If You Ever Wondered What A 100% Ass Kicking Looked Like...

[SteyrAUG]

Look no further than Benny Urquidez. It's sorta like if Bruce Lee did full contact.

[SteyrAUG]

The last 45 seconds are brutal.

[l8apex]

That was awesome, down to the cameras the fans had toward the end. Classic! Benny the Jet?

[montanadave]

Interesting bio on Urquidez (not someone I had been familiar with). Descended from Basque and Blackfoot Indian stock? Yeah, that would certainly help in the tough mother****er department. Hell of a career. Buddies with the actor John Cusack, who trains with him and partnered with Urquidez in his training gym. Note to self: Don't lip off to Bennie the Jet . . . or John Cusack.

[Mauser KAR98K]

Well, that was enlightening. I thought this was going to be another Michael Brown thread.

[Denali]

Interesting bio on Urquidez (not someone I had been familiar with). Descended from Basque and Blackfoot Indian stock? Yeah, that would certainly help in the tough mother****er department. Hell of a career. Buddies with the actor John Cusack, who trains with him and partnered with Urquidez in his training gym. Note to self: Don't lip off to Bennie the Jet . . . or John Cusack.

Benny "The Jet" is legendary, at one time he held six different championships for over twenty consecutive years, and was at least as well known as Bruce Lee, though he never attained Lee's film following...Oh, and don't mess with his mom,

http://bennythejet.com/

Benny Urquidez was reared in a natural athletic environment, passed on through generations of his Black Foot Indian and Spanish ancestry. His mother was a professional wrestler, his father was a professional boxer; and his siblings are all Black Belts. At the tender age of five he was competing in Pee Wee Boxing events at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. Since then he has earned Black Belts in nine different styles of Martial Arts and trained in many other styles. “The Jet” trained with his mentor and brother Arnold Urquidez, Bill Ryusaki, Ed Parker, and many legendary Martial Arts Masters.

[SteyrAUG]

That was awesome, down to the cameras the fans had toward the end. Classic! Benny the Jet?

Yep, Benny "The Jet." The guys record is sorta incredible.

Urquidez is also known for once holding the rare achievement of six World Titles in five different weight divisions, and Urquidez remained largely undefeated in his 27-year career. His only loss came in a Muay Thai bout.

Benny Urquidez was the first kickboxing champion with an international profile who also operated as a free agent under different rules for different sanctions. Consequently, he fought in several unorthodox match-ups and hotly disputed bouts. In late 1974, in the grand finale of an early mixed martial arts-style tough man contest in Honolulu, Hawaii, a 5-foot 6-inch 145-pound Urquidez decisioned a 6-foot 1-inch 230-pound Dana Goodson after scoring a takedown and pin against Goodson in the third and final round.

In 1977, Urquidez traveled to Japan for the first time and fought under the WKA's compromise US-Japan rules which included leg kicks and knees to the body. In his first fight he defeated Katsuyuki Suzuki by 6th round KO (August 1977).

Between 1974 and 1993, he amassed a documented professional record of 49–1–1 (win-loss-draw) with 35 knockouts and two controversial no-contests, although he is also supposed to have an additional record of 10–0–1 (10 KOs) in undocumented pro fights, making a total of 59–1–2–2 (45 KOs). However, sources vary with Ratings listing Urquidez as 63–0–1, (57 knockouts) and on his own official webpage, Urquidez lists his fight record as 200–0, and says he was 63–0, with 57 knockouts in title defenses. Also, he claims to have been undefeated in the "Adult Black Belt Division" prior to entering full-contact karate. Black Belt magazine voted Urquidez "Competitor of the Year" in 1978.

[Cincinnatus]

Great vid.
Benny the Jet is always fun to watch.
Speaking of ass kickings, take a look at Joe Lewis in the first official full contact Karate knockout in U.S. competetive history. Go to 4:51 of vid and following.

[Koshinn]

Not exactly related to Benny, but related to the topic!



Ronda Rousey vs Alexis Davis in July this year.

That was the entire fight, from start to finish.

[SteyrAUG]

Great vid.
Benny the Jet is always fun to watch.
Speaking of ass kickings, take a look at Joe Lewis in the first official full contact Karate knockout in U.S. competetive history. Go to 4:51 of vid and following.

According to Hong Kong cinema historian Bey Logan, Lewis was the original pick of Bruce Lee for the villain Colt in Way of the Dragon, but Lee and Lewis had a falling out before the film and thus Chuck Norris was tapped instead.

I also hadn't realized he recently passed.

In July 2011, he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Doctors told him that if he did nothing, he’d have six to eight weeks to live. On July 18, surgeons removed the tumor. “He had the best doctors, and they think they did a good job of getting it all out,” said Dennis Nackord, Lewis’ senior black belt.

Lewis died one year and forty-five days later, on the morning of August 31, 2012 at Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.