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9635_38 | same hostility to humans as the Lizard, prompting Spider-Man to speculate that the Lizard's anti-human traits came from Connors' anger at the world for his lost arm and family rather than the Lizard being completely separate from Connors. |
9635_39 | Another continuity-related issue involves Connors' son Billy. Unlike many other Marvel Comics children, he has not appreciably grown up since the comics' stories of the 1960s. Billy's visible age also seems to waver back and forth between approximately eight and 13 years old, depending on the particular comic artist drawing the character.
Other versions
Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows
In this reality, Billy used the Lizard serum on himself and is mutated like his father (though he is not as in control of himself as Curt). Curt and Billy try breaking into high tech facilities in an attempt to find Regent's tech to turn Billy back to normal, but are thwarted by Spider-Man and his daughter Spiderling. After defeating the reptilian father and son at Oscorp, Spider-Man contacts the Fantastic Four for help in curing Billy's condition. |
9635_40 | Ultimate Marvel |
9635_41 | The one comic storyline to date featuring the Ultimate Marvel universe version of Lizard appeared in Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #10. The character has appeared in a few subsequent issues of Ultimate Spider-Man, but only in flashbacks and dream sequences. Lizard appears to be based on a basilisk lizard in design and has been presented as being less intelligent than the original Marvel iteration. Dr. Curt Conners is a noted geneticist who lost his right arm under unrevealed circumstances. He dedicated himself to finding a means of restoring lost limbs by studying the regenerative capabilities of reptiles. However, after five years without major breakthroughs, his sponsors were on the verge of cutting his funding. Drowning his disappointment with alcohol, a drunken Conners injected himself with an experimental serum in a desperate attempt to achieve results. The serum regenerated his right arm, but also transformed Conners into an inhuman reptilian creature. Seeking refuge in the sewers, he |
9635_42 | became an urban legend dubbed "the Lizard" by the press. Spider-Man sympathetically sought out Lizard who attacked the young hero until Man-Thing happened upon the scene and restored Conners to human form. Conners' restored right arm soon withered and died. However, his DNA remained irreparably damaged with dormant potential for further transformation. Conners cut himself off from his wife and son out of fear for their safety. |
9635_43 | Dr. Conners also unintentionally created the Ultimate version of Carnage using DNA from Spider-Man and based on an analysis of his old friend Richard Parker's work on the Venom symbiote. Due to the ensuing chaos, he was arrested and Stark Industries canceled their financial support of his experiments, but his assistant Ben Reilly still had one sample of Spider-Man's DNA, setting the stage for the Clone Saga. He was last seen in Ultimate Spider-Man #127, where Dr. Conners was pardoned and recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. where he and Tony Stark are at when the Triskellion was blown apart by Norman Osborn during an escape.
Early details of the character's history match his 616 counterpart, with him studying reptiles to fix his arm (the cause of this has yet to be revealed), and the condition of him leaving his wife and son (Doris and Timmy) out of fear, thereby turning to alcoholism. |
9635_44 | Howard the Human
During the Secret Wars storyline, the Battleworld domain of New Quack City has a version of Curt Connors in it. This Curt Connors is a tough, anthropomorphic lizard who is a bartender at a place that Howard the Human frequently visits. |
9635_45 | Exiles |
9635_46 | The reality-hopping heroic team, the Exiles, once found themselves on an alternate earth where Connors' experiment (in this world for a left arm rather than a right) had taken a different turn. Finding himself as the Lizard, Curt felt the need to "reproduce" by immediately injecting the Lizard formula into other people. He infected his family and they infected others, all feeling the urge to spread the transformation into lizard people. The forces of this particular world eventually managed to restrain the infected lizard people behind miles-long, man-made walls. When the Exiles visited this world, they discovered that Connors — having turned back into his human form a year ago — was intending to detonate a nuclear bomb in an abandoned submarine to wipe out the lizard people, but they were able to talk him down by arguing that the radioactive fallout would cause more damage, particularly since the lizard people were now mere herbivores (albeit partly because of the absence of other |
9635_47 | kinds of meat). Grief-stricken over what had become of his life, Connors subsequently killed himself. |
9635_48 | Marvel 1602
In this reality, Curtis Connors is a philosopher who was infected with the bubonic plague. He created an elixir that transformed him into a reptilian creature that resembled a Velociraptor, but retained his mind. He worked with Baron Victor Octavius to capture the Spider.
Marvel Noir
In the Marvel Noir reality, Curt Connors is an assistant to Dr. Otto Octavius. They operated in an abandoned hospital building on Ellis Island, where they secretly used kidnapped African Americans as specimens by turning them into mindless slaves. It is unknown what happened to Connors after federal authorities raided the hospital, though he was presumably arrested along with Octavius' associates.
Marvel Zombies
In Marvel Zombies, the Lizard, like almost every other hero and villain, has become a zombie. This particular incarnation of the Lizard is apparently destroyed when he is blasted apart by several cosmic-powered heroes while fighting (and eating) Galactus. |
9635_49 | MC2
The Connors family appear in the first story of the Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man series, set in the MC2 universe. Mary Jane comforts a distraught Martha when Curt goes missing again, whilst Peter, now a parent to his infant daughter May ("Mayday"), is more hesitant than before to become Spider-Man. He is eventually encouraged by his wife to track down and prevent the Lizard's latest rampage.
Old Man Logan
During the "Old Man Logan" storyline taking place on Earth-807128, Lizard is revealed to have claimed territory in Florida where he has taken the name of Lizard King. |
9635_50 | In the pages of "Dead Man Logan" that takes place on Earth-21923, it is shown that Joseph Manfredi and his gang work for Lizard where one of his men has been transformed with the Lizard formula. After Logan slices off one man's arm and another man's leg while claiming their truck as his transportation, Manfredi arranges for them to be taken to Lizard so that he can treat them. Lizard was shown to have patched up the one who lost his leg and use the Lizard formula on the one who lost his arm. |
9635_51 | Spider-Gwen
On Earth-65 where Gwen Stacy became Spider-Woman after being bitten by the spider, Peter Parker attempts to exact revenge on those who bullied him, becoming this universe's version of the Lizard. Gwen subdues him, but Peter ended up dying towards the end of the battle due to his use of the chemicals that transformed him. Spider-Woman is blamed for his death, causing an uproar for her arrest, led by J. Jonah Jameson, with Peter essentially becoming Gwen's Uncle Ben, serving as inspiration of the need to use her powers to help others.
It is later revealed that Curt Connors was a teacher at Gwen's high school and was studying Lizard genetics, possibly being involved in Peter's transformation into the Lizard and the recent sightings of multiple Lizard-people wreaking havoc in the city. |
9635_52 | Marvel Age
Lizard's history is the same in this reality. Spider-Man went to Florida to investigate the "Lizard Man" sightings. Spider-Man meets Martha Connors and learns that Lizard is her husband Dr. Curt Connors. After making an antidote, Spider-Man ensnares Lizard and uses the antidote to restore him to Curt Connors. Peter Parker later told J. Jonah Jameson that the "Lizard Man" was a hoax.
Captain America and Black Widow
A version of Lizard who wore the tentacles of Doctor Octopus, was brainwashed by Vennema Multiversal, but was freed and joined the battle against them.
