I’ve done research on alot of those men who fought and lost in the early UFCs and then just seemed to disappear from the scene. It’s an interesting subject, trying to get to know about the guys who’ve only given us what seems like a fleeting glimpse of themselves when they were fighting.
Would it suit the encyclopedia to have articles about these lesser known fighters? All that info info in one place would be good for those UFC junkies who like to know about all the behind-the-scenes stuff.
what happened with them? Can you give any examples. Why did they stop fighting?
I know that Keith Hackney runs an MMA school called the Hackney Combat Academy now, some of the IFL’s guys came out of that place. Pat Smith does boxing now. I would be very interested in how some of the early UFC guys have fared since their fifteen minutes of fame ended.
Paul the Polar Bear Varlans is a bouncer a nudie bar in Sunnyvale, CA. No, nobody knows who is there either and he doesn’t do anything related to MMA anymore.
Art Jimmerson teaches cardio kickboxing; Larry Cureton does alot of things, including poetry. Alternate Geza Kalman, orginally a pro-wrestler before he trained with Dan Severn, went back into pro-wrestling. Those are just a few examples.
Edit. Here:
http://www.boxercise.net/index.htm
http://www.larrycureton.com/bio.html
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=122141204
Gerard Cordeau has school in holland
Greg Stott of the deadly “RIP”:
http://www.gregstott.com/generic3.html
Jon Hess of the ueberdeadly S.A.F.T A.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hess
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=2416
My fav, Dave Beneteau:
http://osgoode.yorku.ca/media2.nsf/83303ffe5af03ed585256ae6005379c9/8e61a4c4dc0ca08085256ed7004a646f!OpenDocument
edit: not a “looser” though…
i think the question everyone really wants answered is whatever happened to Joe Son’s nuts?
Jason DeLucia dropped the kung fu act, actually learned how to fight, and did very well in Pancrase. He actuially had a very respectable career.
Also Joe Son became a soprano in the Vienna boys choir, and Fred Ettish went home and Benoit’d himselfafter a bully at his kids elementary school beat him up.
You were castrated as a baby weren’t you?
The funny thing is, there are guys that are laughing at Fred Ettish, that would not, and/or, have not, faired much better, in the Octagon or the D45dly St4et.
Short of spontaneously exploding into flames, it would be hard to do worse than Fred Ettish.
No it wouldn’t.
What about Emanuel Yarborough, the guy that Keith Hackney beat down…Or that one guy who did ninjutsu and was a cop, I think his name was Cal Worsham. What about Guy Mezger I know he had a breif carrer in Pride, but where is he now.
I believe he thought he had a stroke so he retired and as for where is he now, he is running the Lion’s Den Dallas as well as assistant coaching Ken Shamrock’s IFL team, running Art of War as well as Mark Cuban’s new MMA promotion HDNet Fights.
Who Guy?
Manny Yarborough went to Japan to live at a sumo stable, balooned to over 800 pounds, retired and is now running an anti-obesity campaign in the US. There was an article on him recently somewhere.
Fred Etish was unfortunate to become a suckage icon, I agree with Omega, he lost but so had many other guys. He was one of those that actually picked up MMA program for their gyms.
Tomas
Fred Ettish also posts on mma.tv, and distinguishes himself by being a tremendously nice and classy guy there (admittedly, it’s hard not to look nice and classy on the Underground simply via comparison). He’s stayed involved in the sport and I believe has been either a judge or ref or both for several shows in the midwest.
Apologies for hating on Fred Ettish, that is what you get when you judge someone based on highlight reels on youtube I guess. Is it still okay to make fun of Art Jimmerson?