Josh Barnett - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Showing the world that Pro Wrestling is the strongest!!!!

Trained under: Matt Hume, Haru Shimanishi, Jim Harrison, Billy Robinson and Erik Paulson.

Captured the UFC Heavyweight title by TKO over Randy Couture at the age of 24 becoming the youngest UFC Champion in History.

Defeated 2-time King of Pancrase Yuki Kondo in 2003 to become the 10th King of Pancrase.

A New Japan Pro Wrestler and active fighter in PRIDE, Pancrase, K-1 and any other ring with a challenge!

For all the latest and greatest in the career of Josh head on over to www.joshbarnett.tv. Pictures, Web Diary, News, and Videos.

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My Interests

Pro Wrestling, MMA, Ultimate Fighting, Wrestling, Kickboxing, PRIDE, Pancrase, UFC, K-1, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Puroresu. Anime, Manga and just about anything "Otaku", Musclecars and sports cars.
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Special Thanks

Bolt Thrower

I'd like to meet:

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Attacking the Guard DVD from Scientific Wrestling!

Music:

Everything but country but live for the metal!

Movies:

The original Norman Jewison Rollerball, Blade Runner, Aliens, Conan the Barbarian, Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), Macross: Do you Remember Love?, Blood of Heroes, Excalibur, The Professional, The Fifth Element, Kozure Okami(Lone Wolf and Cub), Appleseed, to name a few.

Television:

Tivo runs my TV watching which is mostly Adult Swim (Venture Bros., Metalocalypse, Robot Chicken, ATHF, Harvey Birdman, Lucy Daughter of the Devil, Frisky Dingo, etc.), Sci-Fi channel (B.S.G., Eureka), Supernatural and even NBC's Thursday line-up. It owns me.

Books:

Warhammer 40k novels (McNeil, Abnett, Counter, Mitchell,), The Hagakure, Bill Cosby books, Appleseed, Hokuto no Ken, Grey, Conan, Elric series, Anita Blake series, The Dark Tower series, Gunsmith Cats, Blade of the Immortal, Priest, Berserk, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Discworld series, Frank Miller works, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, Mike Mignola (Hellboy).

My Blog

Travel Weary, Fighters Biting my Style and Recent Press.

So after travelling back and forth to Japan, NY, fighting and all the press sleep is my greatest friend as of late. I can't wait to have some downtime, not travelling for once in these last few months...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Sun, 25 May 2008 03:36:00 PST

2 in a Row in Sengoku. Moving on, Afflicted with Revenge

Victory was earned and relished at Ariake Colosseum in Japan for Sengoku II. Technical and methodic it is not indicative of my usual fights but even without a finish, it was a good win to have under m...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Thu, 22 May 2008 02:27:00 PST

Honor Valor Pride

The battle smoke remainsBegin to feel the painAlone now stagger onUnsure how it begunThrough time war previalsThoughts fears cast asideFace the consequence aloneWith honour - valour - prideAs fire ...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Sun, 18 May 2008 07:42:00 PST

AoD - In the finals and getting stronger!

Angels of Destruction, Ginele Marquez and Megumi Fujii both won their semi-finals matches in Smackgirl last Saturday advancing to the finals of their tournaments.First up was Ginele as she took to the...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:30:00 PST

Megumi and Ginele; Ready for War!!!

So we are off to Japan again for the second round of Smackgirl's openweight and 52kg tournaments. Megumi advanced to the semi-final with an armbar over Cindy Hales and Ginele was chosen to joint the s...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:01:00 PST

Some work and then some.

The work in question here is not 9 to 5, clerical, labor, busy or normally classified as work in general. The work I'll ramble about today is work in the gym or lifting weights. Oh, so because you do ...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:14:00 PST

World Eater! Shayna annihilates to Bolt Thrower on ShoXC

Shayna Baszler once again returned to the battlefields of ShoXC and drank heavy in the blood of her foes but left still unsatiated, thirsting for further carnage! World Eaters, blood for the blood god...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:36:00 PST

Showtime for Sophie!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOXv2BvdCVk Check out the above highlight vid for Sophie Bagherdai. She’s half Persian, half Costa Rican and 100% ass kicker. In fact, she’s gonna kick so mu...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:33:00 PST

For the Queen of the Adeptas Sororitas

"Know thine enemy. You are known to him already" "No Army is big enough to conquer the galaxy. But faith alone can overturn the universe." "I tread the path of Righteousness. Though it be paved with b...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:30:00 PST

Upper Body Cardio Circuit

Kind of a misnomer since it is technically an "anaerobic" excercise but the point being you will be huffing and puffing if you push it hard and use the right weight. Go fer and put your comments on it...
Posted by Josh Barnett on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:18:00 PST