Spit it out.
Not sure Tank was charged with a crime for this one.
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Matt Hughes
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Not surprised.
Pretty sure that tank was responsible for three rule changes. One of them was throwing your opponent out of the cage.
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I was thinking the same thing. So started reading some old articles about Tank. Didn’t know he was offered Pride 1 fight with Kimo.
— In October 1997, Abbott was contacted to fight in the Japanese Pride 1 event against Kimo Leopoldo, but he was unable to do so, having to be replaced by Dan Severn.[21]Ironically, shortly after Abbott replaced Severn himself with four days notice in a title match for the UFC Heavyweight Championshipagainst Maurice Smith at UFC 15, a circumstance he described as “literally falling off the barstool into the octagon.”[17] Trying hard to press the action, Tank shockingly dropped the kickboxing champion with an early shot, but Smith controlled him through his defensive guard and a Kimura attempt. The action was restarted standing, but by this point Abbott was exhausted and offered little resistance to Smith’s low kicks, prompting the referee to stop the match.[22]
Severn was blackballed by the UFC after his fight with Kimo in PRIDE. ^^^^
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Yikes. He was almost 40 in his first UFC? Damn. I wonder how he would have done at a younger age. Not that he didn’t do really well.
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this is ironic. many times police officers put tank in a cage.
here he is trying to throw a police officer out of one
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Jennum was the police officer not Cal Worsham.
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aw shit!
He tried to stuff Jennum under the cage
i believe u have the biggest/best tape collection in mma. i got a bro in michigan lookin to unload more…
I did at one time. My ex sold them all when i went to prison. One of my best friends bought them at an auction and stored them in his basement. Then the flood of 2008 destroyed them.