秋山成勲と国本起一、野望の彼方に - Land of the Rising Stars

ファイターは、強さを証明し続けないと生き残れない。2年ぶりの復帰戦となる秋山成勲選手と、2連勝と進化を続ける国本起一選手。全世界のファイターが憧れる夢の舞台UFCへ上がる権利を得た彼らは、その強さを証明することが出来るか。前進し続ける両選手に強さへの原動力を聞いた。
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Kiichi Kunimoto has taken a rather unusual path during his fighting career. Hailing from Osaka’s notorious Nishinari district - Japan’s largest ghetto - his goal as a 15-year-old kid was to make it as a pro-skater. However due to the difficulty of surviving on skating alone, he decided to try his luck in MMA when he turned 24. His mentor Yoshihiro Akiyama, is also from Osaka and is an MMA veteran as well as one of the biggest international stars in the sport. Recently he has tried his hand in modeling, acting, and singing. "I owe everything I am now to fighting" says Akiyama.
Both of them grew up without too many luxuries, which they explain is one of the main factors that motivate them to become better fighters. This may ring truer for Kunimoto however, who hasn’t reached the same level of stardom as Akiyama. Regardless, both have their eyes on the UFC Welterweight title and are scheduled to fight on Sep. 20th at Saitama Super Arena. Considering Akiyama’s two-and-a-half year hiatus from fighting, some believe his match against Amir Sadollah will make-or-break his career. As for Kunimoto, if he wins against Richard Walsh, he will have situated himself nicely for bigger and better things to come. VICE Japan heads to Tokyo and Osaka to spend some time with both fighters in and outside their gyms.
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[@dust8802]

全て素晴らしいが一番なのが母親のピースですね。 元気な親の姿が一番心にきました。

[@atari_rx]

Kunimoto seems like a genuine guy. I love his interaction with his mom and the little story of when he bought her the necklace. Nice to see tough fighting guys have a soft side.

[@gorillapimpin2978]

+Kunimoto I saw him fight but now I feel bad seeing this because he seems like a really gentle, humble person.

[@melonbarmonster]

instantramen you're cute

[@ディープ産駒-c7j]

未だにヌルヌル言われる秋山 それだけやった事は計り知れない 一生をかけて償うんだな

[@飯田和夫-g4n]

処分されたレフリー陣やセコンドは批判しないんですか？　しつこい批判もわしに言わせれば十分ぬるぬる粘着でございます。

[@taddy1007]

西成の撮影シーンで国本選手の人柄が垣間見れた感じがした 以前の動画のアングラファイター二人の時もそうだけど危険地域の撮影は面白い

[@yousilly100]

It's sooo werid seeing him outside of 'Return of Superman' Not only is he a good father; he is also an amazing fighter.

[@bachikochan]

ストラッサー起一さんほんと好き。人の良さが滲み出てるしカッコいい

[@CoffeeBlack-hz2cz]

今KZbinrやってるみたいですね 金髪日焼け姿からもっと怖い人だと思ってた…

[@縦-w7u]

オイルレスリング選手のチュ・ソンフンさんじゃありませんか！

[@いあんぶら]

こんにちわ

[@00kizuna00]

Sarangs's dad is here! The return of superman! Thumbs up if anyone knows what I'm on about!

[@ivan8469]

yeah !

[@mikek1635]

00kizuna00 LOL. Doubt most MMA fans know of his other life.

[@cltv5407]

国本さん素敵です！見た目はいかついけど凄いいい人

[@梵頭-e8x]

秋山仲間には普通に優しいんだろな。

[@FachriAli]

akiyama (chu seong hun) is a variety show star in korea. he's in a show named "The Return of Superman" in kbs channel. it's about daddy who has to take care of his children for at least one day. his daughter is really cute.

[@MixolydianMode]

So is his wife. Akiyama shows himself as a very humble person a loving father and a thankful son to his parents. I really enjoy seeing him and his family on the show.

[@wegm8122]

Fachri Ali ヌルヌル秋山

[@zekefister8294]

+Fachri Ali From July to August of 2015, Akiyama was in at least 5 TV shows in Korea - The Racer, Return To Superman, K-Bap Star - Who's Your Mama?, Off To School (with an appearance by Shaq O'Neal), 2 Days 1 Night - Men's Autumn Special

[@FVhiroki0221]

ストラッサーの謙虚さ

[@OrionTheHunter1000]

I love japan iv been there 4 times... my 5th coming in October I wish the best of luck to these guys. The Japanese possess an amazing fighting spirit and a very awesome culture.

[@langtoronto]

both fighters in this video are Korean descent...the best fighters and entertainers in Japan are KOREAN by blood...they have the drive, passion and will to make it...

