Fatal Fury Pro's Dramatic Reaction to Losing at EVO 2025 Goes Viral — but It Was Actually 10 Years in the Making

One pro warring crippled player's absorption to losing astatine Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves was truthful melodramatic that it's going viral connected societal media and already showing signs of becoming a meme.

If you’ve been looking astatine game-related sections of societal media today, chances are you person stumbled crossed a representation oregon clip of Japanese subordinate Kazuyuki 'Kojikog' Koji, rima unfastened successful a shriek and clutching his head, portion chap subordinate Goichi "GO1" Kishida looks connected with a substance of interest and bemusement. A mates of stills were adjacent shared by EVO2025’s authoritative X account.

A communicative successful 2 parts.#Evo2025 pic.twitter.com/eo2pkg2Psg

The subordinate successful question is KojiKOG, an esports pro from Japan who chiefly specializes successful warring games similar Street Fighter, the King of Fighters and Guilty Gear. This weekend, helium took connected chap Japanese subordinate GO1 (Goichi) successful the Winners' Semi Final for Fatal Fury: City of Wolves astatine the Evolution Championship Series 2025 (EVO2025).

Although GO1 won some rounds (and went connected to triumph overall), the fights were precise close. Upon being defeated, KojiKOG clutched his caput with his rima unfastened successful a continuous shriek worthy of… well, Edvard Munch’s coating The Scream. This melodramatic affectional outburst, positive GO1’s bemusement, resulted successful a fig of meme-worthy shots.

I curse to God I’m not making amusive of this dude but NO ONE HAS EVER LOOKED LIKE THEY SUFFERED LIKE THIS IN HUMAN HISTORY pic.twitter.com/JekIbl1F0a

KojiKOG yet snaps retired of his losing airs and tin beryllium seen chatting to GO1 and tidying up. It is wide from this that helium was acting. However, shorter clips connected societal media person caused immoderate who are unfamiliar with KojiKOG’s antics to interest that helium was having a existent breakdown.

The End of EVOgelion #EVO2025 https://t.co/fZOHd1HmNF pic.twitter.com/Ht0vzmHXd3

KojiKOG is known for being a spot of a comedian, often doing his screaming airs and pulling comic faces successful interviews (like astatine EWC2025). His melodramatic absorption to losing this play was apt a notation to erstwhile helium antecedently faced disconnected against GO1 astatine EVO15. As seen successful the video below, helium did a akin screaming pose- puzzling the Japanese commentators arsenic his antics weren’t good known backmost then.

Commenting connected this, legendary pro warring crippled subordinate Daigo Umehara mused that KojiKOG’s absorption was similar a quality successful the SAW movies having their limb chopped off. This is wherefore galore Japanese fans colloquially notation to KojiKOG’s melodramatic pained absorption arsenic the “leg cutting incident” and the like.

Although KojiKOG mislaid against GO1 astatine EVO2025, helium came successful associated 5th spot overall, winning 80% of his matches successful Fatal Fury: City of Wolves.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.