Mentor Selection Process

[Stanley Fishman]

Inside an open room of the Hawaiian Vale Tudo HQ similar to how the Ultimate Fighter tryouts are tatami mats laid out for fighters to grapple on. All of the members of Pancrase Rebirth have clipboards writing notes on each fighter. Stanley Fishman then calls everybody into the middle to begin the mentor selection process.

Stanley Fishman: Alright lets so this as quickly and smoothly as possible. Here is how its going to work. Ray Wizard over here has a hat where inside is each member of the current roster. When he draws a name that person then can either choose to pick a mentor with only one to each fighter, pass the choice on to the next fighter, or decline having a mentor at all. Also inside is the wild card. If the wild card is drawn from the hat two other additional mentors will step up for the next name that is drawn out of the hat to choose.

Stanley Fishman: With that out of the way lets have Ray Wizard please draw the first name from the hat. Remember choose your mentor wisely as this will be the main person you will interact with on a day to day basis and who gives you techniques and coaching.

Ray sticks his hand down and picks one.

Ray Wizard: Arjen Van Den Oetelaar gets the first pick.

Without hesitation Arjen picks Anton DeJonge as his mentor.

Anton DeJonge (Oetelaar) Aldous Hauser Tome Morais Rameau Ouedraogo Augusto Korda

Stanley Fishman: The next name please Mr.Wizard.

Ray Wizard: Matt Angle

Matt Angle ponders his choices for a few seconds and selects Augusto Korda.

Anton DeJonge (Oetelaar) Aldous Hauser Tome Morais Rameau Ouedraogo Augusto Korda (Matt Angle)

Ray Wizard: Ashe Denis.

Ashe Denis respectfully declines having a mentor altogether but does mention that he highly respects Aldous Hauser who acknowledges this with a bow.

Anton DeJonge (Oetelaar) Aldous Hauser Tome Morais Rameau Ouedraogo Augusto Korda (Matt Angle)

Ray Wizard: Neville Dieusel Byrd.

Byrd can't quite decide who he is going to pick at first between Aldous Hauser and Rameau Ouedraogo so he passes.

Ray Wizard: Its the wild card!

Stanley Fishman: Now the question is will it be Takahashi or McPhee who gets the wild card?

Ray Wizard: Yusuke Takahashi.

Stanley Fishman: May the first wild card mentor please step inside.

Eric Mann the Austrian greco roman wrestling star who is known to be a top trainer in Europe is the first wild card.

Stanley Fishman: And the second wild card mentor is...Who else but me?

Stanley Fishman raises his hands in the air and smiles stepping forward into the middle adding another choice for Takahashi.

Stanley Fishman (Wild card for Takahashi) Anton DeJonge (Oetelaar) Aldous Hauser Tome Morais Rameau Ouedraogo Augusto Korda (Matt Angle) Eric Mann (Wild card for Takahashi)

What is Takahashi going to do?

Tome Morais seems angered that no one has chosen him yet at this point. Aldous Hauser seems calm, cool, and collected pretending he doesn't care but in reality excited over the idea of mentoring a young fighter. Eric Mann looks suggestively at Yusuke Takahashi who has the next pick while Stanley Fishman has a large shit eating grin at the possibility of him being a mentor to a fighter.

[Ray Wizard]

Takahashi sneers. He whispers something to his American manager, Pinklon Witherspoon.

[glow=hotpink,2,300]Pinklon Witherspoon:[/glow] Takahashi says that if he has to choose a mentor, then only Masakatsu Mamushi himself will be suitable.

[glow=red,2,300]Ray Wizard:[/glow] Mr. Mamushi is not among those who will have mentoring responsibilities. Your fighter does have the option of refusing a mentor altogether.

Witherspoon and Takahashi briefly exhange words in Japanese.

[glow=hotpink,2,300]Pinklon Witherspoon:[/glow] Takahashi chooses to have no mentor.

[glow=red,2,300]Ray Wizard:[/glow] Ok.

Ray Wizard goes back to fiddling with his flux capacitor.

[Stanley Fishman]

Stanley Fishman is not surprised at the choice Takahashi has made and steps back.

Stanley Fishman: Suits yourself Mr.Takahashi being that it is your choice afterall and I was in no way forcing you to choose a mentor, it just happened to be luck of the draw. I shall personally see what I can do in regards to making you the best fighter possible without an assigned mentor.

