CSW Erik Paulson vs. Jeff Ford.avi 

+worldstarnekkas youre right, I bought the Eriks Paulson Submision DVDS and is amazing...

Im guessing you trained withRick young?? 😃 never have the pleasure of training with either but both my coaches trained with them.

Yeah, I trained with Erik in the early 90s when he was doing Shooto because I was with the JKD family in So Cal. I had more grappling knowledge than most people in the world back then, but now I'm terrible! Lol. Erik is a great guy, a supremely knowledgeable trainer and a martial Arts legend!

How Old is Erik

He would've been a success in the early 90s when he was plenty young...but the Gracies didn't want him to compete. He'd been studying BJJ with them since 1986 and studied grappling with Japanese Shooto fighters. He had a lot more experience than Ken Shamrock, who had only grappled for 1 year. Later, Renzo made him compete in the "Striker's Division" of a tournament where he couldn't use submissions (Renzo also competed and didn't want to face Paulson). Eric won his first fight but lost to a large kickboxer (Warring) in the 2nd round he could've easily submitted. Renzo won the grappler's division then was able to submit Warring in the final fight because the rules changed to "anything goes" in the final fight. Afterwards Rickson wouldn't let Paulson train with them so he started training with the Machado Bros. It shows what snakes most of the Gracies are.

@@heavymetalheretic5386 born in June 66 so would have been in his late twenties/early thirties in the first few UFC events.

@@johnp7739 Man, Renzo would have destroyed Paulson back then.

@@bjjfreak8261 There's no way of knowing that. Paulson had both years of BJJ and catch training and was a much better striker. His main disadvantage was the whole "student vs. teacher" psychological thing and the fact that Paulson sometimes wasn't aggressive enough. Everyone thought Renzo, Royce, Belfort, etc. would destroy a Japanese former pro wrestler with zero BJJ training and....they lost instead.

You also forgot Billy Robinson. He is also he student of Dan Inosanto... I rememebr when he and I used to chat...He called what he did as his JKD. It follows the Tao of Jeet Kune Do.

A Drews That long hair and those kung fu pants. One of my absolute favorites as a kid, and one of the greatest and most open minded trainers on planet Earth.

+A Drews He was JKD then and he was a huge disappointment. JKD was suppose to be the MMA of its day.Then a boxer comes in and pulls his hair. JKD was all about reality and in the end it didn't do the job. I was training in JKD at the time and it was such a let down to see not a single JKD fighter go anywhere.

Enoch real Jkd not for thering. no eye pokes no groin kicks.

Worst part about it is that if Paulson had won that fought he would have gone on to fight one of the Gracies....i forget if it was Renzo or Rickson but EP had better striking than either of them and its possible he could have won. Man i wish that fight had happened.

Riickson was by far the BEST ever🎉❤

Yes , age fucks up everything. Speed and power are two sides of the same coin. Power is a function of Work over time. Of course work over less time equals more speed. But if you can't generate enough force , then your punching speed will suffer also

TENNSUMITSUMA absolutely not you do not have to get slower with age I have not and then some people are born quicker than others but i think both of them being over weight did have something to do with speed

TENNSUMITSUMA a bit off topic, but like my coach ALWAYS says, "power is the last thing to go" lol

+MrBoommer1 Not at all. This is 2007. Strikers were still strapping on MMA gloves who were clearly out of their element. Even today you see HWs who hit the mat and are practically clueless.

Erik Paulson is just that good. I've training with him and know his skill level first hand. Some of the best MMA guys in the world look to him and others in the Inosanto academy to guidance.

He did tap early but its not a fix, he is inexperienced in ground fighting, so any pain or discomfort normally leads to quick taps.

Experienced guys tap quickly too, it's to avoid injury. If they feel they aren't going to get out of it, or don't feel like struggling to do so, they'll just tap before anything gets fully locked out.

Spooky mansion Fan What kind of comeback fight would you like an older, obviously declined fighter to have after being away from pro comepetition for years ?

SKARHEAD 75 Fight someone who's an old veteran like Pedro hizo, shit Dan Severn was still around then, ask Matt Hume for a rematch, take a fight with bas...... there are so many older names, especially during this time