Taira Naoyuki

Taira Naoyuki vs Jan Lomulder in a K1 vale tudo exhibition match. Taira first learned Brazilian jiu jitsu from Carley Gracie. I believe this was around 1994 or so.

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• Naoyuki
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• tudo

[xbm]

Obviously the ref didn't understand. This was back when "tapping out" wasn't a phrase even most refs knew, especially a referee for kick boxing. Besides, you can see, he was trying to fight off the choke for a while there.

[gaBehcuoDsuoitneterP]

Worst ref EVAR!111 Second ice age comes: "gasp, pant, wheeze, gib up?"

[Ryzon28]

@Babyboo186 Agreed I got it from :40 - 1:04 that dude Jan was OUT!that's a wicked long time with a RNC sunk in on ya like that......blame the ref for w/e ..understandable ..... or you could blame Taira.. I mean he had to know Jan was out...surely? 1st seeing those events on vhs round 96 -97 i think had me just frozen and amazed

[Ryzon28]

@cabalofdemons brutal and beautiful LOL I love those events.

[Babyboo186]

This is from the K-1 Revenge II tournament held on 9/3/95. Definitely a mistake from the ref, probably should have seen that Lomunder was unable (or refusing) to tap out. Feel bad for Lomunder, but it's tempered a bit by what he did to Kawaguchi at the Japan Vale Tudo 94 fight a year before. Even though it was a NHB match, he took things a bit to far, especially with what it looked like he was about to do after the bell had clearly sounded.

[ThePinkMan]

I think this was the second MMA match K-1 ever hosted. The ref was probably only used to kickboxing and didn't know what he was doing here.

Back in the old days when the sport was really new, it wasn't uncommon to see stuff like this. In an early Pancrase match, a ref actually let a fighter continue after he woke up from being choked out because he got a rope escape while passing out.

[LupusRexRgis]

LOL

[billysue2]

@jazzaj2003 are you thick,his legs could be seen going limp right before the towel came in.If the ref let that continue any longer and jan had adverse effects afterwards,the whole of k1 would have went bankrupt in lawsuites.

[rlawlsgh]

At that time, Jan was a champion in Japan. He defeated every Japanese fighters who challenged him. Taira was a good fighter at that time, but he needed more to beat Jan. He went to America and trained Gracie jiu Jitus under Carley Gracie. After he learned so much from the master, he went back to Japan and beat Jan.

I trained with Taira once, and he was a great guy.

[cabalofdemons]

this is old school MMA no holds barred bare knuckle. From roughly 1993-1996 MMA was brutal as hell.