In other media |
9635_53 | Television
The Lizard appeared in the 1967 Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Gillie Fenwick. This version is named Dr. Curt Conner and has both of his arms. In the episode "Where Crawls the Lizard", he works on a serum intended to cure "swamp fever", but it transforms him into the Lizard Man instead. He plots to create an army of lizard people like himself and take over the world until Spider-Man foils his plans and restores him to his human form. In "Conner's Reptiles", Conner experiments with increasing reptiles' intelligence, but inadvertently turns a regular alligator into another humanoid lizard called Reptilla (voiced by Paul Soles). It kidnaps Conner, but Spider-Man rescues the latter and restores Reptilla.
The Lizard appeared in the 1981 Spider-Man animated series episode "Lizards, Lizards, Everywhere", voiced by Corey Burton. This version is never identified as Curt Connors nor is he seen in his human form. |
9635_54 | Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard appeared in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, voiced by Joseph Campanella. This version maintains his genius-level intellect as the Lizard, but also has his alter ego's savage mindset from the comics. In the pilot episode "Night of the Lizard", Connors transforms into the eponymous character after using himself as a test subject for his experiments with lizard DNA in the hopes of regenerating his right arm. While transformed, he abducts his wife Margaret and takes her to his hideout in the sewers to help him transform New York's population into lizards like himself, only to be defeated by Spider-Man and restored to his human form. In "The Lizard King", a number of sewer lizards become mutated by Connors' chemicals and abduct him, who transforms into the Lizard and becomes their king. With Debra Whitman's help, Margaret and Mary Jane Watson create a cure, which Spider-Man administers, restoring all the mutated lizards to their original forms. In the three-part |
9635_55 | episode "Secret Wars", the Lizard is among several supervillains that the Beyonder transports to an alien planet to engage in a war against a team of heroes led by Spider-Man, though the Lizard defects to the heroes' side after Iron Man and Mister Fantastic use a machine to allow Connors' mind to take control of the Lizard's body. Once the war is over, Connors is returned to Earth with no memory of what happened. |
9635_56 | Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard appears in the Spider-Man: The New Animated Series episode "Law of the Jungle", voiced by Rob Zombie. This version is more serious and colder than other versions, lost his right arm as a result of an accident while testing Oscorp Industries' Wide Area Explosive Fragmentation Round (WAFER), and is Peter Parker's science teacher at Empire State University. Connors intentionally transforms into the Lizard to exact revenge on Oscorp, maintaining his intelligence and ability to speak. Following a battle with Spider-Man, the Lizard is left hanging by webbing from a helicopter. While Spider-Man tries to reason with him, the Lizard lunges at him, cutting the web and causing him to fall to his apparent death. |
9635_57 | Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker. This version also maintains his intelligence and savage mindset, but has long since replaced his missing right arm, which he lost during his time as a combat medic, with a mechanical prosthetic arm. Additionally, Curt and his wife Martha Connors play a supporting role in season one and work at Empire State University, where they employ Eddie Brock as a lab assistant and Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy as interns. In season two, the Connorses lab falls under the control of Miles Warren, who forces them to move away by threatening to expose Curt's experiments and transformation into the Lizard. |
9635_58 | Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Tom Kenny in season one, and Dee Bradley Baker for the rest of the series. This version is a S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist and initially has both of his arms until he is forced to amputate his right arm following the Green Goblin's attack on the Helicarrier during the season one finale. The Lizard is introduced in a self-titled season two episode, in which Connors and Spider-Man retrieve several of Doctor Octopus's animal DNA formulas for Connors to study. Fascinated by their potential in medicine, Connors injects himself with several doses of the lizard formula, which restores his right arm, but slowly mutates him into the Lizard, becoming more feral in the process. In response, Spider-Man reluctantly releases Doctor Octopus to help restore Connors to his human form. In "The Sinister Six", Doctor Octopus abducts Connors and forcibly turns him back into the Lizard before using a mind control device to |
9635_59 | have him join the eponymous group. While most of the Sinister Six are defeated by Spider-Man and his fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. trainees and arrested, the Lizard breaks free from Doc Ock's control and escapes. In "Stan By Me", the Lizard steals equipment from Midtown High School to render his human side dormant. Despite Spider-Man and retired S.H.I.E.L.D. agent turned janitor Stan's interference, the Lizard succeeds and escapes once more. In "Return of the Sinister Six", Spider-Man discovers an antidote that Connors created before the Lizard's consciousness took over and cures Connors. Following this, Connors makes minor appearances throughout seasons three and four, with one notable appearance in the episode "Lizards", wherein Connors is again transformed into the Lizard by Doctor Octopus's spy, Ben Reilly, and granted the ability to mutate others into anthropomorphic lizards via his bite. Spider-Man eventually creates an antidote for the Lizard and all those infected by him. |
9635_60 | The episode "Return to the Spider-Verse" Pt. 1 features an alternate reality vampire version of the Lizard known as the Lizard King, who lives in and rules over a vampire-infested world. With Blood Spider as his only opposition, the Lizard King collaborates with the Wolf Spider in a plot to obtain a Siege Perilous fragment to block out the sun so his vampires can rule the Earth. However, Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid combine Blood Spider's cured blood sample with the Siege Perilous piece and a UV Light to cure everyone, including the Lizard King.
In the two-part series finale "Graduation Day", Doctor Octopus has Crossbones mind-controlled and mutated into a new Lizard to have him join the Superior Sinister Six, but Spider-Man is able to eventually cure and free him from Doc Ock's control. |
9635_61 | Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard appears in the 2010s Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. This version is an Oscorp scientist. Introduced in the episode "The Rise of Doc Ock Pt. 2", Osborn manipulates Connors into injecting himself with reptile DNA and transforming into the Lizard to sway him to his side. While Connors ends up transforming into a giant lizard monster, Spider-Man and Miles Morales eventually cure him. In the third season, Maximum Venom, Connors is hired by Horizon High as a bio-mechanics teacher and assists Spider-Man, Grady Scraps, and Max Modell in defeating the Technovore before framing Grady for the incident under Norman's orders. After framing Modell for crimes involving the Venom symbiote and forcing Spider-Man to unmask himself before the school board, Modell is fired and Connors becomes Horizon High's interim headmaster. In "Generations" Pt. 2, it is revealed Connors collaborated with Norman in exchange for a cure for the lizard serum, only to learn |
9635_62 | there never was one. After Osborn's conspiracy is exposed, Modell regains his job. |
9635_63 | Film |
9635_64 | Dr. Curt Connors appears in Sam Raimi's live-action Spider-Man trilogy. The character was first mentioned in Spider-Man (2002) before physically appearing in the sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), portrayed by actor Dylan Baker. While the character does not become the Lizard in this franchise, he still lacks his right arm as in the comics. In Spider-Man 2, Connors is depicted as a Columbia University physics professor who is concerned for Peter Parker's well-being and academic performance in his quantum mechanics course as well as a former classmate and friend of Otto Octavius' while he was in college. In Spider-Man 3, Peter turns to Connors to analyze a piece of an alien symbiote he had come into possession of. In 2007, Raimi expressed interest in portraying Connors' transformation into the Lizard. Baker and producer Grant Curtis were also enthusiastic about the idea. As disagreements between Sony and Raimi threatened to push the film off the intended May 6, 2011 |
9635_65 | release date however, Sony Pictures announced in January 2010 that plans for Spider-Man 4 had been cancelled due to Raimi's withdrawal from the project and the Spider-Man franchise was rebooted with The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012. |
