Dale Lusby 6-0 after U.S. Championship

Dale Lusby's tournament record is now 6-0, having won 1st Place in "Beginning Men's" Sparring at the 38th annual U.S. Championships in Dallas, TX on 6-17-06. Here you see him with with yet another 6ft trophy.

This most recent event Dale participated in, the 2006 U.S. Championships, have been held yearly in Dallas for close to 40 yrs. It was originally Allen Steen's tournament before he retired and handed over the reins to one of his blackbelts, Bob Beasley. It is held in Dallas each year and is well-known for being one of the oldest Karate tournaments in the U.S. Many of the greatest tournament fighters of the 60's and 70's have fought at this tournament, such as: Allen Steen, Pat Burleson, Skipper Mullins, Roy Kurban, Bill Wallace, Joe Lewis, Mike Stone, Jim Harrison, Chuck Norris and others.

Although Dale's 1st Place tournament sparring record stands at 6-0, this of course doesn't take into account the number of fighters he faced at each tournament (minimum of 2-3 at each times the number of events he's entered), or the total number of participants in his division each time(somewhere between 3-8 each time).

For instance, in Dale's division at the U.S. Championship there were a total of 8 fighters. Which in essence means that out of all 8 fighters he could've potentially faced, Dale ended up getting 1st Place, having to only participate in 3 fights via an elimination process.

8 fighters showed up and each was randomly paired against another. The 4 winners out of that were then paired up. Then the final 2 winners faced each other. Dale went through all 3 of those levels and ended up being the final winner!

I'd estimate that out of Dale's 6 tournaments he's actually faced about 13 fighters, out of a total fighter pool in all these events of about 25 fighters, and out of all of them he remains undefeated!