponent with punches, quickly overwhelming them. Pride and K-1 collaborated to create a show billed "Dynamite" in Japan and "Shockwave" in the United States. He faced then-champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Sapp submitted to an armbar late in the second round. Sapp would never again compete in Pride, instead focusing his attention on K-1.
K-1[link]
Despite losing his first fight by disqualification, Sapp was initially successful in K-1. He twice defeated four-time K-1 champion Ernesto Hoost by technical knockout. He became an overnight sensation in Japan afterwards, appearing on numerous television shows, advertisements, and movie cameos such as in the big screen adaptation of Devilman. K-1 heads, trying to strike while the iron was hot and hoping to duplicate the success of Sapp, made a new fighting division called "Beast" (Sapp's nickname), which featured larger fighters such as Hong Man Choi. However, the division was stopped after two events due to disappointing reviews and gate takes.
At the height of his success, there was talk and promotion of a fight between him and the former boxing Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson. The two had a face to face confrontation immediately after Sapp's victory in Las Vegas over Kimo. K-1 signed Tyson to a contract and the fight looked to be on. However, Tyson's status as a convicted felon made him unable to get a visa to fight in Japan where the fight would have been most profitable.[10] Other locations for the proposed fight were made, but negotiations ended up dissipating to nothing and the fight never came off.
In June 2005, Sapp won the K-1 Japan Grand Prix in Hiroshima to become one of 16 fighters qualified for the 2005 K-1 World GP. In the Japan GP, Sapp showcased greatly improved stamina, as well as better technique, than in his previous fights after intensive training under Sam Greco. In the K-1 2005 World GP Eliminations he lost by decision to "The Techno Goliath" Choi Hong-man.
Sapp's initial success with his intimidating, blind chase-and-punch method (which he dubbed as "NFL Style") slowly petered out into disqualifications for bullrushing and punching after referee breaks. Additionally, experienced opponents discovered Sapp's weak points—his vulnerable mid-section and legs as well as his limited stamina.
On May 13, 2006, Sapp was to headline the K-1 show in the Netherlands. His opponent was Ernesto Hoost. Hoost stated in previous interviews and the interview on that show that this was to be his last match in Holland before his retirement. Sapp attended all the pre-fight press conferences and even attended the opening ceremonies for the show. It is unclear at the moment as to why, but Sapp pulled out of the event midway through the show.
K-1 issued a statement claiming Sapp pulled out due to new demands he brought to promoters during the show. K-1 would not agree to those demands since they felt their written contract was final and Sapp left. The full K-1 press release can be viewed on the organization's website.
Sapp has not issued a statement, but a different point of view on the events that occurred.[11]
However, he did participate in 2007's K-1 event in the Amsterdam Arena, fighting as a replacement for Remy Bonjasky, against Peter Aerts. Sapp, however, lost the fight at KO within 20 seconds in the first round by a knee to the liver. While Sapp was being led from the ring, Aerts apologized to the fans in Dutch for the short bout as well as having berated his fallen opponent.
After his falling out with K-1, Sapp began to get offers from WWE as well as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) to work with them, but his K-1 contract prohibited him from going through with any return to the ring.
Sapp made a surprise return to the K-1 ring in Japan after a two-year absence against comedian and part time K-1 competitor Bobby Ologun. Ologun was unable to mount any effective offense as he was quickly run down and overpowered by Sapp in the 1st round.
Cage Rage[link]
On February 10, 2007 it was announced by the United Kingdom's Cage Rage promotion that Sapp would appear on its Cage Rage 21 event on April 21, facing Gary Turner. The move is partly a retaliatory one, as the UFC had chosen to run its first British show in years that same night at the Manchester Evening News Arena, headlined by Mirko "Cro Cop", Andrei Arlovski and British star Michael Bisping. Though Cage Rage promoter Andy Geer said that the UFC show would not affect ticket sales for CR21, the signing of Sapp was a clear sign that the company knew it would need a superstar draw in order to successfully compete with the American promotion. A few days before the event Bob Sapp pulled out of the scheduled fight. On short notice, Tank Abbott stepped in for Sapp and lost to Gary Turner.
Strikeforce, FEG and other[link]
Sapp faced the South African fighter Jan "The Giant" Nortje at the Strikeforce: At The Dome event in Tacoma, Washington, at the Tacoma Dome on February 23, 2008. Sapp was defeated at the 55 second mark of the first round by TKO after receiving an unanswered torrent of punches. Sapp then returned to Japan on New Year's Eve 2008 and defeated Akihito Tanaka via first round TKO.
Sapp lost to Japanese Ikuhisa Minowa at Dream 9 on May 26, 2009,[12] due to Achilles lock. He fought and lost to Bobby Lashley at Ultimate Chaos in Biloxi, Mississippi, on June 27, 2009, due to first round tapout from strikes. On October 6, Sapp stood in for an injured Gegard Mousasi to face Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou in the semifinals at Dream 11.[13] He lost via TKO (punches) in the first round.
On November 27, Sapp fought against Swedish K-1 veteran Jörgen Kruth. The fight got a lot of publicity in Swedish and international press, but ended with an anticlimax when Sapp's corner threw in the towel after only 45 seconds, after Kruth hit Sapp with a knee to the liver.
Sapp was next going to face Stav Economou at BAMMA 5,[14] but BAMMA 5 has been canceled due to extreme weather conditions.[15]
Sapp was scheduled to fight at K1 Dynamite!! 2010. He was set to battle Shinichi Suzukawa on New Year's Eve in a Pancrase-style matchup, but pulled out at the last minute due to contract disputes.[16] When questioned about Sapp’s refusal to fight on the day of the event, FEG President Sadaharu Tanikawa asked, “Does anyone actually care? I don’t know the reasons why, but we did our best to make him fight. He just said he didn’t want to. This is typical [of Sapp].”[17] But Sapp claims that the promoters were contracted to pay him $30,000 for the fight, but that Tanikawa offered him $15,000 shortly after he arrived in Japan for the event. Sapp refused to fight for half of the original purse.[18] In response, he "should not be considered as a normal person" and is "the worst, most lamentable dust man." Tanikawa went on to say via Twitter that "No one cares anymore, but the Sapp incident had NOTHING to do with the fight money … That guy is such a loser. He is one lonely man."
ONE Fighting Championship[link]
On 11 February 2012 debuted for the Asian ONE Fighting Championship promotion. He faced Rolles Gracie at ONE Fighting Championship: Battle of Heroes in Jakarta, Indonesia and lost via submission to strikes in the first round.
Super Fight League[link]
Sapp fought in the main event of the Super Fight League's inaugural event, SFL 1, against James Thompson. He lost the fight when he injured his leg as he was being taken down by Thompson, forcing him to tap out to the injury.[19]
Championships and accomplishments[link]
Kickboxing & Mixed Martial Arts[link]
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Black Belt Magazine
- 2003 NHB Fighter of the Year [1]
Professional wrestling[link]
- World Wrestling Association (South Korea)
- WWA (South Korea) World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Kickboxing record[link]
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Mixed martial arts record[link]
| Professional record breakdown | ||
| 25 matches | 11 wins | 13 losses |
| By knockout | 8 | 6 |
| By submission | 3 | 7 |
| By decision | 0 | 0 |
| Draws | 1 | |
| Result | Record | Opponent | Method | Event | Date | Round | Time | Location | Notes |
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 Jong Dae Kim |
Road FC 8 | 02012-06-16June 16, 2012 | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||
 Tolegen Akilbekow |
Bushido Vol. 51 | 02012-06-08June 8, 2012 | Astana, Kazakhstan | ||||||
| Loss | 11–13–1 |  Soa Palelei |
TKO (punches) | Cage Fighting Championship 21 | 02012-05-18May 18, 2012 | 1 | 0:12 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
| Loss | 11–12–1 |  Mariusz Pudzianowski |
Submission (punches) | KSW XIX | 02012-05-12May 12, 2012 | 1 | 0:40 | Łódź, Poland | |
| Loss | 11–11–1 |  James Thompson |
Submission (leg injury) | SFL 1 | 02012-03-11March 11, 2012 | 1 | 1:56 | Mumbai, India | |
| Loss | 11–10–1 |  Rolles Gracie |
Submission (punches) | ONE Fighting Championship: Battle of Heroes | 02012-02-11February 11, 2012 | 1 | 1:18 | Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| Loss | 11–9–1 |  Maro Perak |
TKO (punches) | Noc Gladijatora 6: Perak vs Sapp | 02011-12-16December 16, 2011 | 1 | 3:04 | Dubrovnik, Croatia | |
| Loss | 11–8–1 |  Attila Uçar |
Submission (achilles lock) | Premium Fight Night | 02011-04-30April 30, 2011 | 1 | 0:56 | Vienna, Austria | |
| Loss | 11–7–1 |  Stav Economou |
TKO (punches) | ADFC: Round 3 | 02011-03-11March 11, 2011 | 1 | 1:45 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | |
| Win | 11–6–1 |  Sascha Weinpolter |
Submission (forearm choke) | K-1 ColliZion 2010 Croatia | 02010-03-27March 27, 2010 | 1 | 2:03 | Split, Croatia | |
| Loss | 10–6–1 |  Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou |
TKO (punches) | Dream 11 | 02009-10-06October 6, 2009 | 1 | 1:31 | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | DREAM Super Hulk Grand Prix Semifinal. Replaced Gegard Mousasi. |
| Loss | 10–5–1 |  Bobby Lashley |
Submission (punches) | Fight Force International: Ultimate Chaos | 02009-06-27June 27, 2009 | 1 | 3:18 | Biloxi, Mississippi, USA | |
| Loss | 10–4–1 |  Ikuhisa Minowa |
Submission (achilles lock) | Dream 9 | 02009-05-26May 26, 2009 | 1 | 1:16 | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | DREAM Super Hulk Grand Prix Quarterfinal |
| Win | 10–3–1 | Akihito Tanaka |
TKO (punches) | Dynamite!! 2008 | 02008-12-31December 31, 2008 | 1 | 5:22 | Saitama, Japan | |
| Loss | 9–3–1 |  Jan Nortje |
TKO (punches) | Strikeforce: At The Dome | 02008-02-23February 23, 2008 | 1 | 0:55 | Tacoma, Washington, USA | |
| Win | 9–2–1 |  Bobby Ologun |
TKO (punches) | K-1 Premium 2007 Dynamite!! | 02007-12-31December 31, 2007 | 1 | 4:10 | Osaka, Japan | |
| Win | 8–2–1 | Kim Jong Wang |
TKO (punches) | Hero's 2005 in Seoul | 02005-11-05November 5, 2005 | 1 | 0:08 | Seoul, South Korea | |
| Win | 7–2–1 |  Alan Karaev |
KO (punch) | Hero's 2 | 02005-07-06July 6, 2005 | 1 | 3:44 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 6–2–1 | Min-Soo Kim |
KO (punches) | Hero's 1 | 02005-03-26March 26, 2005 | 1 | 1:12 | Saitama, Japan | |
| vDraw | 5–2–1 |  Jérôme Le Banner |
Draw | K-1 PREMIUM 2004 Dynamite!! | 02004-12-31December 31, 2004 | 3 | 3:00 | Tokyo, Japan | The fight was with Mixed Martial Arts and both K-1 Rules. |
| Loss | 5–2 | Kazuyuki Fujita |
Submission (soccer kicks) | K-1 MMA ROMANEX | 02004-05-22May 22, 2004 | 1 | 2:15 | Saitama, Japan | |
| Win | 5–1 |  Dolgorsürengiin Sumiyaabazar |
TKO (foot injury) | K-1 Beast 2004 in Niigata | 02004-03-14March 14, 2004 | 1 | 5:00 | Niigata, Japan | |
| Win | 4–1 | Stefan Gamlin |
Submission (guillotine choke) | K-1 Japan Grand Prix 2003 | 02003-09-21September 21, 2003 | 1 | 0:52 | Yokohama, Japan | |
| Win | 3–1 | Yoshihiro Takayama |
Submission (armbar) | Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2002 | 02002-12-31December 31, 2002 | 1 | 2:16 | Saitama, Japan | |
| Loss | 2–1 | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira |
Submission (straight armbar) | Pride Shockwave | 02002-08-28August 28, 2002 | 2 | 4:03 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 2–0 | Kiyoshi Tamura |
TKO (punches) | Pride 21 | 02002-06-23June 23, 2002 | 1 | 0:11 | Saitama, Japan | |
| Win | 1–0 | Yoshihisa Yamamoto |
TKO (punches) | Pride 20 | 02002-04-28April 28, 2002 | 1 | 2:44 | Yokohama, Japan |
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 2003 | Bob Sapp: Sapp Time The Movie! | |
| 2003 | Taiho Shichauzo | Bob Hage |
| 2004 | Izo | |
| 2005 | Elektra | Stone |
| 2005 | Devilman | World Newscaster |
| 2005 | Longest Yard, TheThe Longest Yard | Switowski |
| 2007 | Big Stan | Big Raymond |
| 2009 | Frankenhood | Frankie |
| 2009 | Blood and Bone | Hammerman |
| 2011 | Blood Out | Uncredited |
| 2011 | Conan the Barbarian | Ukafa |
References[link]
- ^ http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Bob-Sapp-4416
- ^ http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SappBo20.htm
- ^ http://www.nfl.com/player/bobsapp/2502831/profile
- ^ PWI Staff (October 2004). "Pro Wrestling illustrated 500 - 2004 :26 Bob Sapp". Pro Wrestling Illustrated (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, U.S.: Sports and Entertainment publications LLC): p. 23. December 2004.
- ^ http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/fight/other/headlines/wrestling/20071016-00000025-spnavi-fight.html/
- ^ http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/fight/other/headlines/wrestling/20071104-00000013-spnavi-fight.html/
- ^ Sergio Non (February 1, 2011). "Bob Sapp back to pro wrestling". USA Today. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/mma/post/2011/02/unable-to-fight-for-money-sapp-back-to-pro-wrestling/1.
- ^ http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Yoshihisa-Yamamoto-454
- ^ http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Kiyoshi-Tamura-1451
- ^ K-1 Reports Official Mike Tyson Fight
- ^ MMA Ring Report
- ^ http://www.dreamofficial.com/free/fightcard/detail.php?fightid=20090526&cardid=1241072814
- ^ "Bob Sapp To Face Sokoudjou At Dream 11". MMAweekly.com. 2009-09-09. http://mmaweekly.com/bob-sapp-to-face-sokoudjou-at-dream-11-2.
- ^ http://bamma.com/index.php/component/content/article/35-bamma-news/102-bamma-5-the-beast-vs-crazy-bear-.html
- ^ http://www.yourmma.tv/news/details.asp/id/1425/bamma-5-cancelled.htm
- ^ Dave Meltzer. "Overeem win highlights traditional NYE show". Yahoo!. http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dm-nyejapan123110.
- ^ Tony Loiseleur. "‘Dynamite’ Notebook: FEG Restructures for Spring 2011 Return". Sherdog. http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Dynamite-Notebook-FEG-Restructures-for-Spring-2011-Return-29109.
