Gene LeBell

[SpartansQuest]

When the first UFCs started and there were no rules other than biting or eye gouging......there were MANY strikers who thought that "landing that one good strike" as the wrestler/jiu jitsu guy shot in would end the match. Go back and look....those strikers were VERY wrong! If a person gets set to punch and not defend the takedown first, they are a grappler's lunch meat. All of the strikers who have been successful against grapplers had to learn to defend the takedown first.

[MondoPlus]

Seagal POWNED!!!!

[cmcampbell49]

Gene LeBell is a legend, good to see Gokor sitting in the background

[TheShinobi32]

If you want to learn to grapple Gene is the man he is a encyclopedia of knowledge on martial arts i have some of his dvd's and had some of his books and he is funny Bruce Lee even trained with him on wrestling and judo.

[ninjachelas]

MMMM MAYBE STEVE SEAGAL CAN BEAT HIM HA!

[Ljenkins9000]

@ninjachelas Seagal thought that too, until Gene made him poop and pee his pants.

[ninjachelas]

@Ljenkins9000 maybe thats why he's musician now. ha!

[SuperEzekial19]

bully!

[DrVoltage1]

Gene is an amazing fighter, but hes also an asshole. you can cause serious damage from shit like just dropping a guy you choked out standing (28 secs). Good techniques in general, but performed like a professional douche bag.

[GrimReaper30]

I gotta give this guy all the credit in the world. He don't look like a bad ass, but in reality he can take out any guy out there who thinks he is a bad ass himself.

[sloppycarl17]

@muaythairaja- you obviously don't know who this man is or who some of his students are. Come to L.A. and train at his and Gokor's school, then let's see how easily you throw the word BUM around.

[ticosexy22]

Song name?

[Mider999]

HEEEEEEE'S A BADDDDDDDDDDDD MANNNNNN

[The95thRifles]

this old fuck would die in a real fight,even though he has skill,hes an old fuckin man with an old mans skeletal and muscular degeneration.i dont care how good he is,hes not gonna survive a reasonably fast and savagely delivered hook-cross-groin knee-front facelock-broken old man neck.tell me im wrong.BTW,you can tell hes a fuckwit by the way he holds moves when a guy taps.its a class,not a real fuckin fight you cheap old fuck.

[muaythairaja]

This guy was never an accomplished grappler/judoka/wrestler. He was just a bum who knew how to work the camera and media well.

[migerusan29]

@muaythairaja people like who, are pass the limits of stupidity.. i always feel sorry for them.

[trondyne]

God forbid we should be able to hear Gene... Loose the guitar...

[DoNotEnter2009]

Gene will teach you to fight like a man for sure. Tough guy.

[RockDempsey]

Trying to resist against Gene Lebell's choke is like trying to block Mirko Cro Cop's left high kick. Either way, lights out kiddies!

[ticosexy22]

@RockDempsey UFC WANNABE

[AvEryBadApPLe]

this guy worked over don the dragon wilson in some car repo movie years ago.

[Badinmanywayzz712]

lebell was also in the movie RUSH HOUR 1 when jackie tried to escape from carter. he was the taxi driver who said "hey wat do u think ur doing?"

[pacificimporters]

I know it's kind of funny that most people in the theater had no idea that the old goofy looking cabbie could have destroyed Jackie Chan!

[TheChiFlows]

@pacificimporters Destroyed Jackie Chan! .Man are you disillusioned. if you really think that Chan's gungfu skills are just all for show.

[muaythairaja]

@pacificimporters Jackie Chan is about 50 kgs, this guy is about 100. I'd like to see this bum fight a fighter like Ali or Holmes at their peak.

[pacificimporters]

@muaythairaja he'd choke them out in seconds, the same thing he did to Bruce Lee. a good boxer will almost always lose against a good wrestler.

[DrVoltage1]

@pacificimporters I highly disagree. When a wrestler goes for a slam/shoot, a good boxer will be able to deliver a full powered punch to the cereberal cortex, or the base of the spine and the skull. Then its game over. In a sport match, or a sparring match, you're handicapping the boxer alot. But by the same token you couldnt suplex the guy on his brain either... It really comes down to the fighters. 1 good punch or take down is all it takes.

[sfm992002]

@DrVoltage1 I disagree. A good wrestler will see the punch coming, and will avoid it, by a shot, head movement, arm/leg isolation, etc. That is why wrestlers dominate MMA much more than boxers. Sucker punch wins? Maybe for a punk. misses, without a crew, down fall. How do you handicap a boxer? Say no strikes? OK. Wrestling, Catch, Sambo, JJ, better chance of winning the fight.

[kirokyukan]

Some people can say I trained with Bruce Lee, but Bruce Lee said I train with Gene Lebell

[hickory493]

Nobody knows how to put people to sleep better than Lebell, nobody knows how to hurt people more than Lebell, yet he is somehow so nice.

[WeAreSoScrewed]

Most people that can kick ass as well as Lebell can, ARE really nice. :)

[combatives]

True, the Badder you are in Reputation- the kinder you generally are in Person.

[blutobelushi]

he is a wonderful person as well.just pure class.

[bjjbear73]

Gene LeBell is an amazing man. His knowledge of grappling is so extensive it will never be completely catologued.

Even when I had no interest in grappling, I read and listened to what Mr. Lebell had to say. Just an amazing fellow.