[warshark42]

In my opinion, he is an underrated fighter because he beat Menne, Miletich, Horn, Renzo Gracie, Minowa, and Takada. He also drew with Frank Shamrock when he was the UFC champion. It's true that he did lose a good deal of fights, but most of those were to great opponents, including losing two majority decisions to Babalu.


Vs. Frank:



Vs Minowa:

[fullerene]

Like a lot of Japanese fighters he has three things going against him:
1) He's been forced to fight (and lose) to opponents much bigger than him
2) He has the stigma of being a pro-wrestler, not a true MMA fighter
3) He's Japanese (only works against him on Sherdog)

[chutebox]

agreed ! i said this many times !!! he should just stick to fighting 185 pounders , no nog , no wandy ! fuck hes a great fighter IMO good striker ...

[NHB7]

I couldn't agree more, in fact read here: http://www.strictlymma.com/tamura.htm

[chutebox]

and hes a great sportmans , he was mad at the referee, for not stopping the fight ! but he had to kick minowa :s that was brutal

[White Snake]

Tamura for his size is far more skilled than any Japanese HW. It sucks that his reputation was destroyed doing something he is actually very good at.

[registered2001]

Anyone who really follows this sport closely knows that Tamura's a badboy.

[blackthorne]

Originally Posted by fullerene

3) He's Japanese (only works against him on Sherdog)

What's ironic is that at lower weights, this phenomenon is rare, and in fact, the opposite. At the higher weights, you're right though.