- ^ Steven Marrocco. "Bob Sapp explains DREAM "Dynamite!! 2010" no-show, says DREAM is "broke"". MMAjunkie. http://mmajunkie.com/news/22138/bob-sapp-explains-dream-dynamite-2010-no-show-says-dream-is-broke.mma.
- ^ "Weekend Rundown-Leg Injury Forces Bob-Sapp to Submit to James Thompson in India". Sherdog.com. 2012-03-11. http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Weekend-Rundown-Leg-Injury-Forces-Bob-Sapp-to-Submit-to-James-Thompson-in-India-41035.
External links[link]
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- Professional MMA record for Bob Sapp from Sherdog
- Bob Sapp at the Internet Movie Database
- Profile at K-1
| Preceded by Jonathan Ogden |
Morris Trophy (Offense) 1996 |
Succeeded by Olin Kreutz |
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| Short description | American professional wrestler |
| Date of birth | 1974-09-22 |
| Place of birth | Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States |
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For the baseball player, see Mike Tyson (baseball).
| Mike Tyson | |
|---|---|
 Tyson at SXSW 2011 |
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| Statistics | |
| Real name | Michael Gerard Tyson |
| Nickname(s) | Kid Dynamite[1] Iron Mike The Baddest Man on the Planet |
| Rated at | Heavyweight |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
| Reach | 71 in (180 cm) |
| Born | (1966-06-30) June 30, 1966 (age 45) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 58 |
| Wins | 50 |
| Wins by KO | 44 |
| Losses | 6 |
| Draws | 0 |
| No contests | 2 |
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American professional boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with 12 of them occurring in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to individually unify them.
In 1988, Tyson became the lineal champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks in the first 91 seconds of the fight. Tyson successfully defended the world heavyweight championship nine times, including victories over Larry Holmes and Frank Bruno. Tyson lost his titles to 42-to-1 underdog James "Buster" Douglas on February 11, 1990, in Tokyo, Japan, by a knockout in round 10. Tyson continued in his quest to regain the titles, defeating Donovan Ruddock twice in 1991. Tyson was then scheduled to take on the undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield but pulled out due to injury.
In 1992, Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington, for which he was sentenced to six years in prison but was released after serving three years. After his release, he engaged in a series of comeback fights. In 1996, Tyson won the WBC and WBA titles after defeating Frank Bruno and Bruce Seldon by knockout. After being stripped of the WBC title, Tyson lost his WBA crown to Evander Holyfield in November 1996 by an 11th round TKO. Their 1997 rematch ended when Tyson was disqualified for biting off part of Holyfield's ear.
In 2002, he fought for the world heavyweight title at the age of 35, losing by knockout to Lennox Lewis. Tyson retired from professional boxing in 2006 after he was knocked out in consecutive matches against Danny Williams and Kevin McBride. Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003, despite having received over US$30 million for several of his fights and $300 million during his career.
Throughout his career, Tyson became well known for his ferocious and intimidating boxing style as well as his controversial behavior both inside and outside the ring. Tyson is considered to have been one of the best heavyweight boxers of all time.[2] He was ranked No. 16 on The Ring's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.[3] and No. 1 in the ESPN.com list of "The hardest hitters in heavyweight history".[4] He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
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Early years[link]
Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He has a brother, Rodney, who is five years older than he. His sister, Denise, died of a heart attack at age 25 in 1991.[5] Tyson's father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, abandoned his family when Tyson was 2, leaving his mother, Lorna Smith Tyson, to care for them on her own.[6] The family lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when Tyson was 10 years old.[7] Tyson's mother died six years later, leaving 16-year-old Tyson in the care of boxing manager and trainer Cus D'Amato, who would become his legal guardian. Tyson has been quoted saying, "I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally."[8]
Throughout his childhood, Tyson lived in and around high-crime neighborhoods. According to an interview in Details his first fight was with a bigger youth who had pulled the head off one of Tyson's pigeons.[9] He was repeatedly caught committing petty crimes and fighting those who ridiculed his high-pitched voice and lisp. By the age of 13, he had been arrested 38 times.[10] He ended up at the Tryon School for Boys in Johnstown, New York. It was at the school that Tyson's emerging boxing ability was discovered by Bobby Stewart, a juvenile detention center counselor and former boxer.[6] Stewart considered Tyson to be an outstanding fighter and trained him for a few months before introducing him to Cus D'Amato.[6]
Tyson was later removed from the reform school by Cus D'Amato.[11] Kevin Rooney also trained Tyson, and he was occasionally assisted by Teddy Atlas, although he was dismissed by D'Amato when Tyson was 15. Rooney eventually took over all training duties for the young fighter.
Tyson's brother is a physician assistant in the trauma center of the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center.[12] He has always been very supportive of his brother's career and was often seen at Tyson's boxing matches in Las Vegas, Nevada. When asked about their relationship, Mike has been quoted saying, "My brother and I see each other occasionally and we love each other," and "My brother was always something and I was nothing."[13]
Education[link]
Although Mike Tyson dropped out of high school as a junior and never graduated, in 1989, along with Don King, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Central State University, in Wilberforce, Ohio by university President Arthur E. Thomas.[14][15]
Career[link]
Amateur career[link]
Tyson competed at the 1981 and 1982 Junior Olympic Games, and won the gold medal twice: in 1981 against Joe Cortez and in 1982 against Kelton Brown, whose corner threw in the towel within the first round. He holds the Junior Olympic quickest knockout record with 8 seconds. In addition he won every bout at the Junior Olympic Games by knockout.
He fought Henry Tillman twice as an amateur losing both bouts by close decision. Tillman went on to win heavyweight Gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Rise to stardom[link]
Tyson made his professional debut as an 18-year-old on March 6, 1985, in Albany, New York. He defeated Hector Mercedes via a first round knockout.[6] He had 15 bouts in his first year as a professional. Fighting frequently, Tyson won 26 of his first 28 fights by KO/TKO – 16 in the first round.[16] The quality of his opponents gradually increased to journeyman fighters and borderline contenders,[16] like James Tillis, David Jaco, Jesse Ferguson, Mitch Green and Marvis Frazier. His win streak attracted media attention, leading to his being billed as the next great heavyweight champion. D'Amato died in November 1985, relatively early into Tyson's professional career; some speculate that his death was the genesis of many of the troubles Tyson was to experience later as his life and career progressed.[17]
Tyson's first nationally televised bout took place on February 16, 1986, at Houston Field House in Troy, New York against journeyman heavyweight Jesse Ferguson. Tyson knocked down Ferguson with an uppercut in the fifth round that broke Ferguson's nose.[18] During the sixth round, Ferguson began to hold and clinch Tyson in an apparent attempt to avoid further punishment. After admonishing Ferguson several times to obey his commands to box, the referee finally stopped the fight near the middle of the sixth round. Initially ruled a win for Tyson by disqualification (DQ) of his opponent, the ruling was subsequently "adjusted" as a win by technical knockout (TKO) after Tyson's corner protested that a DQ win would end Tyson's string of knockout victories, and that a knockout would have been the inevitable result. The rationale offered for the revised outcome was that the fight was actually stopped because Ferguson could not (rather than would not) continue boxing.
On November 22, 1986, Tyson was given his first title fight against Trevor Berbick for the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship. Tyson won the title by second round TKO, and at the age of 20 years and 4 months became the youngest heavyweight champion in history.[19] Tyson's dominant performance brought many accolades. Donald Saunders wrote: "The noble and manly art of boxing can at least cease worrying about its immediate future, now [that] it has discovered a heavyweight champion fit to stand alongside Dempsey, Tunney, Louis, Marciano and Ali."[20]
Because of Tyson's strength, many fighters were intimidated by him.[21] This was backed up by his outstanding hand speed, accuracy, coordination, power, and timing. Tyson was also noted for his defensive abilities.[22] Holding his hands high in the Peek-a-Boo style taught by his mentor Cus D'Amato, he slipped and weaved out of the way of the opponent's punches while closing the distance to deliver his own punches.[22] One of Tyson's trademark combinations was to throw a right hook to his opponent's body, then follow it up with a right uppercut to his opponent's chin; very few boxers would remain standing if caught by this combination. Boxers knocked down with this combination include Jesse Ferguson and Jose Ribalta.
Undisputed champion[link]
- See also: Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks
Expectations for Tyson were extremely high, and he embarked on an ambitious campaign to fight all the top heavyweights in the world. Tyson defended his title against James Smith on March 7, 1987, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He won by unanimous decision and added Smith's World Boxing Association (WBA) title to his existing belt.[23] 'Tyson mania' in the media was becoming rampant.[24] He beat Pinklon Thomas in May with a knockout in the sixth round.[25] On August 1 he took the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title from Tony Tucker in a twelve round unanimous decision.[26] He became the first heavyweight to own all three major belts – WBA, WBC, and IBF – at the same time. Another fight, in October of that year, ended with a victory for Tyson over 1984 Olympics Super Heavyweight gold medalist Tyrell Biggs by knockout in the seventh round.[27]
During this time, Tyson came to the attention of gaming company Nintendo: after witnessing one of Tyson's fights, Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa was impressed by the fighter's "power and skill", prompting him to suggest Tyson be included in the upcoming Nintendo Entertainment System port of the Punch Out!! arcade game. The idea was implemented, and in 1987 Nintendo released Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, which was well received and sold more than a million copies.[28]
Tyson had three fights in 1988. He faced Larry Holmes on January 22, 1988, and defeated the legendary former champion by a fourth round KO.[29] This was the only knockout loss Holmes suffered in 75 professional bouts. In March, Tyson then fought contender Tony Tubbs in Tokyo, Japan, fitting in an easy two-round victory amid promotional and marketing work.[30]
On June 27, 1988, Tyson faced Michael Spinks. Spinks, who had taken the heavyweight championship from Larry Holmes via a 15-round decision in 1985, had not lost his title in the ring but was not recognized as champion by the major boxing organizations. Holmes had previously given up all but the IBF title, and that was eventually stripped from Spinks after he elected to fight Gerry Cooney (winning by a 5th-round TKO) rather than IBF Number 1 Contender Tony Tucker, as the Cooney fight provided him a larger purse. However, Spinks did become the lineal champion by beating Holmes and many (including Ring magazine) considered him to have a legitimate claim to being the true heavyweight champion. The bout was, at the time, the richest fight in history and expectations were very high. Boxing pundits were predicting a titanic battle of styles, with Tyson's aggressive infighting conflicting with Spinks' skillful outfighting and footwork. The fight ended after 91 seconds when Tyson knocked Spinks out in the first round; many consider this to be the pinnacle of Tyson's fame and boxing ability.[31][32] Spinks, previously unbeaten, would never fight professionally again.
Controversy and upset[link]
Main article: Tyson vs. Douglas
During this period, Tyson's problems outside boxing were also starting to emerge. His marriage to Robin Givens was heading for divorce,[33] and his future contract was being fought over by Don King and Bill Cayton.[34] In late 1988, Tyson parted with manager Bill Cayton and fired longtime trainer Kevin Rooney, the man many credit for honing Tyson's craft after the death of D'Amato.[22] Without Rooney, Tyson's personal discipline declined.[35] In 1989, Tyson had only two fights amid personal turmoil. He faced the popular British boxer Frank Bruno in February in a fight where Bruno managed to stun Tyson at the end of the 1st round,[36] although Tyson went on to knock out Bruno in the fifth round. Tyson then knocked out Carl "The Truth" Williams in one round in July.[37]
By 1990, Tyson seemed to have lost direction, and his personal life and training habits were in disarray. He also began to stop throwing to the body behind the jab, using less head movement and few combinations.[38] This has been attributed to the number of fights Tyson had by 25 years of age. With a 41-1 record Tyson had more pro bouts by his 25th birthday than George Foreman (38), Jack Johnson and Floyd Patterson (each 37), Joe Louis (36), Muhammad Ali (27), Joe Frazier (22), Holyfield (16), Larry Holmes (nine) and Rocky Marciano (six).[39] In a fight on February 11, 1990, he lost the undisputed championship to Buster Douglas in Tokyo.[40] Tyson was a huge betting favorite, but Douglas (priced at 42/1) was at an emotional peak after losing his mother to a stroke 23 days prior to the fight, and fought the fight of his life.[40] Tyson failed to find a way past Douglas's quick jab that had a 12-inch (30 cm) reach advantage over his own. Tyson did send Douglas to the floor in the eighth round, catching him with an uppercut, but Douglas recovered sufficiently to hand Tyson a heavy beating in the subsequent two rounds (after the fight, the Tyson camp would complain that the count was slow and that Douglas had taken longer than ten seconds to get to his feet).[41] Just 35 seconds into the 10th round, Douglas unleashed a brutal combination of hooks that sent Tyson to the canvas for the first time in his career. He was counted out by referee Octavio Meyran.[40] Though Tyson is alleged to have been out of shape for this fight, he weighed in at 220 and 1/2 pounds, only 2 pounds more than he had weighed when he beat Michael Spinks 20 months earlier. Mentally, however, he was not prepared for the inspired Douglas.[42]
The knockout victory by Douglas over Tyson, the previously undefeated "baddest man on the planet" and arguably the most feared boxer in professional boxing at that time, has been described as one of the most shocking upsets in modern sports history.[43]
After Douglas[link]
After the loss, Tyson recovered by knocking out Henry Tillman[44] and Alex Stewart[45] in the first round in his next two fights. Tyson's victory over the 1984 Olympics Boxing Heavyweight gold medalist (and 1983 Boxing Heavyweight silver medalist of the Pan American Games) Tillman enabled Tyson to avenge his early career amateur losses at Tillman's hands. These bouts set up an elimination match for another shot at the undisputed world heavyweight championship, which Evander Holyfield had taken from Douglas in his first defense of the title.
Tyson, who was the No.1 contender, faced No.2 contender Donovan "Razor" Ruddock on March 18, 1991, in Las Vegas. Ruddock at the time was seen as the most dangerous heavyweight around and was thought of as one of the hardest punching heavyweights. Tyson and Ruddock went back and forth for most of the fight, until referee Richard Steele controversially stopped the fight during the seventh round in favor of Tyson. This decision infuriated the fans in attendance, sparking a post-fight melee in the audience and the referee had to be escorted from the ring.[46]
Tyson and Ruddock met again on June 28 that year, with Tyson knocking down Ruddock twice and winning a 12 round unanimous decision.[47] A fight between Tyson and Holyfield for the undisputed championship was arranged for the autumn of 1991.
The match between Tyson and reigning champion Holyfield did not occur, with Tyson pulling out of the scheduled November 8, 1991 title fight at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, with a rib cartilage injury sustained during training.
