Benny Urquidez

Benny Urquidez (conceived June 20, 1952) is a half Spanish-half Mexican, American kickboxer, combative technique choreographer and actor. Nicknamed The Jet, Urquidez was a non-contact karate contender who later spearheaded full-contact battling in the U.S He made the move from point to full-contact karate in 1974 – the year of its beginning in the U.S. – as often as possible battling in sessions where the tenets were uncertain and contrasts in styles were emotional. Urquidez is additionally known for once holding the uncommon accomplishment of six World Titles in five distinctive weight divisions, and Urquidez remained to a great extent undefeated in his 27-year profession. His lone misfortune arrived in a Muay Thai which was covered in discussion, as Urquidez had just consented to a no-choice display, a proviso which was disregarded when the battle had ended.

Somewhere around 1974 and 1993, he amassed a reported proficient record of 49–1–1 (win-misfortune draw) with 35 knockouts and two disputable no-challenges, despite the fact that he is likewise expected to have an extra record of 10–0–1 (10 KOs) in undocumented star battles, making an aggregate of 59–1–2–2 (45 KOs).[6] However, sources fluctuate with Ratings posting Urquidez as 63–0–1, (57 knockouts) and all alone authority site page, Urquidez records his battle record as 200–0, and says he was 63–0, with 57 knockouts in title protections. Additionally, he claims to have been undefeated in the "Grown-up Black Belt Division" preceding entering full-contact karate. Dark Belt magazine voted Urquidez "Contender of the Year" in 1978.

Biography

Urquidez was conceived in Los Angeles County, California, the child of a wrestling mother and a boxing father, as a Half Spanish-Half Mexican with Blackfoot American Indians precursors as well. His sister Lilly Rodriguez was a pioneer in kickboxing for women. Urquidez and his significant other are a piece of the Blackfoot tribe. 

He started contending in 1958, at five years old, in "peewee" confining and wrestling Los Angeles. This was trailed by hand to hand fighting direction at 7 years old, for which his first formal educator was Bill Ryusaki.[9] He got his dark belt at the age of 14, a deed which was profoundly bizarre amid the 1960s. He entered the point circuit in 1964, and earned the notoriety for being a to a great degree brilliant contender. At the 1972 Santa Monica Kempo Open, Urquidez lost in the finals to Brian Strian. In the 1973 Internationals, he battled John Natividad in one of the best non-contact sessions ever. In an extraordinary 25-point additional time match, Natividad won the match and the Grand Title, 13-12 and the $2,500 tote. In May 1974, at the PAWAK Tournament, Urquidez lost a 4-1 choice to Joe Lewis. He additionally contended in England and Belgium as an individual from Ed Parker's 1974 US group. Additionally, in 1974, he started his turn far from the non-contact style by entering and winning the World Series of Martial Arts Championship, which was viably an extreme man challenge with few principles. Throughout the following two decades he battled under different kickboxing associations (NKL, WPKO, PKA, WKA, AJKBA, Shin-Kakutojutsu Federation, NJPW and MTN) to hoard a record of 58 wins without any misfortunes. This undefeated record, however official, is questionable and profoundly debated. 

In 1977, Urquidez ventured out to Japan interestingly and battled under the WKA's trade off US-Japan rules which included leg kicks and knees to the body.[10] In his first battle he crushed Katsuyuki Suzuki by sixth round KO (August 1977) as a major aspect of the expert wrestling occasion in which Antonio Inoki battled Everett Eddy in what was said to be the wrestler/karate warrior blended match (in all actuality this was simply one more pre-decided ace wrestling match). The Suzuki battle was appeared because of the way that the WKA, then recently shaped association, couldn't go up against the PKA in the stateside, subsequently, WKA president Howard Hanson and VP Arnold Urquidez needed to search for activities in overseas.[11] in the meantime, the Japanese expert wrestler Antonio Inoki, who picked up the overall distinction by battling Muhammad Ali in the questionable boxer/wrestler blended match in the earlier year in Japan, had been searching for new rivals for what he called the world combative technique title arrangement. In the long run, promoter Ron Holmes found Everett Eddy for Inoki. At that point, Eddy had been guided by Arnold Urquidez, and endured the first round KO to the PKA world heavyweight champion Ross Scott in the earlier year. In the same occasion, Benny Urquidez thumped out Howard Jackson, however soon his lightweight title was stripped by the PKA, thus both Eddy and Urquidez had no activity in the US, and needed to search for battles abroad. Despite the fact that the Inoki/Eddy session was effective, it was the battle amongst Urquidez and Suzuki, which stunned Japan, where Japanese Kickboxing had been exceptionally mainstream. In spite of the fact that never tried for or accomplished any rank in Japanese karate, he has chosen to give to himself, the rank of Sensei. A Japanese expression, which at the most shallowest term, would signify "Aide." 

The All-Japan Kickboxing Association, for which Suzuki had been evaluated as No.2, got to be occupied with the American game of full-contact karate, chose to advance arrangement of blended guidelines sessions between the American full-contact karate contenders and Japanese kickboxers. On November 14, 1977, the AJKF held the first of such occasion which highlighted Benny Urquidez, his brother by marriage Blinky Rodriguez, Marc Costello, Brendan Leddy, Tony Lopez, Leonard Galiza and Freddy Avila. Just Benny Urquidez and Costello turned out as the champs for the American team.[12] Urquidez's triumph over Kunimitsu Okao persuaded the Japanese battle fans, and in the long run started to be included as the focal figure for what should be the narrative comic book called, "The Square Ring" until he declined to retaliate for his misfortune against the Thai adversary Prayout Sittiboonlert. Urquidez second misfortune came in August of 1980 in Florida. American Billye Jackson ruled 7 rounds including thumping Urquidez down. Urquidez challenged the choice and appealed to the WKA's Howard Hansen to group it as a Non-Contest. After 1980, Urquidez' ring appearances turned out to be less regular. Somewhere around 1981 and 1984 he battled just sporadically. In 1984, he battled Ivan Sprang in Amsterdam under adjusted Muay Thai guidelines (no elbows), winning by sixth round TKO. His ring vocation to a great extent stopped after 1985, and he resigned in the wake of confronting Yoshihisa Tagami at 41 years old. From that time on, he committed himself to acting, showing kick boxing and hand to hand fighting choreography. Urquidez's late sibling Reuben was additionally an aggressive military craftsman and performing artist; they seemed together in a 1982 preparing video "Universe Of Martial Arts", together with Steve Sanders (karate), Chuck Norris and John Saxon.