[@けいたん-s2u]

筋肉ある男はやっぱりかっこいい、、、。

[@atemocchi]

このビデオ見る限り秋山良い奴じゃん。 Akiyama seems a kind of person to me.

[@muhammadsaifullah595]

very humble person

[@247llvlog5]

かたや桜庭さんはUFC殿堂入り、、、秋山は総合格闘技界のルイスネリ

[@kianaluster3856]

Hey, its Choo Sarang's dad!!!

[@龍龍-o4x]

キイチはいい人の雰囲気 滲み出すぎてw

[@YN-eu6oo]

His name in Japan is "NURU-NURU AKIYAMA". Don't forget it.

[@kawaii-necoboss]

He is so nurunuru,kichigai person.

[@hjosuke2218]

Akiyama is Korean. He is called "nuru-yama(ヌル山)" in Japan. It means, nuru=slippy, yama=Akiyama When he fight, his body or uniform were always slippy very well. Akiyama is very popular as slippery man in Japan.

[@集団爽快]

国本さん24で始めたのか！俺も頑張ろう

[@猫会長-q7n]

母ちゃん嬉しいだね😃

[@TheMagiAlchemist]

Thanks vice. Gonna watch this after work

[@車塚竹之丈]

私は右寄りではないですが、許せることと許せないことがありますよ。 例を出すと、日本中からバッシングを受けている亀田大毅選手でさえ、試合前から内藤選手を投げ飛ばして勝とうとしていた訳ではありません。試合中に自分が不利になったので、やった訳です。それでも、最低な行為ですよ。 ヌルヌル秋山さんは、試合前から不正をして闘う準備をしていたわけで、許せるわけもないし、引退しても許せないくらい酷いです。 実力があるか否か以前の問題でしょうね。 右寄りだから許せないとか、ヌル山さんが在日だからとか、そんなくだらないことじゃない。一格闘技ファンとして、一生許せない。

[@shota637]

座王六道丸 最高のコメント

[@morning3322]

24から格闘技始めたストさんは俺にとって希望の星

[@jasminearnaiz6209]

It's so weird seeing choo sung hoon like this after 2 years of seeing him as sarang's appa.

[@zekefister8294]

I find it curious that Vice Japan made no mention in the write up of the zainichi Korean background of both Kunimoto and Akiyama. Perhaps a business decision?

[@igsyst]

Good luck Kiichi! From Cro Cop team.

[@jenifferluzhaas5014]

Akiyama s mi amor❤❤

[@rotten.gospel]

I would love to go see Shoo Sung Hoon/Yoshihiro Akiyama fight in person.

[@bambaosaka]

9月20日 UFC JAPAN 2014 楽しみです！失敗は成功の素。皆さん応援してます

[@martinmicor7822]

I've seen Akiyama's action in UFC, not the best but he definitely got the heart. Oh, I'm also a fan of his daughter Sarang. :) がんばれ秋山さん！

[@jenifferluzhaas5014]

❤❤❤desd argentina tucuman amandote mal❤

[@fisttaface]

i really enjoyed the video. i think i was japanese in another life.

[@sonyck4656]

SARANG APPA!!!

[@RnBandCrunk]

Truly inspiring for me, Glory I'm coming for you.

[@4SkinChan]

Isn't the first guy from that Return of Superman show?

[@MacStatic]

Ganbatte Nihonjin!!

[@jenifferluzhaas5014]

lo d sexsiyama es mortal.amor mio❤❤❤❤❤

[@tam4948]

yay they both won !

[@tonl6937]

nice fight

[@tonl6937]

nice fight

[@kaakutanaka9330]

お！ヌル山や。　良いローションも塗れるようになりましたしってか。ヌル山ヌルヌル～

[@cantonboi2]

sick tracks in this video

[@岸大介-r2n]

国本さんアメ村で会いました。頑張ってください

[@megasif]

I think Kyoji is better and has a better coach who understands fighting in Kid Yamamoto and Boku and those other fighters at their gym.

[@kentot2position]

he won!

[@iBabySky]

sarang papa

[@Lexman00]

Different sport, but don't the Japanese have a good reputation in the boxing world?

[@bobberk1903]

051u fight 8 billion people now ur the best thats pertty good hope hes not lying

[@lukaj1n]

It dazzles my mind that they DONT have a JTT in Japan... imagine if Genki Sudo, Enson Inoue, Kid Yamamoto, Kyoji Horiguchi, Nakai, Aoki, Akiyama, Kikuno and the other dude trained all at one gym...

[@EnemyJapanese]

ー格闘技は地道に練習するしかないと思う。 ほんとこれだね。。。格闘技は地道にコツコツ練習するしかないよね。

[@MrKarma49]

My sexy tan is blazing hot in the video. It almost melted my monitor.