9635_66 | Rhys Ifans portrays Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard in two live-action films. This version is an Oscorp biologist and former partner of Richard Parker, whose research focused on genetically combining animal traits with humans to improve health. Connors is portrayed as a somewhat sympathetic, yet misguided individual, who is driven by the loss of his right arm and a desire to do genuine good, while his Lizard alter-ego is much more feral, but retains Connors' intelligence and eventually takes over his body. Additionally, this version of the Lizard does not wear clothes and has a less pronounced snout, giving him a more human-like appearance. |
9635_67 | Connors first appears in the 2012 Sony film The Amazing Spider-Man. He befriends Richard's son Peter after the latter finds his father's notes and visits Connors to continue what he and Richard started. The two successfully formulate a serum together, which Connors, after being fired from Oscorp for refusing to rush into human trials, injects himself with. The serum regenerates Connors' missing arm, but eventually mutates him into the Lizard, who goes on a rampage until Spider-Man intervenes. Escaping into the sewers, Connors reverts, develops an obsession with his new abilities, builds a makeshift off-site lab, and experiments on himself further due to the chemicals affecting his mind. After the Lizard discovers Spider-Man's secret identity, he develops a mind of his own and asserts himself as the dominant personality, seeking to mutate all of New York into lizards like himself. However, Spider-Man foils his plan with Captain George Stacy's help, who is killed by the Lizard in the |
9635_68 | process, and cures Connors. With the Lizard's personality gone and his sanity restored, Connors surrenders to the authorities after saving Spider-Man from falling to his death. In the film's post-credits scene, Connors is remanded to Beloit Psychiatric Hospital, where he speaks with a mysterious man regarding the Parkers' knowledge of him. |
9635_69 | Ifans reprised his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). Midway through the events of The Amazing Spider-Man, Connors ends up in another universe and, among other universe-displaced supervillains, is swiftly captured by its version of Peter Parker. Parker offers the villains cures to avert their original fates upon returning to their respective universes, but the Green Goblin convinces them to fight back instead. Connors later joins Sandman and Electro in fighting Spider-Man and two alternate universe versions of himself, including the Lizard's version of Spider-Man, but he is eventually defeated and cured by Parker, reverting to his human form. During the Green Goblin's subsequent attack, Connors nearly falls to his death, but is caught by an alternate Parker. Afterwards, Doctor Strange casts a spell to return the displaced individuals back to their original universes. |
9635_70 | The Spider-Gwen incarnation of the Lizard makes a cameo appearance in the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In a flashback, Spider-Woman defeats the Lizard, who reverts to Peter Parker and dies in her arms. |
9635_71 | Video games
The Lizard appeared in the 1984 Spider-Man Questprobe game.
The Lizard appeared in the 1991 Sega Spider-Man arcade game.
The Lizard appeared as a boss in The Amazing Spider-Man for the Game Boy and the game's sequel.
The Lizard appeared as a boss in The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin. |
9635_72 | The Lizard appeared as an optional boss in the 1995 Super NES and Genesis video game Spider-Man. As his boss fight takes place in the sewers, the player has the option to avoid him by escaping the location. When he is defeated, he transforms back into Dr. Connors, though in the SNES version of the game, attacking Connors once he has been restored to normal will cause him to turn back into the Lizard, with more power than he previously had. In the Genesis version, he will automatically transform into the Lizard after a short time, though he does not become invincible or stronger. He is also a mini-boss in the final level of the SNES version, where he cannot be attacked after turning back into Connors.
The Lizard appears as a boss in the Japan-exclusive Super Famicom game Spider-Man: Lethal Foes. |
9635_73 | The Lizard makes a minor appearance in the 2000 Neversoft game Spider-Man, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker. He has been imprisoned by Venom in order to take control of his lizard-men minions, and gives advice to Spider-Man on how to find Venom after encountering him.
The Lizard appears as a boss Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro, voiced again by Dee Bradley Baker. When Spider-Man comes to Bio Tech to seek Curt Connors' help in learning more about the Bio-Nexus Device, he finds that Connors has transformed into the Lizard and is forced to cure him. Afterwards, Connors reveals that he was present when Electro stole the device and advises Spider-Man to search the lab of its creator, Dr. Watts, for more information. |
9635_74 | Curt Connors appears in the Treyarch version of the Spider-Man 2 film tie-in game, voiced by Joe Alaskey. Like the Sam Raimi film incarnation, this version is Peter Parker's science teacher at Columbia University and an old friend and colleague of Dr. Otto Octavius. Originally, the Lizard was supposed to have been included in the game, as evidenced by his prominent appearances in the game's promotional material, before he was suddenly removed. However, hints towards the Lizard were included in the final game, such as Doctor Octopus breaking Connors' right arm. In the Game Boy Advance version of the game, the Lizard appears as a boss. |
9635_75 | The Lizard appears as a mini-boss in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, voiced by James Arnold Taylor. Having been recruited into Doctor Doom's Masters of Evil, he is sent to Asgard to guard a recently defeated Tyr alongside the Scorpion before they are defeated by Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, and Wolverine. The Lizard also appears in a simulation disk, during which the heroes try and fail to reach Connors. |
9635_76 | Curt Connors / Lizard appears in the Spider-Man 3 film tie-in game, voiced by Nathan Carlson. This version is Peter Parker's science teacher who conducted secret experiments on himself with a lizard DNA serum, hoping to regrow his missing right arm. After transforming into the Lizard, he goes on to kidnap and convert numerous people into lizards as part of a plot to replace New York's population with reptiles. Although he is thwarted by Spider-Man, the Lizard manages to escape. He is later hunted by Kraven the Hunter and Calypso before she uses a magic potion to transform him into a larger version of himself, dubbed "Mega Lizard". After Spider-Man defeats Mega Lizard, he reverts to Connors and is taken to the hospital. Spider-Man later helps Connors atone for his actions as the Lizard by curing all the people he transformed. In the PS2, PSP, and Wii versions of the game, Connors plays a bigger role, helping Spider-Man analyze a piece of his symbiote costume and treat Dr. Michael |
9635_77 | Morbius' vampirism. |
9635_78 | The Lizard appears as a playable character in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, voiced by Roger L. Jackson. This version is portrayed as an anti-hero who searches the Earth for a cure to his condition. After encountering Spider-Man in Egypt, the Lizard joins forces with him to stop an invasion of P.H.A.N.T.O.M.s created by Mysterio.
The Lizard appears as a boss in the Wii, Nintendo DS, PS2, and PSP versions of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, voiced by Marc Samuel. After the Fold takes control of him via nanites, they send the Lizard and a group of supervillains to attack the heroes at Prison 42, but they are all ultimately defeated. In a bonus mission, the Lizard attacks a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in the sewers before being defeated by the Thing. |
9635_79 | Curt Connors / Lizard appears as a supporting character and the final boss in The Amazing Spider-Man film tie-in game, voiced by Steve Blum. The game continues on from the events of the aforementioned film, and sees a number of cross-species experiments Oscorp created using Connors' research escaping into Manhattan and infecting its population with a deadly virus. Spider-Man reluctantly releases Connors from prison to help develop a cure, which they eventually succeed in doing. When Alistair Smythe begins destroying the city in his attempt to save it and strips Spider-Man of his powers, Connors reluctantly transforms into the Lizard to face him. After recovering his powers, Spider-Man helps the Lizard defeat Smythe, but Connors succumbs to the Lizard's consciousness and flees into the sewers. After defeating and curing the Lizard once more, Connors willingly returns to prison. The Lizard becomes a playable character via the Lizard Rampage DLC pack. |
9635_80 | The Lizard appears in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online.
Curt Connors / Lizard appears as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, voiced again by Steve Blum. This version is able to switch between his human and reptilian forms at will. In a bonus mission at the Central Park Zoo's Reptile House, Spider-Man and the Thing stumble upon Connors' secret lab, where he is attempting to perfect his Lizard serum. The pair ultimately defeat the Lizard and stop his experiments.
