I just love the sportsmanship in these fights. Bas starts his fight mad, beats the guy DOWN, and then goes off to train him on striking for 3 months to help Watanabe out. Awesome!
I think I found these Pancrase fights a year ago. It's so refreshing to see a different type of full contact with grappling & a really interesting set of rules. Plus you get Bas to narrate. I know I'm way late to the party but... respect to all these athletes. Best Regards
Dear Mr. Rutten, or to whom it may concern, Thank you for uploading these videos, including commentary. Great class from yourself, and a great look into Japanese culture. Always a joy to see such athleticism and sportsmanship exhibited.
TheKeyboardPacifist by 1997 , without no fanboying or any of that shit , bas rutten would beat the ever living shit outta rickson , he became incredibly well versed in the ground and had one of the best striking of his era if not the best , rickson was good on the ground, but his stand up game was beyond horrible, if he faced bas , i doubt he’s gonna remain unbeaten
hassam Kkkk Rickson woulda beat him badly. Ricksons entire style was predicated in defending strikes and getting his opponent to the ground. Bas has admitted his take down defense wasn’t that great. Frank and Ken shamrock to him down like it was nothing. If he got down and rolled with rickson rickson woulda strangled him like it was nothing. Bas is a bad ass. No doubt one of the greatest. But rickson is probably the greatest jiu-jitsu practitioner in the history of mma and jiu jitsu in general. It woulda been a cake walk for rickson. It’s easy to diss on the Gracie’s but rickson is above that shit. Bas woulda just been another notch in his belt.
@@tylerjacobson8012 to me this is why talking about fights _in theory_ is beyond retarded. A fight is beautiful because anything can happen. I could care less who would win in theory.
Bas Rutten, I love watching your fights. You look like you are always thinking during a fight and seem to have a calculated tenacity. You plan on fighting again or are you done?
@@eskiltester3913 Indeed, especially since Bas didn't have too much knowledge of the ground game at that time. But to be honest Bas hits and kicks so hard that Rickson would have had a very, very difficult time taking him down. Bas would probably study Gracie and time a knee, a kick or a uppercut against any takedown attempt from Rickson. Bas was and is still a very intelligent and clever martial artist.
@@VincentMMALife oh for sure. If bas isn't taken down then he'll suffer the consequences. Thing with bas is is that he's also extremely strong and if he knows jujitsu then he would have a chance but I still put my money in rickson then.
@@eskiltester3913 If it was pure grappling then yeah, Rickson all day. But in the old school mma it would have been legal for Bas to stomp, knee and soccer kick Gracie all day. So Rickson couldn't have pulled guard as easily. He would have had to take Bas down. And I think Bas would have punches or kicked Rickson so hard that coming that close would have been very difficult for Rickson. Rickson is a legend, but he isn't a khabib style wrestler so taking Bas down would have been difficult because Bas knew already about the danger of the ground game and he wouldn't have been underestimating Rickson like so many other did.
@@VincentMMALife yeah I mostly agree. But don't underestimate jujitsu lol. Bas would need to punch hard and quick from the start when taken down or rickson would likely have him. Then again we just don't know. It's nice to speculate on things like this. Even nicer would be able to watch them go at it 😂 Too bad bas can't fight anymore due to his injuries. Love that guy
Bas would have smashed Rickson's face in. Most over-rated fighter during that time. "Durrr... I'm Rickson Gracie, and I'm 500-0 including sparring matches."
Mackenson Sparks I disagree, when Rickson fought in Japan the only rules were no eyegouging or headbutting, stomping , ground & pound etc, were all legal.
I'm not impressed by Rickson's MMA career, so why not. Bas had a true high level MMA career, while Rickson beat some guys either not good (for high level standards) or specialists of the ground.
are you out of your mind? Bas got mounted numerous times, you get mounted by Rickson and it's the endo of it. Even though at the end of his carreer Bas was much better on the ground still he was no much for Rickson and Bas never really had any wrestling defense.
dichaos Bas' ground game evolved tremendously throughout the years. He got mounted so many times, but that's his game and his escaping skills are unbelievable. Bas vs. Rickson would have been an awesome fight. Why didn't he take the fight? Who knows? Could be that the money offered wasn't good enough. Sounds silly, but it's easy to take advantage of a fighter who has been challenged in public - they don't want to look like cowards and so promoters can offer them shitty money. Could also be that Rickson had other things in his life that were higher priority than dropping everything and going on a training camp for several months. Whatever the reason, Rickson never took the fight so we will never know. But one thing is for sure, Bas was a monster at the time and it would have been silly to count him out.
even though Bas is a legend, he would be taken down, mounted and submitted. Anyone who rolled with Rickson said he is a beast. As for the Sakuraba fight, all I know is that his son died when they were talking about making the fight.... and he quit fighting, I suggest you go meet some of the old school Carlson Gracie guys, you know, the Nogueiras, Vitor Belfort, Perdeneiras, Bustamante etc and ask them storied about Rickson... When Rickson fought Funaki he was 42 years old.