Rape conviction, prison, and conversion[link]
Tyson was arrested in July 1991 for the rape of 18-year-old Desiree Washington, Miss Black Rhode Island, in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson's rape trial took place in the Indianapolis courthouse from January 26 to February 10, 1992. As part of its case, the prosecution documented Tyson's history of problems with attractive young women. Tyson's defense contended that Tyson was the victim and that Washington was a cold and calculated vixen out to hurt Tyson for publicity.[citation needed]
Desiree Washington testified that she received a phone call from Tyson at 1:36 am on July 19, 1991 inviting her to a party. Having joined Tyson in his limousine, Washington testified that Tyson made sexual advances towards her. She testified that upon arriving at his hotel room, Tyson pinned her down on his bed and raped her despite her pleas to stop. She afterwards ran out of the room and asked Tyson's chauffeur to drive her back to her hotel.[citation needed]
Partial corroboration of Washington's story came via testimony from Tyson's chauffeur, Virginia Foster, who confirmed Desiree Washington's state of shock. Further testimony came from Thomas Richardson, the emergency room physician who examined Washington more than 24 hours after the incident and confirmed that Washington's physical condition was consistent with rape.[48]
Taking the witness stand, under Tyson's lead defense lawyer Vincent Fuller's direct examination, Tyson claimed that everything had taken place with Washington's full cooperation and he claimed not to have forced himself upon her. When he was cross-examined by the lead prosecutor, Gregory Garrison, Tyson denied claims that he had misled Washington and insisted that she wanted to have sex with him. Because of Tyson's hostile and defensive responses to the questions during cross-examination, some have speculated that his behavior made him unlikable to the jury who saw him as brutish and arrogant.[49]
Tyson was convicted on the rape charge on February 10, 1992 after the jury deliberated for nearly 10 hours.[50]
Alan Dershowitz filed an appeal on Tyson's behalf alleging that the victim had a history of at least one false accusation of rape[51] and that the judge had blocked testimony from witnesses who would have contradicted Washington. The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled against Tyson in a 2–1 vote.[52]
On March 26, he was sentenced to six years in prison followed by four years on probation.[53] He was assigned to the Indiana Youth Center (now the Plainfield Correctional Facility) in April 1992,[54] and he was released in March 1995 after serving three years.[55] During his incarceration, Tyson converted to Islam.[56] On July 2, 2010 he visited Mecca to perform the Umrah (Minor Islamic pilgrimage).[57]
Comeback[link]
Tyson did not fight again until later in 1995 after he was paroled from prison. He had two comeback bouts against Peter McNeeley and Buster Mathis Jr., which he won easily. Interest in Tyson's first comeback fight since his incarceration was high enough that it grossed more than US$96 million worldwide, including a United States record $63 million for PPV television. The fight was purchased by 1.52 million homes, setting both PPV viewership and revenue records for that time.[58] The brief, 89-second fight wherein McNeeley swiftly crumpled on facing Tyson, elicited criticism that Tyson's management lined up "Tomato Cans", easily defeatable and unworthy boxers for his return.[59] TV Guide included the Tyson-McNeeley fight in their list of the 50 Greatest TV Sports Moments of All Time in 1998.[60]
He regained one belt by easily winning the WBC title from Frank Bruno (their second fight) in March 1996 by knocking him out in the third round.[61] Tyson added the WBA belt by defeating champion Bruce Seldon in one round in September that year. Seldon was severely criticized and mocked in the popular press for seemingly collapsing to innocuous punches from Tyson in the fight.[62]
Tyson–Holyfield fights[link]
[edit] Tyson vs. Holyfield I
Main article: Tyson-Holyfield I
Tyson attempted to defend the WBA title against Evander Holyfield. Holyfield was in the fourth fight of his own comeback after retiring in 1994 following the loss of his championship to Michael Moorer (who subsequently lost to George Foreman by knockout during his first defense). It was said that Don King and others saw Holyfield, the former champion, who was 34 at the time of the fight and a huge underdog, as a washed-up fighter.[63]
On November 9, 1996, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tyson faced Holyfield in a title bout dubbed 'Finally.' In a surprising turn of events, Holyfield, who was given virtually no chance to win by numerous commentators,[64] defeated Tyson by TKO when referee Mitch Halpern stopped the bout in round 11.[65] Holyfield made history with the upset win by being the second person ever to win a heavyweight championship belt three times, after Muhammad Ali. However Holyfield's victory was marred by allegations from Tyson's camp of Holyfield's frequent headbutts[66] during the bout. Although the headbutts were ruled accidental by the referee,[66] they would become a point of contention in the subsequent rematch.[67]
[edit] Tyson vs. Holyfield II and aftermath
File:Holyfield-Tyson II poster.jpg
Poster publicizing the June 28, 1997, Holyfield–Tyson II fight, dubbed The Sound and The Fury
Main article: Holyfield-Tyson II
Tyson and Holyfield fought again on June 28, 1997. Originally, Halpern was supposed to be the referee, but after Tyson's camp protested, Halpern stepped aside in favor of Mills Lane.[68] The highly anticipated rematch was dubbed The Sound and the Fury, and was held at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena, site of the first bout. It was a lucrative event, drawing even more attention than the first bout and grossing $100 million. Tyson received $30 million and Holyfield $35 million—the highest paid professional boxing purses ever until 2007.[69][70] The fight was purchased by 1.99 million households, setting a pay-per-view buy rate record that stood until the May 5, 2007, De La Hoya-Mayweather boxing match.[70][71]
Soon to become one of the most controversial events in modern sports,[72] the fight was stopped at the end of the third round, with Tyson disqualified[73] for biting Holyfield on both ears. The first time he bit him the match was temporarily stopped. Referee Mills Lane deducted two points from Tyson and the fight resumed. However, after the match resumed, Tyson did it again: this time Tyson was disqualified and Holyfield won the match. One bite was severe enough to remove a piece of Holyfield's right ear, which was found on the ring floor after the fight.[74] Tyson later stated that his actions were retaliation for Holyfield repeatedly headbutting him without penalty.[67] In the confusion that followed the ending of the bout and announcement of the decision, a near riot erupted in the arena and several people were injured in the ensuing melee.[75]
Tyson's former trainer, Teddy Atlas, had predicted that Tyson would be disqualified. "He planned this," Atlas said. "That's the only reason he went through with this fight. This was a charade so he could get out and live with himself as long as in his world he would be known as savage and brutal. In his world, he was the man who attacked like an animal and people would say he was trying to annihilate Holyfield, trying to kill him, when nothing could be further from the truth."[76]
As a subsequent fallout from the incident, US$3 million was immediately withheld from Tyson's $30-million purse by the Nevada state boxing commission (the most it could legally hold back at the time).[77] Two days after the fight, Tyson issued a statement,[78] apologizing to Holyfield for his actions and asked not to be banned for life over the incident.[79] Tyson was roundly condemned in the news media but was not without defenders. Novelist and commentator Katherine Dunn wrote a column that criticized Holyfield's sportsmanship in the controversial bout and charged the news media with being biased against Tyson.[80]
On July 9, 1997, Tyson's boxing license was rescinded by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in a unanimous voice vote; he was also fined US$3 million and ordered to pay the legal costs of the hearing.[81] As most state athletic commissions honor sanctions imposed by other states, this effectively made Tyson unable to box in the United States. The revocation was not permanent, as a little more than a year later on October 18, 1998, the commission voted 4–1 to restore Tyson's boxing license.[82]
During his time away from boxing in 1998, Tyson made a guest appearance at WrestleMania XIV as an enforcer for the main event match between Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin. During this time, Tyson was also an unofficial member of D-Generation X. Tyson was paid $3 million for being guest enforcer of the match at WrestleMania XIV.[83]
1999 to 2005[link]
After Holyfield[link]
In January 1999, Tyson returned to the ring to fight the South African Francois Botha, in another fight that ended in controversy. While Botha initially controlled the fight, Tyson allegedly attempted to break Botha's arms during a tie-up and both boxers were cautioned by the referee in the ill-tempered bout. Botha was ahead on points on all scorecards and was confident enough to mock Tyson as the fight continued. Nonetheless, Tyson landed a straight right-hand in the fifth round that knocked out Botha.[84]
Legal problems caught up with Tyson once again. On February 5, 1999, Tyson was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve two years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident on August 31, 1998.[85] He served nine months of that sentence. After his release, he fought Orlin Norris on October 23, 1999. Tyson knocked down Norris with a left hook thrown after the bell sounded to end the first round. Norris injured his knee from the off-the-clinch-punch when he went down and said he was unable to continue the fight. Consequently, the bout was ruled a no contest.[86]
"I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! I'm Alexander! He's no Alexander! I'm the best ever. There’s never been anyone as ruthless as me. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!"
Tyson's post fight interview after knocking out Lou Savarese 38 seconds into the bout in June 2000.[87]
In 2000, Tyson had three fights. The first was staged at the MEN Arena, Manchester, England against Julius Francis. Following controversy as to whether Tyson should be allowed into the country, he took four minutes to knock out Francis, ending the bout in the second round.[88] He also fought Lou Savarese in June 2000 in Glasgow, winning in the first round; the fight lasted only 38 seconds. Tyson continued punching after the referee had stopped the fight, knocking the referee to the floor as he tried to separate the boxers.[89] In October, Tyson fought the similarly controversial Andrzej Gołota,[90] winning in round three after Gołota refused to continue after his jaw was broken. The result was later changed to no contest after Tyson refused to take a pre-fight drug test and then tested positive for marijuana in a post-fight urine test.[91] Tyson fought only once in 2001, beating Brian Nielsen in Copenhagen with a seventh round TKO.[92]
Lewis vs. Tyson[link]
Main article: Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson
File:Tyson Lewis.jpg
The Lewis-Tyson fight that took place on June 8, 2002, was one of the most anticipated heavyweight fights in years.
Tyson once again had the opportunity to fight for a heavyweight championship in 2002, against Lennox Lewis, who held the WBC, IBF, IBO & Lineal titles at the time. As promising amateurs, Tyson and Lewis had sparred together at a training camp, in a meeting arranged by Cus D'Amato in 1984.[93] Tyson sought to fight Lewis in Nevada for a more lucrative box-office venue, but the Nevada boxing commission refused him a license to box as he was facing possible sexual assault charges at the time.[94]
Two years prior to the bout, in a post-fight interview following the Savarese fight, Tyson had made several inflammatory remarks to Lewis, "I want your heart, I want to eat your children."[95] On January 22, 2002, a brawl involving the two boxers and their entourages occurred at a press conference held in New York to publicize the planned event.[96] The melee put to rest any chance of a Nevada fight and alternative arrangements had to be made, with the fight eventually occurring on June 8 at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee. Lewis dominated the fight and knocked out Tyson with a right hook in the eighth round. Tyson was magnanimous after the fight and praised Lewis on his victory.[97] This fight was the highest-grossing event in pay-per-view history at that time, generating $106.9 million from 1.95 million buys in the USA.[70][71]
Late career, bankruptcy and retirement[link]
On February 22, 2003, Tyson beat fringe contender Clifford Etienne 49 seconds into round one, once again in Memphis. The pre-fight was marred by rumors of Tyson's lack of fitness and that he took time out from training to party in Las Vegas and get a new facial tattoo.[98] This would be Tyson's final professional victory in the ring.
In August 2003, after years of financial struggles, Tyson finally filed for bankruptcy.[99] In 2003, amid all his economic troubles, he was named by Ring Magazine at number 16, right behind Sonny Liston, among the 100 greatest punchers of all time.
On August 13, 2003, Tyson entered the ring for a face to face confrontation against then K-1 fighting phenom Bob Sapp immediately after Sapp's win against Kimo Leopoldo in Las Vegas. K-1 signed Tyson to a contract with the hopes of making a fight happen between the two, but Tyson's status as a convicted felon made him unable to obtain a visa to enter Japan, where the fight would have been most profitable. Alternate locations were discussed, but the fight never came to fruition.[100] It is unknown if he actually profited from this arrangement.
On July 30, 2004, Tyson faced the British boxer Danny Williams in another comeback fight, this time staged in Louisville, Kentucky. Tyson dominated the opening two rounds. The third round was even, with Williams getting in some clean blows and also a few illegal ones, for which he was penalized. In the fourth round, Tyson was unexpectedly knocked out. After the fight, it was revealed that Tyson was trying to fight on one leg, having torn a ligament in his other knee in the first round. This was Tyson's fifth career defeat.[101] He underwent surgery for the ligament four days after the fight. His manager, Shelly Finkel, claimed that Tyson was unable to throw meaningful right-hand punches since he had an elbow injury.[102]
On June 11, 2005, Tyson stunned the boxing world by quitting before the start of the seventh round in a close bout against journeyman Kevin McBride. After losing the third of his last four fights, Tyson said he would quit boxing because he felt he had lost his passion.[103]
Exhibition tour[link]
To help pay off his debts, Tyson returned to the ring on a world tour in a series of four-round exhibitions against journeyman heavyweight Corey "T-Rex" Sanders in Youngstown, Ohio 2006.[104] Tyson, without headgear at 5 ft 10.5 in and 216 pounds, was in great shape, but far from his prime against Sanders, with headgear at 6 ft 8 in and 293 pounds, a loser of his last seven pro bouts and nearly blind from a detached retina in his left eye. Tyson appeared to be "holding back" in these exhibitions to prevent an early end to the "show". "If I don't get out of this financial quagmire there's a possibility I may have to be a punching bag for somebody. The money I make isn't going to help my bills from a tremendous standpoint, but I'm going to feel better about myself. I'm not going to be depressed," explained Tyson about the reasons for his "comeback".[105]
Legacy[link]
A 1998 ranking of "The Greatest Heavyweights of All-Time" by Ring magazine placed Tyson at No.14 on the list.[106] Despite criticism of facing underwhelming competition during his unbeaten run as champion, Tyson's knockout power and intimidation factor made him the sport's most dynamic box office attraction.[107] Many believe Tyson was the last great heavyweight champion.[108]
In Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years, released in 2002, Tyson was ranked at No. 72.[109] He is ranked No. 16 on Ring Magazine's 2003 list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.[110]
After professional boxing[link]
On the front page of USA Today on June 3, 2005, Tyson was quoted as saying: "My whole life has been a waste – I've been a failure." He continued: "I just want to escape. I'm really embarrassed with myself and my life. I want to be a missionary. I think I could do that while keeping my dignity without letting people know they chased me out of the country. I want to get this part of my life over as soon as possible. In this country nothing good is going to come of me. People put me so high; I wanted to tear that image down."[111] Tyson began to spend much of his time tending to his 350 pigeons in Paradise Valley, an upscale enclave near Phoenix, Arizona.[112]
Tyson has stayed in the limelight by promoting various websites and companies.[113] In the past Tyson had shunned endorsements, accusing other athletes of putting on a false front to obtain them.[114] He has also done entertainment boxing shows at a casino in Las Vegas[115] and started a tour of exhibition bouts to pay off his numerous debts.[116]
On December 29, 2006, Tyson was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona, on suspicion of DUI and felony drug possession after he nearly crashed into a police SUV shortly after leaving a nightclub. According to a police probable-cause statement, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, "[Tyson] admitted to using [drugs] today and stated he is an addict and has a problem."[117] Tyson pleaded not guilty on January 22, 2007, in Maricopa County Superior Court to felony drug possession and paraphernalia possession counts and two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of drugs. On February 8 he checked himself into an in-patient treatment program for "various addictions" while awaiting trial on the drug charges.[118]
On September 24, 2007, Mike Tyson pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and driving under the influence. He was convicted of these charges in November 2007 and sentenced to 24 hours in jail, 360 hours community service and 3 years probation. Prosecutors had requested a year-long jail sentence, but the judge praised Tyson for seeking help with his drug problems.[119]
On November 11, 2009, Mike Tyson was arrested after getting into a scuffle at Los Angeles International airport with a photographer.[120] No charges were filed.
