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  1. “So, what they did, these rules were completely tailor-made for the Japanese fighter. The Japanese fighters are really, they're really good on the ground, right? And not as good strikers. So what they did, they said open-hand strikes because open-hand strikes make sure they have no gloves on, which makes it much easier to go for chokes and for leg locks and all that stuff. Not only that, they will put your shoes on and you have shin protection. Shoes for leg locks is a nightmare. I mean, you can't escape leglocks. It's much harder to escape when you wear a shoe. So that was totally tailor-made for them. What they didn't know is as a bouncer, I was fighting with power strikes. I saw my buddies, you know, if you fight multiple guys, it's not like you start aiming for the jaw, you know, you just hit whatever you can hit. And if you hit a skull, well, you're going to break your hand. So I started palm striking everybody and clotheslining what I always called it, you know, my forearm, I would this part.”

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  2. “No, but you know what weird was then in 94 she had the same look and I immediately recognized it and I say now what and she said we're going to move to America you're gonna have you're gonna be in the TV business Tim I had a show for nine years on TV with Inside MMA for nine years 431 live shows I mean and that was the same thing and then two years later we're in America and now I'm fighting in America and then I got into a TV show it was it just came to her she just said it and the third time I said, we got to see numbers here, honey. Like eight numbers or whatever the love is. We need those numbers. So please, the next time, tell me that.”

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  3. “Pushing people as flexing. It was the wildest experience. And then the next day, I'm walking on the street and every 10, 15 people or so, they start bowing to me. And I'm going, what is going on here? And then I pass a newspaper stance. And on the cover was me hanging in the splits, something I didn't even know I was doing. I was so euphoric, I guess. I jumped to the splits to all corners, which became my trademark later on the rut and jump. And I was hanging in the splits in the air and my guy was knocked out below me on the ground. I go, oh, okay. So this is how these people are recognizing me from one day to the other day. Suddenly, I was just a known guy. It was the weirdest experience ever.”

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  4. “You talked about it in the opening. I knocked him out because he was taller than I palm striked him under his head. He went down and you had eight counts there. And he got up. So now I turn it up. So since his hands were high, I full kicked him to the body, brought the hands down. Then I hit him again. And while he went down, I need him in the face. And then it became very scary. You know, he didn't wake up for two days. It was a very scary thing. Thankfully, he got out of it. He became actually a good friend of mine. That was the deciding factor if I was going to fight or not. I say, I told my wife, if she's not going to come out, this is it. I don't want to do this anymore. And I remember after the fight, people cheering for me. And I remember a couple had a baby there who brings a baby to a fight. But the baby was there and they put the baby in my hand making pictures. I felt like I was the president there with the baby.”

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  5. “In fighting, I'm going to be in trouble. So I put these big R's on my hands with the marker, R from relax, but in Holland is Rustig. That's also coincidentally with an R, which means the same. And my corner, I never had a coach. So I always had my manager with me. And I said, the only thing when he...”

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  6. “So no break fighting a guy is much heavier than I am in a 30 minute match. I was like, whoa. So I started doing these things because I was a very aggressive fighter in Holland. Like I would be very technical until somebody touched me and then I would just destroy him. And because I was very explosive, I could get away with it. But I guess the good guy like a Peter Ertz was a very close friend of mine already, was 40, so thankfully I never had to face him. That would be a problem against the guy like that because I wasn't, it didn't really click yet. You always have these dojo fighters and you have fighters. In dojo, they're really good, but they can bring that game under pressure to a fight. It's really hard to separate that two. It doesn't matter how good you are in training, the fighting with depression, that's the test. And I didn't have that yet. But now I'm in Japan and I'm at 30 minutes fight. And I'm thinking if this guy is going to hit me and I'm going to unload on him and I can't put him away because they're very known to take a lot of damage. These guys to keep.”

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  7. “So we drive it by car. If it's never been on a plane, now I'm on a 13-hour plane and I'm coming Japan and you already touched it on it. I was weird. There was no weigh-in. And I thought I was so weird. Why is there no way in? Well, the guy I'm fighting is Japanese and he apparently did a very honest people. So he will be on weight. And then I go, did we talk about a weight? I didn't know anything what we were going to do. And on the day of the fight, I'm walking in there. And this tall guy walks up to me and he shakes my head and says, oh, you're the promoter. He goes, no, I'm fighting you. I go, you're fighting me. I go, what is your weight? Yeah, and he was much happier than I was. And I go, oh, that is so weird. And then the promoter walked up. And I said, excuse me. Oh, you're the promoter? Yeah. I said, is it not to have you? He says, no, Mr. Rutin, everybody fights everybody. So I tried to force his mouth. I go, yeah, that's awesome. And I said, oh, by the way, before you fighting. And he goes one round. I go, one round. That's awesome. How many minutes? And he goes 30.”

