chokeu2
9 November 2004, 12:29
In the manner of Daredevil's "Proud Brother" thread, I am want to make this a Proud of my team thread.
So as the American reperesentative of the Union Team I want to announce that one of my teams few BJJ black belts, Nathan Marquardt has just won Pancrase 2004 Brave Tour and became for the 6 x Middleweight King of Pancrase World Champion! He beat out a tough Kazuo Misaki, a Pride fighter that is considered one of the best ground fighters you've probably not heard of in MMA.
Nate`s performance was really an extraordinary feat, considering that he is just 25 years old!Frank Shamrock, nor Bas Rutten has such a recrod from their Pancrase days. Our next step for Nate will be Pride and or the UFC. Negotiating with either of those two organizations has, in our experience been a hassle. But now that Nate has done what no one else has done by winning Pancrase for the 6th time, should give us some bargaining power.
In other news for my team, we are preparing two of our MMA fighters to go
to South-Africa on Nov 21st, to compete at the UFA MMA event on Nov 25th.They are Itamar Rosa and Guilherme Freitas; which are two guys to watch for in the future. On the next day, nov.26th, we will return to Brazil where we will host a huge seminar for more than 400 BJJ fighters, at Master Flavio Behrings annual meeting. The seminar is also a pretty big deal for us because my coach, Professor Ricardo Murgel was Master Flavio's first black belt ever awarded over 30 years ago. And now Ricardo is Master Flavio's first Master ever awarded. As most of you know, in BJJ there ain't a Master on every corner. In fact, there are less than 15. I'm also proud to say that Ricardo is going to be my as of yet unborn childs', Godfather. He's that good of a guy, friend and coach.
So as the American reperesentative of the Union Team I want to announce that one of my teams few BJJ black belts, Nathan Marquardt has just won Pancrase 2004 Brave Tour and became for the 6 x Middleweight King of Pancrase World Champion! He beat out a tough Kazuo Misaki, a Pride fighter that is considered one of the best ground fighters you've probably not heard of in MMA.
Nate`s performance was really an extraordinary feat, considering that he is just 25 years old!Frank Shamrock, nor Bas Rutten has such a recrod from their Pancrase days. Our next step for Nate will be Pride and or the UFC. Negotiating with either of those two organizations has, in our experience been a hassle. But now that Nate has done what no one else has done by winning Pancrase for the 6th time, should give us some bargaining power.
In other news for my team, we are preparing two of our MMA fighters to go
to South-Africa on Nov 21st, to compete at the UFA MMA event on Nov 25th.They are Itamar Rosa and Guilherme Freitas; which are two guys to watch for in the future. On the next day, nov.26th, we will return to Brazil where we will host a huge seminar for more than 400 BJJ fighters, at Master Flavio Behrings annual meeting. The seminar is also a pretty big deal for us because my coach, Professor Ricardo Murgel was Master Flavio's first black belt ever awarded over 30 years ago. And now Ricardo is Master Flavio's first Master ever awarded. As most of you know, in BJJ there ain't a Master on every corner. In fact, there are less than 15. I'm also proud to say that Ricardo is going to be my as of yet unborn childs', Godfather. He's that good of a guy, friend and coach.