Rule 1. Read everything that follows and stay within bounds (I will be heavily mod'ing this thread). Ok, we've all been on the CMA/TMA in MMA merry-go-round (if you didn't understand that previous sentence, go read some more of the forum and come back). THIS IS NOT A THREAD TO DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT CMA/TMA WORKS IN MMA. Capiche? Any discussing pros and cons will be split into a different discussion thread. Instead we're talking "Google-fu." What I am looking for all examples, amatuer and pro examples of CMA (other TMA folks are you can also contribute with your own examples) of CMA schools and fighters who compete in "MMA" comps. By MMA I mean that the competition can be: - Knock-down - Knock-down and grappling - No holds barred - Open to all martial arts (In this case San Shou comps do not count.) To make it in this thread you need to provide a link to a web page. That can be a fighter record, a school that posts it's record, a fighter's home page, or a competition home page with records. What will not count: anecdotal stories. friends of friends records. etc. The poster with the most cites will be my hero. And I'll make up a little signature gif that proudly expresses that. Questions are welcome with this thread. Citations and URLs are very welcome. Discussion as to whether or not X is real CMA or Y is real MMA is not. We'll leave that for later. Good luck! - Matt
Jason De Lucia's fight record from Sherdog: http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?fighterID=22 Random guy who's school is Huan Kung Fu, I get loads of hit's on it, is it actually a style of Kung Fu? http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?fighterID=12789 This place produced a fighter: http://tsaiskungfu.com/index.htm Who took part in: http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=1572
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=3097 http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=3065 http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=2736 http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=2983 http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=2697 http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=1572 Here are a few articles, will search some more
Here's a fighter for a team called "Tai Chi Renaissance" and claims Tai Chi as a style. http://www.mlsports.co.uk/Comp Info/Ultimate Combat 11/UC11 Fight Focus - Berik Vs Beese.htm - Matt
heres a video to support that claim--Some reeling work in that video, among other things: http://www.samiberik.com/trainreel.wmv
http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?fighterID=107 http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?fighterID=116 http://www.4smma.com/newODonnell.html http://fighters.itgo.com/C.html ( a few CMA/NHB fighters) http://guangpingyang.org/newsletters/2005/May_2005/Letters.htm
Stepan Zeytunyan is a name I found, but couldn't find a profile. http://www.samiberik.com/hunsite.html
Good going, let's keep it up. Now what about amateur comps? I know on another forum I've seen a site for a canadian CMA school that competes full contact on the amateur circuit. Now we need to find another example or two! - Matt
Guys, as a point of order, if you're going to post links to sherdog (or any other site) where the link leads to a specific bio, could you please tell us WHO we're being linked to so we don't have 15 peoiple posting links to Joel Sutton or Jason DeLucia? Thanks
This is a shameless *bump* to see if others want to join in the google fun, And woth BK's rules Sami "The Hun" Berik http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?fighterid=8972 And while I can't find a website for the school, here are some Tai Chi fighters from "northern lights tai chi" in Canada ranking in competition: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cach...icResults.htm+"Northern+Lights+Tai+Chi"&hl=en - Matt