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  8. “Let's relax and show technique. I think that he believed that I was afraid. So he turned it up. So I stopped him again. And I said, listen, I'm okay with this, but it's not going to be one way traffic. You have to understand. So of course now it was on. It was short though because I hiked him in the face right away. He went down, need a whole bunch of stitches. And that's it. I saw Funaki and Suzuki pointing at me and they said we want him. And then later when I found out why they wanted me also one of the reasons was that I was able to jump. I could stand in front of the rope from the ring and the rope would be here and I would stand still, jump over the rope to go in the ring. And they thought it was so impressive. That was also the reason that they wanted me as a fighter. That's the weirdest reason I've ever heard. But anyway, the fight was September 21st, 1993. And you have to understand, I was from Holland. So, you know, with us everything is small, we drive everywhere, like going to Paris, that's the same drivers for going from California to Vegas.”

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  9. “My wife in 92 in February 92, and she was looking at me weird one day. She had this really weird look. I go, what's going on? She says, you're going to be a famous fighter in Japan. And I go, no, I told you I'm not going to fight anymore. She says, I know, but you said Holland, you're going to go to Japan. So a year and four months later, I get the phone call. And normally I never picked up the phone. Am I answering machine was broke? Somehow I picked up the phone and it was Chris Dolman. He said, you got to jump in the car right now because there's this new organization called Pancrost. There's two guys here, Suzuki Minoru and Fudaki Mazakatsu or are scouting, they're looking for fighters. Maybe this is great for you, but she can make her money. You know, he says, okay, so I jumped in the car and went over there. And he had an organization rings. And one of his guys was the rings champion. And we just needed the spar. They just wanted to show technique. But that guy just went really hard. So I told him to slow down. I said, listen, it's not necessary to try to knock each other out.”

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  10. “And that became suddenly a thing. Suddenly, we start doing it in more nightclubs. And then suddenly we start doing it at big events, tieboxing events in the break. And then it became a European show. And we start traveling to Europe. And it became Dutch TV, European TV. And on one of these shows, I was always going to the ring with backflips. And at the end, make a somersault, the backflip, and then I would jump in the ring and we do our show. And Chris Dolman, he was the godfather of Mixed Martial Arts, so to say, in all the free-fighting, actually. That's what they called it at the time. And he stopped me after the show and he says, listen, I know you're from Thai boxing. You're an animal. And now I see you doing all these crazy acrobatics. I mean, I think you're a perfect fit to be a free fighter. I go as free fighting and I explain with the rules that pretty much anything would go. I said, okay, sure. So I went to his gym a few times, but as far away was in Amsterdam. It's like a two and a half hour drive, you know, especially when it's traffic. So it didn't really work, but one day the telephone went. And this was really weird. Oh, and by the way, I met.”

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  11. “I go, when did I say that? And he goes, You don't remember anyway, I realized, oh, I said yes to the guy. I said, okay, when is the fight? It was in two and a half weeks. I couldn't woke skip for 20 minutes, my first class. That's how bad I was. I lost that fight. But the Dutch audience forgot all about my other knockouts. They focused only on that fight and it kind of chewed me out and spit me out. So I said, okay, this is it. I don't want to do it anymore. But my martial arts was always there. I wanted to do something with it. And my teacher, my karate teacher, came up with this crazy idea to do choreographed fight scenes. Like we go in Spendex, we're all pumped up buddies. We go to a nightclub at midnight. They close the lights. It gets dark. Somebody, the high-pitched music starts. Stroboscope, and we come up with backflips and we do all this crazy stuff. We start fighting each other and high-level stuff because cigarettes out on the mouth, cops spinning back into breaking wood chucks. We did everything, right?”

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  12. “Okay, so I get a background story really fast. I was a kid boxer and I knocked everybody out. And then I got bored. I thought it was a great job to become a bouncer. Yeah, think about that. So I became a bouncer, but I was, of course, not a really healthy lifestyle because at five o'clock we close and then we go to the after parties, you know, everything bad goes after that. So on one of those parties, apparently I talked to a promoter after two years of not competing and not living a healthy lifestyle because it was this new guy, Frank Lottman, the animal was his name, was a kickboxer who was released from prison and he was going to resume his fighting career if I wanted to fight him. And I go with my drunk head. I go, sure. But I have no clue of this whole conversation. And then in February, they gave me a call and they asked me where to send the posters to. I said, the posters. I said, for Mart? He says, from the fight. I said, who's fighting? I said, you. I said, whoa, what am I fighting? He says, Frank Lovman. I said, the animal. And he goes, yeah.”

