FCFighter News posted about a sanctioned MMA promotion in Sweden called Zone FC. PRIDE, Shooto and UFC veteran, Enson Inoue (11-8) was on hand as a ring announcer. He fielded some questions from the press. Most interesting was this:
What impact has the end of Pride had on MMA in Japan?
“It depends where you are looking. If you are standing in the USA it’s a good thing because all the Pride fighters went to the UFC. If you’re in Japan, it’s a bad thing because it almost killed Mixed Martial Arts in Japan. What’s happening now in Japan is K-1 is taking over the whole martial arts scene. Hero’s is going to be changed to another name, the Pride staff are going to take over and Mixed Martial Arts is still going to be alive, there will be big purses, everything will be the same. Because of the name change and the so-called death of Pride, the underworld problems that they had are now buried so they’ll still have the same staff and it will be run under K-1, just the president Sakakibara is out. He’s now racing cars or something.”
3 comments:
He's wrong about things going to be the same in Japan. UFC's now the world's leader as best of the best. No one will go to japan to fight 'the best.' The pride glory days are over. Fightsport in general has gone down in Japan. Pride was something global, whatever japan will get now will be mostly regional or mostly kickboxing. I don't think it will be just a change of names, not by a long shot
Dude, who the fuck are you to say if Enson is right or not?
man, do you fight in Pride?
do you fight in UFC?
nah, you don't.
Do you know why? because the real mother fuckers out there, aren't sitting around on computers, commenting on what people who did the miles have to say.
you fucking loser.
get a life mohammed and stay in Arabia mate.
Yeah, I agree.
You can't just assume you know everything about UFC, kickboxing and Pride.
And I mean, do you live in Japan?
do you know what it's really like?
I don't think so.
So I'd shup up about it.
And get the prac behind you first
you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk brother.
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