Okay
I am telling you a story that is 100% true despite being hard to believe.
Its a really crazy story.
Long read but really lolz if you are into MMA
It all began in 2006 when a little guy (me) joined a Kyokushin Karate club because he wanted to learn how to kick butt.
At the Karate Dojo was a big Guy who had fought many successful local tournaments.
This guy was 117kg and 195cm and allthough he was a really good kickboxer had had grown interest in MMA.
He had pirated some Bas Rutten Instructional DVDs on the net and asked some of the other Karate Guys if they had any interest in practicing some MMA with him and learning ground fighting.
besides me some other guys applied and besides kyokushin which was our main practice we started to learn some Groundfighting moves from Dvds of Bas rutten.
1-2 times a weak after Training whe stayed and practiced basic stuff like RnC , Kimura etc.
IN 2007 after 1 year of practice our group was eager to test in competition if what we did learn so far was any good.
We were Full contact karate fighters but since we knew about the power of BJJ and Wrestling in MMA we did not dare to fight in MMA competition yet.
So in 2007 we as a group applied to many mixed fight events.
These were Events with MMA like rules but without MMA fighters.
The big Guy who started the Group was called Panda.
Then whe had a pole in our group that we named Braindamage
Then there was a greek to which we simply referred as the greek
and then there was me. Everybody used to call me apefist
So we were 4 karate guys with skills from selftough bas rutten Dvds that competed in many mixed fight events.
And boy did we beat on this Wing Chun/karate/Allstyle and Taekwondo guys
haha
The Panda went 5-0 in his first year
The Greek went 4-0
I went 3-0
and the pole went 2-0
The Events where this took place were called "FAC"
It was not MMA ! It were MMA rules with a helmet against Karate,Wing chun,Taekwondo and Japanese Jiu Jitsu guys
Since we went 14-0 in our first year the Big Panda asked the other guys if we may take stuff a little more serious and do less Kyokushin but more MMA training so that one day we might compete in real MMA.
And so we did.
The Panda from there one did concentrate on coordinating our training sessions while the other guys allready realized that bas rutten alone ist not enough.
I joined a BJJ school
The greek downloaded 80GB of MMA instructionals
and the Pole stopped training after some injuries
However we got a new addition in a young tunese guy who had seen us fighting at FAC and wanted to join. (This guy since 2012 is a professional fighter now
So we trained and everyone did try to get new input and bring our grind fighting skills from bullshit level to more serious level.
In 2008 the greek had his first MMA fight.
He lost by submission in the first round and after that left our group.
2 guys from our group however
Me and the tunese guy did very well though.
We had some MMA fights and destroyed our opposition left and right.
Mainly because we were very athletic for our weight classes + fast learners
The Big Panda had not much influence in that but since he started the group at events he would be there as our choach and quickly he gained some local reputation as being a good coach since his boys won MMA fights. (LOL)
Due to our success some other guys joined our group and we soon made our departure from the karate dojo official and declared our own MMA gym.
In 2010 we had a new height in success.
I won the FFA New talents show and my tunese friend won some major fights at Outsider cups and Respect FC.
Additional to that some of the new fighters who had joined us made their MMA debuts and won their fights.
We also got a new Coach who was one of Germans best MMA fighters in the past and did fight some international events.
He fought Jonas Billstein (Bellator) and also participated in a Tournament with Eduardo Rocha (UFC)
IN all that fights the Panda who started the Group was there as a coach.
And since we had lots of success he gained some reputation that he must be a good trainer.
Truth is that he is a good organizer and his main work was getting us fights and organizing our training/ camps.
From a technical aspect he was in many aspects much worse than we guys.
nevertheless props to him.
he did a fantastic job at getting us good training camps and great fights.
And he was/is our friend.
he put a lot of effort into our careers without getting any money for that.
Only thing to remember is that during that time he was always an organizer and not a fighter
He had fought lots of kyokusin fights but never any MMA fight.
Concerning my MMA career the story ends hier since i got sick and injured too much and only had 1 fight after that... and havent fought in quite some time. I concentrated on coaching the other guys.
We meanwhile had grown as a gym and probably had about 70-members with ~ 15 MMA fighters.
Our Tunese guy got a training camp organized with Peter Sobotta (former UFC) and his skill exploded.
After that Panda organized a camp in San Diego for him and Tunese guy got insanely good.
he got so good that after only 1 month Dean Lister himself gave him a blue belt in BJJ since he had tapped many brownbelts in the gym in San Diego.
Success of the other guys however got a little stuck.
We basically had no real trainer and were mostly selftought from DVDs and experimenting.
So we had a lot of fights ...
we won some we lost some...
overall progress was marginal.
But when our tunese guy came back from 1 month San Diego with Dean Lister and Jake Shields he was a monster.
He won many big fights in Germany and also became the superior FC Campion.
Panda who originally started the group meanwhile had made many contacts in the german MMA sceene.
I dont know how he does it but he basically got to make friends with everyone who was important in the German MMA sceene.
