jkdberlin
11-06-2008, 07:44
Mein Kumpel Ron hat letztes Jahr gegen Chuck Lidell gekämpft - dummerweise 1 Tag bevor er eine langangesetzte Knieoperation hatte.
YouTube - Chuck Liddell vs Ron Kosakowski (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCkpraLJKhA&feature=related)
Hier ist die Geschichte mit dem Knie dazu:
I was training very heavy back in the early to mid 90's...harder than ever. I knew my knee was going but I was inna bit a denial to say the least. Right before my fight with Chuck Liddel, John Pereira (Judo, Jiu Jitsu Danbury, CT) was setting me up with all these different underground fights with people of all different styles and I was killing everyone. I was training heavy in Muay Thai, Judo and BJJ back then to the ultimate. I was also doing Capoera for about 4-6 hours a week back then. Toward the ending of training with John P., I did notice I could not move well. I subconsciously stopped doing Capoera and Muay Thai and basically just took all my fights to the ground all the time. On the ground, my knee didn't bother me that much at first and so I felt that much more confident there. But after a while I felt my ground game started getting little weaker as well where I started focusing on wrestling with one side of my body. Even though I was trying to ignore it the pressure of what was to happen to my knee was frustrating as hell.
One day during class, I was wrestling everyone (Gina has this on film also) and my knee gave me an excruciating pain. The next day I went to the doctor...he pulled out about what looked like 2 pints of fluid out of my knee and told me; "you are not fighting...your knee is gone!" My femur was literally inside my tibia. Bone on bone! Or I should say, "in!" Well, like an idiot, I refused to listen. I had a shot to get into the UFC back in those days; I had some connections then and I was hoping it helped.
Training with John Pereira just seemed to be getting worse and eventually, I had no choice and we stopped the whole idea of fighting professionally. Now John did not get told about this till just before we made the decision my knee was not in fighting shape...I had a hard time believing that my knee had to be replaced with a metal knee. I stopped all my training for about 3-4 weeks due to the knee going and I get a call from a friend of mine who is a cop in Las Vegas. He found a pro fight I could do. Back then I think it was only a couple of 100 bucks to win and it probably cost more for the ticket to get there. I remember saying to him, there are a few problems and I really haven’t trained endurance for a fight but my heart wanted me to do at least 1, 2 or 3 fights at least before this surgery. So I went out there to fight, I think two weeks after he called. The irony (iron knee) which of course was to be expected is, I had to keep icing the swelling off my knee while getting a little for fight training in CT and Vegas. The guy I was to go up against was a Muay Thai fighter who had 25 knockouts under him already. It was Chuck Liddel…of course he didn’t have the name he has now. Now I felt like, no problem. I will use my Muay Thai knowledge to get to the clench will submit him.
You can see on the video the weird way I was fighting. That is due to the even more weird rules that were coming out around that era of NHB. Don’t forget, back then they were actually fighting the laws of “ethics” to keep NHB out there. So in Las Vegas, the rules were, you could only slap the face. I know, isn’t that different in comparison to today? No direct shots also…punching, palming, elbows, nothing. Man, was I was certainly loosing more and more tools as of the fight. You will see on the video where the referee yelling at me that I would be disqualified if I did a direct shot again. I went in on him with my hands and I got right in with some good shots. But they were not legal because it was a direct palm shot. Not really being able to use my hands was a big disadvantage for me. You can see where I had absolutely no footwork at all and I was kind of favoring one side when I walked. See, I was stalking him trying to slap and grab Chuck to the clench. He was running back trying to maintain the range that works for him. I even put my hands down a few times to possibly draw him in. He would not move in for me to get to a clench. My knee was way too weak to do any shooting which was also a disadvantage to get in the range I wanted. When I defended a kick I would try to get to a clench. I didn’t care how I got to the ground; I wanted to take it there. But eventually, he got me with that high Thai Round kick. The other kicks didn’t hit anything vulnerable but that last kick knocked me out for about 10 seconds. It was a good dam kick.
I would have loved to do that fight being healthy but wish in one hand and sh*t in the other! I certainly don’t regret that fight. At least I got a good fight with a now champion. It was a great experience for me and really I didn’t do badly for a man who couldn’t move at the time before the knockout. If I never did the fight, my stomach would have bothered me. Fighters fight for fun…its in the blood…if you are only into it for the money your warrior spirit is interrupted by outside forces.
By the way, this was I think the end of November of the beginning of December of 1997. Within 2 months of this fight, I had my knee replaced with a whole new metal joint! I now train others to fight!