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  13. “A model. I was a model. Was controlled by three women who had a model agency, a new model agency, and they I start showing up for the shino here and there, and they didn't really love, and that was the end of that job as well. So that's how I lost both of these jobs.”

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  14. “Need to cook for these people. I say, listen, it's okay, you're angry. I got it, I understand it. It's weird because we never had this amount of people. But why don't we do this after this is over, you know, because right now we have to get out these people. And he started screaming and he kept going. And he says, you do whatever I say, you do. And I said, well, that's actually not true. You're not controlling me. You said, no. And you grabbed a big bowl of butter. And he says, if I throw this on the ground and I tell you to clean it up, you're going to clean it up. So I walked over to him. I hit the ball out of his hand and he got all over the ground and said, ask me. And he said, and I took my apron off. I go, good luck with the people. Bye. And I remember at the time I had a pager that was at the time. And he kept paging me. I go, do it. What I did for you in those three years and then just to fire at me that that was it. And that's when I stopped working and I started focusing more on martial arts. I was also believed or not, this is really where I'm going to say.”

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  15. “Always wanted to be a chef. I was mesmerized with him when I was a young kid already. And they went away because their martial arts started coming along. I really liked that. But I still was working as a chef, as a cook. I was not a chef in a restaurant. I was the sou chef. It stopped because I was working for a guy for three years and I would run the whole kitchen. Only on the weekends he had to come by. My claim to famous, I did 42 people one night. All different people with an appetizer, main course, and a dessert. And I did it all by myself. So I was always, I like those kind of challenges. I never wanted to call him in because he was living in the house next to it. I always wanted to do it myself. And on Tuesdays we had maybe the most people we ever had was eight. Never we had more people. So I would make preparation for 20 just to make sure, double it up and then some. One day a cycling group came and suddenly it was full and there was not enough preparation and I ran to the house and said, you got to come and help me. And he gets in my face where I was”

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  16. “That's accurate. But they were very dangerous because they didn't use any screws just like, you know, you have those higher nails, like curved nails. We just let go. It's super dangerous because I could smash somebody's face by accident. I comfort shoes everywhere I had this kung fu shoes.”

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  17. “A human scent on it, then they might push the other ones out. So I had this plastic gloves that I went and I took one out. And now you become the dad. So you start feeding it. And it's amazing, man. It's so cool because you're there for the first flight. I mean, every time they go down, they crash. They crash. They're like Steve Austin, the $6 million man on the moon, right? But now, and he starts going up. And they're so excited. They start up and they start screaming. That was the sound I used to make. And wherever I was, he would pick me up from school, this guy. He would know in what room I was. And then just, he was sitting in front of the teacher, got really angry because she was constantly like, hey, he would see me in the class. And then afterwards, he would sit on my steering wheel for my bicycle or on my shoulder. He was always with me.”

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  18. “I had no friends. Everybody thought I was contagious. So my time was spending in the trees. I was three, four hours a day in the forest. We had a forest at the front of a home. We had a big forest. And I was always climbing trees. I could literally go throughout the whole forest. Maybe I had to go four or five times down from treetop to treetop. I would swing, which came in handy with bullies if they started to chase me. I just climbed a tree. And then they climbed the tree and I started swinging to the other tree. And then the bullies tried to do it. And then one guy, a big guy one time, he fell down. And his head next to a big rock. And that, of course, they got out. And suddenly everybody, nobody wanted to chase me anymore. So, yeah, that was it. And that was my contact also with birds. I always was mesmerized with birds. And I found this nest from what do you call him here? A jackdaw. That's what you call him here. A cow is in Dutch. I knew you had to do it with gloves because if you put a...”

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  19. “Goods for him. So that's where everything came from because then I realized wait a minute that was easy. So now I went after the bullies. I literally made a list. I went every single one of them at them and other kids in school who got bullied guess who took care of that problem. Now I was the bully guy. I took care of all the bullies. And that was it. My mom and dad, they took me off what I said from taekwondo. But then when I was 20, I moved out of the house. Immediately I started doing karate, not realizing it was not full contact. So then I started tieboxing within six months. And then within three months, I started competing tieboxing. And one thing led to another and bada bing, bada boom. Now I'm here talking to you.”

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  20. “So I did. And then I realized that the bullish weren't really that strong. It took one point, which is weird, by the way, because I was doing Taekwondo, which is 90% kicking. So I knocked them out. One punch, nose was broke. That was a problem because now the police was called and they showed up at my mom and dad's doorstep and that verified, you know, you see, they always thought that martial arts was violence. Now I have to, in protection of my parents, I never told them I was bullied. My mom had such an enormous lot of trouble with me. Every night I had to be mummified, that's what we call it. Creams and cortison and put a rabme all around. The whole family would send in all bed sheets, which you would wrap up to badges. And then in the middle of the night, I would scratch it off because it would itch so bad. You have to do it again. So she had so much work with me. I never wanted to bother with her that I was bullied because I'm pretty sure that if my dad would have known, I don't think he would have said take him off. I believe he would have said, keep him on there.”

