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Satoru Sayama Tiger Mask Super Tiger Tiger King Sammy Lee The Mask of Tiger The Tiger: Billed height: ... It was a hybrid martial art similar to Shooto and MMA, ...
Shooto was brought to America in the late 1980s by top student of Satoru Sayama, Yorinaga Nakamura. He began teaching Shooto at the Inosanto Academy in 1991, and is the instructor of Erik Paulson, Ron Balicki, Dan Inosanto, Larry Hartsell, and many others.
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 it was arranged by promoter and former professional wrestler Satoru Sayama; he had previously created a hybrid martial art organization named Shooto in 1985.
Professional wrestler Satoru Sayama, a student of Antonio Inoki, founded Shooto in 1985 with the goal creating a sport that revolved around a realistic and effective fighting system. Shooto is focused on all aspects of fighting: striking, stand-up grappling and ground fighting. Practitioners are referred to as shooters or shootists.
First Tiger Mask Strong Style Pro-Wrestling (Japanese: 初代タイガーマスク 佐山サトル ストロングスタイルプロレス, Hepburn: Shodai Taigā Masuku Sayama Satoru Sutorongu Sutairu Puroresu, also simply known as Strong Style Pro-Wrestling) (SSPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling and martial arts promotion founded in 2005 by Satoru Sayama as Real Japan Pro-Wrestling ...
Shooto: Vale Tudo Perception [5] was an event held on September 26, 1995, at Komazawa Olympic Park Gymnasium in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Aside its MMA fights, it also featured an exhibition bout between Satoru Sayama and Kuniaki Kobayashi and a grappling match between Yuki Nakai and Jean-Jacques Machado.
In November 1985, he became a full-time staff member of Sayama's gym. He trained in Sayama's style of shoot wrestling and in June 1986, he competed at the tournament celebrated in the first Shooto event. He won the first fight by decision, the second by rear naked choke, the third by keylock and the last by pillow hold, winning the tournament.
The other precursors of Pride were the Japanese mixed martial arts competitions and shoot style pro wrestling promotions Shooto, a self-styled hybrid martial art organization founded in 1985 by former shoot wrestler "Tiger Mask" Satoru Sayama, [13] Pancrase founded in 1993 by wrestlers Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki attempting to create a ...