[@kimchi_taco]

LOL are you really sexy 추성훈? I hope you win by one round KO in next match.

[@MrKarma49]

Don't worry my sexy friend. I Will hit my next opponent with my famous Sex Combo and KO him. :)

[@kimchi_taco]

omg, your sexy melt down my dual monitor as well as my retina. every girls are very curious about how does feel sexyyama's ultra sexy combo. They are already groggy as just imagine.

[@gorillapimpin2978]

Yoshihiro Akiyama if I had a pussy it would be throbbing hard

[@JMG_86]

+Yoshihiro Akiyama *SLIPPERY* *SLIPPERY*

[@poolboyinla]

I always thought most UFC fighters are underpaid. Chris Leben, a guy that beat Akiyama, is completely broke after a long career in the UFC.

[@twinspak]

Akiyama is on a lot of tv shows in Korea and Japan

[@rus3013]

I'm pretty sure Leben didn't invest much of his money, lol.

[@poolboyinla]

rus3013 There are a lot of fighters that end up with nothing. UFC seems to pay very little unless you are one of the top fighters. The worst player in the NFL still makes over 200k.

[@rus3013]

Yeah I don't understand it considering the money they UFC has and makes. But on the other hand if you aren't doing well and no one knows you, why should you been earning more than you deserve. I think it's the guys in the middle guys like Mark Hunt that really get screwed, like getting 6k to show against Kongo in his 4th UFC fight.

[@sspimpmasterflex]

They have a tier system at the UFC and they also offer bonuses If you give an entertaining fight, the potential in earning is all up to the fighters. So If you wanna play the game fight for the fans and reap the rewards.

[@kentot2position]

Sept 20 cant wait. goodluck sexy yama

[@vandythevandy]

Hey it's Sunghoon :D

[@valnumjin615]

They are both korean japanese called "jainichi". Their ancesters drafted by japanese goverment.... so japanese goverment has great responsibility to them....( my english is bad.. sorry about that)

[@tomcalvarho1062]

where is lyoto machida ?? father place in japan?? answer me please machida is half brazilian and half japanese

[@adversarial1000]

Does anyone know what songs are used in this video?...... I will give you cookie, I promise.

[@kwak76]

Gomi should of trained with these guys and maybe done better job instead of getting OK.

[@flipballaz93]

3:35 that look says "look at this guy talking shit"

[@ufo3315]

何はともあれ、この当時の二人は今の朝倉兄弟等とは次元の違うレベル。

[@木村-f7w]

最近選手のリーチ調べるけど秋山リーチクソ長い

[@cutmusser]

CRC（意味深）、以上！

[@スティーブンセガール-k9e]

拳月も国本さんと一緒のこと言ってたけど 格闘技に対しての取り組みとか気持ちの持ち方とかが 全然ちがうな。 ホンモノとニセモノがはっきりわかる

[@スティーブンセガール-k9e]

秋山さんもヌルヌル事件さえなかったら もっと素直に応援できんねんけどな(TT)

[@Mein1Gott]

what is the song at 5:50 ? i need that so bad much samurai champloo vibes from it help me please!

[@タジマ-n1p]

ストラッサーかっけえ

[@TestAccount-hc1ng]

The sun is a star, so... It checks out :)

[@melonbarmonster]

Korea is where it's at...

[@kaoruhanayama5760]

国籍とか関係なく格闘家として秋山さんは好きになれない。彼自身日本の格闘技ファンからどう思われてるか一番わかってると思うのでそこに関しては言うつもりはないけど、正直海外で日本を背負って出場しないで欲しい。格闘技理論や思想を語るのは勝手だけど日本の格闘技に関しては発言して欲しくないし、日本人面しないで欲しい。

[@rusi-bh9vt]

いや、君の文面からしていかにも人種差別してるとしか言いようが無いのだが？

[@kaoruhanayama5760]

韓国人であろうと日本人であろうと格闘家として好きじゃないと言っている。日本の恥という言葉が本来正しいのだが、彼は日本人じゃないですよね。別に人種差別をしてるつもりはないです。日本人じゃない人が日本の心の教えを説いてたらおかしいですよね？ましてやそれが犯罪者だったら？ちょっと大げさな例えかもしれませんが、それと同じレベルです。

[@Saturnize7]

Great shot @ 3:20

[@isanchez9839]

song at 7:15? sounds familiar but cant figure it out..

[@Qulize]

so anyone knows what song/track they used?

[@bukubukurou]

国籍関係なし！ 秋山の日本での評価はコメントが物語ってる。

[@-tsuji1246]

bukubukurou ネトウヨが嫌ってるだけ

[@チグローンチグローン]

貧しかった！って？ 親が聞いたらどう思うんだろ？必死で育てたのに

[@joeb.director5067]

Anyone know the first song?

