BUSHIDO cards were always my favorite PRIDE events. The adjustment to rules made it exciting. However, when PRIDE died, so did BUSHIDO and my career as one of the matchmakers in PRIDE. I was the guy who nobody knew about. I preferred it that way. I grew up in Japan watching PRIDE and slowly found my way into working for Dream Stage Entertainment. I worked my way up into the matchmaking quarters. The moment I started to build momentum, it was over.
The moment I found out I wasn’t going to be retained by the Fertittas and Dana White, I was sad. I really didn’t know what to do. Since they already had a matchmaker in the form of Joe Silva and didn’t want to add anyone else to the mix, I was left jobless. They had no use for me – a young, up-and-comer, who helped produced the concept of BUSHIDO originally in PRIDE.
I was living in Japan. No job. No money. I thought about helping K-1 Heroes out, but it just wasn’t worth it right now. I had saved up enough money to survive, but it wasn’t going to make it. I knew I had to find a job and soon. I called up HUSTLE to see if they wanted to add me as a booker onto their writing staff. They said no. I thought about moving to the United States and helping out EliteXC or swallow my pride and ask if WEC wanted me to work for them.
Luckily for me, I got a phone call from the Inokis. Antonio and Simon wanted to start up their own company. I went in for an interview and they offered me a job right after we had finished talking.
They had money, but could they get the talent. I asked them if they had any talent lined up and they revealed that they had signed the biggest free agent in all of MMA – Fedor Emelianenko. I didn’t hesitate taking over the President job that they offered. They even allowed me to pick a name for the entire company. I wondered if the Fertittas had owned the BUSHIDO trademark. It happened that they didn’t, and I immediately decided to call the new company – BUSHIDO Fighting Championships.
Note: This was started before HDNET and Mark Cuban started his promotion. Hey, it’s fantasy, so I’ll do whatever I want. I combined MMA Complete and the default database. The only thing I didn’t import most of the companies from the default database. I only incorporated WEFF, so the females in the game wouldn’t go to waste. I am currently in February 2011 of the game. I am going to post a detailed history of the BUSHIDO for the first two years.
Credit to the creator of the BUSHIDO logo and the creator of the databases.
BUSHIDO FC - The Journey
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