Background
Rudman is Jewish, and was born in Kuibyshev (now Samara, Russia).
Rudman is Jewish, and was born in Kuibyshev (now Samara, Russia).
He later emigrated to the United States, and lives in New New York He was second in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics championship at 70 kg in 1970-1972, and third in 1974. Rudman describes sambo as "is a combination of many forms of martial arts, designed to give Soviet soldiers the edge in combat fighting".
Rudman founded and served as director of the "Sambo-70" sports school in the Cheremushki District of Moscow.
He has been President of the American Amateur Sambo Federation since 2004, and President of the Federation International Amateur Sambo since 2005.
He was a member of the sport association "Dynamo".