Does anyone know what 'Bad Brad' Hefton is up too? He was a popular full contact karate fighter in the 1980's...had some great wars with Kerry Roop.

Has anyone heard of him????

not in a long long time, i'm afraid.

a little off the topic, i noticed you started 15 topics in one day. your mind must have been racing until you got your password. hehe. congrats on the new record.

I thnk Brad may have retired before the end of the 80's, or at most thevry early 90's. Only the old farts would remember him!

Do you remember him Sandy? :)

Last I saw Brad was in 1992 when he lost to Vitali Klitchko in las Vegas. It was a rough loss for him

I remember him pretty well. Real tough full-contact fighter. I remember he had some really scary trainer that wore a tuxedo and would get him in some sort of trance. Too bad we don't have the coverage today like it was during the 80's.

That trainer's name is John Monzcak. Hefton was one of the top fighters back in the day. He had good power and always came to fight. I last saw him fight live against Sergio Batarelli at Lake Tahoe in 1991. I remember the fight with Klitchko, he was a shell of his former self by that time. Can't say that I've heard too much of Brad since that fight. But I remember hearing somewhere about him running a machine shop or metal shop or something like that.

Forgot to add that ESPN'S coverage of the old PKA fights was awesome. They had new shows on regularly, seemed like almost every week. Full Contact was going full swing back then and there were just a lot more events happening all over the country and Canada. What do we get today ? Nothing but reruns of the same old shows that are 2-3 years old.

I wish I would've seen that fight. Growing up, I enjoyed Brad's fights, Where is he now???

Also, I agree. I wish ESPN and Fox would do more broadcasts of MT or kickboxing. Remember when ABC did it for a few weeks on Wide World??? Perhaps a grass roots effort campaign to get it back on may help promote our sport!

True Gee Tee, kickboxing coverage in the US has since never come close to what ESPN did with those 80's American kickboxing fights.