Ron Kosakowski
Practical Self Defense Training Center
847 Hamilton Ave. (RT 69)
Waterbury, CT 06706
203-596-9073
info@psdtc.com
Practical Self Defense Training Center - Waterbury, Connecticut (http://www.psdtc.com)
YouTube - Chuck Liddell vs Ron Kosakowski (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCkpraLJKhA&feature=related)
Hier ist die Geschichte mit dem Knie dazu:
I was training very heavy back in the early to mid 90's...harder than ever. I knew my knee was going but I was inna bit a denial to say the least. Right before my fight with Chuck Liddel, John Pereira (Judo, Jiu Jitsu Danbury, CT) was setting me up with all these different underground fights with people of all different styles and I was killing everyone. I was training heavy in Muay Thai, Judo and BJJ back then to the ultimate. I was also doing Capoera for about 4-6 hours a week back then. Toward the ending of training with John P., I did notice I could not move well. I subconsciously stopped doing Capoera and Muay Thai and basically just took all my fights to the ground all the time. On the ground, my knee didn't bother me that much at first and so I felt that much more confident there. But after a while I felt my ground game started getting little weaker as well where I started focusing on wrestling with one side of my body. Even though I was trying to ignore it the pressure of what was to happen to my knee was frustrating as hell.
One day during class, I was wrestling everyone (Gina has this on film also) and my knee gave me an excruciating pain. The next day I went to the doctor...he pulled out about what looked like 2 pints of fluid out of my knee and told me; "you are not fighting...your knee is gone!" My femur was literally inside my tibia. Bone on bone! Or I should say, "in!" Well, like an idiot, I refused to listen. I had a shot to get into the UFC back in those days; I had some connections then and I was hoping it helped.
Training with John Pereira just seemed to be getting worse and eventually, I had no choice and we stopped the whole idea of fighting professionally. Now John did not get told about this till just before we made the decision my knee was not in fighting shape...I had a hard time believing that my knee had to be replaced with a metal knee. I stopped all my training for about 3-4 weeks due to the knee going and I get a call from a friend of mine who is a cop in Las Vegas. He found a pro fight I could do. Back then I think it was only a couple of 100 bucks to win and it probably cost more for the ticket to get there. I remember saying to him, there are a few problems and I really haven’t trained endurance for a fight but my heart wanted me to do at least 1, 2 or 3 fights at least before this surgery. So I went out there to fight, I think two weeks after he called. The irony (iron knee) which of course was to be expected is, I had to keep icing the swelling off my knee while getting a little for fight training in CT and Vegas. The guy I was to go up against was a Muay Thai fighter who had 25 knockouts under him already. It was Chuck Liddel…of course he didn’t have the name he has now. Now I felt like, no problem. I will use my Muay Thai knowledge to get to the clench will submit him.
You can see on the video the weird way I was fighting. That is due to the even more weird rules that were coming out around that era of NHB. Don’t forget, back then they were actually fighting the laws of “ethics” to keep NHB out there. So in Las Vegas, the rules were, you could only slap the face. I know, isn’t that different in comparison to today? No direct shots also…punching, palming, elbows, nothing. Man, was I was certainly loosing more and more tools as of the fight. You will see on the video where the referee yelling at me that I would be disqualified if I did a direct shot again. I went in on him with my hands and I got right in with some good shots. But they were not legal because it was a direct palm shot. Not really being able to use my hands was a big disadvantage for me. You can see where I had absolutely no footwork at all and I was kind of favoring one side when I walked. See, I was stalking him trying to slap and grab Chuck to the clench. He was running back trying to maintain the range that works for him. I even put my hands down a few times to possibly draw him in. He would not move in for me to get to a clench. My knee was way too weak to do any shooting which was also a disadvantage to get in the range I wanted. When I defended a kick I would try to get to a clench. I didn’t care how I got to the ground; I wanted to take it there. But eventually, he got me with that high Thai Round kick. The other kicks didn’t hit anything vulnerable but that last kick knocked me out for about 10 seconds. It was a good dam kick.
I would have loved to do that fight being healthy but wish in one hand and sh*t in the other! I certainly don’t regret that fight. At least I got a good fight with a now champion. It was a great experience for me and really I didn’t do badly for a man who couldn’t move at the time before the knockout. If I never did the fight, my stomach would have bothered me. Fighters fight for fun…its in the blood…if you are only into it for the money your warrior spirit is interrupted by outside forces.
By the way, this was I think the end of November of the beginning of December of 1997. Within 2 months of this fight, I had my knee replaced with a whole new metal joint! I now train others to fight!
Ron Kosakowski
Practical Self Defense Training Center
847 Hamilton Ave. (RT 69)
Waterbury, CT 06706
203-596-9073
info@psdtc.com
Practical Self Defense Training Center - Waterbury, Connecticut (http://www.psdtc.com)