Heres the in depth story about why Pride fell through and all the trials and tribulations that the management went through. This is a very BIG post. This content is protected This content is protected
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Seemed more like Sakakibara used Yakuza to threaten people, one got pissed and started an investigation.
Used Yakuza to blackmail, extort people into taking dives.. This means gambling setups, Yakuza have a long history of that type of thing. Very shameful.
Zach Arnold has been writing and re-writing the same "Japanese MMA is responsible for all of the evils in the world" article every week for years now. If you've read any of the others, then you've read this one, and if you haven't, well go find one of the thousands of condensed versions on his site. Basically it's the ramblings of an embittered pro wrestling fan on a morale crusade to stamp out the injustice of MMA in Japan, but he's quite well informed and knows his stuff (even if there's a massively negative spin on all of it), so as long as you can put up with what a tedious, pretentious **** he is, it's a decent read, I suppose.
Zach Arnold is a pretentious douche bag, and has made a name for himself by wrtiing this same ****ing article since 2006 every week and crying about pro wrestling = mma.