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  21. “Spinning back into the house. Whoa, everybody laughing. Manakin has a lot of talent. You know, and as a kid, when you only hear bad things about you, but then suddenly people start talking good things about you, you tend to listen to the adults. And that led to the first street fight. The biggest bully in my school, Shaki, was his name. Again, I was riding my bicycle on the street. And there he came at 6-7 of his buddies. And, hey, leper, whatever he was screaming. And this time I shouted something back. And I heard him laugh. Look back and sure enough they started to chase me. And I told myself, this is it. I'm not going to do it anymore. So I put my bike on the stand on the sidewalk. They came surrounding me with the bikes. I always have to laugh about it because in the movies, this is like in the scene at night. They do it with cars and the headlights are the lighting for the fight, you know.”

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  22. “Also, a skinny guy. I was a skinny guy because of my asthma. I had this horrible asthma attacks. Then the bullying would probably stop because then I could defend myself. So it took me two years to convince my parents to start martial arts. And then after two years, they just gave up because I was every day, I would ask them. And finally, they broke. They said, okay, just go. And I was fortunate to live next to two beautiful neighbor girls. And one of the girls was dating the coolest guy in town, Xavier Safier. That's how you pronounce it in Holland. And he took me under a swing. He was always helping me a little bit because I had these things with birds. I was always in the trees. I was swinging trees. But I had these birds that pick me up from school. I mean, they were so tame. They would always sit on my shoulder wherever I went, even in the shower. It was amazing. And he brought me to the adult Taekwondo classes. And within months, I started beating some of the adults, of course, not the black belts, but I started dropping big guys and I overheard these guys talking about me in the dressing room. Man, did you see that kid Bossi drop check with the...”

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  23. “When I was born, I came out apparently full with eczema, but that went away. And then at four years old, I contracted rheumatic fever, which was the best of the two because it was either for leukemia or that. So thankfully it was that I took four months in the hospital. When I was six years old, we moved to a village. And that's when my eczema came back together with severe asthma. Now my eczema was really bad. I had to wear gloves, long sleeves, turtlenecks because I had it in my neck. I was a leper in school. That's what they called me. If I would do this, watch out your ears don't fall off. You know, constantly I was bullied on a daily basis. But, you know, when I was 12, I saw we were on a vacation in France and I saw this movie enter the dragon. It was 17 years and older to get in. But my brother and I, we found a way to sneak in for free. And we were too young for the movie. And that's where I saw Bruce Lee. And boy, that was it. I realized that if I would be like that guy because he was.”

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  24. “And then just a Dutch style that just tied everything together. Nowadays, everybody, it's like Brazilian jiu-jitsu, right? At the beginning, nobody knew, but now everybody knows that it's the same at the Dutch kickbox, you know. Pretty much everybody's doing it.”

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  25. “Thai guy, but he was so good that he couldn't go without it, they have to take him. And when you see him fighting a Koban, a guy over 200 matches, never been knocked out, and he was the first guy to knock him out. And the whole place, Lumpini Stadium champ gets quiet. And you see Rob came on jumping in the ring with the Dutch flag and he's waving it around and nobody says a word. It blew my mind. That was the reason I started training at the same gym. Mang Ho. That was Rob Mondeca. So yeah, I truly believe we have natural heavyweights. We have the tallest people in the world. So I think that translates really what to K1 and glory because that's predominantly heavyweight boxing at the time, the kickboxing.”

    2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  26. “I have no clue. I believe because you're such a small country and we really like the people in the world to know that we exist, maybe. I mean, the gig watchers, they have to be the best Dutch. I remember the story from the trainer from Host, he already on Esther Host, you mentioned him. Jon Plus and Johan Voss, there were two guys. And they went with their team like Rob Kayman, all these guys at the time. I was huge fans of those. They went to Thailand and they got the butt kicked, like really bad. And then they realized, wait a minute, predominantly they're only kicking. So what if we do Western boxing and we combine that with kicks, you know, in order to set up the kicks? And boom, the Dutch kickboxing was born and suddenly everybody started just demolishing the ties. I mean, your Bob and Deckers, you touched on him as well. He was my idol. He was a good friend of mine as well. Unfortunately, he passed away a bunch of years ago, but he was like pound for pound. I would say the most powerful guy. He was the first guy who became the fighter of the year in Thailand that always went to a...”

    2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT