I guess they payed him to wear the gi?
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do you have any idea how many of today's mma fighters have karate backgrounds, funny guy?
Well since he came from Chute Boxe i think his base is muay thai.
That doesnt mean he started training at CB at 6 years old.
Karate is obviously just one of the things he has done along the way.
Nino Schrembri is also currently from CB.
I still think he has a deal with that group.
He is a seiwakai karate under Adamir DaCosta who is a full contact karate legend from Brazil. DaCosta comes from Kyokushinkaikan and was K-1 fighter Fransisco Filiho's 1st teacher.
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you have to realize brazilian muay thai which rudgimar was an early practicioner is heavily influenced by tkd. thats why you see CB guys doing tkd stuff along with 'muay thai'. Anderson has the most authentic muay thai looking skills. Ive seen some of his thai boxing fights and he looked like a thai boxer. Anderson is doing his own thing now.
Im talking about Assurio.
Assuerio Silva is Seiwakai karate, a kyokushin karate splintergroup created by Ademir DaCosta a few years ago.
Silva has in interviews named DaCosta as his teacher and that he fights "for" Seiwakai.
DaCosta was a knockdown karate fighter of note from the 80ies (along with names like Andy Hug(k-1), Peter Smit (kickboxing)and Gerard Gordeau(ufc)), and a former teacher in the same kyokushin Dojo Francisco Filho and Glaube Feitosa (both of k-1 fame) hail from -and their first teacher. He left kyokushin 1996 and founded seiwakai when kyokushin fragmented after the founders death.
Who was he with first the karate group or chute boxe?
No idea, but chute boxe is a competition organisation, not a fighting style. Knockdown karate fighters competing in kickboxing organisations because they get more money and can earn a living by it (knockdown karate is usualy amature/low pay affairs), is pretty common.
My guess is that he is a knockdown fighter who competed in chuteboxe, not a chuteboxe fighter who switched to knockdown karate recently.
Are their any interviews of him taking about his traning?
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Gordeau was a established knockdown karate fighter from kyokushin, but he entered some savate tournaments for the hell of it, Won and got savate titles. Like I said, knockdown karate fighters often fight in kickboxing.
The early ufc traded on the "style vs style" BS, and since there was already a karate guy in ufc-1, Gordeau got billed as savate when he entered in the last minute He was helping out in behind the scene thinking he were not going to fight until 2-3 hours before the event. He was there as a reserve, and had been told he would not bee needed to fight before that.
He left kyokushin and switched to world oyama karate (a kyokushin splintergroup) to enter the ufc and k-1 ( http://www.k-1sport.de/en/database/show_tournament.php?id=27 ) and other tournaments around 93 because the main kyokushin organisation banned pro fighting back then. However he is now back in kyokushin, being a member of the kyokushin budo kai organisation.
Gordeau fought Savate for the money since Kyokushin did not fight for money.