Tyson appeared on WWE Monday Night Raw as the guest host on January 11, 2010 and even made his return to the ring in a tag team match with Chris Jericho against D-Generation X. At first, the duo had their way until Tyson revealed a DX T-shirt he was wearing underneath a black shirt he was wearing and knocked-out Jericho, which allowed Shawn Michaels to pin Jericho, giving DX the win.
On June 12, 2011, Tyson was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame, alongside legendary Mexican champion Julio César Chávez, light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu, and actor/screenwriter Sylvester Stallone.[121]
On August 7, 2011, CBS aired an episode of The Same Name, featuring Mike Tyson.[122]
This year, Mike participated in the Argentinian dance TV program Bailando 2011
On the January 30, 2012 edition of Monday Night Raw, after ESPN, TMZ, and others had leaked the news earlier in the day, it was confirmed that Tyson will be inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame.
On April 2, 2012 the Brooklyn native was given the honor by the WWE at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. He was inducted by DeGeneration X members Shawn Michaels and Triple H.[123].
Personal life[link]
Tyson has been legally married three times and has eight children with several different women.
His first marriage was to actress Robin Givens from February 7, 1988 to February 14, 1989.[33] Givens was known for her work on the sitcom Head of the Class. Tyson's marriage to Givens was especially tumultuous with allegations of violence, spousal abuse and mental instability on Tyson's part.[124] Matters came to a head when Tyson and Givens gave a joint interview with Barbara Walters on the ABC TV newsmagazine show 20/20 in September 1988, in which Givens described life with Tyson as "torture, pure hell, worse than anything I could possibly imagine."[125] Givens also described Tyson as "manic depressive" on national television while Tyson looked on with an intent and calm expression.[124] A month later, Givens announced that she was seeking a divorce from the allegedly abusive Tyson.[124] They had no children but she claims to have had a miscarriage while Tyson claims she was never pregnant and only used that to get him to marry her.[124][126] During their marriage, the couple lived in a mansion in Bernardsville, New Jersey.[127][128]
His second marriage was to Monica Turner from April 19, 1997 to January 14, 2003.[129] At the time of the divorce filing, Turner worked as a pediatric resident at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC.[130] She is also the sister of Michael Steele, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and former Republican National Committee Chairman.[131] Turner filed for divorce from Tyson in January 2002, claiming that he committed adultery during their five-year marriage, an act that "has neither been forgiven nor condoned."[130] The couple had two children: Rayna and Amir.
Tyson appears in the 2009 film The Hangover as a caricature of himself. In the film his character pursues the main characters after they have stolen a tiger from his home. He appears in their hotel room, where he threatens them if they do not return the tiger in one hour, and later at his home when they return the tiger and try to get information from him about their missing friend.
On May 25, 2009, Tyson's 4-year-old daughter, Exodus, was found by her 7-year-old brother, Miguel, unconscious and tangled in a cord, dangling from an exercise treadmill. The child's mother untangled her, administered CPR and called for medical attention. Exodus was listed in "extremely critical condition" and was on life support at Phoenix's St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. She subsequently died of her injuries on May 26, 2009.[132][133]
Ten days after his daughter's death, Tyson wed for the third time, to long-time girlfriend Lakiha "Kiki" Spicer, age 32, exchanging vows on Saturday, June 6, 2009, in a short, private ceremony, at the La Bella Wedding Chapel at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino.[134] Spicer was a resident of nearby suburban Henderson, Nevada. County marriage records in Las Vegas show the couple got a marriage license 30 minutes before their ceremony. Spicer is the mother of Tyson's daughter, Milan and son, Morocco. His other children include Mikey (born 1990), Miguel (born 2002) and D'Amato (born 1990). He has a total of eight children including the deceased Exodus.
Tyson has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[135] While on the American talk show The View in early May 2010, Tyson revealed that he is now forced to live paycheck to paycheck.[136] He went on to say: "I'm totally destitute and broke. But I have an awesome life, I have an awesome wife who cares about me. I'm totally broke. I had a lot of fun. It (losing his money) just happened. I'm very grateful. I don't deserve to have the wife that I have; I don't deserve the kids that I have, but I do, and I'm very grateful."
In March 2011, Tyson appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss his new Animal Planet reality series Taking on Tyson. In the interview with DeGeneres, Tyson discussed some of the ways he had improved his life in the past two years, including sober living and a vegan diet.[137]
Also, in March 2011, Mike Tyson appeared at the SXSW Screenburn Arcade for the launch of his new iPhone app Mike Tyson: Main Event.[138]
In May 2011, Tyson sent autographed boxing gloves to soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. 'To Cristiano' is written on the gloves, along with Tyson's signature.[139]
Also, in May 2011, Tyson was a contestant in the Argentinian dance contest Bailando 2011, and he was paired with his wife, Lahika Spicer. The couple withdrew from the competition after the second round.
In September 2011, Tyson gave an interview in which he made comments about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin that included crude and violent descriptions of interracial sex. These comments were then reprinted on the Daily Caller website. Journalist Greta van Susteren criticized Tyson and the Daily Caller over the comments, which she described as "smut" and "violence against women". [140]
In April 2012, Tyson gave an interview in which he made comments about the Trayvon Martin case, telling Yahoo News that "It's a disgrace George Zimmerman hasn't been dragged out of his house and tied to a car and taken away. That's the only kind of retribution that people like that understand. It's a disgrace that man hasn't been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested--the fact that he hasn't been shot yet is a disgrace. That's how I feel personally about it."[141]
Popular culture[link]
For more details on this topic, see Mike Tyson in popular culture.
At the height of his fame and career in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, Tyson was one of the most recognized sports personalities in the world. Apart from his many sporting accomplishments, his outrageous and controversial behavior in the ring and in his private life has kept him in the public eye and in the courtroom.[142] As such, Tyson has appeared in myriad popular media in cameo appearances in film and television. He has also been featured in video games and as a subject of parody or satire.
Published in 2007, author Joe Layden's book The Last Great Fight: The Extraordinary Tale of Two Men and How One Fight Changed Their Lives Forever, chronicled the lives of Tyson and Douglas before and after their heavyweight championship fight. The book received positive reviews and claimed the fight was essentially the beginning of the end of boxing's popularity in mainstream sports.
In 2008, the documentary Tyson premiered at the annual Cannes Film Festival in France. The film was directed by James Toback and has interviews with Tyson and clips of his fights and from his personal life. It received high critical praise, scoring an 86% approval rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes from a pool of over 100 film critics.
Professional boxing record[link]
| 50 Wins (44 knockouts, 5 decisions, 1 disqualification), 6 Losses, 0 Draws, 2 No Contests[143] | |||||||
| Result | Record | Opponnent | Type | Round | Date | Location | Notes |
| Loss | 50–6 2 NC |
 Kevin McBride |
TKO | 6 (10) | 2005-06-11 | MCI Center, Washington, D.C. |
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| Loss | 50–5 2 NC |
 Danny Williams |
KO | 4 (10) | 2004-07-30 | Freedom Hall State Fairground, Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Win | 50–4 2 NC |
Clifford Etienne |
KO | 1 (10) | 2003-02-22 | The Pyramid, Memphis, Tennessee |
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| Loss | 49–4 2 NC |
Lennox Lewis |
KO | 8 (12) | 2002-06-08 | The Pyramid, Memphis, Tennessee |
For The Ring, WBC, IBO & IBF Heavyweight titles. The Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year. |
| Win | 49–3 2 NC |
 Brian Nielsen |
RTD | 7 (10) | 2001-10-13 | Parken Stadium, Copenhagen |
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| NC | 48–3 2 NC |
Andrew Golota |
NC | 3 (10) | 2000-10-20 | The Palace, Auburn Hills, Michigan |
Michigan Commission changes the result from a TKO victory for Tyson to a NC, due to Tyson testing positive for Cannabis after the fight. |
| Win | 48–3 1 NC |
Lou Savarese |
TKO | 1 (10) | 2000-06-24 |  Hampden Park, Glasgow |
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| Win | 47–3 1 NC |
Julius Francis |
TKO | 2 (10) | 2000-01-29 | M.E.N. Arena, Manchester |
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| NC | 46–3 1 NC |
Orlin Norris |
NC | 1 (10) | 1999-10-23 | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Norris was hit and knocked down after the bell, injuring his knee in the fall, resulting in NC. |
| Win | 46–3 | Francois Botha |
KO | 5 (10) | 1999-01-16 | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada |
|
| Loss | 45–3 | Evander Holyfield |
DQ | 3 (12) | 1997-06-28 | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada |
For WBA Heavyweight title. The Ring Magazine Event of the Year. |
| Loss | 45–2 | Evander Holyfield |
TKO | 11 (12) | 1996-11-09 | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Lost WBA Heavyweight title. The Ring Magazine Fight of the Year & Upset Of The Year. |
| Win | 45–1 | Bruce Seldon |
TKO | 1 (12) | 1996-09-07 | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Won WBA Heavyweight title. |
| Win | 44–1 | Frank Bruno |
TKO | 3 (12) | 1996-03-16 | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Won WBC Heavyweight title. |
| Win | 43–1 | Buster Mathis, Jr. |
KO | 3 (12) | 1995-12-16 | Core States Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
|
| Win | 42–1 | Peter McNeeley |
DQ | 1 (10) | 1995-08-19 | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada |
|
| Win | 41–1 |  Donovan Ruddock |
UD | 12 | 1991-06-28 | Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada |
|
| Win | 40–1 | Donovan Ruddock |
TKO | 7 (12) | 1991-03-18 | Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada |
|
| Win | 39–1 | Alex Stewart |
TKO | 1 (10) | 1990-12-08 | Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
|
| Win | 38–1 | Henry Tillman |
KO | 1 (10) | 1990-06-16 | Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada |
|
| Loss | 37–1 | Buster Douglas |
KO | 10 (12) | 1990-02-11 | Tokyo Dome, Tokyo |
Lost The Ring, WBC, WBA & IBF Heavyweight titles. The Ring Magazine Upset Of The Year. |
| Win | 37–0 | Carl Williams |
TKO | 1 (12) | 1989-07-21 | Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Retained The Ring, WBC, WBA & IBF Heavyweight titles. |
| Win | 36–0 | Frank Bruno |
TKO | 5 (12) | 1989-02-25 | Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Retained The Ring, WBC, WBA & IBF Heavyweight titles. |
| Win | 35–0 | Michael Spinks |
KO | 1 (12) | 1988-06-27 | Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Retained WBC, WBA, IBF & won The Ring Heavyweight titles. |
| Win | 34–0 | Tony Tubbs |
TKO | 2 (12) | 1988-03-21 | Tokyo Dome, Tokyo |
Retained WBC, WBA & IBF Heavyweight titles. |
| Win | 33–0 | Larry Holmes |
TKO | 4 (12) | 1988-01-22 | Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Retained WBC, WBA & IBF Heavyweight titles. |
| Win | 32–0 | Tyrell Biggs |
TKO | 7 (12) | 1987-10-16 | Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Retained WBC, WBA & IBF Heavyweight titles. |
| Win | 31–0 | Tony Tucker |
UD | 12 | 1987-08-01 | Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Retained WBC, WBA & won IBF Heavyweight titles. |
| Win | 30–0 | Pinklon Thomas |
TKO | 6 (12) | 1987-05-30 | Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Retained WBC & WBA Heavyweight titles. |
| Win | 29–0 | James Smith |
UD | 12 | 1987-03-07 | Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Retained WBC & won WBA Heavyweight titles. |
| Win | 28–0 | Trevor Berbick |
TKO | 2 (12) | 1986-11-22 | Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Won WBC Heavyweight title. |
| Win | 27–0 | Alfonso Ratliff |
TKO | 2 (10) | 1986-09-06 | Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada |
|
| Win | 26–0 |  José Ribalta |
TKO | 10 (10) | 1986-08-17 | Trump Plaza Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
|
| Win | 25–0 | Marvis Frazier |
KO | 1 (10) | 1986-07-26 | Civic Center, Glens Falls, New York |
|
| Win | 24–0 | Lorenzo Boyd |
KO | 2 (10) | 1986-07-11 | Stevensville Hotel, Swan Lake, New York |
|
| Win | 23–0 | William Hosea |
KO | 1 (10) | 1986-06-28 | Houston Field House, Troy, New York |
|
| Win | 22–0 | Reggie Gross |
TKO | 1 (10) | 1986-06-13 | Madison Square Garden, New York, New York |
|
| Win | 21–0 | Mitch Green |
UD | 10 | 1986-05-20 | Madison Square Garden, New York, New York |
|
| Win | 20–0 | James Tillis |
UD | 10 | 1986-05-09 | Civic Center, Glens Falls, New York |
|
| Win | 19–0 | Steve Zouski |
KO | 3 (10) | 1986-03-10 | Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York |
|
| Win | 18–0 | Jesse Ferguson |
TKO | 6 (10) | 1986-02-16 | Houston Field House, Troy, New York |
|
| Win | 17–0 | Mike Jameson |
TKO | 5 (8) | 1986-01-24 | Trump Plaza Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
|
| Win | 16–0 | David Jaco |
TKO | 1 (10) | 1986-01-11 | Plaza Convention Center, Albany, New York |
|
| Win | 15–0 | Mark Young |
TKO | 1 (10) | 1985-12-27 | Latham Coliseum, Latham, New York |
|
| Win | 14–0 | Sammy Scaff |
TKO | 1 (10) | 1985-12-06 | Felt Forum, New York, New York |
|
| Win | 13–0 | Conroy Nelson |
TKO | 2 (8) | 1985-11-22 | Latham Coliseum, Latham, New York |
|
| Win | 12–0 | Eddie Richardson |
KO | 1 (8) | 1985-11-13 | Ramada-Houston Hotel, Houston, Texas |
|
| Win | 11–0 |  Sterling Benjamin |
TKO | 1 (8) | 1985-11-01 | Latham Coliseum, Latham, New York |
|
| Win | 10–0 | Robert Colay |
KO | 1 (8) | 1985-10-25 | Atlantis Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
|
| Win | 9–0 | Donnie Long |
TKO | 1 (6) | 1985-10-09 | Trump Casino Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
|
| Win | 8–0 | Michael Johnson |
KO | 1 6) | 1985-09-05 | Atlantis Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
|
| Win | 7–0 | Lorenzo Canady |
KO | 1 (6) | 1985-08-15 | Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
|
| Win | 6–0 | Larry Sims |
KO | 3 (6) | 1985-07-19 | Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, New York |
|
| Win | 5–0 | John Alderson |
TKO | 2 (6) | 1985-07-11 | Trump Casino Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
|
| Win | 4–0 | Ricardo Spain |
TKO | 1 (6) | 1985-06-20 | Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
|
| Win | 3–0 | Don Halpin |
KO | 4 (4) | 1985-05-23 | Albany, New York |
|
| Win | 2–0 | Trent Singleton |
TKO | 1 (4) | 1985-04-10 | Albany, New York |
|
| Win | 1–0 |  Hector Mercedes |
TKO | 1 (4) | 1985-03-06 | Plaza Convention Center, Albany, New York |
Tyson's professional debut. |
Boxing championships and accomplishments[link]
Tyson established an impressive list of accomplishments, mostly early in his career:[144]
Titles
- Junior Olympic Games Champion Heavyweight 1982
- National Golden Gloves Champion Heavyweight 1984
- Undisputed Heavyweight champion (held all three major championship belts; WBA, IBF, and WBC) – August 1, 1987 – February 11, 1990
- WBC Heavyweight Champion – November 22, 1986 – February 11, 1990, March 16, 1996 – September 24, 1996 (Vacated)
- WBA Heavyweight Champion – March 7, 1987 – February 11, 1990, September 7, 1996 – November 9, 1996
- IBF Heavyweight Champion – August 1, 1987 – February 11, 1990
Records
- Youngest Heavyweight champion – 20 years and 4 months
- Junior Olympic quickest KO – 8 seconds
Awards
- Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year—1986 & 1988
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality—1989
- Ring magazine Prospect of the Year—1985
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| Preceded by Marvin Hagler & Donald Curry |
Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year 1986 |
Succeeded by Evander Holyfield |
| Preceded by Evander Holyfield |
Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year 1988 |
Succeeded by Pernell Whitaker |
| Preceded by Marvin Hagler |
BWAA Fighter of the Year 1986 |
Succeeded by Julio Cesar Chavez |
| Preceded by Julio Cesar Chavez |
BWAA Fighter of the Year 1988 |
Succeeded by Pernell Whitaker |
| Achievements | ||
| Preceded by Trevor Berbick |
WBC Heavyweight Champion November 22, 1986 – February 11, 1990 |
Succeeded by Buster Douglas |
| Preceded by James Smith |
WBA Heavyweight Champion March 7, 1987 – February 11, 1990 |
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| Preceded by Tony Tucker |
IBF Heavyweight Champion August 1, 1987 – February 11, 1990 |
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Undisputed Heavyweight Champion August 1, 1987 – February 11, 1990 |
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The Ring Heavyweight Champion June 27, 1988* *The Ring soon stopped awarding titles, resumed in 2002 |
Succeeded by Lennox Lewis (2002) |
| Preceded by Frank Bruno |
WBC Heavyweight Champion March 16, 1996 – September 24, 1996 Vacated |
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WBA Heavyweight Champion September 7, 1996 – November 9, 1996 |
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| Short description | American heavyweight boxer |
| Date of birth | June 30, 1966 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York City, United States |
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| Alistair Overeem | |
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 Alistair Overeem in Amsterdam |
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| Born | Alistair Cees Overeem (1980-05-17) May 17, 1980 (age 32) Hounslow, London, England[1] |
| Other names | The Reem, The Demolition Man, Ubereem |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 263 lb (119 kg; 18.8 st) |
| Division | Heavyweight (2007–present) Light Heavyweight (1999–2007) |
| Reach | 81 in (206 cm) |
| Style | Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Submission grappling |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Boca Raton, Florida, United States[1] |
| Team | Golden Glory (1999–2011) Xtreme Couture (2011–2012) Imperial Athletics (2012–present) |
| Trainer | Striking: Roberto Flamingo |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 14 |
| Wins | 10 |
| By knockout | 7 |
| Losses | 4 |
| By knockout | 3 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 48 |
| Wins | 36 |
| By knockout | 15 |
| By submission | 19 |
| By decision | 2 |
| Losses | 11 |
| By knockout | 6 |
| By submission | 2 |
| By decision | 3 |
| No contests | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Occupation | Mixed martial arts fighter |
| Notable relatives | Valentijn Overeem, brother |
| Website | www.thereem.com |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
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Alistair Cees Overeem (born May 17, 1980) is a British born Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer,[2][3] signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is the former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Dream Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and made history by being the only fighter in combat sports to hold a world title in both MMA and K-1 kickboxing at the same time. Alistair Overeem is ranked #3 in the heavyweight division.