The Lizard appears in Marvel Heroes. He breaks out of prison alongside Calvin Zabo and make their way to the former's hidden lab at the Bronx Zoo. After Zabo becomes Mister Hyde, he injects the Lizard with his Hyde serum and turns him into a more powerful version of himself before using a Lizard/Hyde serum to infect the Bronx Zoo's water supply, resulting in hybrids of lizards and other animals being created. |
9635_81 | The Lizard appears as a boss in the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance and a lockbox villain for PVP Season 27.
The Lizard appears as a boss in Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2.
The Lizard appears as a playable character in Marvel: Future Fight.
Curt Connors / Lizard appears as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2. In a bonus mission, Connors tricks Venom and Carnage into coming to his lab at Oscorp before capturing them for experimentation. After the symbiotes escape from their containment and confront him, Connors transforms into the Lizard to fight them, but is ultimately defeated. |
9635_82 | Curt Connors appears in the mid-credits scene of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, voiced by an uncredited voice actor. This version is a scientist working for Norman Osborn who monitors the latter's terminally ill son Harry, who is kept inside a holding tank until a cure can be found for his illness. When Norman orders Connors to release Harry, the scientist initially objects, warning that it is too early and might be dangerous, but eventually and reluctantly does so. |
9635_83 | Toys and collectibles
The first Lizard action figure was produced by Mego in 1974 as part of their "World's Greatest Super-Heroes" line of toys.
The Lizard has been reproduced in action figure form several times by Toy Biz from 1994 through 2006, first as part of their Spider-Man: The Animated Series tie-in line, Spider-Man Classics, and the Marvel Legends series. The Spider-Man Classics figure was later repainted and reissued by Hasbro.
Hasbro released a Lizard figure as part of their 2007 Spider-Man 3 film tie-in toyline based on his appearance in the video game of the same name.
The Lizard has been reproduced as mini-busts by both Art Asylum and Bowen Designs, who also released a full statue of the character.
The incarnation seen in The Spectacular Spider-Man animated TV series was released as an action figure by Hasbro in late 2008.
Hasbro released several toys and action figures of the Lizard for The Amazing Spider-Man film tie-in toy line in 2012. |
9635_84 | Live performance
The Lizard appears in the Broadway show Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark played by Brandon Rubendall. This version was originally an Oscorp Industries scientist before the Green Goblin turns him into a member of the Sinister Six.
The Lizard appears in the Marvel Universe: LIVE! arena show. This version is a member of the Sinister Six.
Reception
The Lizard was ranked No. 9 on a listing of Marvel Comics' monster characters in 2015.
References
External links
Lizard at Marvel.com
Ultimate Marvel's Lizard at Marvel.com
Lizard at Marvel Wiki
Ultimate Marvel's Lizard at Marvel Wiki
Lizard's Profile at Spiderfan.org
Lizard at the Villains Wiki |
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9636_0 | Benny Urquidez (born June 20, 1952) is an American kickboxer, martial arts choreographer and actor. Nicknamed "The Jet", Urquidez was a non-contact karate competitor who later pioneered full-contact fighting in the United States. He made the transition from point to full-contact karate in 1974, the year of its inception in the US, frequently fighting in bouts where the rules were ambiguous and contrasts in styles were dramatic. Urquidez is also known for once holding the rare achievement of six world titles in five different weight divisions, and remained largely undefeated in his 27-year career. His only loss came in a Muay Thai match which was shrouded in controversy, as Urquidez had only agreed to a no-decision exhibition, a clause which was ignored when the fight had ended. |
9636_1 | Between 1974 and 1993, he amassed a documented professional record of 49–1–1 (win-loss-draw) with 35 knockouts and two controversial no-contests, although he is also supposed to have an additional record of 10–0–1 (10 KOs) in undocumented professional fights, making a total of 59–1–2–2 (45 KOs). However, sources vary with Ratings listing Urquidez as 63–0–1, (57 knockouts) and on his own official webpage, Urquidez lists his fight record as 200–0, and says he was 63–0, with 57 knockouts in title defenses. Also, he claims to have been undefeated in the "Adult Black Belt Division" prior to entering full-contact karate. Black Belt magazine voted Urquidez "Competitor of the Year" in 1978.
He has also appeared in occasional acting roles, mostly in action films during the 1980s and 1990s, notably the Jackie Chan movies Wheels on Meals (1984), Dragons Forever (1988), and Grosse Pointe Blank.
Early life, family and education |
9636_2 | Urquidez was born in Los Angeles County, California, the son of a wrestling mother and a boxing father. His parents are of Spanish-Mexican and Blackfoot Indian ancestry.
Benny began competing in 1958, at the age of five, in "peewee" boxing and wrestling in Los Angeles. His martial arts instruction started when he was seven years old; his first formal teacher was Bill Ryusaki. Urquidez received his black belt at the age of 14, a highly unusual feat in the 1960s. His siblings also achieved the rank of black belt. His sister Lilly Rodriguez was a pioneer in kickboxing for women, and their late brother Reuben Urquidez appeared with Benny in a documentary on the combination martial art budojujitsu. |
9636_3 | Career
At the age of 12, Urqidez attended the Long Beach International Karate Championships in 1964. He witnessed a demonstration by Bruce Lee, including the one-inch punch which sent a 245-pound man flying back. This demonstration by Lee inspired a young Urqidez to start entering martial arts tournaments. |
9636_4 | He entered the point circuit in 1964 and earned a reputation as a colorful fighter. At the 1972 Santa Monica Kempo Open, Urquidez lost in the finals to Brian Strian. In the 1973 Internationals, he fought John Natividad in what is considered one of the greatest non-contact bouts in history. In an unprecedented 25-point overtime match, Natividad won the match 13–12, receiving the Grand Title and the $2,500 purse. In May 1974, at the PAWAK Tournament, Urquidez lost a 4–1 decision to Joe Lewis. He also competed in England and Belgium as a member of Ed Parker's 1974 US team. Also in 1974, he began his move away from the non-contact style by entering and winning the World Series of Martial Arts Championship, effectively a tough-man contest with few rules. Over the next two decades, he fought under various kickboxing organizations (NKL, WPKO, Professional Karate Association (PKA), World Kickboxing Association (WKA), AJKBA, Shin-Kakutojutsu Federation, NJPW and MTN) to amass a record of 58 |
9636_5 | wins with no losses. This undefeated record, though official, is controversial and highly disputed. |
9636_6 | In 1977, Urquidez traveled to Japan and fought under the WKA's compromise US–Japan rules which included leg kicks and knees to the body. He defeated Katsuyuki Suzuki by KO in the 6th round (August 1977) as part of the professional wrestling event in which Antonio Inoki fought Everett Eddy in what was said to be a wrestler/karate fighter mixed match but was a pre-determined pro wrestling match. The Suzuki fight materialized because the newly formed WKA organization could not compete against the PKA in the US. At the same time, Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki, who gained the worldwide fame by fighting Muhammad Ali in the controversial 1976 boxer/wrestler mixed-match in Japan, had been looking for new opponents for what he called the world martial arts championship series. Eventually, promoter Ron Holmes discovered Everett Eddy for Inoki. By that time, Eddy had been coached by Arnold Urquidez, and lost in a knockout in the 1st round to PKA world heavyweight champion Ross |
9636_7 | Scott in the previous year. In the same event, Benny Urquidez knocked out Howard Jackson, but soon his lightweight title was stripped by the PKA, and so both Eddy and Urquidez had no action in the US, and had to look for fights overseas. Even though the Inoki/Eddy bout was successful, it was the fight between Urquidez and Suzuki, which shocked Japan, where Japanese kickboxing had been very popular. Though never tested for or achieved any rank in Japanese karate, Urquidez has decided to bestow upon himself the title of sensei, a Japanese honorific term which is given to experts and instructors meaning: "someone who precedes you in knowledge". |
9636_8 | The All-Japan Kickboxing Association, for which Suzuki had been rated as No. 2, became interested in the American sport of full-contact karate, decided to promote series of mixed-rules bouts between the American full-contact karate fighters and Japanese kickboxers. On November 14, 1977, the AJKF held the first of such event which featured Benny Urquidez, his brother-in-law Blinky Rodriguez, Marc Costello, Brendan Leddy, Tony Lopez, Leonard Galiza and Freddy Avila. Only Benny Urquidez and Costello came out as the winners for the American team. Urquidez's victory over Kunimitsu Okao convinced the Japanese fight fans, and eventually began to be featured as the central figure for what was supposed to be the documentary comic book, The Square Ring, until he declined to avenge his loss against the Thai opponent Prayout Sittiboonlert. Urquidez's second loss came in August 1980 in Florida. American Billye Jackson dominated seven rounds including knocking Urquidez down. Urquidez protested |
9636_9 | the decision and petitioned the WKA's Howard Hansen to classify it as a non-contest. |
9636_10 | After 1980, Urquidez' ring appearances became less frequent. Between 1981 and 1984 he fought only sporadically. In 1984, he fought Ivan Sprang in Amsterdam under modified Muay Thai rules (no elbows), winning by 6th-round TKO. His ring career largely came to a halt after 1985, and he retired after facing Yoshihisa Tagami at the age of 41. Subsequently, Urquidez became devoted to acting, teaching kickboxing and martial arts choreography. Urquidez's late brother Reuben was also a competitive martial artist and actor; they appeared together in a 1982 training video, World Of Martial Arts, along with Steve Sanders (karate), Chuck Norris and John Saxon. Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth dedicated the band's hit 1984 song "Jump" to Urquidez, of whom Roth was a student.
