Actually he admitted an offer was made, not that he took it, but you do the math.
From latest FCF, interview by Joe Hall:
JH: Was your fight with him at Pride 6 predetermined in any way?
GG: Not in any way, shape or form. Actually they tried to make it predetermined. Somebody called me and wanted to make it a work so that he would win, and I said "No, give me $90,000 and I will." And they said no and he kicked my ass anyways
Interesting...I've never seen that match, does Ogawa possess any real fighting skills? I noticed that other than his win over Sataake and Goodridge, his other opponents have only one fight each (at least according to fcf).
yeah right. anybody can say that to save face. Ogawa
has legit skills, he is a silver medalist in Judo.
Gary was throwing bombs, I mean wild bombs that would
have KOed Ogawa if they landed. Gary just gassed.
Plus if that was a work, that was a shitty work.
Goodridge basically got hit w/ sissy punches the whole
time and looked like a fool... Goodridge gassed,
that's it.
It's not too hard to believe that a silver medalist in
Judo can beat a former truck driver tomato can in
Goodridge.
What's suspicious is that many who saw the fight at the time questioned its legitimacy. And as it turns out, the promoters did indeed make an offer for Goodridge to work the fight. What a coincidence. Just a lucky guess by the interviewer I suppose?
Thanks for the info evil, I wasn't aware of Ogawa's judo skills.
LOLYour thread title is "Goodridge confirms Ogawa work"But in the interview Goodridge says. . .JH: Was your fight with him at Pride 6 predetermined in any way? GG: Not in any way, shape or form.So Gary says that it was not a work in any way, shape or form. But you still come to the conclusion that it was a work??LOL
Like I said do the math. Gary admitted an offer was made, that he would indeed do it for the right money, and we all saw the fight. So yes I believe he did confirm the work.
When the interviewer presses him on the issue, asking him who called him he tries to backpedal and says he doesn't know who called
bryanand--what told me the fight was fake was the "the way Gary threw strikes at Ogawa" They all missed!
Ogawa has refused to fight MMA now that his career has taken off... He knows what can happen to star prowrestler if they lose in MMA. Just check out Ishizawa after he lost to Ryan, his career went down.
If they could easily work fights for him, we would see him back more often. He's fought and beat subpar fighters, no need to work his fights. In addition, like I said he's a silver medalist in Judo and his ground game according to many japanese is very good.
Also, lol at working an MMA fight for Ogawa, but making him lose against goldberg in a prowrestling match. I don't think they japanese like their heroes getting fake wins.
If they wanted their heroes to win so badly, they'd put them agianst fighters their own size. I don't think they are that desperate to see their own fighters win.
"They all missed!
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Gary's not known for being an accurate striker. Plus the way he lost to fedor was worse than pro-wrestler nagata. at least Nagata hit Fedor.
An olympic silver medalist in judo will always beat a champion armwrestler in a fight. It's not that hard to understand. Plus, I'm no ogawa fan. He's very annoying and always hangs out w/ that fat fuck hashimoto.
It's not just that his punches missed, of course all fighters throw punches that miss. It was how WILDLY inaccurate his punches were while he was in Ogawa's guard. TOTALL UNLIKE ALL his other fights of which we have money to use for comparison. Very reminiscent of Takada-Coleman. Obvious work come on guys!
Is this the "new math" ?
goku yes he tried to backpedal by saying he didn't know who called but first he said "THEY" tried to make it predetermined. Hmm wonder who he was talking about...
never mind I give up. Take this for what it's worth. I guess people will believe what they want to believe. I could care less if it was real or not but I argued at the time the fight looked very fake to me. And this is enough evidence to convince me for sure. Whatever
if they were to work a fight to make ogawa look good. they wouldn't choose gary the foreign tomato can. they would have chosen a more credible fighter like coleman, randleman etc.
"And they said no and he kicked my ass anyways "
this confirms it wasn't a work.
I'm not sure where everyone is drawing these crazy conclusions from. He said it wasn't in spit of recieving offers. Not sure how things are in Brazil, but last I checked that's not a confirmation of any sort.
Even if it was worked - I think that's about as far from a confimation as you can get! Seems like a pretty direct denial to me.
feeding families? hahah... what kind of excuse is that. They make money in j prowrestling.
They are greedy, immoral and unhonourable fighters for taking the brides when they do.
This thread belong on the OG. Titles that have nothing to do with content.