Vale Tudo Japan (VTJ) (Japanese: ヴァーリ・トゥード・ジャパン, Hepburn: Vāri Tūdo Japan) is an annual mixed martial arts competition held in Japan. Originally arranged... 37 KB (857 words) - 11:50, 31 March 2024 |
 | Vale Tudo or vale-tudo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvali ˈtudu]; English: Everything Goes/Everything Allowed), also known as No Holds Barred (NHB) in the... 28 KB (3,241 words) - 04:06, 12 April 2024 |
Shooto (redirect from Japan Vale Tudo) with its Vale Tudo Japan events being essential to the rise of Pride Fighting Championships and the development of modern MMA. Many Japanese MMA fighters... 22 KB (2,174 words) - 00:06, 30 March 2024 |
 | Marco Ruas (redirect from Ruas Vale Tudo) Ruas was the UFC 7 Tournament Champion, and also competed for the World Vale Tudo Championship (WVC), PRIDE Fighting Championships and the International... 30 KB (2,661 words) - 20:00, 3 May 2024 |
 | Yuki Nakai (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) 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.... 16 KB (1,170 words) - 19:30, 14 February 2024 |
 | Gerard Gordeau (section Vale Tudo Japan) cornerman. Two years after his UFC stint, Gordeau applied to the Japanese Vale Tudo Japan tournament. He had been in the previous edition as a cornerman... 21 KB (2,022 words) - 23:05, 2 November 2023 |
Hideo Tokoro (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja)) professional competitor since 2000, Tokoro has also formerly competed for Vale Tudo Japan, ZST, Shooto, Rings and K-1 Hero's. He is notable for holding the record... 37 KB (1,924 words) - 13:16, 13 February 2024 |
 | Rickson Gracie (category Mixed martial artists utilizing vale tudo) contacted by Erik Paulson to compete in Satoru Sayama's event Vale Tudo Japan. Gracie traveled to Japan and participated in the tournament, firstly facing Daido-juku... 33 KB (3,342 words) - 00:56, 30 April 2024 |
Kenji Kawaguchi (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) career in Shooto, Kawaguchi represented the promotion in the event Vale Tudo Japan in July 1994, where he was pitted against French karateka Jan Lomulder... 11 KB (352 words) - 09:38, 22 April 2024 |
 | Enson Inoue (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) fought for the PRIDE Fighting Championships, the UFC, Shooto, and Vale Tudo Japan. He was the first and only Shooto Heavyweight Champion, and was a finalist... 17 KB (968 words) - 11:47, 10 March 2024 |
UFC Welterweight Championship in 1999, and fought at the Shooto-run Vale Tudo Japan events. Pederneiras is the co-founder of Nova União, one of the top... 19 KB (1,642 words) - 15:10, 8 May 2024 |
 | Megumi Fujii (category Articles with Japanese-language sources (ja)) on New Year's Eve 2012. However, she instead faced Mei Yamaguchi at Vale Tudo Japan 2012 on December 24. Fujii defeated Yamaguchi by unanimous decision... 27 KB (1,649 words) - 20:23, 18 April 2024 |
Yoshihisa Yamamoto (wrestler) (category Japanese male mixed martial artists) against legendary Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist, Rickson Gracie at Vale Tudo Japan 1995. Yamamoto gave the undefeated fighter arguably the most difficult... 16 KB (594 words) - 07:56, 10 April 2024 |
 | such as swimming goggles. Yuki Nakai went on to win a bout in the Vale Tudo Japan 1995 tournament after his opponent, Gerard Gordeau, performed an illegal... 3 KB (353 words) - 09:29, 8 May 2023 |
mixed martial arts bouts. He fought in Vale Tudo Japan 1995 a mixed martial arts competition that took place in Japan on April 20, 1995. The tournament was... 15 KB (1,322 words) - 22:12, 24 April 2024 |
Erik Paulson (category American expatriate sportspeople in Japan) 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... 14 KB (817 words) - 09:38, 22 April 2024 |
Hiromasa Ougikubo (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja)) Federation. A professional since 2006, he has also competed for Shooto, Vale Tudo Japan, and The Ultimate Fighter. He is the former Shooto World Bantamweight... 42 KB (2,573 words) - 00:54, 22 April 2024 |
roster. Aguilar faced Megumi Fujii in a rematch at Vale Tudo Japan 3rd on October 5, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. Aguilar initially won by TKO when the doctor stopped... 35 KB (2,379 words) - 18:27, 2 May 2024 |
Rumina Sato (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja)) seconds with a flying armbar. At Vale Tudo Japan 1998, Sato went against André Pederneiras of the Nova União in a vale tudo rules match. Sato suffered the... 26 KB (1,226 words) - 12:12, 13 April 2024 |
 | Carlos Newton (section Pride FC and Shooto Japan) Championships in Japan, UFC in America and W-1 in Canada. Newton started his Japan fight career with a win over Erik Paulson to become the Vale Tudo Japan World... 18 KB (1,291 words) - 13:46, 13 May 2024 |
until 2016, he competed for the UFC, RINGS, Vale Tudo Japan, Pancrase, the WEF, and the International Vale Tudo Championship. Born and raised in Jefferson... 11 KB (349 words) - 07:30, 16 April 2024 |
Sanae Kikuta (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) Championships, Pancrase, DREAM, World Victory Road, DEEP, Shooto, and Vale Tudo Japan. He is the former Pancrase Light Heavyweight Champion (2001–2003) and... 23 KB (1,038 words) - 08:00, 18 April 2024 |
Tom Erikson (section Vale tudo) 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... 24 KB (2,107 words) - 06:43, 19 April 2024 |
 | Takanori Gomi (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) MMA matches, mostly in the Shooto organization, but also fought in Vale Tudo Japan and in the Hawaiian-based organization SuperBrawl. Gomi became the... 51 KB (4,139 words) - 00:28, 13 April 2024 |
 | Mixed martial arts (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja)) 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... 244 KB (24,094 words) - 12:27, 9 May 2024 |
 | Hayato Sakurai (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) Shooto, Vale Tudo Japan, DEEP, and participated in the Yarennoka!, Dynamite!! 2008, Dynamite!! 2009, Dynamite!! 2010, and Fight For Japan: Genki Desu... 34 KB (2,201 words) - 21:40, 8 May 2024 |
 | Satoru Sayama (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja)) During this time Sayama hosted the Vale Tudo Japan event, leading to the introduction of Brazilian jiu-jitsu in Japan, which drove him to change the rules... 25 KB (2,619 words) - 03:22, 9 April 2024 |
Nobutatsu Suzuki (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) he has also competed for Vale Tudo Japan. He was the inaugural ONE FC Welterweight Champion. Suzuki is from Tokyo, Japan and began training in Kyokushin... 11 KB (534 words) - 07:18, 28 April 2024 |
 | 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... 326 KB (31,356 words) - 02:57, 7 May 2024 |
 | Cornered by The Alliance, Shamrock fought Enson Inoue in a bout in Vale Tudo Japan '97 that would determine who would fight Kevin Jackson for the newly... 47 KB (4,130 words) - 02:11, 5 May 2024 |