EPISODE · Jun 3, 2021 · 1H 34M
RYAN BOW, Career #DEEPDIVE
from MMA History Podcast · host MMA Detective Mike Davis, Joey Venti
Send a textSome of us follow a path less traveled... and then there are guys like MMA artist Ryan Bow, who blaze a trail all their own.Chris Lytle and his #LytesOut team interview Ryan Bow in another "deep dive" interview. Bow moved to Japan at the age of seventeen as a Judo competitor and it was there that he found SHOOTO and MMA fighting. He has not looked back since. Meet Ryan Bow, Martial Artist, Author and all around good guy.0:00 Podcast intro0:19 Guest intro, Interview start 1:26 Moving to Japan3:02 Starting with Shooto4:30 Experience as a Judoka5:31 Thoughts on SatoruSayama5:59 Early days of Shooto7:25 Politics betweenJapanese promotions10:55 Shooto vs Pride FC12:26 Leaving Shooto, turning pro,training with FrankShamrock19:23 American KickboxingAcademy20:30 Back to Japan22:39 Experience in UAE23:36 Shooto gym, Cross-training26:05 Fight culture in Dubai27:20 Enson Inoue and Kid Yamamoto30:12 Japan's gym culture31:35 Rumina Sato, Mach Sakurai, Caol Uno36:14 SuperBrawl eight-man tournament39:28 Ryan Bow vs TakanoriGomi at Shooto40:43 Thoughts on Gomi in theUFC43:43 Joachim Hansen44:58 Ryan Bow vs TonyDeDolph48:20 Ryan Bow vs NickAgallar53:49 Ryan Bow vs RodrigoDamm55:45 Cancelled: Ryan Bow vs Jens Pulver & Javier Vasquez 1:00:40 Fighting for MARS, Japanese promotion1:02:08 Ending career in Deep1:04:38 Thoughts on EnsonInoue1:06:40 Thoughts on Sakuraba1:08:17 Roppongi, Tokyo nightlife1:11:56 The demise of Pride FC1:24:06 Experiences in Japan1:25:15 Thoughts on GenkiSudo1:26:30 Ryan Gracie1:27:21 Sergio Cunha of ChuteBoxe1:28:54 BJJ in Dubai1:31:03 "Tunnel Visions" and"Fighting Blind" plug1:33:36 Interview wrap upFollow Ryan, also like and otherwise support his screenplay and movie project -https://www.facebook.com/FightingBlindTheMovieMore content - clips from our other #DEEPDIVE interviews -MMA and the Eastern Illinois Wrestling Team - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RDzRHERo8Almost Hometown’ed against Carlo Prater - Keith Wisniewski - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-KpoPk90hg"Igor Vovchanchyn Tapped In Our Fight" - Nick Nutter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK1GLoCJrhE#RyanBow #MMAHistory #OldSchoolMMA #FightTalk #ChrisLytle #LOP #SHOOTO #MMA #NHB #UFC #FightTalk #LytesOut #OldSchoolMMASupport the show
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Send a textSome of us follow a path less traveled... and then there are guys like MMA artist Ryan Bow, who blaze a trail all their own.Chris Lytle and his #LytesOut team interview Ryan Bow in another "deep dive" interview. Bow moved to Japan at the age of seventeen as a Judo competitor and it was there that he found SHOOTO and MMA fighting. He has not looked back since. Meet Ryan Bow, Martial Artist, Author and all around good guy.0:00 Podcast intro0:19 Guest intro, Interview start 1:26 Moving to Japan3:02 Starting with Shooto4:30 Experience as a Judoka5:31 Thoughts on SatoruSayama5:59 Early days of Shooto7:25 Politics betweenJapanese promotions10:55 Shooto vs Pride FC12:26 Leaving Shooto, turning pro,training with FrankShamrock19:23 American KickboxingAcademy20:30 Back to Japan22:39 Experience in UAE23:36 Shooto gym, Cross-training26:05 Fight culture in Dubai27:20 Enson Inoue and Kid Yamamoto30:12 Japan's gym culture31:35 Rumina Sato, Mach Sakurai, Caol Uno36:14 SuperBrawl eight-man tournament39:28 Ryan Bow vs TakanoriGomi at Shooto40:43 Thoughts on Gomi in theUFC43:43 Joachim Hansen44:58 Ryan Bow vs TonyDeDolph48:20 Ryan Bow vs NickAgallar53:49 Ryan Bow vs RodrigoDamm55:45 Cancelled: Ryan Bow vs Jens Pulver & Javier Vasquez 1:00:40 Fighting for MARS, Japanese promotion1:02:08 Ending career in Deep1:04:38 Thoughts on EnsonInoue1:06:40 Thoughts on Sakuraba1:08:17 Roppongi, Tokyo nightlife1:11:56 The demise of Pride FC1:24:06 Experiences in Japan1:25:15 Thoughts on GenkiSudo1:26:30 Ryan Gracie1:27:21 Sergio Cunha of ChuteBoxe1:28:54 BJJ in Dubai1:31:03 "Tunnel Visions" and"Fighting Blind" plug1:33:36 Interview wrap upFollow Ryan, also like and otherwise support his screenplay and movie project -https://www.facebook.com/FightingBlindTheMovieMore content - clips from our other #DEEPDIVE interviews -MMA and the Eastern Illinois Wrestling Team - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RDzRHERo8Almost Hometown’ed against Carlo Prater - Keith Wisniewski - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-KpoPk90hg"Igor Vovchanchyn Tapped In Our Fight" - Nick Nutter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK1GLoCJrhE#RyanBow #MMAHistory #OldSchoolMMA #FightTalk #ChrisLytle #LOP #SHOOTO #MMA #NHB #UFC #FightTalk #LytesOut #OldSchoolMMASupport the show
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