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Old 12-26-2007, 09:50 AM   #42 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by KenWatanabe View Post
I just find it fascinating that NOBODY was talking about kyokushin until a few years ago when Bas Rutten said it was one of the styles he attained black belt in. Then all of a sudden people said

Yeah I have a brown belt in Kyokushing, or I take kyokushin.

One of the biggest bandwagons ever created for a fighting style ever in such a short time, only AFTER a major HOF MMA fighter stated it was his style.
That's because BRIG. (Bas Rutten is God)

Hug left Kyokushin to join Seidokaikan, a KK offshoot that didn't give a crap about fighting pro (and later founded K1) He wasn't the first and wasn't the last. Oyama's declaration to prevent KK from being taken in a for-profit direction came back to bite him in the ass later on.
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