Shinya Aoki Contemplating Retirement

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Fresh off his humiliating and devastating KO at the hands of K-1 kickboxer Yuichiro Nagashima at last year’s Dynamite!! sources close to Dream Lightweight Champion Shinya Aoki are saying that the depressed submission grappler is considering retirement from MMA to focus on his role as a trainer in the DEEP gym. Aoki’s troubled mental state is yet another setback for the struggling MMA scene in Japan.

A Comics Nexus original, Will Cooling has written about comics since 2004 despite the best efforts of the industry to kill his love of the medium. He now spends much of his time over at Inside Fights where he gets to see muscle-bound men beat each up without retcons and summer crossovers.