SHOTOKAN TOP TEN FIGHTERS PAST & PRESENT

[gingerjon]

Hi Guys,


Please see the above topic who do you think deserves a place in the TOP TEN 10

[Moley]

Wolverhampton YMCA kumite teams circa mid 70's early 80's

[fhensen]

Otti Roethof, Netherlands, first non Japanese world champion kumite in 1977

And the Dutch national team that became worldchampion in the same year.

[Katsumoto]

Hiroshi Shirai, Enoeda SEnsei, Oishi Takeshi,Tanaka Masahiko, Yahara Mikyo, Stan Schmidt, Frank Brennan,Dave Hazard,Yamamoto Hideo and Kagawa Masao

[Vitruvius]

How about Kanazawa (JKA All-Japan Kumite champ in '57 and '58) and Tanaka (JKA All-Japan Kumite champ in '74 and '75)!

[Tom O'Brien]

NYC, early 70's - Errol Bennett from da Bronx (you have to say 'da Bronx', you can't say the Bronx). He was also a champion, middle wieght, full-contact fighter. Fought him At Nick Adler's out on LI. He threw that rear leg, mawashi geri with his left leg. I went to block it & come off the block with gyaku zuki, as I had done hundreds of times before, he almost knocked me off my feet. Good thing I blocked it or he would have knocked my head off my shoulders.
He was a great fighter. Some of the toughest fighters in NYC came from da south Bronx.

Thanks,
Tom

[clusive]

i posted this elsewhere and no one was able to advise me on it. Can only assume that there is no one who has been around long enough to recall?


is there any one out there with a good memory

did frank brennan fight outside the kugb ekb jka circuit ?

did he ever fight

elwyn hall kugb

non kugb ekb jka
alfie lewis
stevie french
wayne otto
vic charles
geoff thompson

if so what were the outcomes



regards
clusive