An enraged and disgusted Eric Mann immediately leaves the vicinities, storming out of the same door in which he originally came from. Aldous Hauser surprisingly continues to be apathetic about the whole situation. Ray Wizard is too busy trying to figure out the secrets of time travel to care. Tome Morais' anger has transformed into a sigh of disappointment. Suddenly Morais has an epiphany.

I don't want you to bother me with this shit ever again, Morais. You've got a lot to learn about business, and life in general.

- Masakatsu Mamushi

asideTome Morais: Mamushi was right, how could I be fit to be a mentor when I myself have not developed the maturity to do so.

Tome Morais leaves the room in shame with his hands on head which gravitate towards his face, the huge hands covering it all. Fishman and Wizard try to stop him with remarks of "Wait where are you going we still have two fighters who havn't selected mentors yet!" but it is no use, Morais has made his final decision.

[Stanley Fishman]

Stanley Fishman: Well after dealing with that debacle its time to finish the mentor selection process.

Stanley Fishman: Lets go back to Neville Dieusel Byrd.

Neville Dieusel Byrd is still unsure who he is going to pick as his mentor, seeming to think too much about the decision.

Ray Wizard: Ok Byrd we are all tired of you procrastinating so lets get this over with.

Byrd not wanting to displease the upper management finally chooses Rameau Ouedraogo as his mentor.

Anton DeJonge (Oetelaar) Aldous Hauser Tome Morais (quit/retirement) Rameau Ouedraogo (Neville Dieusel Byrd) Augusto Korda (Matt Angle)

Stanley Fishman: Ok, with only Aldous Hauser left unchosen as a mentor he goes over to Kevin McPhee by default.

Ray Wizard: The final list is the following

Anton DeJonge & Arjen Van Den Oetelaar

Augusto Korda & Matt Angle

Ashe Denis no mentor

Yusuke Takahashi no mentor

Rameau Ouedraogo & Neville Dieusel Byrd

Aldous Hauser & Kevin McPhee

Have a nice day of training and hopefully all of you will become better acquainted with each other. You all may leave now.

All of the mentors and fighters begin casual chatting, Ashe Denis now has found his opportunity to talk with the man who has fascinated him the most, Yusuke Takahashi. Denis starts to approach him cautiously.

To be continued...soon

bunanana!

[Stanley Fishman]

Takahashi is about to leave with Witherspoon but Ashe Denis follows up right beside him.

Ashe Denis: That was a very brave move you did there Takahashi-san. The pressure upper management put on you to choose a mentor was intense. I respect you a lot for that. My reason for not choosing a mentor was because I want to be a leader, you on the underhand I expect want nothing to do with Stanley Fishman's fighters who thus far have been fed to Mamushi himself. Understand that you and I have similiar beliefs and backgrounds. All of the fighters currently in Hawaiian Vale Tudo are raw and havn't competed in anything similar to this where as both of us have. You fought in shoot-wrestling before am I correct? I started out as a traditional martial artist who wanted to learn the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and was forced to put my techniques to the test on stressful conditions in vale tudo. None of these fighters truly understand the intricacies of catch wrestling or jiu-jitsu, both of us working privately under our masters, Jorge Correa De Lima and Masakatsu Mamushi respectively.

I am giving you an offer of mutual respect and friendship.

My ultimate proposal however is the formation of a "G-2 Summit" between our camps, Gracie Fission and Pinklon Witherspoon's Gym. By uniting the continents of North America and South America we can share the most innovative techniques and become THE driving force behind Hawaiian Vale Tudo.

What this is is a matter of becoming more competitive. A-Team Fight Club has 100 % backing financially and technically from Stanley Fishman, The Studio has pros from UJSW teaching on a day-to-day basis, and the sport is so far evolved in Japan from here in The Americas that strength in numbers is key.

With this busy time in shoot-fighting occuring there isn't a lot of time to think this offer through too much, so I will need a response right away.

If you decide to come down to Brazil to train with me, you better learn a bit of Portuguese, ha ha.

[Ray Wizard]

Witherspoon and Takahashi exchange words in Japanese.

[glow=hotpink,2,300]Pinklon Witherspoon:[/glow] Takahashi says that he'd like to train with you, but can't afford to make any trips down to Brazil. If you ever want to take a stop at my gym, however, we'd both be open to exchanging ideas.

[Stanley Fishman]

Denis scratches his chin for a few seconds.

Ashe Denis: You know what I think that can be arranged, I could also bring Byrd, Angle, and McPhee but I would prefer to either just come alone or even better bring Professor Jorge Correa along.

Denis bows to Takahashi and walks away.