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<\/a>The Ultimate Fighter TV season 15 winner Michael Chiesa has a Dragon Ball tattooed above his knee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Naruto blew up as another good fighting anime with an inspiring plot like and amazing character depth. Lots of people could relate to Naruto, who didn\u2019t seem to be good at anything in the beginning. He often failed in training and in fights. He never gave up and eventually achieved greatness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UFC champion Israel Adesanya posed like Rock Lee from Naruto in the middle of his fight against former champ Anderson Silva in UFC 234. Israel said in an interview with Joe Rogan afterwards, \u201cSomewhere in the middle of the fight, I was like, \u2018Holy \u2026, I\u2019m fighting Anderson Silva! No, no, this is my time!\u2019\u201d So he backed up into the middle of the cage and posed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Israel continued, \u201cEpisode 48 with Rock Lee vs Gara was the first fight that I ever watched that got me into the series (of Naruto). \u00a0He takes the weights off (his legs) and *****-s up Gara.\u00a0 At the weigh-ins, I did the stance that Rock Lee normally does.\u00a0 Anderson just stood there, with his arms crossed, like Gara.\u00a0 He probably doesn\u2019t even know what that is.\u00a0 It was like when life imitates art without even trying.\u00a0 I\u2019m geeking out right now!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joe Rogan said, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with being a nerd, man. Nerds run the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before Israel\u2019s fights against Robert Whittaker, he mimicked writing Robert\u2019s name in the Death Note before eventually defeating him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Attack on Titan contains various Mixed Martial Arts moves that many practitioners can recognize. It happens that the creator Hajime Isayama is a fan of MMA. He commented once that he styled Eren\u2019s attack titan after middleweight fighters like Yushin Okami. Within the battle scenes, he drew not only the normal punches and kicks, but Brazilian Jiujitsu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In season 2 episode 7, Eren does a head-arm triangle choke and leg-sweeps Reiner for a take-down. Then, he gets the mount position seated on top, but Reiner bridges and rolls him off. Eren locks on a triangle choke, with his legs wrapped around Reiner\u2019s neck. Reiner starts to pull the legs away, so Eren switches to an arm bar from bottom. This isolates Reiner\u2019s arm against Eren\u2019s entire body. It would break at the elbow if Eren pushed his hips up! <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They eventually roll over and Eren rips off the arm.\u00a0 After a few moment, they both get up and Reiner executes a double-leg wrestling takedown.\u00a0 Now on the ground, Eren is using leg locks to keep Reiner from punching him while standing over him.\u00a0 During that fight, Eren also goes for a guillotine choke from guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a fast sequence but it excited jiu-jitsu practitioners all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The anime Kengan Ashura is newer \u2013 2018 \u2013 but features different fighting styles realistic to the real world: Muay Thai, Okinawan Karate, Japanese Jiu-jitsu, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Lethwei boxing with headbutts, and a style from England called Bartitsu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fighters love being able to physically fight like their favorite heroes. One Piece is more over the top with supernatural abilities like gear third or fourth, when Luffy can expend his body because he\u2019s a rubber man. However, the fighting spirit is the same \u2013 fight hard for what you want or need. Sport fighters get paid to compete, but even non-competing martial artists want the same thing: being able to protect the things or people you love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bruce Lee movies inspired people, especially fighters and martial artists of the previous generation. Fighting anime is the biggest influence of the current one. Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, and Naruto are the big three when it comes to popular shounen fighting anime. 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