MMA History Podcast: Judo Gene LeBell Tribute w/ Perretti & Donehue

Next few drops

Sean Sherk
Christine Ferea - Thursday release
Marcelo Mello - tribute to Carlson
Bart Vale
Roberto Traven
Mac Danzig - part 2

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Gotcha

Marcelo Mello is going to be in the conversation for the years best interview

Halfway done and this is one of the best MMA History podcasts I have ever heard… seriously, loving this!!!

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Bart Vale should be fun, thanks!

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Sorry to occupy your phone with questions and comments about the tackle.

That was a classic reaction.

Have been traveling and working like a working man should.

Just finished.

Odd tidbit with the mentioning of Joe Charles.

This is Perritti bait to criticize me as being a seminar goer pretending :slight_smile:

Gokor told me he had a couple of students coming up in the next UFC it was turned out to be Joe Charles and Oleg.

100% he said one of them was not very good.

The word on Oleg from another guy with Gene / Gokor was that people who had tried could not choke Oleg and how tough he was.

The other guy would be a good name to see if John Donahue remembered him.

I think Silverado was wearing blue belt back then.

Someone told me he was a cousin of the Machados (???). Don’t know if that is accurate.

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Amazing episode I just finished this!

What was that shout out at the end of the interview about some course lol? @HongKongPhooey @MMAHistoryPodcast

Gonna start the Sherk episode tonight or tomorrow

HahahahahahahAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA EPIC

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Perretti is on the spectrum

We love his personality and his ability to be such a prick

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HKP NEVER Leaves Rotten Comments

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I wish I could have the honor of being insulted by John Perretti :folded_hands:

I am considering addressing his comments about seminar attendees.

This would be a good topic at the art exhibit ! hahahah. Could you see how that would turn out ?

I do need to keep in mind my " Sensei " did visit Gene’s cabin. They also kept up via phone.

I need to exaggerate the connection to piss John off.

" You weren’t stretched ! I was stretched !"

Then I will shout it is like Nam all over again.

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Bro that’s awesome you have a connection to Gene through your sensei!

I signed up for a class ā€œback in the dayā€ where Joe Charles was teaching. It was like a Wednesday night at a TKD school. I showed up, but was the only person there and he was kind of pissed so I got a ā€œprivateā€ for like $20 (back in like 1997 or so). He was a big guy and OK with some of the things he showed me (can’t say anything bad about him), but the one thing I remember is he showed me that ā€œLebellā€ grip. At the time he didn’t reference Lebell, but he showed me the ā€œgrab your other hand and put the thumb between your index and middle finger (not the thumb and index)ā€ pretty cool and only found out from this podcast it was from Lebell.

Rolled one time with Gokor and it was a joke. I could do nothing. I started in his guard and he just played with me like a toy, lol. This is when Karo and Manny were basically kids rolling on their own in the corner by themselves as they were so good. There was one guy there that was in the class at Gokor’s that only had one arm that I rolled with (not sure if that rings a bell)?

Man the 90’s in LA was fucking amazing time for NHB (before they started calling it MMA).

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