Gabe Ruediger
| Gabe Ruediger | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 29, 1977 Topanga Canyon, California, United States |
| Other names | Godzilla, Cake |
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 156.6 lb (71.0 kg; 11.19 st) |
| Division | Lightweight (155 lb) |
| Reach | 70.0 in (178 cm) |
| Fighting out of | Van Nuys, California |
| Team | PKG |
| Rank |
Orange belt in Judo |
| Years active | 2002–2012 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 26 |
| Wins | 17 |
| By knockout | 4 |
| By submission | 12 |
| By decision | 1 |
| Losses | 9 |
| By knockout | 6 |
| By submission | 2 |
| By decision | 1 |
| Website | www.gabegodzilla.com |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
Orange belt in Judo
Gabriel G. "Gabe" Ruediger (born August 29, 1977) is a former American mixed martial artist, who competed in the Lightweight division for the UFC, WEC and Tachi Palace Fights. He is a former WEC Lightweight Champion, and former TPF Lightweight Champion.
Ruediger is a retired mixed martial arts fighter from Rancho Cucamonga. He started training in karate when he was seven years old and eventually moved on to kung fu. He was a student at Nevada Union High School. He appeared in a video as Paris Hilton's personal trainer.
Ruediger is a former WEC Lightweight Champion. In the WEC, he maintained a 9 fight winning streak before being defeated by Hermes Franca. Ruediger made his UFC debut at UFC 63, losing to The Ultimate Fighter 2 contestant Melvin Guillard via body punch in the second round.
Ruediger was one of three fighters on The Ultimate Fighter 5 who had previously fought inside the UFC's Octagon (the others being Joe Lauzon and Matt Wiman). Only Lauzon, of the three, had a victory in the UFC. In episode 5, Team Pulver selected Corey Hill to fight Ruediger. The episode showed Ruediger eating ice cream cake after learning of his upcoming fight, shortly before the weigh ins. He was then struggling to make the weight requirement, and let himself be dragged to and from the sauna room, but getting out before it could actually work. Ultimately, Penn and Maynard gave up and walked off as Ruediger literally begged for them to pick him back up. After displaying what could be signs of extreme exhaustion, an ambulance carried him off to the hospital. This marks the first time in Ruediger's career that he missed weight. He took direct criticism from his own coaches and teammates for "taking short cuts" and displaying a lack of dedication, due to his request for a colonic to lose weight (a procedure where they input plastic tubes up your rectum to flush fecal matter out of your system) and his overall poor work ethic. The next day, Dana White dismissed Ruediger from the competition and he was ordered to leave the house.
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