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** In 2006, he tried to organize a MMA event he dubbed "INOKI GENOME - The World's Best Martial Arts Decisive Battle". Several factors led him to keep postponing it, until he reorganized it into the Inoki Genome Federation instead as a pro wrestling/MMA company.

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** In 2006, he tried to organize a MMA event he dubbed "INOKI GENOME - The World's Best Martial Arts Decisive Battle". Several factors led him to keep postponing it, until he reorganized it into the Inoki Genome Federation instead as a pro wrestling/MMA company.company.
** Inoki was originally planed to return to NJPW as a Honorary Lifetime Chairman of the promotion with Inoki accepting the promotion's request on September 1, with news originally being planned to be announced on October 10, 2022 at NJPW Declaration of Power; however, those plans would ended up being canceled due to Inoki's passing on October 1.
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** He almost got ex-Ugandan boxing champion UsefulNotes/Idi Amin (yes ''that'' Idi Amin) to fight him in a mixed style match in 1979, but he was ousted from power and went into exile before that could happen.
** He originally planned to face George Foreman at the Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace, but Foreman refused as he didn’t want to go to a country like North Korea that was hostile to Americans.

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** He almost got ex-Ugandan boxing champion UsefulNotes/Idi Amin UsefulNotes/IdiAmin (yes ''that'' Idi Amin) to fight him in a mixed style match in 1979, but he was ousted from power and went into exile before that could happen.
** He originally planned to face George Foreman at the Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace, but Foreman refused as he didn’t didn't want to go to a country like North Korea that was hostile to Americans.

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* RealSongThemeTune: "Honoo no Fighter", from the 1977 UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli biopic ''The Greatest''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He almost got Idi Amin (yes the Ugandan dictator) to fight him in a mixed style match in 1979, but he was ousted from power and went into exile before that could happen.

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* RealSongThemeTune: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPJUTcycDf0 "Honoo no Fighter", Fighter" AKA "Inoki Bombaye"]], from the 1977 UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli biopic ''The Greatest''.
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He almost got Idi ex-Ugandan boxing champion UsefulNotes/Idi Amin (yes the Ugandan dictator) ''that'' Idi Amin) to fight him in a mixed style match in 1979, but he was ousted from power and went into exile before that could happen.

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** He originally planned to face George Foreman at the Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace, but Foreman refused as he didn’t want to go to a country like North Korea that was hostile to Americans.

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** He originally planned to face George Foreman at the Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace, but Foreman refused as he didn’t want to go to a country like North Korea that was hostile to Americans.Americans.
** In 2006, he tried to organize a MMA event he dubbed "INOKI GENOME - The World's Best Martial Arts Decisive Battle". Several factors led him to keep postponing it, until he reorganized it into the Inoki Genome Federation instead as a pro wrestling/MMA company.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He almost got Idi Amin (yes the Ugandan dictator) to fight him in a mixed style match in 1979, but he was ousted from power and went into exile before that could happen.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He almost got Idi Amin (yes the Ugandan dictator) to fight him in a mixed style match in 1979, but he was ousted from power and went into exile before that could happen.happen.
** He originally planned to face George Foreman at the Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace, but Foreman refused as he didn’t want to go to a country like North Korea that was hostile to Americans.
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* RealSongThemeTune: "Honoo no Fighter", from the 1977 UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli biopic ''The Greatest''.

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* RealSongThemeTune: "Honoo no Fighter", from the 1977 UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli biopic ''The Greatest''.Greatest''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He almost got Idi Amin (yes the Ugandan dictator) to fight him in a mixed style match in 1979, but he was ousted from power and went into exile before that could happen.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Was the personification of this trope in NJPW, to the extent he was criticized by Masahiro Chono and other figures for booking not what the crowd wanted to see in the ring, but what ''he'' wanted to see in the ring.
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* RealSongThemeTune: "Honoo no Fighter", from the 1977 UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli biopic ''The Greatest''.

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