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Biography[link]
Overeem was born on (1980-05-17)May 17, 1980,[4][5][6] to a Dutch mother and Jamaican father.[7] His parents divorced when he was six years old. His mother, Clair, then moved Alistair and his brother Valentijn to the Netherlands, where Alistair has lived ever since.[8][9]
As a child, Overeem competed in sports like judo, athletics and basketball.[9] At 15 years of age, his brother Valentijn took him to Chris Dolman's gym to teach him how to defend himself.[9][10] At first he didn't like to train, but after training with Bas Rutten, Joop Kasteel and others, he eventually learned to enjoy it.[11][12]
Mixed martial arts career[link]
Overeem had his first MMA professional fight at 19 years old, defeating Ricardo Fyeet by guillotine choke submission on October 24, 1999 (1999-10-24) at It's Showtime, the first event of the eponymously named promotion.[9][13]
Early MMA Career[link]
After posting a 10–3 record in promotions such as RINGS, Overeem debuted in Pride Fighting Championships on July 20, 2002, defeating Yusuke Imamura by TKO in just 44 seconds.
Pride FC[link]
Overeem would win two more fights in Pride before entering the 2003 Pride Middleweight Grand Prix at Pride Total Elimination 2003 and losing to future UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell in the quarterfinal match. Overeem rebounded to defeat Tomohiko Hashimoto at the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 in 36 seconds. On October 31, 2004 he fought Hiromitsu Kanehara, defeating him by TKO part-way through the first round at Pride 28. He lost his next fight against Brazilian Top Team fighter Antônio Rogério Nogueira.
In 2005, Overeem entered the Pride Middle Weight Grand Prix at Pride Total Elimination 2005 where he defeated former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort by submission in the opening round. Overeem would move on to fight Igor Vovchanchyn in the quarterfinals at Pride Critical Countdown 2005 taking under two minutes to win by submission. Overeem lost in the semi-finals to the eventual champion Mauricio Rua.
In February 2006, Overeem fought Russian Top Team favorite Sergei Kharitonov. Overeem won the fight, dislocating Kharitonov's shoulder in the process. With his win over Kharitonov, Overeem secured a spot in the Pride 2006 Open Weight Grand Prix at Pride Total Elimination Absolute. He fought Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist Fabricio Werdum, losing via kimura in the second round.
Debut in Strikeforce[link]
After his loss, Overeem traveled to San Jose, California to rematch Vitor Belfort at Strikeforce: Revenge. Despite being the main event, Overeem pulled out a decision win.
Return to Pride[link]
A month later Overeem returned to Pride for a highly anticipated rematch with Antônio Rogério Nogueira. Overeem entered the fight with a heavily taped neck. After controlling the first round and a half with his striking, Overeem was stumbled from a punch, Nogueira followed with a flurry of strikes. Worried Overeem would be more severely injured, his corner threw in the towel.
At Pride Final Conflict Absolute, he lost to Ricardo Arona. Overeem was on the receiving end of a leg kick that caused a non-serious injury to his nerves, causing him to lose feeling in his foot and leg. Unable to mount an offense or defend against Arona, Overeem tapped out to avoid further injury.
He then suffered another KO loss to Mauricio Rua at Pride 33, but returned in June 2007 with a submission win over Michael Knaap at K-1 Grand Prix in Amsterdam (despite K-1 being a kickboxing promotion, the bout was fought under MMA rules).
On September 17, 2007, at Hero's 10: Middleweight Tournament Final Alistair faced Sergei Kharitonov again. Overeem showed solid movement as soon as the first round began, but he suffered a KO loss just before the end of the first round.After not making the cut as a light heavyweight, Overeem realized that he had to stop cutting weight and fight at his natural weightclass.
Return to Strikeforce/Dream/Dynamite[link]
On November 16, 2007, Overeem defeated Paul Buentello for the vacant Strikeforce heavyweight title by submission due to knee strikes.[14]
On June 15, 2008 Overeem won by KO in the first round against Lee Tae-Hyun at Dream 4. On July 21, 2008, Overeem defeated K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 champion Mark Hunt in the first round by submission at Dream 5.
His next fight was against Mirko Filipović at Dream 6 on September 23, 2008.[15] After almost half of the first round which saw Overeem taking down Filipovic multiple times and effectively striking from the top position, cutting his Croatian foe, the bout was stopped and declared a no contest due to Alistair landing multiple knees to the groin of Filipovic.
Overeem was rumored to make his first title defense against Heavyweight Brett Rogers on June 6 at Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields, however a hand injury scuttled plans for the fight.[16] According to Golden Glory manager Bas Boon, Overeem had suffered a hand infection following a nightclub brawl early May 2009. According to Boon, Alistair and his brother Valentijn – both heavyweights – had been involved in an altercation that left five security staff needing hospital treatment and nearly cost Alistair his hand.
Overeem was scheduled to make his first Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship defense in a rematch against Fabricio Werdum at Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg, but had to pull out due to a hand injury, most likely caused from his nightclub brawl.
Alistair defeated Tony Sylvester at Golden Glory's 10 year anniversary celebration with a standing guillotine choke.[17] He used the same choke only 8 days later to submit James Thompson at Dream 12.[18]
Overeem has stated that he wants a rubber match with Badr Hari, only this time in an MMA bout.[19]
Overeem was set to face Andrei Arlovski at Dynamite!! 2009 but FEG instead opted to have him face, Kazuyuki Fujita to keep with the Dream Vs. Sengoku theme.[20] Overeem quickly overpowered his opponent and recorded a knockout with a knee to the head.
Overeem then faced Brett Rogers on May 15, 2010 at Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery to defend his Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship.[21] He won the fight via TKO (punches) in the first round. In his post-fight interview, Alistair Overeem declared for another time that he wants to fight Fedor Emelianenko, claiming that Fedor's management can no longer ignore his presence.[22] The majority of Alistair Overeem's pre-fight training camp took place at the newly opened Golden Glory Gym in Pattaya, Thailand, where "The Demolition Man" concentrated on the further improvement of his Muay Thai skills.[23]
Overeem faced Todd Duffee on December 31, 2010 at Dynamite!! 2010.[24] Overeem defeated Duffee by way of knockout 19 seconds into the first round to win the Dream Interim Heavyweight Championship.[25] Overeem was later upgraded to Dream Heavyweight Champion.
Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix[link]
In early 2011, Alistair Overeem was named as one of 8 men that will take part of the Strikeforce Heavyweight GP, alongside rivals Fabricio Werdum, Sergei Kharitonov, Brett Rogers, Josh Barnett, Andrei Arlovski, Antonio Silva and Fedor Emelianenko.
A rematch with Fabricio Werdum took place on June 18, 2011, at Strikeforce: Dallas as part of an eight-man heavyweight tournament.[26] Overeem won by unanimous decision.
Removal from GP/Strikeforce[link]
On July 17, it was announced Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem was removed from the promotion’s 2011 heavyweight grand prix. Overeem went on to state that he felt the September date was too soon for him to return, and that he needed time to rest and heal after his June 18 quarterfinal decision win over Fabricio Werdum. Overeem swapped out for unbeaten up-and-comer Daniel Cormier.[27] Subsequently, on July 29, it was announced that Overeem had been released from the Strikeforce organization as Zuffa exercised their right to eliminate the one remaining fight on his contract.[28][29] It was revealed that the reason behind Overeem's release from Strikeforce was not due to his unwillingness to participate in the GP semi finals, but due to Golden Glory's policy requiring that the money fighters made through fights be paid through their management first.
This disagreement led not only to Overeem's release but also other Golden Glory stars under a Zuffa contract, including former Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion Marloes Coenen, Norwegian UFC heavyweight Jon Olav Einemo, and even brother Valentijn Overeem. Team Golden Glory leader Bas Boon stated he has since changed the policy, and that Alistair Overeem could come to the UFC under an exclusive deal, if the right terms are offered, which he now has.[30]
Ultimate Fighting Championship[link]
On December 30, 2011, at UFC 141, Overeem made his UFC debut in the main event against former heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar in what ultimately turned out to be Lesnar's final mixed martial arts fight. He defeated Lesnar by flooring him with a liver kick then finishing him off with an unanswered flurry of punches, prompting the referee to intervene and stop the fight, awarding Overeem a 1st round TKO victory and earning him a title shot against heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos.
Overeem was scheduled to fight UFC Heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos on May 26, 2012 at UFC 146. However, on April 4, 2012, Overeem was revealed to have failed his pre-fight drug test by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC).[31] He tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone that exceeded a ratio of 10-to-1, over the allowed ratio rate of 6-to-1. On Friday April 20, 2012, UFC President Dana White confirmed that Overeem has been removed from his fight with Dos Santos and replaced by Frank Mir.[32]
One day prior to his meeting with the NSAC, Overeem released a prepared statement to the media in which he claims the positive result of the drug test came as a result of a doctor prescribed "anti-inflammatory medication that was mixed with testosterone."[33] Overeem's lawyer filed a continuation request for additional time to gather support for his recent claim, which was voted on by the NSAC on April 24, 2012.[34] The request was denied and the NSAC voted unanimously to deny Overeem's application status for a period of 9 months, dating back to March 27, the day of his drug test. He may reapply after this time period in December 2012.[35]
Kickboxing career[link]
Overeem had his first professional kickboxing fight at 17 years old, in a K-1 rules fight on November 15, 1997 (1997-11-15).[9][36] After that he fought against Paul Hordijk, winning by decision on March 14, 1999 (1999-03-14). Overeem then moved onto K-1, having two K-1 Kickboxing fights in 6 years against Errol Parris and Glaube Feitosa. Overeem was knocked out in both bouts and stayed with MMA from then on. He did not fight in K-1 for 4 more years.
On December 31, 2008, Overeem faced Badr Hari, one of K-1's top contenders, under K-1 rules. He defeated Hari by way of knockout in the first round. After that, he faced Remy Bonjasky, the defending K-1 champion. Overeem came out aggressive in the first and second rounds, bullying Bonjasky and landing some impressive offense, but in the third was knocked down by a right hook from Bonjasky, who thereby secured a unanimous decision win. All three judges scored the bout 30–28.
On September 26 at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final 16, having been selected by fan voting after his impressive performances against Remy Bonjasky and Badr Hari, Overeem shocked the kickboxing world by achieving a huge upset. He defeated K-1's longest serving member, legendary 3-time champion Peter Aerts by unanimous decision. At the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final, Overeem knocked out Kyokushin Karate Champion, Ewerton Teixeira with a knee strike in the first round, but lost to Badr Hari, via TKO from a head kick in the Semi Finals.
At the K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Yokohama, Overeem defeated Dzevad Poturak via KO (right knee) in Round 1 at 2:40.[37] Overeem defeated Ben Edwards by TKO in the first round on October 2, 2010 at K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 Final 16.[38]
On December 11, at the Ariake Coliseum, Overeem fought at and won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 Final. In the quarter finals, he beat Tyrone Spong by Unanimous decision. In the semi finals he came face to face with his teammate Gokhan Saki, who he defeated by first round TKO due to injury, breaking Saki's right arm with a hard left kick. Saki's arm was already injured as a result of his previous fight with Daniel Ghita. In the finals, he fought Peter Aerts for the second time. Alistair came out aggressively and finished Peter in the first round.
