Hidetaka Monma is a Japanese welterweight fighter with a professional MMA record spanning back to 2001. He has fought in RINGS, DEEP, DEMOLITION, CAGE FORCE, HERO’S and DREAM.
Hidetaka Monma
Originally from the Wajutsu Keishukai Network of fighters, which have included Caol Uno, Daiju Takase (see his win over Anderson Silva here), Yushin Okami, amongst others, Monma explains how he got into MMA later than most.
It was 2001 when I first came to Japan and decided I wanted to try competitive MMA with a view to turning professional. My initial interest was a combination of a natural competitiveness coupled with the urge to see if the martial arts I’d begun practicing in Scotland at Rick Young’s Black Belt Academy would work. I was told that if I didn’t have previous fight experience abroad then I would have to win an amateur tournament in order to be considered for a professional bout.
