Marcelo Garcia Thanks Steven Seagal

fightireland · 07-06-2011 12:09am #1

If you are an MMA fan you will be aware of this trend by now where almost every Brazilian fighter has been thanking Steven Seagal for the personal training and secrets...but Marcelo Garcia just did it at the Worlds.

WTF this has to be a joke!

Garcia wins IBJJF and thanks Seagal http://www.fightireland.com/2011/06/marcelo-garcia-wins-ibjjf-worlds-2011.html

joepenguin · 07-06-2011 12:21am

Haha, bit of light hearted sarcasm from Garcia me thinks. He should have opened a bottle of mountain dew while he was at it

dardis · 07-06-2011 12:22am

Marcelo is the man

07-06-2011 12:26am

Hero

bjj-fighter · 07-06-2011 12:36am

Legend! He looked great at the Mundials! Flawless technique in a tough division, didn't have a point scored him all day. Seems like a funny guy, has anyone seen his Borat impression? It's hilarious. Class act.

bjj-fighter · 07-06-2011 12:38am

It was clearly a joke aswell, you should probably put that in your article.

Killme00 · 07-06-2011 1:33am

fightireland wrote: »

WTF this has to be a joke!

Havent you heard of the Segalotine?

Dermighty · 07-06-2011 3:40am

Regardless of his talent, Seagal is a fat mess.

fightireland · 07-06-2011 9:21am

"Seagalotine" Brilliant!

You're right tis a joke all right but I just didn't think it would transcend Ed Soares, Anderson Silva and Machida to the grappling world. There are trolling this guy at a very elite level!

Hail 2 Da Thief · 07-06-2011 9:25am

Dermighty wrote: »

Regardless of his talent, Seagal is a fat mess.

Talent?

Hanley · 07-06-2011 11:22am

Killme00 wrote: »

Havent you heard of the Segalotine?

I will exclusively be referring to guillotines as this henceforth.

fightireland · 07-06-2011 11:31am

Dermighty wrote: »

Regardless of his talent, Seagal is a fat mess.

Bit harsh there!

I mean IF he took those specs off he could probably so some damage :-)

SanoVitae · 09-06-2011 10:28am

fightireland wrote: »

I mean IF he took those specs off he could probably so some damage :-)

Only to an All-You-Can-Eat buffet......

fightireland · 09-06-2011 10:44am

SanoVitae wrote: »

Only to an All-You-Can-Eat buffet......

Brilliant :-)

Does anybody rank his Akido?

I know nothing of the MA but I believe he is well respected?

Dermighty · 09-06-2011 3:17pm

I think he is the only/first non Japanese person to get an 8th dan or something.

MaeveD · 09-06-2011 6:22pm

fightireland wrote: »

Does anybody rank his Akido?

I know nothing of the MA but I believe he is well respected?

No, not for the grade he has and ehhhhh no

ryoishin · 09-06-2011 7:03pm

He saved the daughter of a japanese teacher and then married her and as is tradition he was considered the son of the japanese teacher through marraige and took over his dojo when he retired or died.

MaeveD · 10-06-2011 10:43am

ryoishin wrote: »

He saved the daughter of a japanese teacher

ha ha... the Seagull you've got to love him for all the stories

but I've never heard that one before.

I heard that he followed Miyako Fujitani to Japan to avoid the army and only passed his blackbelt because the examiner fell asleep while he was doing his exam

Doug Cartel · 10-06-2011 10:55am

There do seem to be a crazy amount of stories about Segal knocking around. My favourite is the one with Gene Lebelle.

ryoishin · 10-06-2011 1:02pm

Hey MeaveD,

His ex-japanese wife now heads the dojo and wrote a book about her marriage to him. She hates him with a vengance.

Diab Soule · 10-06-2011 3:52pm

Doug Cartel wrote: »

There do seem to be a crazy amount of stories about Segal knocking around. My favourite is the one with Gene Lebelle.

I like that one too.

I believe one of the guys from Black House (Machida & Anderson's team) has admitted that they started bringing in Seagal as a publicity stunt.

http://www.fightmania.com/mma-news/steven-segal-did-not-help-anderson-silva/

MaeveD · 10-06-2011 5:01pm

ryoishin wrote: »

Hey MeaveD,

His ex-japanese wife now heads the dojo and wrote a book about her marriage to him. She hates him with a vengance.

Yeah, I knew that...did you read it?

MaeveD · 10-06-2011 5:09pm

Sorry, had to post these again, they're class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw41SysnHmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTi0A3BF0i4

ryoishin · 10-06-2011 10:06pm

Not the book but they had a few chapters out of it in Budo International.

fightireland · 11-06-2011 12:10am

Doug Cartel wrote: »

There do seem to be a crazy amount of stories about Segal knocking around. My favourite is the one with Gene Lebelle.

do tell?

bjj-fighter · 11-06-2011 12:24am

"According to Gokor this took place on the set of "Out for Justice" where Segal was using a Brooklin accent and did a stick fight w/Dan Inasanto-who also tels thsi story. Well Segal was being a dick to the stuntmen, but that is his normal behavior according to them. Well he is talking about how bad he is and the stuntment say "Yeah, well we got this old guy back here who could choke you out!" and Segal stated that nobody coulod get close to him to choke him out he also had never heard of Judo Gene LeBell before that encounter. Well Gene came over and said that he could choke him out and and Segal said that he couldn't so Gene grabbed him real quick and started to choke him. Segal tapped and said that that wasn't fair he was talking and wasn't ready for Gene. So Uncle Gene waited for Sega to get "ready" and when he said that he was Gene grabbed him and started to choke him out and Segal coudln't do nothing w/the old guy. Well Gene was pissed off because Segal was being very rough for no reason on the stunt guys when doing the fight scenes w/them and was upset becuase Segal said he wasn't ready and woul;dn't admit that Gene hooked him so as Uncle Gene would oput it "there is 2 ways to choke a person out, one way the ygo out nice and wake up ok, the other is they go out quick and they piss and crap on themselves" Gene did the latter! Then he drug Segal over to a closet and put hi in there uncouncious. When he came to everybody was cracking up and he went and changed his clothes and fired Gene and his guys. Gene has not worked on another Segal Movie since."

fightireland · 11-06-2011 8:04pm

bjj-fighter wrote: »

"According to Gokor this took place on the set of "Out for Justice" where Segal was using a Brooklin accent and did a stick fight w/Dan Inasanto-who also tels thsi story. Well Segal was being a dick to the stuntmen, but that is his normal behavior according to them. Well he is talking about how bad he is and the stuntment say "Yeah, well we got this old guy back here who could choke you out!" and Segal stated that nobody coulod get close to him to choke him out he also had never heard of Judo Gene LeBell before that encounter. Well Gene came over and said that he could choke him out and and Segal said that he couldn't so Gene grabbed him real quick and started to choke him. Segal tapped and said that that wasn't fair he was talking and wasn't ready for Gene. So Uncle Gene waited for Sega to get "ready" and when he said that he was Gene grabbed him and started to choke him out and Segal coudln't do nothing w/the old guy. Well Gene was pissed off because Segal was being very rough for no reason on the stunt guys when doing the fight scenes w/them and was upset becuase Segal said he wasn't ready and woul;dn't admit that Gene hooked him so as Uncle Gene would oput it "there is 2 ways to choke a person out, one way the ygo out nice and wake up ok, the other is they go out quick and they piss and crap on themselves" Gene did the latter! Then he drug Segal over to a closet and put hi in there uncouncious. When he came to everybody was cracking up and he went and changed his clothes and fired Gene and his guys. Gene has not worked on another Segal Movie since."

Feckin hillarious - keep them coming lads I'll throw them up on the site :-)

Marcelo Garcia Thanks Steven Seagal

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