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by **Gurre** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:19 am

Bas Rutten

Bas "El Guapo" Rutten is a legend in the modern martial arts. He's the first ever "King of pancrase" and his amazing career includes fights against high profile fighters such as Ken Shamrock, Frank Shamrock, Guy Mezger and loads of othes.

He started training Tae Kwon Do, and switched to muay thai. Fought in pancrase for many years, and at the end of his fighting career switched to the UFC and won the heavyweight belt. He is an announcer for PrideFC at the moment.

His all time professional MMA record is 27 - 4 - 1 (win-loss-draw), he is 6'1 or 1.85 meters and weighs 205 lbs, or 93 kilos.

by **slavegan** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 3:20 am

bas rutten has talked about comebacks
i am really sad that he didnt do a comeback .
i saw on pride 3 he was going to fight randy couture in ufc and then he challenged rickson gracie.
on this fight was there any communiction between rutten and rickson?,why didnt it happen?.
what happened with the couture fight
i heard something about injuries but thats just rumours.
also on pride 17 (?)he talks about a comeback.what happened this time.

by **Gurre** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:16 am

Rickson said that Bas didn't have the skills it took to fight him, Bas was the king of Pancrase back then. I remember hearing something about him tearing his bicep, and that keeping him from fighting. But I'm not totally sure.

by **slavegan** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:50 am

Gurre wrote:Rickson said that Bas didn't have the skills it took to fight him, Bas was the king of Pancrase back then. I remember hearing something about him tearing his bicep, and that keeping him from fighting. But I'm not totally sure.

so rickson ran away like alittle girl.
but at pride 3 bas had already won the ufc hw title.
how could he say that he didnt have the skills to fight him.

by **Gurre** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:19 pm

I don't know. It's a complicated story. But I'm sure that it would have been a hell of a fight!

by **slavegan** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:50 pm

yes it would be a great fight.
but back then didnt rickson have a open challenge policy.

by **Gurre** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:25 am

Yeah I think all the Gracies did!

by **KickYourHeadOff** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:16 pm

Rickson have been challaged so many times is crazy, Rutten is only one of who he turned down

by **Liemann** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:52 pm

Thats cause Bas is the man!

by **Gurre** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:45 am

That's cos Bas probably could beat Rickson... atleast I think so

by **slavegan** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:16 am

yeah i have heard that he has turned down some people cuz there karma didnt suit him or some other wacky shit i dont know if its true tho.

by **Gurre** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:12 am

Wouldn't surprise me at all! And if he ever fought again I think he'd have special rules like Royce had back in the Pride GP 2000

by **slavegan** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:59 pm

i read on sherdog that he accepted to fight wanderlei silva (it has to be a joke).

by **fedor86** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:01 pm

always bullshit on shitdog, don't go there, seriously

by **Gurre** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:10 pm

Yeha I read that too a while ago. He said he wanted a pention fight. OH well, only time will tell I guess.

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