Last April, Genki Sudo mentioned on his personal blog that he received his Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt at the Triforce academy under Watanabe Yoshinao. Genki Sudo and his instructor noted that it was somewhat of a paradox to achieve the height of his former profession in retirement. Watanabe asked if this meant he would return to the sport of mixed martial arts and Genki said he thought about it, but abruptly (and sarcastically) said it was a joke. He then ended his diary entry with a ‘winking’ emoticon.
We picked up the conversation in New York a few weeks ago when we posed the question you all wanted to ask. Here’s what Genki Sudo told us…
