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Barry Farnworth's avatar

My wife and I stayed at the Keio Plaza on our honeymoon in Tokyo. This story has provided me with a wonderful anecdote for later. What a bizarre article that encapsulates Inoki's eye for the spectacle.

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Jonathan Snowden's avatar

Fancy!

Isn't it cool when some little detail comnects a story with your actual life?

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Barry Farnworth's avatar

It certainly is, it really made me smile - if I had known at the time it no doubt there would have been a suggestion that was why the hotel was picked. The honeymoon did include a fair few sightseeing opportunities of notable pro wrestling and MMA venues as it was :)

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Mason Pelt's avatar

Here for it.

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Davey J's avatar

This was a highly enjoyable read. Thank you!

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Jonathan Snowden's avatar

Thanks for reading

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Oliver Bateman Does the Work's avatar

Oliver the Humanzee!

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Jonathan Snowden's avatar

Oliver did the rounds in America too. Someone could do a story just on that shit show.

The Loch Ness is also amazing. He even got the NY Times to do a big feature!

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Oliver Bateman Does the Work's avatar

Yeah, Oliver the Humanzee is on my “to do” pile, since my dad (also Oliver) called people humanzees (a term I also use in the Substack at times). I finally wrote up the Oliver Bateman murders so I might tackle this soon.

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Jonathan Snowden's avatar

I have portions of his book translated if you do decide to write this stuff up. You could at least grab the Japanese perspective. Tons of American media wrote about it obvi.

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Oliver Bateman Does the Work's avatar

yeah, that would be incredible to have, something I have none of

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John Baker's avatar

Utter madness. Great stuff.

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Jon's avatar

This was wild! Thanks for this. It's always cool to hear tales of outlandish, bigger than life characters.

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Jonathan Snowden's avatar

Thanks for reading.

I was going through Inoki's autobiography for my PRIDE book and this story really grabbed my attention.

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