Good fight but 1 question....If you can punch to the body why cant you punch to the head? I know there are different rules depending on where you are fighting. Why no head punches?..
OfficialBasRutten you already had your fight with funaki at that time and you broke his nose with a palmstrike when he was on the ground no? loving your vids Bas, just something i recogniced.
So if I've got things right, there's no fists to the face?.. Open hands only?.. I don't mean only ONLY... Probably hurts as much but the rules?.. I'm a bit new to this style
billytheweasel lol , that’s just classic bas rutten , he admitted multiple times on doing cheeky shit then pretending that he didn’t do it , watch his commentary on the frank shamrock fight (the third one) , he punches frank then pretends like he didn’t, he himself even commented on how he did it on purpose and was acting
all of this is from his career DVD, the last 2 fights on the dvd where highly edited down from UFC, both fights were over 15mins long and UFC shortened them down to 5mins each so there was a lot missing.
vhollund A ten count or unless the ref decided you were unfit to continue just like in boxing. There were also five rope escapes available that accumulated to lost points if you went the distance for a decision and even though strikes on the ground were allowed, they were frowned upon and therefore you rarely see them. The rules were wacky because mma was still in its infancy and the federation had its roots in worked professional shoot wrestling.
+Josh Gray At the time, Rickson was a sort of gold-horned stag - everybody wanted to hunt him down, because if you defeated him, you would become great. He was a legend, but many people felt that he was not as good as it was said, and that's why they wanted to dethrone him.
opkdom I love Bas but if you watch his fight against Randleman you can see his ground game was not as good at the time and Rickson was way better at submitting than Randleman.
Hm, I don't agree. While Bas was always relatively easy to take down, he was an awesome bottom grappler. IN an interview with Joe Rogan he said he would always focus more on his ground game than striking because he knew it was his weakness. Add in that he had devastating striking power and prowess, even from awkward positions, you might want to reconsider your statement. I don't say he would destroy Rickson (back then) but the fight would've been even.
)I think it is a just technique to punch the enemies agresors etc in the similar places and with a similar style they punched first.if and agressor punches me in my ear ,with his fist it is just and logical to punch back in defence and retaliation in his&co ears with My trained and conditioned let,s say Thundres Iron fists.)it is actualy a good thing to have noises around to kreep the motivational hate and so not to forghet this technique.
Watanabe is the first guy who is even remotely competitive and well-rounded. Lets also note that this was his debut - and straight away against the Pancrase champion?!
Calling out Rickson Gracie for a fight ? well.. a lot of people tried that but nobody succeed, classic rickson, best defense ever, just don't fight people who can beat you.
I just love the sportsmanship in these fights. Bas starts his fight mad, beats the guy DOWN, and then goes off to train him on striking for 3 months to help Watanabe out. Awesome!
It's a sport, what do you expect
@@boliussa it’s the same sport where dudes hold grudges forever, not everybody there is like Bas
@@maxhitikosfact
I think I found these Pancrase fights a year ago. It's so refreshing to see a different type of full contact with grappling & a really interesting set of rules. Plus you get Bas to narrate. I know I'm way late to the party but... respect to all these athletes.
Best Regards
Dear Mr. Rutten, or to whom it may concern,
Thank you for uploading these videos, including commentary. Great class from yourself, and a great look into Japanese culture. Always a joy to see such athleticism and sportsmanship exhibited.
I just found Bas last month, what a guy . 🙏🏼
Calling out Rickson, not something many people could get away with. Good job you're the almighty Bas Rutten!
Chicken hickson
300-0
This guy was out there getting it done over and over again. A true pioneer of the sport and an icon with a rock solid reputation.
When I have trouble sleeping I put on these bas videos. Your commentary is so soothing 👍🏽
My favorite *MMA* fighter of all time. *You are awesome Bas!*
if you understand japanese in the corners you can read: "WELCOME TO BAS RUTTEN DENTAL CLINC"
REally?
@XFortyXSevenX yo moma
I absolutely love this, Bas you're my idol
It's always a delight to listen to Bas he's sublimely funny
Gracie?
