Question for everyone,

Has ANYONE ever heard of a guy named David "Cobra" Barber?
He is a guy that has a gym in Georgia, USA and has HIGH claims and we cant find anything on him to match on the net.

Some of them are :
World AtemaWaza Kickboxing Association Bantamweight Champ
World AtemaWaza Kickboxing Association SuperBantamweight Champ
World AtemaWaza Kickboxing Association Feather weight champ
World Karate Association SuperBantamweight Champ
with a PRO record of 66 wins 0 loses ( 50 wins by KO 41 KO's by kicks)

1986 - 1998 WAKA United States Branch Chief
1983 - 1988 WKA East coast Director of Operations
1885 WKA Pro fighter of the year
1884 Black belt Mag kickboxing Hall of Fame

And the list goes on and on
He also claime to have been in tons of movies as well.

We just want to find out from the others if anyone has heard of this guy.
Thanks Gang.

nope. He seems to have a pretty good record, wish mine was that good. What the hell is the World AtemaWaza Kickboxing Association?

Atemiwaza are Judo striking techniques that you never see much cos competition judo doesn't use them.

What it has to do with KB I don't know.

Wow- 41 kos by kick. I did some checking on him.

First- Atemi-Waza (striking techniques; Karate and Judo) is a legitimate style. But as far as some promotion / sanctioning body using this style for shows, I could not tell you. I found nothing about any World Atema Waza Kickboxing Associtation.

Also if you check Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame, you find nothing about this guy.

I also did a search at tower records (who has a zillion movies), and found zero results for this guy. If he did a ton of moives, they must be very rare or foreign. I can't say if he is for real or not, I just could find zero on

General rule of thumb, when you can't correctly SPELL the art you are supposed to represent/be a champion of that's not a good sign

"atema waza kickboxing" LMFAO.... right up there with Argentinian Vale Tudo Kickboxing champion

a WKA title? Well, ask them, they still exist, thanks to the NYSAC :p

But then again, I know who was east coast director of operations for WKA in that time period and it wasn't a guy named that...

Hey guys did I ever tell you I am the Kotobuki-Wazabi Champion. At our local japanese restaurant Kotobuki, I beat my wife in a wazabi eating contest. It hurt you know but hey I took it like a man. Don't laugh now, I'm serious this championship meant a lot to me.

LOL!!!!!

I have some old Official Karate magazines somewhere and I will try to dig them out. He actually did fight in the 80�s and was a WKA champion as far as I can recall. I`ll see what I can dig up and scan it for the world to see.

That would be great Doug, now I'm curious. I remember a friend of mine going to this healthclub in Georgia and he was teaching there at that time. It had a big cobra thing on the wall. My friend made some smart remarks about cobras fighting dragons and stuff, they couldn't get a laugh out of it.

When I visit my parents this weekend I will dig through the closet where I burried a lot of my old magazines and see what I can come up with. I distinctly remember reading about him in an Official Karate magazine because I bought it in Guatemala City in 86 or so and it was my only reading material when I was sitting in the damb jungle for 2 months :) I read it front to back about a million times.

What on earth where you doing in the jungle for 2 months. Oh well never mind. Probably lots of sentimental value after a 2 month bonding huh? Can't believe you didn't frame it lol.

66-0
Lighter weight.

Look like a perfect candidate to fight in Thailand.

Stefan, I was protecting the world with Reagan`s anti-communist campaign. Thanks to me, the rest of Central America never fell to the Red Bastards, Mexico or Canada. Well, Canada has its issues, but we can`t really say they are completely Red :)

Doug, my sincere THANK YOU for putting your live on the line for us. Reagan definetely was THE man. You have my respect and gratitude.

I don't know about putting my life on the line. I thought I saw hairy stuff, but man, after seeing what the US and British troops are going through, it makes my life pail by comparison. I can only imagine the shit those guys are going through. Come to think about it, I never had an RPG fired at me, probably the worst was some Sandanista with an old 22 rifle :) By the way, I haven't been able to find the magazine, but I'll keep looking.

Found some info on this guy. An old magazine from April 1985 has him listed as the WKA Super Bantamweight World Champion. His record is listed as 40W 1L 2D 24KO 17KKO. Even though he was a world champ he is only ranked 4th at his weight class in the old STAR ratings below Victor Solier, Troy Dorsey, Jorge Angot, and Felipe Garcia. There's a write up that says he defended his WKA title by KO over Davey Jones in Alabama.

A May 1984 write up says he lost by 4th round KO to David McGee in Florida on Oct. 22, 1983. The fight was ruled a no contest because McGee could not make the weight limit, and the WKA title was declared vacant.

In a November 1986 issue his name is not listed at all in the STAR ratings.

I remember hearing Barber's name from time to time back then. Never saw him fight. I'll keep looking through my old mags to see if I can find some more info.