In 2000, Urquidez and Emil Farkas founded the Los Angeles Film Fighting Institute, which was one of the first schools of its kind in the United States to teach martial artists the intricacies of stunt work. |
9636_11 | Urquidez has had training in nine styles: Judo, Kajukenbo, Shotokan, Taekwondo, Lima Lama, White Crane Kung Fu, Jujutsu, Aikido and American Kenpo. He is the founder of Ukidokan Karate. He continued to teach at The Jets Gym in North Hollywood, California. Urquidez has also authored various instructional books and videos. He also has a special friendship with actor/client John Cusack with whom talks of opening up a bigger gym in Santa Monica, targeting former champions as clients and trainers are in the works as Cusack has shown interest in taking part as co-owner. The Jets Gym in the North Hollywood location closed in 2007, to make way for a shopping mall. Today, he is still very active teaching privately, and working as a stunt coordinator in the entertainment business. He teaches ukidokan kickboxing at Team Karate Center in Woodland Hills, California.
Controversies |
9636_12 | Varied fights
Benny Urquidez was the first kickboxing champion with an international profile who also operated as a free agent under different rules for different sanctions. Consequently, he fought in several unorthodox match-ups and hotly disputed bouts. In late 1974, in the grand finale of an early mixed martial arts-style tough man contest in Honolulu, Hawaii, a , Urquidez decisioned a , Dana Goodson after scoring a takedown and pin against Goodson in the third and final round.
A year later, in Detroit, Urquidez was disqualified for knocking out his opponent with a fourth punch under the subsequently-discontinued three-punch rule. The disqualifying referee was the opponent's own karate instructor. The bout was excoriated on network television, prompting state athletic commissions across the United States to become interested in regulating the sport. Chuck Norris' short-lived International Karate League (IKL) and later the STAR System world ratings reversed this outcome. |
9636_13 | Another three bouts were eventually ruled no-contests (NC). The first, in Los Angeles on March 12, 1977, was a nine-round NC (WKA) against Thai boxer Narongnoi Kiatbandit as part of the inaugural WKA world title event. Urquidez scored flash-knockdowns against Narongnoi in rounds three and six as well as five legal throws over three other rounds. Narongnoi was warned for illegal knee kicks and groin attacks on four occasions before being assessed with a point deduction in round nine. However, the point deduction came shortly after Narongnoi had scored his sole flash-knockdown which, in turn, provoked a riot among Muay Thai fans in the audience. The audience invaded the ring moments before the final bell. Scores were never collected for round nine. The California State Athletic Commission declared the no-contest. |
9636_14 | Next, on April 29, 1978, Urquidez faced his fourth Japanese opponent Shinobu Onuki in Tokyo; the event was co-promoted by the AJKBA and Shin-Kakutojutsu Federation. Eventually, Urquidez executed a throw that dislocated Onuki's shoulder. Initially, because of the throw, Urquidez was given a TKO loss, however, the promoters acknowledged that Urquidez used the throw without knowing it was illegal under Japanese rules; the bout was then scored as a no-contest. Following this unsatisfactory result, the two faced each other again in Las Vegas on January 2, 1980. The fight was aired by NBC, and this time Urquidez knocked out Onuki with a left hook to the body. Later, in October 1981, when the AJKBA merged with the WKA, the WKA transmuted the original Onuki no-contest to a TKO victory for Urquidez because, in fact, Urquidez's fight contract had permitted throws. |
9636_15 | Third, Urquidez fought to a seven-round NC (WKA) against Billye Jackson in West Palm Beach, Florida, on August 8, 1980. This non-title fight was first reported as a seven-round decision for Jackson; then was changed to a seven-round technical draw, and then to a no-contest. The WKA waited until March 1986 to unambiguously transmute this outcome owing to uneven glove assignments and a coerced last-minute rule change that unfairly affected Urquidez's performance in an otherwise close bout. Despite multiple attempts to reschedule a rematch to settle the dispute Urquidez refused to fight Jackson. The no-contest status of these fights has been corroborated in print by Paul Maslak (Chief Administrator of the STAR System world ratings). as a side note the WKA and Star system ratings was owned and operated by Urquidez brother Arnold. |
9636_16 | Meanwhile, on August 2, 1978, Urquidez faced the then fifth-ranked welterweight Thai boxer, Prayout Sittiboonlert, in Tokyo as part of the Shin-Kakutojutsu Organization's first independent event. The rules for the bout included six two-minute rounds, one-minute intervals, and no elbow contact as per agreement with Urquidez. Urquidez lost a heart-stopping decision to the Thai, who controlled the fight with relentless knee attacks and through the masterful use of Thai clinches. Afterward, Urquidez claimed he had been maneuvered into a competitive bout under unaccustomed "new rules" through deliberate misrepresentations. A rematch was set on October 30, 1978, at the Budokan (Martial Arts Hall) as part of the five world championships card for the Shin-Kakutojutsu Organization. However, for unknown reasons, Urquidez canceled the fight on the day of the event. According to one report, Urquidez did travel to Japan, but was unable to recover sufficiently from a high fever which he contracted |
9636_17 | from an allergic reaction to pain medication being used to treat a lingering left knuckle injury. This sanctioning organization was among several discontinued in 1981 for alleged ties to organized crime. Both the WKA and the STAR world ratings regarded this bout as muay Thai, a separate sport, and did not include it as part of Urquidez's rankings and record count for kickboxing. |
9636_18 | After a six-year absence from the Japanese ring, Urquidez agreed to fight an exhibition against Nobuya Asuka on April 24, 1989, at the Tokyo Dome as part of the New Japan Pro-Wrestling event. The rules of the bout were five rounds at two-minutes each, one-minute intervals and without elbow or knee contact to the head. Additionally, it was established that, if the fight went the distance, it would automatically be scored as a draw. The bout did go five rounds without knockout or disqualification and a no-decision was immediately declared. |
9636_19 | After another four-year absence on December 4, 1993, in "The Legend's Final Challenge" at the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Urquidez fought Japanese champion Yoshihisa Tagami to establish the vacant WKA super welterweight world title. Despite having injured his left wrist in training, Urquidez proceeded with the bout and narrowly defeated his equally aggressive opponent with kicking attacks. Urquidez slipped to the canvas in round two; and Tagami scored a clean flash knockdown in round nine. Neither contestant was ever in serious trouble. The bout ended in a split decision, two judges scoring for Urquidez, one for Tagami. |
9636_20 | Gracie Challenge
In September 1994, Urquidez revealed he had been challenged by Rorion Gracie for a mixed martial arts bout as part of the Gracie Challenge. He claimed to have backed down from the fight, considering it to be just a promotional stunt, due to Rorion demanding to fight for free after having negotiated for a fight purse. In response, in November of the same year, Rorion's brother Royce Gracie challenged Urquidez himself, which Benny rejected on the grounds of being retired. |
9636_21 | Months later, Royce Gracie wrote an attack piece printed in Black Belt magazine titled "Message for Urquidez: Actions Speak Louder Than Words" in which he voiced his issues with Urquidez, criticizing Urquidez for not submitting to the Gracies' demands for a fight; Gracie alleged that Rorion had dominated Urquidez in a training bout at Urquidez's Jet Center gym in 1978, taking him down "several times" without being touched. Although Gracie went on to state that "that's how the whole Gracie rivalry with Benny started", he went on to accuse Urquidez of having said he would "help Rorion", but not following through on the offer. He also claimed Urquidez only wanted to fight under kickboxing rules, to lessen the chance of being defeated, and that Rorion refused on the grounds that he was "not a kickboxer". None of Gracie's claims were independently verified.
