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    Bas Rutten

    Netherlands
    b. 1965-02-24Born 1965-02-24
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    Also known as

    El Guapo

    Description

    Dutch kickboxer and mixed martial artist. He learned submission fighting in Japan, with Masakatsu Funaki as his chief trainer in Pancrase, became King of Pancrase, and was the UFC's fourth heavyweight champion.

    Teachers (1)

    • Masakatsu Funaki
      swordsCatch Wrestling Probable
      Probable
      Single source.
      The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
      fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
      Frederico Muñoz
      Researcher, Martialis
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      fact_check
      Single source.
      “Funaki was the chief trainer in Japan for both Shamrock and Rutten, two fighters who both beat him in the ring.”
      — Snowden, Jonathan; Shields, Kendall. (2010). The MMA Encyclopedialink info

    Lineage

    • Catch WrestlingMasakatsu Funaki ← Karl Gotch ← Billy Riley ← Willie Charnock · 4 generations

    Sources

    “you know Bas Rutten as a King of Pancrase and the UFC’s fourth heavyweight champion. A Dutch kickboxer who soaked up the submission game like a sponge once he came to Japan”
    — Snowden, Jonathan; Shields, Kendall. (2010). The MMA Encyclopedialink info

    Identifiers

    https://martial.is/entity/01M6C18DS7A4JT7XM8JM2ZVVDC
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    Cite and reuse

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    Plain text
    Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Bas Rutten. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M6C18DS7A4JT7XM8JM2ZVVDC - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
    BibTeX
    @incollection{martialis_01M6C18DS7A4JT7XM8JM2ZVVDC, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Bas Rutten}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M6C18DS7A4JT7XM8JM2ZVVDC}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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