Bas Rutten's Career MMA Fight #7 vs Ken Shamrock 

"God I'm good looking." -he is fucking awesome

I wish every fighter was as cool as Bas Rutten. These commentaries are the best

Gotta love and respect a fighter who posts all their fights on RU-vid, whether they're wins or losses, and does commentary for them either way

This makes you appreciate how great Ken Shamrock was.

Shamrock was a beast. One of the best submission fighters I’ve ever seen. Incredibly strong and amazing technique.

"Remember everything." Good advice from his corner.

Can we talk about how Bas didn't have to talk to the audience, he didn't have to learn Japanese and could've hired an interpreter, but he did it anyways to show his respect for his audience and the country as a whole. You just don't see that anymore.

Humility is strong in this one. Respect

It's amazing to me how respectful and quite the audience is at times. You can hear their breathing and the real struggle of a fight. I LOVE these videos!

When I was a kid in high school my first exposure to both of these men was when they came to fight at the UFC. My buddies and I had zero inkling that men like Bas and Ken were busy being legends throughout the rest of the world. I am privileged that this footage exists to return to.

As an amateur fighter myself I totally agree that you only learn by losing fights, taking a loss and learning why, then tightening up your game in those areas is the only real way to improve... GREAT FIGHT!!!!

That crowd is incredible, you could hear a pin drop...

Bass is a great role model and has always seemed like a really nice yet extremely dangerous guy, you never find anyone with a bad word about him and he gets the respect he deserves, hope he is happy and well.

To see you go this long with Shamrock as a new fighter is unreal. The guy was an amazing grappler. Glad to see you learned from it and became the fighter you did.

Fighting Ken in his prime was no easy task. Not at all.

You're a gentleman Bas,, much respect!

Bas commentating his own fight, legendary!

Bas is the one of the nicest and deadiest guy ever. Deadly but so humble. Much respect from Finland

these old fights are awesome.

Excellent! Ken was such a master and Bas is great for giving him credit. Loved it

Dude that was pure resilience for that long against Ken win or lose holy shit

ty for the vids bas, much love. full fights commercial free, with commentary from the legend himself.

Bas is my favorite fighter ever, shamrock is easily my second favorite, how good was shamrock back then WOW!!!!

It`s amazing how quiet the audience is, the atmosphere is so tense. Great fight, great people

My favorite fighter of all time. Bas you could derail trains with those kicks! Had you been in your prime during our current generation of mma you would of been unstoppable. A true titan among men both in and out of the ring, good to see that all those blows over the years haven't lost you any of your charm. You are an exemplary Champion and a Legendary Sportsman. Love this collection of fights and all your commentary. Bas you are the man!

Ken's top riding is outstanding. I took almost another 15 years for UFC fighters to reach this level of heavy yet fluent riding pressure. Imagine if Ken was allowed to strike from mount.

I LOVE his commentary! lol

Prime Ken was a great fighter. A shame injuries took their toll in the later part of his career.

Thank you for sharing this, I grew up watching this and it brings back memories. Much love and respect for taking us through one of your earlier fights.

Damn it! I wish you had 100 more fights that I can watch with you narrating. This is like the 6 time I’ve rewatched all these. Your The Boss Bas

I love how Mr Rutton is so humble....much respect to you sir..and you were and are an amazing MMA fighter..love the liver shot

Thanks Bas, keep 'em coming, these are great!

Japan: The only country where you can hear fighters conversing with their cornermen in a speaking voice.

As in my age, I’ve seen fights and fights and fights and that was the best commentary of all the fights I’ve ever seen,

Fantastic match, no shame loosing to ken, he was a beast back then.

Two legends here, but Mr. Rutten, you're No.1

REMEMBER TRAINING

I love how he is one of the baddest men alive, and is about to go in and fight against another badass looking to kill him, and he is nervous about the public speaking bit at the start! XD You're the greatest, Bas!

I watched this fight tensed up the whole time.

I love hearing you explain the details of the fight and what you were thinking, very honest and humble. Such a great fight.

You gotta love Bas. Besides being one of the best i've ever watch, the guy comments his own fight!! And makes fun of himself. Much love!

great commentary brother... really enjoy hearing the fighters perspective. much respect! thank you for posting!

One of my favorite fights of all time!

Bas is the best.

Bad Ass Bas, you are such a icon. You are the warrior in a garden. Such humble way of being. Just admire this man.

All of this cuddling was heartwarming...

2 of my all time favorites. Awesome commentary, very appreciated.

Wow, most people just post only their wins - gotta love Bas.

Your humility is so damn refreshing Bas

Bas your the greats FIGHTER. of all time.