Movie roles |
9636_22 | Urquidez has played a number of roles in various martial arts movies. The first was Force: Five (1981), starring Joe Lewis and Bong Soo Han. Later, he made two movies with Jackie Chan, Wheels on Meals (1984) and Dragons Forever (1988), wherein he fights against the characters played by Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. Urquidez is depicted as a relentlessly tough opponent who is defeated in the climactic fight scenes of both movies. His final fight with Chan in Wheels on Meals is considered to be among the finest fights of Chan's career, including by Chan himself. |
9636_23 | Urquidez cameoed as a kickboxer in the Troma film Ragin' Cajun. The movie, filmed in 1988 and released in 1991, wrongfully asserted that it featured Urquidez's first film appearance, stating in the opening credits, "Introducing Benny 'The Jet' Urquidez". He appeared in the 1989 film Roadhouse as one of the fighters seen at a car dealership which is partially destroyed in elaborately choreographed mayhem. He trained Patrick Swayze in his own fighting techniques for the film. Urquidez appears in the 1991 film Blood Match, and in 1992, he played a referee in the James Woods and Louis Gossett, Jr. film Diggstown. He has a cameo appearance in the movie Street Fighter (1994), playing one of several prisoners put in a truck with Ken, Ryu, Sagat and Vega. Urquidez was also responsible for the physical training of most of the Street Fighter cast. He was set to play a different character in the franchise, Raven, in a game based on the movie, but the character was later scrapped. |
9636_24 | Urquidez performed in the film Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) as Felix La Poubelle, a hitman sent to kill a character played by John Cusack. He appeared in 1408 (2007), again with Cusack. Urquidez is Cusack's long-time kickboxing trainer. Urquidez also appeared as one of several thugs who accost Kirsten Dunst's character in the first Spider-Man film during an attempted robbery; Urquidez plays the thug wearing a black-and-white-striped T-shirt who makes kissing noises at Dunst.
He was a fight coordinator for an episode of the television drama Criminal Minds, "The Bittersweet Science" (season 7, episode 10), and also appears in the episode in a 30-second role as an underground MMA referee. |
9636_25 | Titles and awards
World Kickboxing League W.K.L - Hall of Fame 2013
Black Belt Magazine
1978 Competitor of the Year
KATOGI
KATOGI super-lightweight (-63.6 kg) world champion (0 title defences - vacated): 1978
Muay Thai Bond Nederland
M.T.B.N. welterweight (-66 kg) world champion (0 title defences - vacated): 1984
National Karate League
N.K.L. lightweight (-70.5 kg) world champion (3 title defences - vacated): 1974-1975
Professional Karate Association
P.K.A. lightweight (-65.9 kg) world champion (2 title defences - vacated): 1976-1977
STAR System World Kickboxing Ratings
S.T.A.R. undisputed welterweight (-66.8 kg) world champion: 1985
S.T.A.R. undisputed super-welterweight (-70.5 kg) world champion: 1974
World Kickboxing Association
W.K.A. super-welterweight (-70 kg) world champion (0 title defences - vacated): 1993
W.K.A. welterweight (-66.8 kg) world champion (0 title defences - vacated): 1985 |
9636_26 | W.K.A. super-lightweight (-64.5 kg) world champion (14 title defences - vacated): 1977-1985 Note that 1 of the defences were for the W.K.A. lightweight world title (-65.9 kg) but the weight classes were later restructured
World Professional Karate Organization
W.P.K.O. lightweight (-65.9 kg) world champion (0 title defences): 1975
World Series of Martial Arts Championships
W.S.M.A.C. lightweight (-79.5 kg) world champion (4 title defences - vacated): 1975-1976
W.S.M.A.C. openweight (unlimited weight) world champion (1 title defences - vacated): 1974-1976 |
9636_27 | Kickboxing record
Note that the record below is the documented professional record of Benny Urquidez from the S.T.A.R. website. He also is believed to have 11 undocumented matches, winning 10, drawing one with all 10 victories by way of KO. |
9636_28 | |- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1993-12-04 || Win ||align=left| Yoshihisa Tagami || W.K.A. Event @ Mirage Hotel || Las Vegas, Nevada, USA || Decision (split) || 12 || || 48-1-4
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| 1989-08-24 || No-Decision||align=left| Shinya Asuka (Nobuya Azuka) || N.J.P.W. Event @ Tokyo Dome || Tokyo, Japan || No-Decision || 5 || 2:00 || 47-1-4
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1985-11-16 || Win ||align=left| Tom Larouche || W.K.A. Event || Northridge, California, USA || Decision (split) || 12 || 2:00 || 47-1-3
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1984-01-15 || Win ||align=left| Iwan Sprang || M.T.B.N. Event || Amsterdam, Netherlands || TKO (referee stoppage) || 4 || 1:37 || 46-1-3
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1983-09-12 || Win ||align=left| "Iron" Fujimoto || W.K.A. Event || Tokyo, Japan || KO || 6 || 1:37 || 45-1-3
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 | |
9636_29 | |- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1983-01-08 || Win ||align=left| Kunimasa Nagae || W.K.A. Event || Tokyo, Japan || KO || 4 || || 44-1-3
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1982-06-21 || Win ||align=left| Yutaka Koshikawa || W.K.A. Event || Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada || KO (spinning back kick) || 6 || 1:48 || 43-1-3
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1982-02-02 || Win ||align=left| Jesse Orrozzo || W.K.A. Event @ Queen Elizabeth Stadium || Hong Kong || Decision || 6 || 2:00 || 42-1-3
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1981-04-09 || Win ||align=left| Kong Fu Tak || W.K.A. Event @ Queen Elizabeth Stadium || Hong Kong || TKO (cut) || 4 || || 41-1-3
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| 1980-08-09 || NC ||align=left| Billye Jackson || W.K.A. Event || West Palm Beach, Florida, USA || decision loss || 7 || 2:00 || 40-1-3
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;" |
9636_30 | | 1980-04-19 || Win ||align=left| Frank Holloway || W.K.A. Event || Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada || Decision || 9 || 2:00 || 40-1-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1980-01-26 || Win ||align=left| Shinobu Onuki || W.K.A. Event @ Tropicana Casino Hotel || Las Vegas, Nevada, USA || KO (left hook) || 7 || || 39-1-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1979-?-? || Win ||align=left| || W.K.A. Event || Tijuana, Mexico || KO || 4 || || 38-1-1
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1979-10-01 || Win ||align=left| Yoshimitsu Tamashiro || W.K.A. & A.J.K.B.A. Event || Tokyo, Japan || Decision || 9 || 2:00 || 37-1-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1979-09-14 || Win ||align=left| Frank Holloway || W.K.A. Event || Ensenada, Mexico || Decision || 9 || 2:00 || 36-1-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;" |
9636_31 | | 1979-?-? || Win ||align=left| || W.K.A. Event || Tijuana, Mexico || KO || 2 || || 35-1-2
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1979-07-05 || Win ||align=left| Frank Lee || W.K.A. Event @ Northland Pavilion || Edmonton, Alberta, Canada || KO || || || 34-1-2
