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I say ‘Oh he’s going to get him in an armbar.’ They go ‘What? Nothing is going on.’ I respond ‘Give it 10 seconds.’ 10 seconds later, boom, armbar.
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We are watching the TV and some people from the Pride Fighting Championships are there.
We are in the dressing room and waiting for the main event. I was there with a few fighters and I was the trainer. “So it was in 1999/2000 and the Pride Fighting Championships was going to be broadcast in the States.
They really commit to the sport and I have the upmost respect for that.” On how he became a commentator: I have respect for those guys, they are not boxers they are YouTube stars. But guys like that have a lot of pull, people will come to him and buy pay per views for him. They had to pay him, becasue he was going to bring in so many people. Hopefully they will now put their feet down, especially if you are a good fighter, look at what Conor McGregor did. Now when there is a fight there is big money to be made. Boom, problem fixed.” On YouTube stars Jake and Logan Paul breaking into the boxing world: But if it’s a problem then write that my character is from Holland. It was never a problem but I did try to fix it. But there is a lot of ad-libbing, my grammar is backwards becasue I still speak a lot of Dutch at home. If I studied the lines, I can get rid of it. “No, and if someone would say anything it would be good.
September 1993 I am in Japan and I became a professional.” On if his accent affected his acting career: The guys pointed and said we want him, 2 months later that was it. I got into a brawl with a guy and I knocked him out. It was a bunch of Japanese guys looking for new talent. Then she said ‘Yes in Holland, but you’re going to Japan.’ I thought that as a weird comment, who would say that? 8 months later and there is a try-out in Amsterdam. “My wife in 1992 said to me ‘You’re going to be a fighter in Japan.’ I told her I wasn’t going to fight again. I said to myself I’m never going to fight again.” On bouncing back: They forgot about all of my previous knockouts, and that got to me. Of course I lost the fight, and everyone in Holland spat me out. I was not living the healthiest lifestyle, I should never have taken this fight, but I am a man of my word. I was a bouncer at the time, you know the club closes at 5am, then we go to party. “The fight was 3 weeks later and I hadn’t trained for 3 years. I then realized I did talk to him and I had to keep my word.” On how people viewed him after the fight: I say ‘Who am I fighting?’ They tell me Frank Lobman, you told us on New Year’s Eve. Weeks and months later they call me and they said ‘Hey who do we send these posters to?’ I said ‘What do you mean? Who is fighting?’ They said I was. I agreed to fight him, but I had no idea that I had said that. He had just come out of prison, he was training in there, Frank ‘The Animal’ Lobman. So I hadn’t trained for 3 years, I was drunk at a party and someone asked me if I wanted to face this new guy. I was a striker and a Thai boxer, but I retired for a while becasue I was just knocking people out. “I never thought I could make a living from it, that was just pure luck.
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It just lit a fire under me, I found I was good at it and it went from there.” On becoming a professional fighter: But everything happens for a reason, I am a big believer in that. That set me up and then I went off to see the Bruce Lee movie. “If I didn’t have my diseases then I wouldn’t have started fighting. But when you are bullied for 7 years, you want payback and heads to roll.” On how the pieces fell into place: Some poor b*stards who didn’t hear the story would still try, but they would soon go. I saw Enter The Dragon with Bruce Lee, started training, knocked my first bully out and then everything stopped. That’s where my fighting comes from, because they were bullying me.
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I had a skin disease and really bad asthma, so I was the leper at school. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about his legendary career, how he found success by failing forward, how a Bruce Lee film inspired him to become a fighter, his fights with Ken Shamrock, thoughts on Jake & Logan Paul changing the face of boxing, how he prepares for a film role, his attention to detail and much more! On why he started wrestling:
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His new movie called “The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre” is available in theaters and on VOD on September 10, 2021. Bas Rutten is a UFC Hall of Famer, actor, commentator and retired mixed martial artist.