Kengo Kimura leaves

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

New Japan's "scount department" head and the chairman of "IWGP Championship Committee" Kengo Kimura resigned from his positions today to end his 33-year career with the company.

He had a press conference with Simon Inoki and said that it was his own decision to leave the company.

[Luds]

Hum... Could this have something to do with Choshu?

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Kimura said that he couldn't agree with Antonio Inoki's direction of sending pro-wrestlers to MMA matches "without training for it". Not sure if it has anything to do with Choshu.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

Well i agree to disagree. You had a ton of MMA fighters jumping in wrestling rings too. But to be fair these MMA guys have had wrestling training (Bob Sapp, et al).

IMHO, puro and K-1/MMA needs to be kept seperate. If you want to wrestle wrestle, if you want to be a K-1/MMA fighter, be my guest but stay away from a wrestling ring.

[Luds]

If Inoki doesn't figure out that by sending wrestlers to MMA you're exposing their weaknesses, then he's not a very smart man!