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1979-05-02 || Win ||align=left| Rick Simmerly || W.K.A. Event || South Lake Tahoe, California, USA || KO || 6 || || 33-1-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#fbb;"
| 1978-08-02 || Loss ||align=left| Prayut Sitiboonlert|| KATOGI Event || Tokyo, Japan || Decision || 6 || 3:00 || 32-1-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1978-04-29 || Win ||align=left| Shinobu Onuki || W.K.A. & A.J.K.B.A. Event || Tokyo, Japan || TKO (injury) || 3 || 1:17 || 32-0-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1978-04-10 || Win ||align=left| Takeshi Naito || KATOGI Event || Osaka, Japan || KO (spinning back kick) || 1 || 1:16 || 31-0-2
|- |
9636_32 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1978-04-05 || Win ||align=left| Dave Paul || W.K.A. Event || Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada || TKO || 4 || || 30-0-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1977-11-14 || Win ||align=left| Kunimatsu Okao || W.K.A. & A.J.K.B.A. Event @ Nippon Budokan || Tokyo, Japan || KO || 4 || 1:31 || 29-0-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1977-08-03 || Win ||align=left| Katsuyuki Suzuki || W.K.A. & A.J.K.B.A. Event @ Nippon Budokan || Tokyo, Japan || KO || 6 || || 28-0-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1977-07-? || Win ||align=left| || W.K.A. Event || Tijuana, Mexico || KO (kick) || 1 || || 27-0-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1977-04-23 || Win ||align=left| Howard Jackson || P.K.A. Event @ Hilton Hotel || Las Vegas, Nevada, USA || TKO (referee stoppage) || 4 || 1:25 || 26-0-2 |
9636_33 | |-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| 1977-03-12 || NC ||align=left| Narongnoi Kiatbandit || W.K.A. Event || Los Angeles, California, USA || No contest (riot in crowd) || 9 || || 25-0-2
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1976-10-01 || Win ||align=left| Eddie Andujar || P.K.A. & W.K.A. Event || Los Angeles, California, USA || TKO || 8 || || 25-0-1
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1976-08-28 || Win ||align=left| Earnest Hart, Jr. || P.K.A. Event @ Neal Blaisdell Center || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || Decision || 9 || 2:00 || 24-0-1
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1976-?-? || Win ||align=left| || || Tijuana, Mexico || KO (kick) || 3 || || 23-0-1
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1976-06-? || Win ||align=left| Sanun Plypoolsup || W.S.M.A.C. Event || Dallas, Texas, USA || Decision || 8 || 3:00 || 22-0-1
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 | |
9636_34 | |- style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| 1976-02-14 || Draw ||align=left| Earnest Hart, Jr. || || Los Angeles, California, USA || Technical draw (Hart cut after throw) || 1 || || 21-0-1
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1976-?-? || Win ||align=left| || N.K.L. Event || Detroit, Michigan, USA || KO || 1 || || 21-0-0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-12-? || Win ||align=left| || N.K.L. Event || Detroit, Michigan, USA || KO || 2 || || 20-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-10-11 || Win ||align=left| Bill Henderson || W.S.M.A.C. Event || Los Angeles, California, USA || KO || 3 || 0:32 || 19-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-09-21 || Win ||align=left| Farrel Sojot || W.S.M.A.C. Event @ Honolulu International Center Arena || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || TKO || 3 || || 18-0-0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-08-? || Win ||align=left| Marcelino Torres || N.K.L. Event || San Juan || KO || 1 || 0:30 || 17-0-0 |
9636_35 | |- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-07-26 || Win ||align=left| Burnis White || W.S.M.A.C. Event || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || KO (kick) || 4 || || 16-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-07-? || Win ||align=left| Sammy Pace || N.K.L. Event || Los Angeles, California, USA || KO || 1 || || 15-0-0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-06-28 || Win ||align=left| Eddie Andujar || N.K.L. Event || Los Angeles, California, USA || Decision || 3 || 3:00 || 14-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-06-20 || Win ||align=left| Ken Riley || W.S.M.A.C. Event || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || KO || 2 || || 13-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-05-30 || Win ||align=left| Sanun Plysoolsup || W.S.M.A.C. Event || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || TKO (cut) || 2 || || 12-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;" |
9636_36 | | 1975-05-16 || Win ||align=left| Roland Talton || W.S.M.A.C. Event || Los Angeles, California, USA || KO (knee) || 2 || 2:04 || 11-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-05-10 || Win ||align=left| Tayari Casel || W.P.K.O. Event @ Madison Square Garden || New York City, New York, USA || Decision || 3 || 3:00 || 10-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-04-? || Win ||align=left| Demetrius Havanas || N.K.L. Event @ Tarrant County Convention Center || Savannah, Georgia, USA || Decision || 3 || 3:00 || 9-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-03-? || Win ||align=left| || N.K.L. Event || Atlanta, Georgia, USA || KO (kick) || 2 || || 8-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1975-03-? || Win ||align=left| Ken Kolodziej || || Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA || KO (knee) || 4 || || 7-0-0
|- style="background:#cfc;" |
9636_37 | | 1975-02-? || Win ||align=left| Arthur Butch Bell || N.K.L. Event || Savannah, Georgia, USA || TKO || 2 || || 6-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1974-11-15 || Win ||align=left| Dana Goodson || W.S.M.A.C. Event, Final || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || Decision || 3 || 3:00 || 5-0-0
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1974-11-15 || Win ||align=left| Burnis White || W.S.M.A.C. Event, Semi Final || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || Decision || 3 || 3:00 || 4-0-0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1974-11-14 || Win ||align=left| Bill Rosehill || W.S.M.A.C. Event, Quarter Final || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || TKO (forfeit) || 3 || || 3-0-0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1974-11-14 || Win ||align=left| Futi Semanu || W.S.M.A.C. Event, 2nd Round || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || KO || 2 || || 2-0-0
|- style="background:#cfc;" |
9636_38 | | 1974-11-14 || Win ||align=left| Tom Mossman || W.S.M.A.C. Event, 1st Round || Honolulu, Hawaii, USA || KO (foot sweep) || 3 || || 1-0-0
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| colspan=9 | Legend: |
9636_39 | See also
List of male kickboxers
Gracie Challenge
References
Benny Urquidez, 格闘技に生きる (Living On The Martial Arts). Sports Life Publications, Inc.(Japan, May 1982)
Corcoran, J. and E. Farkas, Martial Arts: Traditions, History, People. W.H. Smith (New York, 1983)
Benny Urquidez, King of The Ring. Pro Action Publishing (Los Angeles, 1995)
Benny Urquidez, Practical Kick-Boxing: Strategy in Training & Technique Pro-Action Pub. (December 1982)
Benny Urquidez, Karate Dynamics: The Ukidokan System Pro-Action Pub. (July 1991)
Benny Urquidez, Training and Fighting Skills
Stuart Goldman, The Baddest Dude In The World, Hustler Magazine, March 1979.
