Mobbed Up - The Masato.com MMA Gangster Connections Thread

[Megaterio Llamas]

Pride gangster ties -Dan Herbertson Interview With Miro Mijatovic

Dan Herbertson did this interview with Miro Mijatovic, the former manager of Fedor and CroCop, about the events that led to the demise of Pride. It originally aired around a year ago on Spike tv's mma show and passed without much discussion in the mma community.

Here are links to the interview for anyone here that may not have seen it. It's a three-parter.

http://www.spike.com/video-clips/rrpt6x ... art-1-of-3

http://www.spike.com/video-clips/leoiao ... art-2-of-3

http://www.spike.com/video-clips/3y57us ... art-3-of-3

[Megaterio Llamas]

UFC gangster ties

The Real Story Behind the UFC's Royal Family

http://web.archive.org/web/201210181906 ... yal-family

Proof Fertitta Family is 100 yr. old Mafia Family (not just ties)

http://www.global-mma.com/t8544-proof-f ... onnections

THE Z-FILES – PART 1
September 29, 2011
by admin

http://fightsport.net/?p=8358

[Luigi]

Nice Thead FF. Another good resource for this topic is the JRE episodes with Enson Enoue. He has tons of Yakuza ties and was a top Pride fighter. His perspective in quite amazing. He knows how to tell a good story too.

[Edge Guerrero]

Nice Thead FF. Another good resource for this topic is the JRE episodes with Enson Enoue. He has tons of Yakuza ties and was a top Pride fighter. His perspective in quite amazing. He knows how to tell a good story too.

- Here is the episode:





It's fun how much the real life ressembles those martial arts movies or video-games.
Good thread.

[Canuckster]

im going to go post this shit on the RB, might get banned or pinked or something for this.

[Masato]

Fantastic thread!

I also remember learning a thing or 2 about the Fertittas, and then wondering how they maintain their squeaky clean image and no one ever discusses it.

[Megaterio Llamas]

Herbertson was one of only two journalists, along with 'Yakuza' Zach Arnold that covered the the Pride/Yakuza scandal as it was unfolding during the calendar year 2005 that I know about as everyone else ignored the story until it was clear Pride was finished and pretended not to understand what was going on. The interview with Miro Mijatovic covers many of the details including Yamaguchi Gumi killing Naoto Morashita and installing Sakakibara, the disappearance of Homose from ringside as the old mob was pushed out, the News Years Eve shows that were the beginning of the end of big time Japanese mma, and his own dealings with Yamaguchi Gumi. Well worth setting an hour or two aside just for the matter of fact way Mijatovic spills the beans on the Yakuza and a few WTF did he just say - rewind it moments.

[Edge Guerrero]

Fantastic thread!

I also remember learning a thing or 2 about the Fertittas, and then wondering how they maintain their squeaky clean image and no one ever discusses it.

- Mobsters use their money in their sons and daughters education as a way to garanty they don't have the same line of work as them, if the governament comes to get, they can get the money and other things, but never the education.

That's is way we see several storys like this.
I learned that on comic-book's tought! :geek: