Story - Gabriel Levan

Where It All Begins

There are men you don't hear.

Men you sense, through the precision of a gesture, the calm in their gaze, the weight of their silence. Gabriel Levan is one of them.

For over twenty years, he returned tirelessly to the place where more than the body is forged: the hard floor of the tatami. Every fall, every breath, every rise shaped who he is. Not to fight. To be ready.

Because in combat lies a truth the world often forgets: it's not a confrontation with others. It's a meeting with oneself.


The echo of a dream

Since childhood, a whisper guided him. One from a distant archipelago, where martial arts are not a sport, but a way of life. Japan was not a destination. It was a calling. A land apart.

Gabriel set foot there as one enters a sanctuary. Within him, more than ambition: loyalty — to his masters, his journey, his values.

A dream made possible by his coach, Élie Kerrich, an iconic figure in MMA, former coach of the Japan Top Team, who has guided renowned athletes.

Thanks to him, Gabriel signed a multi-fight contract with the legendary organization: Pancrase. A crowning moment. A proof of merit. A bridge between samurai discipline and the drive of the modern fighter.


The Body as Language

A complete fighter, self-forged, Gabriel embodies quiet strength. His body speaks a sharp, precise language, stripped of the superfluous. What he seeks in the arena is not domination, but the truth of the gesture — the alignment between intent and action. Each movement is a letter in the story he writes with his body. Each fight, a mirror turned inward.

This first professional bout in Pancrase was not a beginning. It was an invisible crowning. That of a man who never stopped moving forward in the shadows, carried by what truly matters.


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To Be Without Appearing

IPSÉITÉ did not choose Gabriel for what he represents. But for what he embodies in the spaces between the visible: discipline, integrity, the refusal to betray who you are.

That's why we supported him. Not for what he shows, but for what he carries.

In a world that values spectacle, he reminds us that true greatness makes no noise. It carves its path into the rock of reality.

At IPSÉITÉ, we believe in men like him — those who don't strive to appear, but to be. For whom each second is a chance to move forward without betraying who they are.


Thanks to Victor Marvillet, for capturing what cannot be said.

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