Double steroid & yakuza scandals rock Japanese MMA scene

Georges St-Pierre's old protégé, Yukinori Akazawa, finds himself at the heart of pure chaos.

In a post-PRIDE world, low-class influencers and media tycoons are setting Japanese MMA on fire.

A collision between Big Tech and Big Yakuza has made Japanese fight sports dumber and a little bit dishonorable.

Have you heard about the major steroid scandal that is rocking the Japanese combat sports world? Chances are that you barely know anything about it from the English-language press.

What is — or was — a national panic throughout the Japanese scene has some very international ramifications.

It’s a scandal that perfectly symbolizes where things stand in Japanese MMA for 2024.

I’m about to tell you one very long, strange, and bizarre story that encapsulates the last 15 years of Japanese combat sports. It’s a story that combines about 100 different disparate points into one unique package.

It’s less a story about skill and more a story about how Big Tech finally captured an island that had fought off Silicon Valley’s advances for so long.

It’s also a story of how the Japanese culture is quickly turning into any other kind of global culture that has been controlled and manipulated by world governments through their agents in Big Tech.

A story about the second most powerful producer in all of Mixed Martial Arts, a self-appointed fitness and lifestyle guru who found himself at the heart of a hoodlum-style remix of The Ultimate Fighter. New and colorful investment money diving into the controversy of old fight scandals.

A steroid scandal that has made Ren Hiramoto and Mikuru Asakura into household names in Japan.

Oh, and it’s also a story involving a fighter who has (or had) ties to the legendary UFC champion Georges St. Pierre. Do I have your attention?