Someone already did.
He’s a family man now.
Yeah I’ve seen that before. Just wanted to post the video again as well. Actually have the vhs around here somewhere.
This will go down as exceptionally controversial and dumb because you never compare a legend to… a not yet legend. But tomo is a person, flesh and blood. That means others like him will eventually come out the woodworks. Right now… sigh. Punk has the reactionary and executional gameplay that people say tomo exhibited. So, perhaps if you want to see a tomo caliber reactionary and executional player, punk might be the second coming of that kind of a talent.
Valle himself said everyone else is playing 6.5… punk is playing 4. The kids reactions are remarkable.
The Japanese themselves have compared playing against punk to playing against the computer. And tokido who played punk in tournament before anyone knew who punk was, and beat him, said that punk was the most promising American player he had yet faced. Those words would be prophetic as punk then went on to dominate the scene for over a year. The comparison to tomo may be fair, or it may be stupid, but right now he almost definitely has the best overall reactions in the scene and consistently makes reactionary plays game in and game out that other players would be lucky to make a handful of times over the course of a year against way less talented opponents.