Man I just went down a rabbit hole of rewatching some of his old fights and ADCC performances. I remember when he hit the scene and he was just frightening. Seemed so invincible.
I watched an interview where he said he felt like has 30 years of knowledge and experience that is going to waste. I am sure this has been discussed before - why does he not open up a gym? I am sure there are loads of people who would be interested in learning wrestling from him. Nothing wrong with selling cars, but can’t help but wonder why he isn’t finding a career in teaching wrestling and\or coaching pro or amateur MMA fighters. I believe he is sober at the moment.
He double legged people like crazy. I was in my early 20ees back then and we all trained double legs from his tapes;-) Good times and an absolute monster in the cage…
SpeedKing9 - Man I just went down a rabbit hole of rewatching some of his old fights and ADCC performances. I remember when he hit the scene and he was just frightening. Seemed so invincible.
I watched an interview where he said he felt like has 30 years of knowledge and experience that is going to waste. I am sure this has been discussed before - why does he not open up a gym? I am sure there are loads of people who would be interested in learning wrestling from him. Nothing wrong with selling cars, but can’t help but wonder why he isn’t finding a career in teaching wrestling and\or coaching pro or amateur MMA fighters. I believe he is sober at the moment.
There is no money in opening a gym.
He would be better off teaching/coaching privately if he went in that direction.
I believe he was the 1st of the behemoth wrestlers to try to evolve his game by adding strikes. The Igor fight changed him for sure as that was the 1st time he took a whoopin. Although it was a DQ or NC that fight shook the NHB/MMA world
Before the documentary came out very few people know about his pain killer demons. He openly talked about the steriods too. Big shock to some but a lot of people suspected it. He was fuckin jacked when he was in those few UFC tourneys. I remember thinking the guy was a monster. I later got the WVC/IVC Brazil stuff he was in to watch. Paul Varlens was another big dude and Kerr steam rolled right over him.
Before the documentary came out very few people know about his pain killer demons. He openly talked about the steriods too. Big shock to some but a lot of people suspected it. He was fuckin jacked when he was in those few UFC tourneys. I remember thinking the guy was a monster. I later got the WVC/IVC Brazil stuff he was in to watch. Paul Varlens was another big dude and Kerr steam rolled right over him.
I have a hard time believing anyone with a functioning set of eyeballs was shocked to hear Mark Kerr was on steroids.
My main issue with the 'Kerr was an unstoppable monster' argument is that there was loads of great Heavyweights in the UFC at the time (Couture,Belfort, Smith, Coleman) and he fought none of them.
Kerr has to be one of the biggest what if's ever. I mean the dude was doing behind the neck shoulder presses, shrugs, cable upright rows and shit, basically training like a bodybuilder, then throw in the drug problems and that crazy ladyhe had in his life, plus that weird kind of in between era he was in. He was after the ORIGINAL UFC, but was kind of before Pride took off, which was before the UFC really took off.
I think I first found this video in like 05? It's still good, the speed of that double leg at 2:41, and when he smashes Branco Cikatic and multiple refs have to jump in lol
Good times and an absolute monster in the cage…