Wow you guys are all reserch phanatics ......... so what could anyone tell me about Rick O' Kane. I know he was an underrated fighter, but can anyone tell me things that I havent heard before? :)

Shawn - In the era that O'Kane fought (mostly 1990's) there wasn't a whole lot of written material about the sport of kickboxing in the main stream magazines . I remember reading about a few of his results here and there, but there wasn't very much on him. He was underrated and pretty low key from what I remember. I saw him defeat Tom Montgomery back in 1995 in Reno, NV, and I think I saw him fight one other time in the early 1990's up in NorCal. I also remember him being scheduled to fight Curtis Bush in the late 80's at Lake Tahoe, but Bush fought Robert Visitacion instead. No explanation was ever given for O'Kane not being there.
Kickboxing Ring Report would have been your best bet, but they were hard for me to get and I don't think there were a whole lot of issues printed.

Back in the 1980's they had Official Karate magazine, which had the STAR ratings system in every issue along with a good amount of fight results, reports and interviews. It was about the best print material around back then. I'm getting a kick out of looking at these old issues. Brings back a lot of memories and names from the past. I'm glad I hung on to them.

Just shows that if you are going to give it the big 'un with regards to your own achievements you had better be careful, because you always get found out sooner or later!


For what it's worth my record is 99-0 (98 KO's - I took it easy in the other one)
D.U.M.B. World Champion
C.R.A.P. Galatic Champion
and
25 times World Kick/punch/throw/bite/choke/scratch and sniff Champion.

Beat that!

You're the man Colin. Thanks for the info guys.

Gee Tee, Official Karate was definately a good eye on the sport back in the 80's. Like I posted above, I got a whole bunch, they are just burried somewhere at my parents' house. Rick O'Kane was one hell of a fighter. He had a huge win on the Benny Urquidez-Tom LaRouche undercard in 1985 against Gordy Gong. I saw the fight and recently saw Gordy himself. He told me that O'Kane just jumped on him and overpowered him, not giving him a chance to get set. If he were in his youth and fighting today, he would definately be at the top, whether kickboxing, fullcontact or even Muay Thai.

Doug - Official Karate was always one of my favorites. I've got a stack of them too. I never threw away any of my magazines and I'm glad now. I think the good issues lasted up until about 1986 or so, all the issues I have after 86 are watered down and don't contain nearly the info that the older ones had.

You are absolutely right. It was cool where they had sport reports on the various regions of the US and Europe. I'm not sure how accurate STAR ratings were, but I'm willing to bet they were more so than what the alphabet soup organizations offer today.

I know this is digging up a very old thread but I lived in Warner Robins, Ga and my daughter and I trained under Master David Barber. I can tell you for certain he is legit. He was a master in many different disciplines. He was amazing at Muay Thai; he used to let us break bamboo canes over his shins and he wouldn't even flinch. He's only about 5'4" tall but he kicked a ceiling tile out in the dojo one night just to show he could. He could hit you so fast you would not have time to even react and that includes kicking you in the face. I've seen him in many fights and regardless of who they put against him he made them look like chumps. Most of the time he would string the guy along so the crowd would feel like they got their money's worth but he could take out anybody in the first 10 seconds if he wanted; he was just that good. He was an amazing teacher too and trained other world champions. He is on Facebook and you can see some of his creds there.

not really seeing the practical application of kicking out a ceiling tile tbh

"He was a master in many different disciplines" - interior decorating being one of these I suppose?

I have him on facebook. Seems a decent chap, though i couldn't testify to credentials.

Believe what you want

David “Cobra” Barber began his martial arts training when he was 5 years old and has been in the martial art for arts over 50 years. He began fighting tournament karate when he was young, entering many of the larger tournaments, winning some and losing some. His interests, because of his Mas Oyama background, was always full contact.

He began fighting amateur fights up and down the East Coast as early as 1971. He became a Professional fighter in the early 80′s and he sky-rocketed through the top competitors. First, he won the WKA United States Featherweight Championship, then, after dropping weight, he started fighting Bantamweight and Superbantamweight divisions.

He won the WKA Bantamweight World Championship, the WKA Superbantamweight World Championship, the WAKA Bantamweight World Championships and the WAKA Superbantamweight world championship. He retired undisputed and undefeated, successfully defending the titles 32 times. He has a professional record of 66 wins 0 loses, and 54 wins by knockout.

David is currently recognized by several organizations as a Grandmaster/Master in the martial arts, and he is the holder of Black Belts in six different styles of the Martial Arts.

He brought the World Karate Association to the East Coast in early 80′s and quickly built the WKA to over 50 promoters and governing 11 states.

www.worldwidedojo.com/david-barber-kickboxing-advisor/

Steven your funny:)

Is this guy even real or is this all made up?

Sounds highly exaggerated

Would the WKA have records to testify?