[1][3][4] He emigrated to the United States in 1994,[5] and lived in New York City, where was involved in sports administration.

[1][8][9] Rudman described sambo as "is a combination of many forms of martial arts, designed to give Soviet soldiers the edge in combat fighting".

[4] In 1969, he was the European Judo Champion in individual competition as a light-middleweight (U70), winning all of his matches in Ostend, Belgium, ahead of Antoni Zajkowski and Czeslaw Kur of Poland, and Patrick Vial of France.

[3] He won a bronze medal in the 1969 World Judo Championships in Mexico City in the U70 weight class.

[1][2][3][10][11][12] In 1970, he was part of the European Team Judo Champion at the championships in Berlin, fighting in the U70 weight class.