Personal life[link]
Overeem has a daughter named Storm.[39] On a Japanese comedy show, Alistair Overeem claimed that his great-great-grandfather was William III of the Netherlands.[40] Overeem had a cameo in the music video for the song "Sexy and I Know It" and "Sorry for Party Rocking" by LMFAO in September 2011.[41] He won a celebrity sumo tournament in Japan in September 2011.
Legal Issues[link]
On January 1, 2012 following his match with Brock Lesnar at UFC 141, Overeem pushed or shoved a woman in the face, "causing her to stagger back," in an incident that occurred at the Wynn Las Vegas at about 3 a.m., according to the Las Vegas Police Department. Not arrested but summoned to court, Overeem has been charged with misdemeanor battery, facing a maximum of six months in the Clark County Detention Center and not more than a $1,000 fine. He is being represented by David Chesnoff.[42] On March 28, 2012, Overeem was given a suspended 90 day county jail sentence plus 50 hours of community service with anger management. If Overeem fulfills the requirements, the battery charge will be dropped. Overeem is scheduled to be back in court on Sept. 26 to close the case.[43]
Championships and accomplishments[link]
Kickboxing[link]
- K-1
- K-1 2009 World Grand Prix (Third place)
- K-1 2010 World Grand Prix (Champion)
Mixed martial arts[link]
- Strikeforce
- Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship (One time; First; Last)
- One successful title defense
- Pride Fighting Championships
- 2005 Middleweight Tournament (Third place)
- DREAM
- DREAM Interim Heavyweight Champion (One time; First)
- DREAM Heavyweight Championship (One time; First)
- Fastest stoppage in a DREAM title bout (0:19; vs. Todd Duffee)
- 2 Hot 2 Handle
- 2H2H Light Heavyweight Championship (One time)
- 2H2H Light Heavyweight Tournament (Champion)
- World MMA Awards
- 2010 International Fighter of the Year
- 2011 International Fighter of the Year
Submission grappling[link]
- Abu Dhabi Combat Club
- 2005 ADCC European Trials Winner
Mixed martial arts record[link]
| Professional record breakdown | ||
| 48 matches | 36 wins | 11 losses |
| By knockout | 15 | 6 |
| By submission | 19 | 2 |
| By decision | 2 | 3 |
| No contests | 1 | |
| Result | Record | Opponent | Method | Event | Date | Round | Time | Location | Notes |
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| Win | 36–11 (1) | Brock Lesnar | TKO (kick to the body and punches) | UFC 141 | 02011-12-30December 30, 2011 | 1 | 2:26 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | UFC Heavyweight title eliminator. |
| Win | 35–11 (1) | Fabricio Werdum | Decision (unanimous) | Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum | 02011-06-18June 18, 2011 | 3 | 5:00 | Dallas, Texas, United States | Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal, Later pulled out of tournament. |
| Win | 34–11 (1) | Todd Duffee | KO (knee & punches) | Dynamite!! 2010 | 02010-12-31December 31, 2010 | 1 | 0:19 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Won the Dream Heavyweight Championship. Later vacated title. |
| Win | 33–11 (1) | Brett Rogers | TKO (punches) | Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery | 02010-05-15May 15, 2010 | 1 | 3:40 | St. Louis, Missouri, United States | Defended the Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship. Later vacated title. |
| Win | 32–11 (1) | Kazuyuki Fujita | KO (knee) | Dynamite!! 2009 | 02009-12-31December 31, 2009 | 1 | 1:15 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | |
| Win | 31–11 (1) | James Thompson | Submission (standing guillotine choke) | Dream 12 | 02009-10-25October 25, 2009 | 1 | 0:33 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | |
| Win | 30–11 (1) | Tony Sylvester | Submission (standing guillotine choke) | Ultimate Glory 11: A Decade of Fights | 02009-10-17October 17, 2009 | 1 | 1:23 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 29–11 (1) | Gary Goodridge | Submission (kimura) | Ultimate Glory 10: The Battle of Arnhem | 02008-11-09November 9, 2008 | 1 | 1:42 | Arnhem, Netherlands | |
| NC | 28–11 (1) | Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović | No contest (knee to the groin) | Dream 6 | 02008-09-23September 23, 2008 | 1 | 6:09 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Overeem kneed Filipović two times in the groin |
| Win | 28–11 | Mark Hunt | Submission (keylock) | Dream 5 | 02008-07-21July 21, 2008 | 1 | 1:11 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | |
| Win | 27–11 | Lee Tae-Hyun | KO (punches & knee) | Dream 4 | 02008-06-15June 15, 2008 | 1 | 0:36 | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Win | 26–11 | Paul Buentello | Submission (knees to the body) | Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives | 02007-11-16November 16, 2007 | 2 | 3:42 | San Jose, California, United States | Won inaugural Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship |
| Loss | 25–11 | Sergei Kharitonov | KO (punch) | Hero's 10 | 02007-09-17September 17, 2007 | 1 | 4:21 | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Win | 25–10 | Michael Knaap | Submission (guillotine choke) | K-1 World Grand Prix 2007 in Amsterdam | 02007-06-23June 23, 2007 | 1 | 4:51 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Moves up to Heavyweight full-time |
| Loss | 24–10 | Maurício Rua | KO (punches) | Pride 33 | 02007-02-24February 24, 2007 | 1 | 3:37 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |
| Loss | 24–9 | Ricardo Arona | Submission (punches) | Pride Final Conflict Absolute | 02006-09-10September 10, 2006 | 1 | 4:28 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | |
| Loss | 24–8 | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | TKO (corner stoppage) | Pride Critical Countdown Absolute | 02006-07-01July 1, 2006 | 2 | 2:13 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Returns to Light Heavyweight |
| Win | 24–7 | Vitor Belfort | Decision (unanimous) | Strikeforce: Revenge | 02006-06-09June 9, 2006 | 3 | 5:00 | San Jose, California, United States | Fought at catchweight of 210 lb |
| Loss | 23–7 | Fabricio Werdum | Submission (kimura) | Pride Total Elimination Absolute | 02006-05-05May 5, 2006 | 2 | 3:43 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | Pride 2006 Openweight Grand Prix Opening Round |
| Win | 23–6 | Nikolajus Cilkinas | Submission (armbar) | WCFC: No Guts, No Glory | 02006-03-18March 18, 2006 | 1 | 1:42 | Manchester, England | |
| Win | 22–6 | Sergei Kharitonov | TKO (knees) | Pride 31 | 02006-02-26February 26, 2006 | 1 | 5:13 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Moves up to Heavyweight |
| Loss | 21–6 | Maurício Rua | KO (punches) | Pride Final Conflict 2005 | 02005-08-28August 28, 2005 | 1 | 6:42 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Pride 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Semifinal |
| Win | 21–5 | Igor Vovchanchyn | Submission (guillotine choke) | Pride Critical Countdown 2005 | 02005-06-26June 26, 2005 | 1 | 1:20 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | Pride 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal |
| Win | 20–5 | Vitor Belfort | Submission (guillotine choke) | Pride Total Elimination 2005 | 02005-04-23April 23, 2005 | 1 | 9:36 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | Pride 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Opening Round |
| Loss | 19–5 | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | Decision (unanimous) | Pride 29 | 02005-02-20February 20, 2005 | 3 | 5:00 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | |
| Win | 19–4 | Hiromitsu Kanehara | TKO (doctor stoppage) | Pride 28 | 02004-10-31October 31, 2004 | 2 | 3:52 | Saitama, Saitama, Japan | |
| Win | 18–4 | Rodney Glunder | Submission (guillotine choke) | 2 Hot 2 Handle | 02004-10-10October 10, 2004 | 1 | 1:32 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Wins 2H2H Light-Heavyweight Championship |
| Win | 17–4 | Tomohiko Hashimoto | TKO (knees and punches) | Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 | 02003-12-31December 31, 2003 | 1 | 0:36 | Kobe, Hyogo, Japan | |
| Loss | 16–4 | Chuck Liddell | KO (punches) | Pride Total Elimination 2003 | 02003-08-10August 10, 2003 | 1 | 3:09 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan | Pride 2003 Middleweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal. |
| Win | 16–3 | Mike Bencic | Submission (knee to the body) | Pride 26 | 02003-06-08June 8, 2003 | 1 | 3:44 | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Win | 15–3 | Aaron Brink | Submission (guillotine choke) | 2H2H 6: Simply the Best 6 | 02003-03-16March 16, 2003 | 1 | 0:53 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 14–3 | Bazigit Atajev | TKO (knee to the body) | Pride 24 | 02002-12-23December 23, 2002 | 2 | 4:59 | Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| Win | 13–3 | Dave Vader | TKO (doctor stoppage) | 2H2H 5: Simply the Best 5 | 02002-10-13October 13, 2002 | 1 | 3:17 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2H2H Light Heavyweight Tournament Final |
| Win | 12–3 | Moise Rimbon | Submission (triangle choke) | 2H2H 5: Simply the Best 5 | 02002-10-13October 13, 2002 | 1 | 1:03 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2H2H Light Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal |
| Win | 11–3 | Yusuke Imamura | TKO (knee and punches) | Pride The Best Vol.2 | 02002-07-20July 20, 2002 | 1 | 0:44 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 10–3 | Vesa Vuori | TKO (punches) | 2 Hot 2 Handle: Germany | 02002-05-26May 26, 2002 | 1 | 2:15 | Krefeld, Germany | |
| Win | 9–3 | Sergey Kaznovsky | Submission (armbar) | M1 Mix-Fight Championship: Russia vs. the World 3 | 02002-04-26April 26, 2002 | 1 | 3:37 | Saint Petersburg, Russia | |
| Win | 8–3 | Roman Zentsov | Submission (keylock) | 2H2H 4: Simply the Best 4 | 02002-03-17March 17, 2002 | 1 | 1:26 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 7–3 | Stanislav Nuschik | TKO (knees) | 2H2H 2: Simply The Best | 02001-03-18March 18, 2001 | 1 | 0:53 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 6–3 | Vladimer Chanturia | Submission (rear naked choke) | Rings: King of Kings 2000 Final | 02001-02-24February 24, 2001 | 1 | 1:06 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 5–3 | Peter Verschuren | Submission (keylock) | It's Showtime: Christmas Edition | 02000-12-12December 12, 2000 | 1 | 1:06 | Haarlem, Netherlands | |
| Loss | 4–3 | Bobby Hoffman | KO (punches) | Rings: Millennium Combine 2 | 02000-06-15June 15, 2000 | 1 | 9:39 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Loss | 4–2 | Yuriy Kochkine | Decision (split) | Rings Russia: Russia vs. The World | 02000-05-20May 20, 2000 | 2 | 5:00 | Yekaterinburg, Russia | |
| Win | 4–1 | Yasuhito Namekawa | Submission (armbar) | Rings: Millennium Combine 1 | 02000-04-20April 20, 2000 | 1 | 0:45 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 3–1 | Can Sahinbas | KO (knee) | 2 Hot 2 Handle 1 | 02000-03-05March 5, 2000 | 1 | 2:21 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Win | 2–1 | Chris Watts | KO (knee to the body) | Rings Holland: There Can Only Be One Champion | 02000-02-06February 6, 2000 | 1 | 3:58 | Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| Loss | 1–1 | Yuriy Kochkine | Decision (majority) | Rings: King of Kings 1999 Block A | 01999-10-28October 28, 1999 | 2 | 5:00 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Win | 1–0 | Ricardo Fyeet | Submission (guillotine choke) | It's Showtime - It's Showtime | 01999-10-24October 24, 1999 | 1 | 1:39 | Haarlem, Netherlands |
Kickboxing record[link]
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Submission grappling record[link]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Method | Event | Date | Notes |
| Win | 3–0 |  Mikael Grothe |
(Submission: Guillotine Choke) | ADCC European Trials | January 25, 2005 | −98.9 kg Final |
| Win | 2–0 |  Andreas Olsen |
(Submission: Guillotine Choke) | ADCC European Trials | January 25, 2005 | −98.9 kg |
| Win | 1–0 | Arben Latifi |
(Submission: Guillotine Choke) | ADCC European Trials | January 25, 2005 | −98.9 kg |
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External links[link]
- Official web site
- Official UFC Profile
- Professional MMA record for Alistair Overeem from Sherdog
- Personal life documentary
- Profile at K-1
- Profile at Dream (Japanese)
- Profile at Pride
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| New championship | 1st Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion November 16, 2007 – July 29, 2011 |
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Overeem stripped of title and released from Strikeforce
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| New title | 1st Dream Interim Heavyweight Champion December 31, 2010 – September 6, 2011 |
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| New title | 1st Dream Heavyweight Champion | Vacant
Overeem signed with UFC
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| Persondata | |
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| Name | Overeem, Alistair |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | Mixed martial artist and kickboxer |
| Date of birth | May 17, 1980 |
| Place of birth | Hounslow, England |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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| Bobby Lashley | |
|---|---|
 Bobby Lashley, 2007. |
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| Born | Franklin Roberto Lashley (1976-07-16) July 16, 1976 (age 35) Junction City, Kansas, United States |
| Other names |
The Pressure Cooker (MMA) [2] The Dominator(MMA)[3] |
| Nationality | American |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Weight | 282 lb (128 kg; 20 st 2 lb) |
| Division | Heavyweight |
| Reach | 90 in (229 cm) |
| Style | Wrestling |
| Fighting out of | Denver, Colorado |
| Team | American Top Team, American Kickboxing Academy, American Top Team Altitude,[4] CSW[5] |
| Trainer | Josh Barnett[5] |
| Years active | 2008 – present |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 9 |
| Wins | 7 |
| By knockout | 2 |
| By submission | 3 |
| By decision | 2 |
| Losses | 2 |
| By knockout | 1 |
| By decision | 1 |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
Franklin Roberto "Bobby" Lashley[6] (born July 16, 1976)[6] is an American mixed martial artist, actor, and former collegiate amateur wrestler as well as a former professional wrestler. During his professional wrestling career, he was best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he was a one-time United States Champion and a two-time world champion, having had two reigns as ECW World Champion.
Lashley attended Missouri Valley College, where he won three national college amateur wrestling championships between 1996 and 1998 and placed fourth in 1995. In 1997 and 1998, he was the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Wrestling Champion.[7] Lashley later joined the United States Army, where he continued to wrestle.[6][8] He was training for the Olympics in 2003, when he suffered a knee injury while doing business at a bank where a robbery broke out.[9][10] The injury ended his Olympic plans, and Lashley went into pro wrestling soon after.
