Mikhail Ilyukhin

[Grimmas]

Control21 said: 

Another Russian SAMBO guy who made a name for himself in RINGS. His career was limited to RINGS like the other Russian guys in RINGS, save for one match in U-Style against Kawada which was decent. Like Zouev, Han, and Kopylov though, he was very good from a pure technical standpoint. I don't think he had any bad matches either. He was a crowd favorite in RINGS by 1998/1999, and he really put together some late RINGS classics with Kiyoshi Tamura and Tsuyoshi Kohsaka. In terms of shoot-style, it's hard not to consider him one of the top 25 guys in the style. 

Recommended matches -

Ilyukhin vs Kiyoshi Tamura (1/28/98)

Ilyukhin vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (9/21/98)

Ilyukhin vs Nikolai Zouev (10/21/95)