Best fighter/practitioner you ever fought/sparred/rolled with?
 

Ok I will start...i never fought MMA, have never entered a grappling contest (i only trained it a bit..im not good enough to bother). As far as standup, ive done good old western Am boxing, but never fought anyone at a elite level.Best guys I ever sparred with in boxing, Weldon Branche (I had a fair size advantage which helped, but back then i was green and it was still only 20 pounds on him). Tommy Wilt (usually got whipped..but had some good sessions) and Andres Taylor (he is a current cruiserweight pro...i sparred him more recently, 5 years ago) I actually did pretty well against im considering the fact that he more or less had a size advantage on me than (he was about 220 than, i was about 200).As for rolling...ehhhh never rolled with anyone great.... we have Carlton Haselirig in our gym..who is older now..but ive never done any grappling with him..from what i hear he is mean when grappling and tends to like to inflict pain even on newbees...best guy i have rolled is a pro mma fighter Eli Garshnick..he is also the best MMA fighter i sparred with. Stand up sparring i did pretty good....got the better of it many times...rolling its just him showing me stuff letting me try my best and handling it all.

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royler gracie and bruno alves

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Did some light sparring with Reza Madadi when he came to town i did good in the standup but when things hit the ground i got subbed every damn time almost got and armtri but then he swept me and subbed me yet again.
Tho i had 10kg on him at the time and 10-13 cm on him as well

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Relson Gracie.

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Matt Hamill for the Tito fight. Seriously strong guy, the way that Jones ragdolled him still amazes me. Those guys cut some serious weight too, it was like 5 weeks out from the fight and he was weighing in the 230's and solid.

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best boxer i ever sparred with is the former European title challenger John Miceli
the baddest wrestler i fought is a friend of mine Dave Kerkhofs
he never had a fight and just followed lessons for 3 years
i challenged him for a fight and he just played with me and took me down at will despite being much shorter

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Mike McDonald (K-1)
John Alessio (UFC)
Gabe VArga (K-1 recent)
Stan Peterec (Black belt named him 4th toughest guy alive)
bunch of others cant remember

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Frank Shaw aka The Hands of God. Old housemate back in the days.

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Royce Gracie - seminar (doesn't really count)

Park Jun-Young - full GI BJJ, he was freakishly good. It was embarrassing.

The following were competitive.
Kim Dong hyun - hard sparing - UFC fighter
Bae Myung Ho - hard sparing - Legend FC champion.
Kyung Ho Kong - we fought but I'm like twice his size - UFC fighter.

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Best Spar's as follows:

Boxing - Nick Quigley
Muay Thai - Pete Davis
JJ - Lee Dixon / Jason Tan
MMA - Mark Glover

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BJJ = Chico Mendes / Lucas leite
MMA = Sam Mensah / Rob The Caveman Krecicki / Bradley Scott / Che Mills

Lynchburg

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I had a private lesson with Relson, but we didn't roll. Who was the small black belt Phil brought in for a couple seminars? Tito, or Tita, something? I rolled with that guy, so I guess that would be the best person I ever grappled.

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Danny Steele, Jake Shields, Gil Melendez, Baret Yoshida, Rich Crunkilton.

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fedor and i totally whooped that ass :yep

Re: Best fighter/practitioner you ever fought/sparred/rolled with?
 

You were competitive with Stun Gun?