Our Tuneese guy got a pro contract !
meanwhile another Pro MMA guy had joined our Gym.
In 2012 we got voted 5th best MMA gym in Germany by the biggest German MMA magazine since we had 2 sucessful pros and lots of amateur fighters + some fighters who had won many amateur fights in the past.
The thing was that in my honest opinion allthough we had made some big progress compared to were we started we were far away from being as good as others thought we were :
basically we had 1 really really good pro fighter (the tunese)
A medicore heavy weight pro fighter (heavy weight competition in germany is a joke)
Than we had an ex pro fighter who was the guy who joined us as a coach midway through this journey. Guy is retired as a fighter
Then we had me who had won many fights but was basically retired, too
besides that we had like 10 guys who were 1-0 or 2-1 or 1-2 against local soft competition.
So we were okayish but nothing special.
And most important we were basically 99% self tought from DVds and try and error sparring.
Panda managed to give us a reputation far beyond what we really were.
But in early 2013 it become really crazy.
He listed his FAC fights as MMA fights on sherdog (lol wtf)
he told everyone that he was the main sparrig partner of Semmy Shielt in the past years (Me and him visited Semmy shielt for 1 weak on a seminar and he sparred a bit with him....1 year later he (without me) visited semmy again and did some 1 weak sparring thats about it. We took many pictures though which probably came in handy)
He told everyone that he had many mma fights before sherdog ranking.
Also when asked why he didnt fight from 2008-2013 he said that he had health problems and was busy managing the carrers of his fightes.
The later one is kinda true to some extent. And he had some health problems for ~4 months ... but besides that he was simply to lazy too train his ass off ^^
There was a reason we called him Panda.
Some week ago we got a call that
Jeff Monson and Magomed Malikov are both out of M-1 Global Grand Prix and they need someone to fight against Nikita Krylov.
The management of our tunese guy is also best friends with the Panda and i am not sure if they believe all the stuff he made up or if the simply dont care
But fact ist.
Our Panda who never had an MMA fight
Who mainly was a "coach" and organizier
Who had not fought since 2008 (mixfight and kyokushin)
Who doesnt really train MMA and therefore has stamina for ~100seconds.
whos grappling skills are mainly from Bas rutten DVds of late 2002 or something
Was to fight Nikita Krylov at M-1 Global Heavy weight Grand prix in front of 15.000 people (and Fedor himself) today.
Lol
I have really mixed feelings bout this.
First of all i have to pull my heat of to him for being such a crazy motherfucker and fooling so many people
he made his dream come true.
second of all i still cant believe this really happend.
but it did
He stepped into the Octagonring thingy today
he had his first MMA fight
And he did good considering it was his first fight.
Ofc he lost
ofc he dindt have stamina for even 1 round.
I am not sure how he will react in case he ever finds out i did write this here.
But i only tell the fucking truth.
Weather he will laugh at it and we will drink some beers with me or weather he releases me as a trainer from his gym.
I dont fucking care.
I had to share.
Its the crazy guys that make their dreams come true when others say you cant
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U see what i did there with A8 ? He 4 bets and there we go insta jam A8 : ---booooom -- . hahahaha ( Krantz)
Well he tapped to strikes after 4 minutes
basically he didnt have any stamina left after 2 minutes.
I did watch the M-1 Global live stream
First they clinched and Panda did some good knee to the body
Nikita Krylov did a Judo throw but also did the rounda rousey side control ^^
so panda escaped to the back and was in backmount.
However he was allready breathing heavy at this moment.
He fell from the backmount and tried an armbar but Nikita Krylov expected it and defended
Nikita Krylov then made some punches and tried a footlock
Panda also did a footlock
nobody suceeded and fight got stand up
Panda didnt have any Stamina.
Nikita Krylov landed a few punches and Panda fell down
a few more punches from sidemount and Panda tapped
Heavent found any videos so far.
Edit found a video
U see what i did there with A8 ? He 4 bets and there we go insta jam A8 : ---booooom -- . hahahaha ( Krantz)
Can any russian translate what they are saying at the end ^^
U see what i did there with A8 ? He 4 bets and there we go insta jam A8 : ---booooom -- . hahahaha ( Krantz)
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TianYuan Korea (South). Apr 09 2013 21:52. Posts 6817
Lol your friend is insane :D
Fun story!
Hm.. Off-suite socks..
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f1shcake United States. Apr 09 2013 22:19. Posts 287
Good read, also curious what the commentators were saying in the video.
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PuertoRican United States. Apr 09 2013 23:09. Posts 13051
Good read.
As for the fight, Nikita Krylov looks terrible. By looking at his record, it seems they're building him up like a Mexican boxer, in that he's fighting every month to gain experience and build a nice record, and then hope to get a title fight someday, or in this case, a shot in the UFC.
Krylov has a long way to go though, and it's good that he's only 20 years old.
I wish one of your guys had children if I could kick them in the fucking head or stomp on their testicles so you can feel my pain because thats the pain I have waking up everyday -- Mike Tyson
Korea (South). Apr 09 2013 21:52. Posts 6817
