The only one to win three of the biggest Japanese tournaments in history, the owner of a huge number of championship belts, who has been in the ring for 30 years in a row. Now he is 54 years old, and he still enters the arena and gives fight to the young. Living legend of Japanese pro-wrestling Yuji Nagata.
In general, as you understand, the athlete is extremely epic, respected and very well-deserved. The only question is why did the Japanese promoters once give him a real fight against Fedor Emelianenko himself?
This happened on December 31, 2003 at the Inoki Bom Ba Ye tournament. The Last Emperor was already the current champion of the Pride FC tournaments and was incredibly popular in the Land of the Rising Sun. And so the organizers of the tournament came up with an incredibly cool idea – to fight the best mixed martial arts fighter of the time against one of the best Japanese pro-wrestlers. It should be noted that Nagata was clearly not one of the timid. In 2001, he made his debut in mixed martial arts, flying into a knockout at 21 seconds of the fight with Mirko Cro Cop. After that, he intensively prepared for a return to MMA for two years and was determined to give Fedor a fight.

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