Love these vidoes you've been doing with commentary mate ;)

Love the commentary! Das was “The Boss” in the day! Such an amazing fighter who wasn’t appreciated as much as I thought he should’ve been! Those liver kick strikes were devastating to the opponent!

Great Explanation. Such a Humble guy!

“God I’m good looking, look at me!” Hahahahaha Bas you rock!

its nice to have an audio walkthrough of whats going on, i have some knowledge of techniques but its great to have the rest explained :)

What a fight between two pioneers! 💥 so kick a$$ to here Bas narrating his own fights! 👏

Great upload

The audience so polite yet so hype all at the same time.

reallly cool videos, bedankt bas!

This is so cool. The fight is great but you doing commentary is. Fantastic

great commentary, thx meneer baas :-)

Corner advice... Remember everything. 😆🤣

God, I'm good looking. Look at me. 14:48

Bas is not only a stud fighter, he's as real as rain. Am a huge fan

Bas! What awesomeness to commentate this fight! Do all of them!

Bas, you are an inspiration and the world is much better with you in it

Bas and Ken are arguably two of the best Pancrase fighters that both were successful in the early UFC. This fight at the time was incredibly important. Bas Rutten took shootfighting under Masakatsu Funaki but also was one of the early successful strikers in MMA. He used his Shotokan Karate background to prove the effectiveness of open hand strikes as well as a strong Muay Thai kickboxing background that gave him powerful low kicks and brutal knee strikes. He used this effectively for KO's or to beat up and pound fighters then finish with submissions. Ken was striking COMPETENT but grappling was his forte. At this point, Ken and Funaki had sparred with the Machado brothers against BJj and learned more Sambo submissions (particularly leglockd) from Gokor Chivichyan and learned from Kosen Judo students at the Kosen Judo academy to improve their submissions and ground game. Ken was also a very explosive wrestler from his freestyle wrestling days and learning some basic catch wrestling from Yoshiaki Fujiwara. This was considered a serious fight in Pancrase style shootfighting at the time. Arguably one of the best striker style kickboxers against arguably one of the best grapplers. Admittingly, even Ken Shamrock stated in a backstage Pride FC interview, that in this fight "Bas was still learning shootfighting" but it was a tense and exciting fight to watch when it first came out. Everyone wondering would Bas sprawl-and-brawl Ken and liver-shot him to a KO? Or would Ken wrestle Bas down to the ground and submit him? Still a great fight to watch.

casually just conversing with his corner during a fight.... Bas is the coolest :)

Very good commentary, and very humble commentary. 👍

My two favorite fighters of all time.

Two great champions!

Hey my brother. This is Tim Jones from Okinawa. I appreciate your mentorship. I will always support you. You're a good man!

Best in the world. Greatest videos on the web. God speed. BAS

Bas the gentleman fighter. Like most of the Dutch fighters. Respect.

So much respect for Bas and his career 💥💪

Ken was ahead of his time in this sport. Well trained.

You are very humble!

One of the greatest fighters ever to grace the world of MMA.

Splendid MMA pioneers, tons of respect.

These videos are great. some of the best fighters the fathers of the mma game. I can feel the frustration of having a grappler as great and strong as Ken on your every move. Keep these coming. Thank you

I've seen you fight lots of times but I never knew you fought Ken. Great battle , I'm going to catch up on all your fights, Bas. God bless you 🙏

Love the heel Palm strikes you had amazing different things in the toolbox

Bas rutten amazing

Funacki means hands inside and on your own neck with your elbows vertically down your chest towards your feet. like the face Kevin makes in the movie home alone when he puts the aftershave on his face. It protects you from most submissions and back in these days when there weren't many TKOs by punching it was a safer tactic.

Winning and losing with respect for the sport and his opponents. Love Bas Rutten, watched his fights sinse i was a little kid

I agree with Koala! So cool.... This is the first Bas Rutten fight I've seen with him narrating it & the first time I have ever heard another fighter actually say "out loud" that he had no idea what their corner was sayin' to him (meaning) during the fight!! All this time I thought I was the only person that ever felt (frustrated) & experienced that ...it's really difficult to describe (during or after) in calm/relevant words. Thanks, I needed that.

Fantastic legends…

Bas, you are the best!!

Damn i really like how u comment your own fights. Hopefully u didnt had to many fights, because it looks like i cant stop watching this vids till i have seen then all. Ich 🙃💪

very good fight, Shamrock is a big master¡

Both great fighters. 😎✌👍

Ken and Bas....the 2 baddest fighters ever lived!!

very interesting. I like this style

Not many tough guys realize the stamina and endurance needed for this kind of fighting and grappling

Class act. Much respect.

Bas is an awesome person.

The referee slide at 4:05 in the background was hilarious

Amazing

awesome Fight

Remember everything Bas!