Some 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 intro
0:19 Guest intro, Interview start 1:26 Moving to Japan
3:02 Starting with Shooto
4:30 Experience as a Judoka
5:31 Thoughts on Satoru
Sayama
5:59 Early days of Shooto
7:25 Politics between
Japanese promotions
10:55 Shooto vs Pride FC
12:26 Leaving Shooto, turning pro,
training with Frank
Shamrock
19:23 American Kickboxing
Academy
20:30 Back to Japan
22:39 Experience in UAE
23:36 Shooto gym, Cross-training
26:05 Fight culture in Dubai
27:20 Enson Inoue and Kid Yamamoto
30:12 Japan's gym culture
31:35 Rumina Sato, Mach Sakurai, Caol Uno
36:14 SuperBrawl eight-man tournament
39:28 Ryan Bow vs Takanori
Gomi at Shooto
40:43 Thoughts on Gomi in the
UFC
43:43 Joachim Hansen
44:58 Ryan Bow vs Tony
DeDolph
48:20 Ryan Bow vs Nick
Agallar
53:49 Ryan Bow vs Rodrigo
Damm
55:45 Cancelled: Ryan Bow vs Jens Pulver & Javier Vasquez
1:00:40 Fighting for MARS, Japanese promotion
1:02:08 Ending career in Deep
1:04:38 Thoughts on Enson
Inoue
1:06:40 Thoughts on Sakuraba
1:08:17 Roppongi, Tokyo nightlife
1:11:56 The demise of Pride FC
1:24:06 Experiences in Japan
1:25:15 Thoughts on Genki
Sudo
1:26:30 Ryan Gracie
1:27:21 Sergio Cunha of Chute
Boxe
1:28:54 BJJ in Dubai
1:31:03 "Tunnel Visions" and
"Fighting Blind" plug
1:33:36 Interview wrap up
Follow Ryan, also like and otherwise support his screenplay and movie project -
https://www.facebook.com/FightingBlindTheMovie
More content - clips from our other #DEEPDIVE interviews -
MMA and the Eastern Illinois Wrestling Team -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RDzRHERo8
Almost 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
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