Liver shot.
Danga-Da-Danga-Da-Dang.
Over.
Rickson is so over rated.
Jesper you on crack??????
TheKeyboardPacifist by 1997 , without no fanboying or any of that shit , bas rutten would beat the ever living shit outta rickson , he became incredibly well versed in the ground and had one of the best striking of his era if not the best , rickson was good on the ground, but his stand up game was beyond horrible, if he faced bas , i doubt he’s gonna remain unbeaten
hassam Kkkk Rickson woulda beat him badly. Ricksons entire style was predicated in defending strikes and getting his opponent to the ground. Bas has admitted his take down defense wasn’t that great. Frank and Ken shamrock to him down like it was nothing. If he got down and rolled with rickson rickson woulda strangled him like it was nothing. Bas is a bad ass. No doubt one of the greatest. But rickson is probably the greatest jiu-jitsu practitioner in the history of mma and jiu jitsu in general. It woulda been a cake walk for rickson. It’s easy to diss on the Gracie’s but rickson is above that shit. Bas woulda just been another notch in his belt.
@@tylerjacobson8012 to me this is why talking about fights _in theory_ is beyond retarded. A fight is beautiful because anything can happen. I could care less who would win in theory.
Those palm strikes, very effective!
Specially behind the ears!
Nasty
What a Beast, and a family man. Bas is the man!!!
You are a legend Bas.
Bas Rutten,
I love watching your fights. You look like you are always thinking during a fight and seem to have a calculated tenacity.
You plan on fighting again or are you done?
He trained a year and a half....to fight nice guy Bas ..he wasn't ready for angry 😡 Bas lol...
Hey bass im danish im a bæster.
you motivate me to be a better bastard 🙂, you dont know how mutsh you help me... Love from anders 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
What
brutal fight, even the ref jumped in with a kick to the head at 8:35 🤣🤣
Bas you are a legend!!
the system was against you, and you STILL came out on top! BAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what about the System ?
where can i find his comic about kengo and bas?
Bas Rutten vs Rickson Gracie ... would have been awesome. Although the chances of Rickson winning this fight are not that high.
Not so sure. If he takes bas to the ground it's gonna be hard for bas
@@eskiltester3913 Indeed, especially since Bas didn't have too much knowledge of the ground game at that time. But to be honest Bas hits and kicks so hard that Rickson would have had a very, very difficult time taking him down. Bas would probably study Gracie and time a knee, a kick or a uppercut against any takedown attempt from Rickson. Bas was and is still a very intelligent and clever martial artist.
@@VincentMMALife oh for sure.
If bas isn't taken down then he'll suffer the consequences.
Thing with bas is is that he's also extremely strong and if he knows jujitsu then he would have a chance but I still put my money in rickson then.
@@eskiltester3913 If it was pure grappling then yeah, Rickson all day. But in the old school mma it would have been legal for Bas to stomp, knee and soccer kick Gracie all day. So Rickson couldn't have pulled guard as easily. He would have had to take Bas down. And I think Bas would have punches or kicked Rickson so hard that coming that close would have been very difficult for Rickson. Rickson is a legend, but he isn't a khabib style wrestler so taking Bas down would have been difficult because Bas knew already about the danger of the ground game and he wouldn't have been underestimating Rickson like so many other did.
@@VincentMMALife yeah I mostly agree. But don't underestimate jujitsu lol. Bas would need to punch hard and quick from the start when taken down or rickson would likely have him.
Then again we just don't know.
It's nice to speculate on things like this.
Even nicer would be able to watch them go at it 😂
Too bad bas can't fight anymore due to his injuries. Love that guy
Been watching these back to back to back his technique is so different
As the saying goes.
The bigger they are the harder they fall. What a fight
Bas would have smashed Rickson's face in. Most over-rated fighter during that time.
"Durrr... I'm Rickson Gracie, and I'm 500-0 including sparring matches."
MOS lol exactly
I'm brazilian, and i'll tell you what, the only place where Rickson is taken seriously is in Japan, even in Brazil the guy is a joke.
Mackenson Sparks I disagree, when Rickson fought in Japan the only rules were no eyegouging or headbutting, stomping , ground & pound etc, were all legal.
If Bas Rutten respects Gracie then who the hell are you to hate.
Ohh stfu you idiot!