[@michaelphillips7556]

That's a cool guy, he could have wrecked those angry bums on the street, but instead he tried to avoid any conflict.

[@SgawCules]

they gave him a goodluck

[@ゾロ寄りのサンジ]

秋山なぁ。ヌルヌル事件なぁ。出てほしくないし、一切格闘技しないでほしいけど、チャンスはあるからまぁ仕方ないね。ムカつくし嫌いだけど

[@adanbarrios5139]

ufc prelims brought me here

[@danpats1]

hope rin wins

[@kingchimpan3085]

やっぱヌルヌルですかね

[@ardiarossa3309]

why do they all gotta look so tanned?

[@なぎさきんじ]

てめぇ学生時代から柔道着ぬるぬるさせてこのタコ！！武道を語るんじゃねぇ！！すべる！すべるよぉ！

[@haitianxu]

Since when did VICE start accepting pay checks from the UFC? Their recent videos on MMA have UFC promotion written all over them. Not that VICE had any journalistic integrity to begin with, but this is pathetic. Akiyama is a huge star in Korea. His daughter is more famous in Korea than Macaulay Culkin is in the US. He doesn't have to be in the UFC to "eat nice" and "live nice", not with the shitty pay he's getting, what a crock of BS. Joe Rogan got his VICE weed buddies some of that Anderson Silva money from the UFC.

[@haitianxu]

***** I'm expecting VICE to not make a video like this? You can talk about the fighters and MMA in Japan without promoting the UFC you know.

[@haitianxu]

***** Yes, because Mayweather talks about boxing 100% of the time during his prime time shows, since he's IN BOXING. Because any employee can only talk about how great the company he's IN, 100% of the time. Are you dumb? Akiyama hasn't fought IN UFC for 2.5 years. 2.5 years. In the mean time he's been having so many other things going on in his live, in and out of MMA and Judo, that have nothing to do with UFC. I would expect him to talk about all that, not trying to hype up his UFC fight, to a legitimate journalist.

[@kersguuup]

***** they're probably advertising UFC or should I say "MMA" in Japan since it needs more supporters. nothing bad about it though...

[@haitianxu]

Charles Lopez Journalistic integrity says otherwise. If you go to the UFC's official KZbin channel, you can see their videos on there being used as promotional material. Not clips from their video, unedited versions of the entire thing.

[@kersguuup]

***** okay

[@kiyoblack7835]

誰かと思えばストラッサーか

[@qu-pi-3998]

He is Korean people.....

[@MrMoonjoohyun]

He is a Korean Japanese. So, He is a Japanese

[@ymk0307]

Joohyun Moon he is fully Korean. If I am living in Canada am I ethnically Canadian?

[@MrMoonjoohyun]

Kim Brian If you have a Canadian citizenship, you are a Korean Canadian, but if you don't have a Canadian citizenship you are a Korean.

[@ymk0307]

Joohyun Moon By your logic he is a Korean Japanese NOT just Japanese BAM

[@MrMoonjoohyun]

His ethnicity is Korean and nationality is Japanese. Maybe Ethnicity is important but nationality is everyting. For instance, if war occur in Korea he doesn't need to fight with North Korea since he is Japanese but I do as a Korean.

[@BF703]

i knew hendo wasnt American lol

[@josh_wah]

CHOO SUNGHOON~

[@kfam258]

ぬるぬるぬるぬるぬる　ぬる山さん

[@正道プロ]

古いコメントばかりだね。 秋山は普通にやっても強いのに変な仕込みするから批評されるんよね。 男前やし強いから正々堂々とやって欲しい。 俺も柔道家やから尚更そう願う。 秋山は俺からしたら普通に化け物並に強い人。

[@2CrazEy1]

Sexy Yama ftw!

[@jyoung8165]

오 추성훈씨네요 :) 꼭 승리하시길 ..!!

[@jenifferluzhaas5014]

porfa q s divorcie yaaaaaaa😢😢😢😢

[@mix1999]

やっぱかっこいい

[@TYCh-pq4se]

ぬるぬるの人ですか？

[@user-il6pd6vw8d]

うるさい君秋山さんはわからなかった

[@せきひんにーとおつ]

He is Korean. Not Japanese. Carefull UFC

[@gorillapimpin2978]

せきひんにーとおつ no one cares baka

[@youhei6162]

桜庭戦で審判買収したらしいけど一人いくらで買収出来たのか教えてほしいな

[@sevenseven9135]

ヌルヌル

[@chloemc144]

秋山かっこいいな ufcでアジア人で一番好きなのはやっぱ秋山

[@jenifferluzhaas5014]

Akiyama s mi rey.mi amor❤❤❤❤❤

[@李在厳]

秋山ヌルヌルで検索してごらん！