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Bas Rutten

Netherlands
Born 1965-02-24

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

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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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.
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@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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