career, he was a two-time UFC Heavyweight Tournament Champion, World Vale Tudo Championship tournament winner, and a PRIDE FC competitor. In collegiate...

where he won the Shooto World Welterweight Championship, as well as Vale Tudo Japan 1995, where he was outweighed by every opponent in the tournament....

Fight Pass Brazil. International Vale Tudo Championship IVC IVC Heavyweight Championship (One time) International Vale Tudo Championship IVC Superfight Championship...

place throughout Japan and in the countries of the East Asia. At the same time, in Brazil, there was a phenomenon called vale tudo, which became known...

technique" of yawara. After winning at World Vale Tudo Championship 5, Vovchanchyn was invited to Japanese promotion PRIDE, fighting Gary Goodridge in...

13-5 before being signed by PRIDE. After reaching the final of the World Vale Tudo Championship 8 tournament held in Aruba in July 1999, Herring was invited...

was quickly recognized for his fighting talents. He was asked to join Vale Tudo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu school. Silva enlisted after already winning fight...

decision. Finally, he got another quick TKO of Ed de Kruijf at Vale Tudo Japan 1997 in Chiba, Japan on November 29, 1997, in what would be his last MMA fight...

Championships, Pancrase, DREAM, World Victory Road, DEEP, Shooto, and Vale Tudo Japan. He is the former Pancrase Light Heavyweight Champion (2001–2003) and...

Paulson still competed in Shooto, being sent as a representative to the Vale Tudo Japan event, where he was submitted in 0:41 by Canadian grappler Carlos Newton...

Ikuhisa Minowa in Japan in October 1998. By early 1999, at just 22 years old, Fulton was recognized as one of the top young Vale Tudo fighters in the United...

that night. They had Vale Tudo and shootfighting bouts on the card, which Hasdell watched with interest and when he returned from Japan, he began grappling...

Following his UFC career, Goodridge travelled to Brazil to compete in vale tudo. His first match was against Mario "Sukata" Neto, which ended in 6:02...

Kaoru "Caol" Uno (宇野薫, Uno Kaoru) (born May 8, 1975) is a Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler. He is the Co-Champion of the UFC 41...

Jujutsu for around six to eight months before competing in an amateur Vale Tudo competition. In his early days, he would go on to train in Kickboxing...

debut in mixed martial arts outside the promotion, however, fighting Vale Tudo exponent Murilo Bustamante in Martial Arts Reality Superfighting. Although...

ankle lock. On 1 July 1999 Peeters fought in Brazilian promotion World Vale Tudo Championship against Antonio Carlos Ribiero. The match, which was lost...

Teruto Ishihara (born July 23, 1991) is a Japanese professional mixed martial artist who previously competed in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate...

Eritrean martial art Testa. Headbutts were a commonly used technique in vale tudo and mixed martial arts before the introduction of the unified rules of...

Ultimate Caged Combat Overall Championship Tournament Winner Other 1995 Vale Tudo Super Fight Champion at the Titanic Duel in Brazil Carlão Santos Marcello...

coral belt in Abu Dhabi by Rickson Gracie. Renzo debuted in the Brazilian vale tudo circuit. He had his first match against kickboxer Luiz Augusto Alvareda...

as opening his own gym. Akimoto made his debut in 1995 during Shooto - Vale Tudo Access 4 against Kazuyoshi Kudo, whom he beat by rear naked choke. He...

Kyoji Horiguchi (Japanese: 堀口 恭司, Horiguchi Kyōji, born October 12, 1990) is a Japanese mixed martial artist currently competing in Rizin FF in the Flyweight...

before transitioning into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Capoeira after seeing a Vale Tudo fight at the age of 13. Arona came to Carlson Gracie at the age of 18...

Nobuhiro Tsurumaki (鶴巻 伸洋, Tsurumaki Nobuhiro, born October 22, 1971) is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He competed in the Light...

also took part in the second UFC event in Japanese soil, UFC 23, where he was pitted against Ruas Vale Tudo exponent Pedro Rizzo. The two contenders spent...

World Vale Tudo Championship 9 September 27, 1999 1 0:56 Aruba WVC 9 Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal. Win 3–1 Heath Herring Decision (split) World Vale Tudo...

that they had signed a development deal with the recently revived, Vale Tudo Japan. A brand that was brought back in 2012 by the long running, Shooto...

Takeyasu Hirono (born July 18, 1971; Japanese: 廣野武康) is a Japanese mixed martial artist. He competed in the Flyweight division. List of male mixed martial...

primarily about the history of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Vale-Tudo (later rebranded "MMA") from Japanese immigrants to the Amazonian Jungle and from there to...