>>14165900>He wanted them to winHe wanted them to win because he was insecure about pro-wrestling getting fucking exposed in front of the entire world when his entire legacy was built around being some kind of shoot tough guy, so he started jobbing his guys out to MMA fighters, started trying to integrate MMA guys like Sapp into the NJPW roster, etc.
It was a threat to his own legacy.
Inoki only did things for himself.
>>14165913>Inoki had the right long term idea for credibility when MMA was on the riseNo, he didn't, and the business logs prove that out. He quite literally nearly killed the company, look it up.
>>14165929Yeah, man, burying Nagata for 10 years so you could put over DON FRYE or some shit, what a great booking strategy.
I guess I'm just a "know nothing mark" and they weren't really running the Tokyo Dome to like 20,000 fucking people in the mid 00s, must've been a dream!