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Professional wrestling[link]
| Bobby Lashely | |
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| Ring name(s) | Blaster Lashley[1] Bobby Lashley[1] Lashley |
| Billed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)[6] |
| Billed weight | 275 lb (125 kg; 19.6 st)[6] |
| Born | (1976-07-16) July 16, 1976 (age 35)[6] Junction City, Kansas[6] |
| Billed from | Colorado Springs, Colorado[6] |
| Trained by | Ohio Valley Wrestling[1] |
| Debut | 1999[1] |
World Wrestling Entertainment (2004-2008)[link]
Debut (2004-2005)[link]
In November 2004, Lashley began working in the professional wrestling area and signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment. He was assigned to the development territory Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he was known as Blaster Lashley, and was a member of the Bolin Services stable along with Mike Mondo and Ken Doane. However during that time Bolin Services began to crumble with Lashley refusing to help Doane win matches, resulting in him turning face and going by his Bobby Lashley name.
Various feuds and United States Champion (2005–2006)[link]
In mid-2005 Lashley appeared at four live events, wrestling in dark matches for both the Raw and SmackDown! brands.[6] On September 23, 2005, Lashley made his televised WWE debut as a face on SmackDown! using the name Bobby Lashley. Lashley was introduced as a three-time National Amateur Wrestling Champion, a four-time All-American, a two-time Armed Forces Champion, and a 2002 Silver Medalist at the Military World Championship. In his first match, he defeated Simon Dean. In his pay-per-view debut at No Mercy, he defeated Dean once again. Lashley went on to defeat numerous superstars both on SmackDown! and Raw.[6] On the November 11 episode of SmackDown!, Lashley defeated Orlando Jordan in a qualifying match for a place on Team SmackDown! at Survivor Series where he was the first to be eliminated. Prior to this elimination Lashley was dominating the Raw Superstars, showcasing various "power moves" and a finisher on Carlito. Yet a chokeslam from Kane, who was on the apron, caused Lashley to be eliminated.[11][12]
On January 6, 2006, Lashley became the first announced participant from SmackDown! to be entered into that year's Royal Rumble.[13] At the Royal Rumble, Lashley was the eighth wrestler to enter the match. He eliminated Sylvan, but he was then eliminated by the combination of Raw's then World Tag Team Champions The Big Show and Kane.[14] Following the Royal Rumble, Lashley began a feud with John Bradshaw Layfield leading up to a match at No Way Out. The match was Lashley's first loss in singles competition due to interference from Finlay.[15] During February and March, Lashley was involved in a feud with Finlay, where the two would brawl on many occasions, including a lumberjack match that Finlay won after using a shillelagh.[16]
On April 2, after winning a Last Chance battle royal by last eliminating MNM,[17] Lashley competed at his first WrestleMania (WrestleMania 22) in the Money in the Bank ladder match. The match was won by Rob Van Dam.[18] Lashley next entered SmackDown!'s King of the Ring tournament. He lasted until the finals, defeating Mark Henry and Finlay in the process.[6] In the final round, held at Judgment Day he was defeated by Booker T with help from Finlay. Later, as Booker was being crowned, Lashley performed a spear to Booker.[19] These acts developed into a feud with the newly named "King Booker" and the other members of his court (Queen Sharmell, Finlay, and William Regal). During this feud, Lashley won his first professional wrestling championship by defeating JBL for the United States Championship, which he lost to Finlay a little less than two months later.[20][21] Lashley later joined forces with Batista against the Court. Not long after losing the United States Title, Lashley was declared unable to compete according to a physician who stated that during an annual exam, Lashley was found to have elevated enzymes of the liver and therefore, would not be cleared to wrestle until further evaluation.[22] Lashley returned a couple of weeks later to the SmackDown! roster to continue his feud with the Court and went on to earn his first match for the World Heavyweight Championship at No Mercy against King Booker. This match later became a four way bout that also included Batista and Booker's ally, Finlay. King Booker won that match after pinning Finlay.[23]
ECW World Champion (2006–2007)[link]
On November 14, 2006, Lashley moved to the ECW brand. He debuted on the brand by making a surprise appearance to sign a contract for the final spot in the Extreme Elimination Chamber match for the ECW World Championship at December to Dismember.[24] At December to Dismember, Lashley was the fifth person released into the match. He eliminated both Test and The Big Show by pinfall after a spear to become the new ECW World Champion. This made Lashley the first African American to hold the ECW Title.[25]
After winning the ECW World Championship, Lashley then had successful title defenses against Big Show, Rob Van Dam, Test, Hardcore Holly, Kenny Dykstra, and Mr. Kennedy.[6] On the March 19, 2007, episode of Raw, Lashley officially became the first and only person to ever break Chris Masters' masterlock hold and thus the first and only person to ever defeat the masterlock challenge.[26]
In early 2007, Lashley was selected by Donald Trump to represent him in a "Battle of the Billionaires" match, against Vince McMahon's representative, Umaga which also featured Vince's long time adversary Stone Cold Steve Austin as the guest referee. At WrestleMania 23 in a Hair vs. Hair match, Lashley defeated Umaga following a spear and helped Trump shave McMahon's head afterwards in accordance with the match's losing stipulation.[27] After WrestleMania, Lashley feuded with Mr. McMahon. McMahon booked himself, his son Shane McMahon, and Umaga in a 3 on 1 handicap match against Lashley at Backlash for the ECW World Championship. After two high impact diving splashes from Umaga, Mr. McMahon tagged himself into the match and pinned Lashley to win the title.[28] Lashley legitimately injured his shoulder during the match and after an examination days later, it was revealed he had a damaged rotator cuff but would not need surgery at the time.[29] At Judgment Day, Lashley defeated Vince, Shane, and Umaga in a 3 on 1 handicap rematch after hitting the Dominator on Shane McMahon. Lashley did not win the ECW World Championship, however, because he did not pin Mr. McMahon. As a result, Mr. McMahon retained the title.[30] On June 3 at One Night Stand, Lashley defeated Vince McMahon in a street fight to win the ECW World Championship for a second reign despite interference by Shane McMahon and Umaga in the match, making Lashley the first man to win the ECW World Championship twice since WWE reactivated the title.[31]
Pursuit of the WWE Championship, injury and departure (2007–2008)[link]
On the June 11 edition of Raw, Lashley was drafted from the ECW brand to the Raw brand as part of the 2007 WWE Draft, as a result of the drafting, Lashley had the ECW World Championship taken from him. He took place in a challenge match against Mick Foley, Randy Orton, King Booker and John Cena for the WWE Championship at Vengeance: Night of Champions which Cena won to retain the WWE championship. Lashley became the number one contender for the WWE Championship by winning the "Beat the Clock" challenge on the July 2 edition of Raw. On July 22 at The Great American Bash, he was pinned and defeated by John Cena, after the match they shook hands as a sign of respect, this was Lashley's final WWE pay-per-view appearance. On July 30 episode of Raw, Lashley was defeated by Mr. Kennedy. During the match Lashley was "injured" after Kennedy kicked Lashley's shoulder into the ring steps, allowing Lashley to have time off for surgery for the legitimate injury he suffered at Backlash, this was Lashley's final appearance in WWE.[32][33][34]
After six month injury, in January 2008 on the forum of his official website, Lashley announced that he was released by WWE. He clarified his comments by claiming that he did not want to leave WWE, but had to due to circumstances beyond his control, he also stated that he was now training for a career in MMA.[35] WWE announced that Lashley was released from his WWE contract on February 4, 2008.[36]
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración and Independent Circuit (2008)[link]
After departure from WWE, Lashley returned to wrestling by appearing at Asistencia Asesoría y Administración's flagship event TripleMania XVI. He, along with Kenzo Suzuki and Electroshock, defeated Chessman, Silver King, and La Parka, Jr.[37]
Also after his departure from the WWE, Lashley would appear in many independent promotions. Such as World League Wrestling. He also appeared in the Denver based Fusion Pro Wrestling, teaming with AJ Styles, and Paul Diamond to face the "Three Egos." He also wrestled for the Inoki Genome Federation in Japan.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009–2010)[link]
Lashley made an appearance at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Lockdown pay-per-view event on April 19, 2009 and he also later appeared on that week's episode of TNA Impact!, both times pointing and smiling at The Main Event Mafia, thus appearing as a heel. On July 15, TNA announced that he had signed an official contract with the company.[38] On July 23, Kurt Angle introduced Lashley as the newest member of the Main Event Mafia. Lashley entered the ring and hugged Angle while the rest of the Mafia held a beaten and battered Mick Foley upright. Angle then told Lashley to finish off Foley but as Lashley prepared to spear Foley, he turned on Angle and cleared the Mafia from the ring, thus making him a face.
On the July 30 edition of Impact!, Lashley made his in-ring debut for TNA in a tag team match as he and Mick Foley wrestled against World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle and Legends Champion Kevin Nash, where if Angle or Nash was pinned, whoever defeated them would win their respective title. It started out as a handicap match thanks to the Main Event Mafia attacking Lashley before the match, but eventually Lashley entered the match and helped Mick Foley pin Nash to win the match for his team and become the Legends Champion.[39] On the August 27 edition of Impact!, Jeremy Borash interviewed him and TNA President Dixie Carter in which she said their goal was to make him a World Champion in both MMA and TNA. At No Surrender, he defeated Rhino with a knockout punch.[40]
After No Surrender, Lashley began a feud with Samoa Joe. After teaming with Team 3D in a winning effort against Rhino and The British Invasion (Doug Williams and Brutus Magnus) on the October 1 edition of Impact!, Joe assaulted Lashley and choked him out with a rear naked choke.[41] The following week, Lashley cost Joe the X Division Championship in a match against Amazing Red.[42] At Bound for Glory, Lashley defeated Joe in a submission match.[43] The following month at Turning Point Lashley's winning streak came to an end, when Scott Steiner pinned him in a Falls Count Anywhere match following a shot with a steel pipe.[44] On November 26, Lashley defeated Abyss, Desmond Wolfe, and Robert Roode to win the TNA Championship Series tournament and earn himself a future World Heavyweight Title shot.[45] At Final Resolution, Lashley avenged his prior loss and defeated Steiner in a Last Man Standing match with a pipeshot.[46] On the January 4, 2010, Monday night edition of Impact!, Lashley and Kristal turned heel after requesting their immediate releases from TNA in order for Lashley to fully concentrate on his MMA career.[47] Lashley went on to attack random wrestlers until he was granted what he wanted.[48] On the January 21 edition of Impact! Lashley suddenly apologized to new executive producer Eric Bischoff for his actions, saying he just wanted to compete,[49] but was nevertheless fired by him the following week.[50] On February 10, 2010, Lashley's profile was removed from the official TNA website.[51] In an interview with Heavy Sports Lashley claimed that the release was legitimate and had been done in order for him to fully focus on his MMA career.[52]
Inoki Genome Federation (2011)[link]
After Lashley was released from WWE he made one appearance in Antonio Inoki's promotion IGF. He defeated another WWE alumni the Predator[53]. He returned to Japan in September 25th, 2010 for a tag-team match with Bob Sapp against Kendo Kashin and Tamon Honda[54]. Bob and Bobby were defeated. Since then Lashey regularly performs in IGF. In 2011 he participated in IGF Title Tournament. He won the 1st round match against Keith Hanson[55], but was defeated in semifinals by Josh Barnett[56].
Mixed martial arts[link]
Early MMA career[link]
Lashley made his mixed martial arts debut at the Mixed Fighting Alliance (MFA) inaugural event "There Will Be Blood" on December 13, 2008 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. He won via TKO (cut) over Joshua Franklin in 41 seconds of the first round. Lashley's next fight was on March 21, 2009. He was supposed to fight Ken Shamrock, but his opponent was changed to veteran Jason Guida after Shamrock tested positive for steroids. Lashley won the fight after a unanimous decision. Lashley signed with the Maximum Fighting Championship and made his debut on May 15 against Mike Cook, who made his ring entrance wearing a Rey Mysterio mask, which Lashley took as an insult.[57] He went on to defeat Cook with a guillotine choke just 24 seconds into the first round.[57] On June 27, 2009, Lashley defeated Bob Sapp at the PFP: Ultimate Chaos event in Biloxi, Mississippi.[58] He won the bout via TKO (strikes) in the first round, making Lashley's MMA record 4–0.
Strikeforce[link]
He was scheduled to make his Strikeforce debut against undefeated heavyweight Shane Del Rosario at Strikeforce: Miami, but for unknown reasons, Strikeforce decided to change his opponent.[59] Lashley was then expected to face journeyman Jimmy Ambriz on January 30, 2010 at Strikeforce: Miami,[60] but that matchup was also scrapped.[61] Lashley wound up facing former UFC fighter Wes Sims at the event.[62] Lashley defeated Sims via 1st round TKO victory to remain undefeated.
Lashley was expected to fight on April 17, 2010 at Strikeforce: Nashville, as the promotion had already submitted an opponent for Lashley and was awaiting approval from the Tennessee Athletic Commission.[63] According to Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker, the bout would likely be the fourth bout on the CBS televised portion of the event.[63] On April 5, Lashley confirmed that he will not appear on the card since Strikeforce officials could not guarantee an appearance on the televised portion of the card due to time constraints.[64] Bobby was set to appear at Strikeforce: Los Angeles in June fighting Ron Sparks however he suffered a knee injury and did not compete.[65]
Lashley faced Chad Griggs at Strikeforce: Houston on August 21, 2010.[66] Lashley came out shooting the takedown, and ground and pounding. Lashley dominated at first but Griggs caught him with a series of uppercuts on one of the takedowns in the first round, opening a gash under the left corner of Lashley's left eye and Lashely had trouble keeping Griggs from striking him even though he had dominate control over him on the ground but Griggs was still finding openings on the bottom. Lashley was able to continue in the second round, continuing takedowns and ground and pound. Lashley eventually passed to mount halfway through the second round and unloaded many good punches on Griggs while maintaining control. Referee Jon Schorle then asked the fight to be stood up due to inactivity, even though Lashley was in full mount at the time, Lashley then complained to the referee about the cut under his eye. Referee Jon Schorle then asked the ringside doctor with 33 seconds left in the second round to inspect the cut with Lashley deciding to continue fighting, this created some controversy as referee Jon Schorle did not put the fight back in mount where it was originally stopped. Griggs then sprawled out of a desperate takedown by Lashley near the end of round two and hammer-fisted the eye of Lashley's that was already cut until the round ended. A ring doctor then stopped the fight, resulting in Lashley losing at the end of the second round by TKO. Backstage after the fight, Lashley was taken off on a stretcher due to dehydration.[67][68]
Titan Fighting Championship[link]
On February 18, 2011, Titan Fighting Championship had announced the signing of Lashley. He was expected to debut against James Jack however on March 16, 2011, officials announced they had lost contact with Jack and instead John Ott stepped in to fight Lashley.[69] The pace of the fight slowed down drastically in the second round, where Lashley began to display the same cardio problems that affected him in his previous fight. He was able to win a unanimous decision, despite suffering the effects of illness.
Lashley was scheduled to fight Eddie Sanchez at Titan Fighting Championships 19.[70] But on July 22, 2011, it was announced that Lashley withdrew from the fight due to personal reasons.[71]
Shark Fights[link]
Lashley has signed a three-year deal with Shark Fights[72] and was expected to make his debut against Darrill Schoonover in November, The fight was to be for the heavyweight title.[73] However Schoonover later pulled out of the bout due to an injury.[74] Lashley was then set to headline Shark Fights 21 against Tim Hague.[70] But Hague pulled out of the bout for unknown reasons and was replaced by Dave Huckaba.[75][76] On November 7 it was confirmed that the fight with Huckaba had been scrapped for unknown reasons, Lashley was then scheduled to face Mark Martinez but Martinez was later pulled out of the bout due to expired blood work.
On November 11, 2011 Lashley became the new Shark Fights Heavyweight champion defeating Karl Knothe in the first round by submission. Knothe was the fifth different opponent scheduled to face Lashley after numerous fighters pulled out due to various reasons.[77]
Super Fight League[link]
He next competed at India's Super Fight League's third event, SFL 3, against James Thompson. [78] He lost the fight via unanimous decision.
Personal life[link]
Lashley graduated from Missouri Valley College in 1999 with a degree in Human Service Agency Management.[8] Lashley has a daughter, Kyra, who was born in 2005.[79][80]
In 2007, Lashley opened up a shop that sells health smoothie drinks.[79]
He dated former WWE Diva Kristal Marshall.The couple had a son, named Myles in July 2008.[81][82]
In July 2009, Lashley announced the launch of The Lashley Network. The Lashley Network of websites comprises his official gym, his official nutrition store, and his social networking website. In a press release for the launch he stated that he is keeping his name out in the television media and on the internet so he can reach his goal of being the top fighter in MMA.[83]
In March 2010, Lashley announced the grand opening of his new gym in the Denver, Colorado area titled American Top Team Altitude. The facility will serve as a gym such as popular chain Gold's Gym and will also showcase MMA events.
Lashley was featured in the 2010 video game EA Sports MMA.
In May 2010, Lashley announced the opening of his new MMA Management company Lashley Management. Lashley, along with co-founder Judith Sussman, represent current and future MMA fighters.
Other media[link]
In March 2007, he alongside Randy Orton, John Cena, and Edge appeared on Deal or No Deal.[84] In 2009, he made a cameo appearance in the action movie The Way of War, credited as the "Tattooed Hispanic Man".
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Way of War | Tattooed Hispanic Man | |
| 2010 | Beatdown | Lucius | |
| 2011 | Blood Out | Hector | |
| Walk-ins Welcome | Felix |
Music videos[link]
| Year | Song | Artist | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Nightmare | Kasland | Asylum Orderly |
In wrestling[link]
- Finishing moves
- Dominator (Inverted front powerslam or a running powerslam)[1] – WWE/TNA
- Right-handed knockout hook[40] – TNA; 2009
- Spear[1] – WWE / TNA
- Standing dragon sleeper[41] – TNA
- Thrust spinebuster[85] – TNA
- Signature moves
- Clothesline[1]
- Fallaway slam[1]
- Full nelson slam[86]
- Military press drop[85]
- Multiple suplex variations
- Delayed vertical, with theatrics[1]
- Exploder[87]
- Overhead belly to belly[1]
- Trapping[1]
- Shoulder block[1]
- Spinebuster[45]
- Entrance themes
- "End To End" by Aaron Willis, Brian Beshears, Scott Meath
- "Unstoppable" by Jim Johnston
- "Unstopable (V2)"by Jim Johnston
- "Hell Will Be Callin Your Name" by Mercy Fall
- "The Boss" by Dale Oliver[91]
Championships and accomplishments[link]
Amateur wrestling[link]
- International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles
- 2001 NYAC Christmas Tournament Senior Freestyle Silver Medalist
- USA Wrestling
- USA World Team Trials Senior Freestyle 3rd Place (2003)
- National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
- NAIA Collegiate National Championship (1996, 1997, 1998)
- NAIA All-American (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)
- Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association
- KWCA Collegiate Wrestler of the Year (1998)
- National High School Coaches Association
- NHSCA Senior All-American (1994)
Mixed Martial Arts[link]
- Shark Fights
- Shark Fights Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)
Professional wrestling[link]
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI Rookie of the Year (2005)[92]
- PWI Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (2006)[93]
- PWI ranked him #9 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2007[94]
Mixed martial arts record[link]
| Professional record breakdown | ||
| 9 matches | 7 wins | 2 losses |
| By knockout | 2 | 1 |
| By submission | 3 | 0 |
| By decision | 2 | 1 |
| Result | Record | Opponent | Method | Event | Date | Round | Time | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 7–2 | James Thompson |
Decision (unanimous) | Super Fight League 3 | 02012-05-06May 6, 2012 | 3 | 5:00 | New Delhi, India | |
| Win | 7–1 | Karl Knothe |
Submission (keylock) | Shark Fight 21: Knothe vs. Lashley | 02011-11-11November 11, 2011 | 1 | 3:44 | Lubbock, Texas, United States | Won Shark Fights Heavyweight Championship |
| Win | 6–1 | John Ott |
Decision (unanimous) | Titan FC 17: Lashley vs. Ott | 02011-03-25March 25, 2011 | 3 | 5:00 | Kansas City, Kansas, United States | |
| Loss | 5–1 | Chad Griggs |
TKO (exhaustion) | Strikeforce: Houston | 02010-08-21August 21, 2010 | 2 | 5:00 | Houston, Texas, United States | |
| Win | 5–0 | Wes Sims |
TKO (punches) | Strikeforce: Miami | 02010-01-30January 30, 2010 | 1 | 2:06 | Sunrise, Florida, United States | |
| Win | 4–0 | Bob Sapp |
Submission (punches) | Ultimate Chaos | 02009-06-27June 27, 2009 | 1 | 3:17 | Biloxi, Mississippi, United States | |
| Win | 3–0 | Mike Cook |
Technical Submission (guillotine choke) | MFC 21 | 02009-05-15May 15, 2009 | 1 | 0:24 | Enoch, Alberta, Canada | |
| Win | 2–0 | Jason Guida |
Decision (unanimous) | SRP: March Badness | 02009-03-21March 21, 2009 | 3 | 5:00 | Pensacola, Florida, United States | |
| Winx | 1–0 | Joshua Franklin |
TKO (doctor stoppage) | MFA: There Will Be Blood | 02008-12-13December 13, 2008 | 1 | 0:41 | Miami, Florida, United States |
See also[link]
Notes[link]
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| Name | Lashley, Bobby |
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| Short description | American sport wrestler and martial artist |
| Date of birth | 1976-07-16 |
| Place of birth | Junction City, Kansas, United States |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Bobby_Lashley
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For other people named Michael White, see Michael White (disambiguation).
| Michael Jai White | |
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 White at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Freaky Deaky |
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| Born | (1967-11-10) November 10, 1967 (age 44) Brooklyn, New York |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1989–2012 |
Michael Jai White (November 10, 1967 - June 1, 2012) is an American actor and martial artist who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture,[1] having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film Spawn.[2] White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films Why Did I Get Married? and Why Did I Get Married Too?, and currently stars as the character on the TBS comedy-drama television series Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse.
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Early life[link]
White was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved as a teen to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he graduated from Central High School in 1988.
He is an accomplished martial artist, holding seven black belts in Shotokan, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, Tae Kwon Do, Kobudo, Goju Ryu with renowned Master Eddie Morales, Tang Soo Do, Wushu and Kyokushin,[3][4] with a specific focus in Kyokushin (although his style incorporates aspects of many different martial arts forms).[5] White started martial arts training at the age of eight.
White is a former teacher.[6] He cites his history in education as the reason why, despite his personal love for the music genre on "a lot of levels", he cannot "in good [conscience]" have a positive opinion on hip hop or "excuse some of [its] pervasive and destructive elements", due to his experience with youngsters who had difficulty seeing the difference between it and real life.[6]
Acting career[link]
His first major starring role and breakout performance was in the 1995 HBO film Tyson, as heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson. He portrayed the eponymous character in the 1997 movie Spawn, making him the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture.[1] His work in Spawn earned him a nomination for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Male Newcomer. White starred opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in Universal Soldier: The Return. In 2001, he also starred opposite fellow martial artist Steven Seagal in Exit Wounds. In 2003, he starred in Busta Rhymes' and Mariah Carey's music video "I Know What You Want". Since 2003, in addition to his on screen roles, White has been doing voice work, including Static Shock and the Justice League. White showcases his martial arts skills in the direct-to-DVD film Undisputed II: Last Man Standing. He also appears in Michelle Yeoh's Silver Hawk in 2004. He played a samurai in Kill Bill Vol. 2, although his role was cut from the theatrical release. His film, Why Did I Get Married? opened at number one at the box office on October 12, 2007.
White played the role of the mob boss Gambol in the 2008 film The Dark Knight. He also starred in the film Blood and Bone and the blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite, both released in 2009. White wrote the scripts for both Black Dynamite and his upcoming 3 Bullets in which he stars with Bokeem Woodbine.
On March 30, 2010, White appeared on The Mo'Nique Show to promote his film Why Did I Get Married Too. The two joked about the acclaim that comes with winning an Oscar. In May of that year he appeared in the music video for Toni Braxton's new song "Hands Tied" from her album Pulse, as well as the Nicki Minaj music video for Your Love as Nicki's sensei and love interest.
He also stars in Kevin Tancharoen's short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth,[7] and reprises the role in Mortal Kombat: Legacy, a webseries from the same director.
White made his directorial debut and starred in Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown, which was released on home video on September 13, 2011.[8]
White also provided the voice of The Green Lantern John Stewart in the video game Justice League Heroes.
Personal life[link]
In August 2005, White wed his girlfriend of two years, Courtney Chatman, an OB/GYN who trained in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. He proposed to her while having dinner at a restaurant and they spoke about it in an issue of Essence magazine. Senior Kwofie was the best man at their wedding. The couple has a daughter named Morgan Michelle, who was born on December 24, 2008. Michael has two sons from a previous relationships.[9]
He is an avid chess player, as seen in his movie Blood and Bone.
Filmography[link]
Film[link]
- The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989)
- The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
- Universal Soldier (1992)
- Tyson (1995) (TV)
- Ballistic (1995)
- Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996) (TV)
- Spawn (1997)
- Ringmaster (1998)
- Mutiny (1999)
- City of Industry (1998)
- Thick as Thieves (1998)
- Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
- Freedom Song (2000) (TV)
- Exit Wounds (2001)
- Trois 2: Pandora's Box (2002)
- Silver Hawk (2004) (International Martial Arts Film)
- Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004 - Deleted Scene that can be seen in the Special Features)
- Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006)
- Why Did I Get Married (2007)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- Black Dynamite (2009)
- Blood and Bone (2009)
- Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
- Mortal Kombat: Rebirth (2010)[10]
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy (2011)
- Tactical Force (2011)
- Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (2011)
- We the Party (2012)
- The Philly Kid (2012)
- El Gringo (2012)
- Freaky Deaky (2012)
- The Wizards Hunter: The Hunt for Evangelion Crowley (2012)
- Mortal Kombat (2013)
Video clips[link]
- Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey featuring The Flipmode Squad - "I Know What You Want" (2003)
- Nicki Minaj – "Your Love" (2010)
- Toni Braxton - "Hands Tied" (2010)
Television[link]
- JAG (TV_series) (1995) - (Marine- Petty Officer Peter Quinn) - (Season 1, Episode 8) - (Brig Break) [11]
- Soul Food (TV series) (2001) 1 episode
- CSI:Miami (Tv Series) (2003) - (Officer Roy Bailey) - (Season 2, Episode 3) - (Hard Time)[12]
- Justice League Unlimited (voice: Doomsday) (Cartoon Series) (2006) - season 2
- Tyler Perry's House of Payne (TV series) (2008) 3 episodes
- Spawn: The Animation (voice: Barabbas) (2009)
- The Legend of Bruce Lee (2008) (TV series)
- The Boondocks (TV series) (2010) - season 3, episode 5 - Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2011) - Tattooed Man
- Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse (2011-present) - Marcus Williams
- Black Dynamite (2012) - Black Dynamite
Web Series[link]
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy, episodes 1 & 2 (2011)
- Métal Hurlant Chronicles (2012)
Director[link]
Writer[link]
- Black Dynamite (2009
- Three Bullets (2009)
Producer[link]
- PVC-1 (2007)
- Blood and Bone (2009)
- Three Bullets (2009)
Stunts[link]
- Prototype (1992)
- On Deadly Ground (1994)
- Three Bullets (2009) as fight choreography
References[link]
- ^ a b "Michael Jai White is first Black comic superhero to star on the movie screen in 'Spawn.'". JET. September 22, 1997. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n18_v92/ai_19804288/. Retrieved October 17, 2009.
- ^ Spawn was released on August 1, 1997, two weeks before the release of Steel, which starred NBA basketball player Shaquille O'Neal.
- ^ "Male Celebs Who Practice Martial Arts", JET, Sept. 24, 2001, at pp. 38-39.
- ^ "Michael Jai White Ignites Black Dynamite". Black Belt Magazine. http://www.blackbeltmag.com/michael_jai_white_black_dynamite/archives/816. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
- ^ [1][2] Fogan, Sara. "Man of Action", Black Belt Magazine, (undated)
- ^ a b 47 HH interview with Michael J. White and Scott Sanders to promote the movie Black Dynamite
- ^ "New Mortal Kombat Promotional Featurette Delivers the Goods". http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/37909/new-mortal-kombat-promotional-featurette-delivers-goods.
- ^ Morales, Wilson (September 13, 2011). "Never Back Down 2: Michael Jai White". Blackfilm.com. http://www.blackfilm.com/read/2011/09/never-back-down-2-michael-jai-white/. Retrieved December 11, 2011.
- ^ MICHAEL JAI WHITE’S ADORABLE BABY GIRL
- ^ "Mortal Kombat Fans, This Is The Hard 'R' MK Movie You've Been Waiting For". http://www.latinoreview.com/news/mortal-kombat-fans-this-is-the-hard-r-mk-movie-you-ve-been-waiting-for-10164.
- ^ Brig Break at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Hard Time at the Internet Movie Database
External links[link]
- Michael Jai White at the Internet Movie Database
- The Official Michael Jai White Website
- Web page on White from Bridgeport Central High School
| Persondata | |
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| Name | White, Michael Jai |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | American martial artist |
| Date of birth | November 10, 1967 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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Robert Malcolm "Bob" Sapp (Japanese: [Bobbu Sappu]; born September 22, 1974) is an American kickboxer, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, actor, comedian and former professional American football player. Sapp currently has a combined fight record of 22–28–1, mostly fighting in Japan. He is well known in Japan, where he has appeared in countless commercials, television programs, and various other media, and has released a music CD, It's Sapp Time. He also appeared in an episode of the HBO program Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. He is currently working sporadically for various MMA promotions in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. In MMA, Sapp holds a win over Kiyoshi Tamura and in K-1, he holds wins over K-1 legend Ernesto Hoost (2x) and Cyril Abidi.
Bob Sapp began his athletic career in high school playing football at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, CO. He received a football scholarship to the University of Washington, where he won the Morris Award. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears 69th overall in the 1997 NFL Draft. Sapp's career took a hit after he was suspended by the NFL for alleged steroid abuse. Sapp signed with the Minnesota Vikings after being released by the Bears. He spent two seasons with the Vikings and only played in one game.