I'm not impressed by Rickson's MMA career, so why not. Bas had a true high level MMA career, while Rickson beat some guys either not good (for high level standards) or specialists of the ground.
are you out of your mind? Bas got mounted numerous times, you get mounted by Rickson and it's the endo of it. Even though at the end of his carreer Bas was much better on the ground still he was no much for Rickson and Bas never really had any wrestling defense.
dichaos Bas' ground game evolved tremendously throughout the years. He got mounted so many times, but that's his game and his escaping skills are unbelievable.
Bas vs. Rickson would have been an awesome fight. Why didn't he take the fight? Who knows?
Could be that the money offered wasn't good enough. Sounds silly, but it's easy to take advantage of a fighter who has been challenged in public - they don't want to look like cowards and so promoters can offer them shitty money. Could also be that Rickson had other things in his life that were higher priority than dropping everything and going on a training camp for several months.
Whatever the reason, Rickson never took the fight so we will never know. But one thing is for sure, Bas was a monster at the time and it would have been silly to count him out.
even though Bas is a legend, he would be taken down, mounted and submitted. Anyone who rolled with Rickson said he is a beast.
As for the Sakuraba fight, all I know is that his son died when they were talking about making the fight.... and he quit fighting,
I suggest you go meet some of the old school Carlson Gracie guys, you know, the Nogueiras, Vitor Belfort, Perdeneiras, Bustamante etc and ask them storied about Rickson... When Rickson fought Funaki he was 42 years old.
Rickson hand picked his fights..he would never fight Bas
Romano onamoR rickson never beat anyone good in mma, he was never tested by a highly technical mma fighter. Bas would of ko’d him no problem
Bas, you have been my idol since your debut in the UFC.! I have tried to imitate your style as far as aggressiveness ring generalship and mentality.!
Cheers Bas!
It sounds very interesting!!! I watched your video where i founded it AWESOME!!!
Bas you are a GREAT & DYNAMIC Fighter!!! :-)
Should re-upload this with the digital stabiliser turned off.
You are ruthless! I've watched a lot of fights, but this is the first I've had to turn away. In other words, you're fucking amazing.
My favourite MMA match and commentary.
Interesting how big some of these Japanese fighters are. They must have a special factory where they feed them Godzilla chow
Note to self: do not fight Bas when he is angry. Got it...
This is what your note to self should say: do not fight bas at all.
Yeah, I'm fairly sure that chopping leg kick would kill me or resign me to a wheelchair 😑 I mean look what it did to a 300 lb guy(Parduel)😶
@@pseudonayme7717 I'm fairly that it would ruin your year.
3:54 that's Bobby Lee
Dead on from MadTv days "he's an Average asian
No more fight uploads. :( These have been making my days since the start.
Class act. As good a sportsman as he was (is) a fighter.
is there a way to find the comicstrip he is talking about?
00:38 What they didn´t tell me that they were training this guy for 1,5 years to fight against, me!
I cant seem to find this comic mentioned @ 2:16
It's not a comic. It's a comedic video. Hope that helps. You can find it on bas's channel
Don't piss off Bas.
So the UFC stole Bas after fight call-out technique.
One of the best fighters from Holland!!!!
thats actually cool that you trained with him after and he used that to win hahaha
cool fight!
Much better when u r standing!
Bas Ruuuuuuuuttennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn....!!!!!!
Aw yea. More Daily Bas.
2:44 nice kyokushin kick
Love the 1981 David Lee Roth move ar the end
What a guy. :)
Bas Rutten vs Rickson would have been a dream match....maybe in another life
You are all class, all the time Bas.
am i on acid?
Moral of the story, don’t piss-off Bas.. pretty simple
I always feel bad watching Bas fight his opponents. Like, fuck this guy hits so fucking hard.
Note: Do not make Bas angry!
Good fight, thanks for upload
Bas please put the fight with you and Kevin Randalman
4:57 Never seem Bas get hit so hard then it pisses him off so much 😂😂😂
The ufc fight video got blocked cuz of copyright:( are we gonna see those fights? I have not seen many ufc fights from Bas!
Good fight but 1 question....If you can punch to the body why cant you punch to the head? I know there are different rules depending on where you are fighting. Why no head punches?..
checking to see if your opponent is ok after macht , applauding for your oppenent. sjeez you dont see things like that anymore
porque no peleo rickson Gracie en Parchase ?
Then he trains him after this fight? Bas is the man!!!!
Colin Farrell would be perfect to play him in a movie.
Uno de los mejores de toda la historia !!!!! Basuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu !!!!!!!!! Ruuuuuuuutteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennn!!!!!!
Damn, this is the end?
where did u go dude??