Notes
External links
Benny The Jet's Academy of Stunt Actors
Urquidez biography from the Paradise Warrior Retreat Center. |
9636_40 | 1952 births
Blackfoot people
Living people
American male karateka
Shotokan practitioners
American male kickboxers
Kickboxers from California
Lightweight kickboxers
Welterweight kickboxers
American people of Basque descent
Male actors from California
Martial arts school founders
American male judoka
American jujutsuka
American aikidoka
American kendoka
American wushu practitioners
American male taekwondo practitioners
American kajukenbo practitioners
Action choreographers
American stunt performers
Sportspeople from Los Angeles County, California |
9637_0 | Drosophila metlerri, commonly known as the Sonoran Desert fly, is a fly in the genus Drosophila. The species is found in North America and is most concentrated along the southern coast of California and in Mexico. D. mettleri are dependent on plant hosts, namely, the saguaro and cardon cacti. Thus, they are most prevalent in arid, desert conditions. It is able to detoxify chemicals found in the rotting liquid of cacti hosts, which allows it to use otherwise lethal soil as a nesting site.
D. mettleri was discovered in San Felipe, Baja California in October 1961 during an experiment where banana was used to attract several species of Drosophila. Due to physical geographic barriers between Sonoran Desert flies, gene flow explains speciation. |
9637_1 | It breeds in soil moistened by liquid excreted by rotting cacti and on necrotic patches. The liquid found in rotting cacti patches serves as a nutrient source for D. mettleri larvae, despite it containing chemicals toxic to the intestines of other Dipterans. Several aspects of the fly species' courtship behavior, such as its courtship song and copulatory plugs, explain sexual selection methods in this fly.
Description
Differences between D. mettleri and D. nigrospiracula
Of the Sonoran Desert fly species, D. mettleri behaves, breeds, and is distributed most similarly to D. nigrospiracula. When D. mettleri are collected from cacti in prevalent geographic locations, they are isolated alongside D. nigrospiracula. Both species exploit the toxic sap of their host plants. However, unlike D. nigrospiracula, D. mettleri has a more efficient detoxification system that enables it to nest in areas not exploited by D. nigrospiracula. |
9637_2 | D. mettleri prefers to breed in soil moisturized in the sap of injured cacti, while D. nigrospiracula is found in the tissue of the cactus itself and is thus subjected to less concentrated toxin levels as compared to D. mettleri. An up-regulation in the genes encoding for xenobiotic resistance are attributed to the specialized and highly efficient detoxification ability of D. mettleri in comparison to other species. This enables the species to use a breeding ground otherwise lethal to both larvae and adults.
Feeding differences
D. nigrospiracula solely exploits cactus sap on the plant itself (i.e. in the tissues of the cacti). However, D. mettleri adults are located on both the cactus and in nearby soil, as the fly has the specialized ability to detoxify the highly concentrated sap found in surrounding soil. Females are more commonly located in their breeding ground (the soil), whereas males are situated in both areas. |
9637_3 | Physical distinction
Phenotypic differences and similarities may be used to distinguish between D. mettleri and D. nigrospiracula. Similarities between these two species include large bodies, black carcasses, and thin, defined cheeks that stand in stark contrast to their elongated eyes. Differences between these two species that can be used to decipher between them include the following characteristics that D. mettleri has and D. nigrospiracula does not: toe extensions from the genital region, a frons pollinose that is angularly shaped like a "v", less maturated gonapophysics, and horns on the anterior only (no horns exist on the posterior region).
Distribution |
9637_4 | Distribution due to heat |
9637_5 | The species is most commonly found in North American deserts, specifically, in Mexico and Arizona. The species is also found on the southern coast of California, where they inhabit prickly pears. Of the four species of Drosophila found in the Sonoran Desert, D. mettleri have the lowest heat tolerance. D. mettleri are abundant through all seasons but are less prevalent during the summer period. Because the necrotic tissue of cacti in the arid environment of the desert characterizes intense heat conditions, the ability of D. mettleri to exploit the nearby soil of the cacti for breeding purposes provides a selective advantage wherein the pupa of this species have a higher survival rate than other Drosophila desert species. Other species of Drosophila are less successful in the heat of the Sonoran Desert in rearing young due to the intense conditions. Their inability to burrow into the soil has been shown to prove detrimental in increasing pupa survival, yet D. mettleri has an |
9637_6 | evolutionary advantage in their ability to exploit a niche environment for breeding. The hypothesis that the necrotic tissue of cacti serves as a similarly protective environment as the soil of the Sonoran Desert for other species of Drosophila has been disproven. While other Drosophila have higher heat tolerances due to their breeding grounds in the necrotic tissue of cacti that is higher in heat, D. mettleri have a lower thermal tolerance because there is no evolutionary advantage to such heat tolerance (ability to exploit the less heat-exposed area of cacti soil). |
9637_7 | Effects of geographic barriers |
9637_8 | The geography of the area encompassed by the Sonoran Desert gives rise to genetic differentiation among desert Drosophila species who feed on necrotic rot. The Sonoran Desert incorporates the peninsular region of Baja California and mainland regions of California. After the peninsula was formed, the Gulf of California, which lies between the peninsula and the mainland, served as a barrier to dispersal opportunities in insects and land mammals. Another physical geographic barrier is the Gran Desierto de Alter, a large sand dune between the peninsula and the mainland. These physical geographic barriers are the cause of gene flow among Sonoran Desert flies. Studies of allozymes in D. mettleri and D. nigrospiracula show differences in nuclear markers that would otherwise suggest differentiation among the regions of the Sonoran Desert. In D. nigrospiracula, there were markers that showed differences within the species when they were located disparately among the peninsular and mainland |
9637_9 | regions of the desert. In D. mettleri, however, there were no such nuclear marker differences among members of the species found on the peninsula versus those found on the mainland. These differences show that deviations among D. mettleri can be supported through the stepping stone hypothesis. |
9637_10 | Each of the relatives of D. mettleri that are closest phylogenetically do not inhabit the Sonoran Desert region; therefore, the four species of Drosophila that do inhabit the Sonoran Desert region experienced parallel evolution instead of speciation within the desert. The species endemic to the Sonoran region, other than D. mettleri, are D. nigrospiracula, D. mojavensis, and D. melanogaster.
Habitat
Host plants
The main host plants include the saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea), the cardon (Pachycereus pringlei), and the senita (Lophocereus schottii) cacti. |
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