Originally Posted by
anerlich
WT pretty much disown the guy and any claims........
David Levicki was a WT exponent too IIRC. He went down to Rickson very quickly in the 94 or 95 vale tudo champs in Japan.
I once asked Sifu Emin about Reza Nasri, and he told me that Reza had taken about 8 lessons from him.
The declaration that Reza was a "2nd Tech" in Wing Tsun was an error. -In the WT world, a 2nd level technician would be training in biu tze and wooden dummy techniques, while Reza was still in the early learning stages of basic chi-sau.
I talked with a WT guy who (while traveling) met Reza and had a workout at his gym. He told me that Reza and his wrestling students spent the majority of their time on grappling, but were working on mixing in some WT for stand-up and certain kinds of entries.
He said, in talking to Reza, it seemed that the motivation to do the cage fights was to promote his wrestling videos and his school, but things ended up not going in his favor.......
As for David Levicki, he never did WT....... He was a student of Ron Heimberger (and Master Ip Ching?) for a few years until he and Ron had a falling out shortly after David's loss in the preliminary round of UFC2.
-Lawrence
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