Eso era clase
the Goat.. Bas R. best ever*
And one of the best from Holland to ;-]
Bas Hard Men 💪🏽
OfficialBasRutten you already had your fight with funaki at that time and you broke his nose with a palmstrike when he was on the ground no? loving your vids Bas, just something i recogniced.
That Gracie knew he had no chance against Bas.
Bas woulda put Rickson into a fucking lifetime coma.
The ref threw one more kick in there when he was down,just to make sure
So if I've got things right, there's no fists to the face?.. Open hands only?.. I don't mean only ONLY... Probably hurts as much but the rules?.. I'm a bit new to this style
Going all super sayan on his ass 😂
At 4:18 Bas did grab the rope with his right hand, the ref was correct in this one.
billytheweasel lol , that’s just classic bas rutten , he admitted multiple times on doing cheeky shit then pretending that he didn’t do it , watch his commentary on the frank shamrock fight (the third one) , he punches frank then pretends like he didn’t, he himself even commented on how he did it on purpose and was acting
Very true can imagine i a fight you dont know, but commenting he should have admitted this
in all these fights...i never once not once saw Boo.....where was he hiding?
Has UFC blocked the TK fight for everyone else?
all of this is from his career DVD, the last 2 fights on the dvd where highly edited down from UFC, both fights were over 15mins long and UFC shortened them down to 5mins each so there was a lot missing.
Google it, I know there's several links to the UFC fights in original quality, just not on THIS site unfortunately.
So what are the rules
How many knock outs before you win?
vhollund A ten count or unless the ref decided you were unfit to continue just like in boxing. There were also five rope escapes available that accumulated to lost points if you went the distance for a decision and even though strikes on the ground were allowed, they were frowned upon and therefore you rarely see them. The rules were wacky because mma was still in its infancy and the federation had its roots in worked professional shoot wrestling.
how come you never fought Rickson? that would have been awesome!
+dichaos Rickson did not want. He was scared.
KingSygma his son had just died....
dichaos No, Rockson died later.
First comment in 3 years.......Bas Rutten is still the fn king. 🔱
Basrutten.tv is mentioned in the video, but your actual homepage is basrutten.com...
Quite an exhilarating fight!
***** And? It would be usefull to put up an annotation in the fight to mention that the homepage is now basrutten.com...
I'm just a little unclear on this topic, but why did Bas want to fight Rickson so badly?
+Josh Gray At the time, Rickson was a sort of gold-horned stag - everybody wanted to hunt him down, because if you defeated him, you would become great. He was a legend, but many people felt that he was not as good as it was said, and that's why they wanted to dethrone him.
rickson would of lost bas
My honest opinion
opkdom I love Bas but if you watch his fight against Randleman you can see his ground game was not as good at the time and Rickson was way better at submitting than Randleman.
Hm, I don't agree. While Bas was always relatively easy to take down, he was an awesome bottom grappler. IN an interview with Joe Rogan he said he would always focus more on his ground game than striking because he knew it was his weakness.
Add in that he had devastating striking power and prowess, even from awkward positions, you might want to reconsider your statement.
I don't say he would destroy Rickson (back then) but the fight would've been even.
Rickson's striking is garbage. He'd have been ko-ed in the first round.
)I think it is a just technique to punch the enemies agresors etc in the similar places and with a similar style they punched first.if and agressor punches me in my ear ,with his fist it is just and logical to punch back in defence and retaliation in his&co ears with My trained and conditioned let,s say Thundres Iron fists.)it is actualy a good thing to have noises around to kreep the motivational hate and so not to forghet this technique.
frickin' ref always out to get him in these hahah, he still wins...
Awesome idea for UA-cam.
Wonder what will happen. Ow that i's UFC fight. Doubt we'll have them
Damm bas, you really messed up that guy
Watanabe is the first guy who is even remotely competitive and well-rounded. Lets also note that this was his debut - and straight away against the Pancrase champion?!
You literally weren't even touching the rope that ref was really helping him out
These Bas Rutten videos are a huge waste of bandwidth. They're 40% introductions, 35% post-fight, and only 25% Bas pulverizing his opponents...
Unified rules would have stopped that after the first knock down. Don't make bas angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry.
I wonder why they never matched you up with Semmy Schilt, were you two good friends or something?
That guy got like a good minute to recover from the 1st knockdown! Wtf was that?
Calling out Rickson Gracie for a fight ? well.. a lot of people tried that but nobody succeed, classic rickson, best defense ever, just don't fight people who can beat you.
👍👍👍
bruut!
Definitely broke homie's nose there, Bas