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The story
A video believed to have been filmed in Japan has gone viral on X and become a hot topic across 5ch’s boards. A tall, muscular foreign man driving behind a pack of bōsōzoku (outlaw biker gang) riders honked his horn, sending the gang into a rage. The argument escalated into a brawl, and the footage shows the man being run over by a motorcycle and kicked while surrounded by the group. Thread posters repeatedly noted that physique and strength count for little against sheer numbers, while others criticized the biker gang or debated whether the story as described was even true.
Even a jacked, ripped bodybuilder ends up like this against a biker gang.
Getting run over by the bike is just the opener — then they surround him and kick him all at once.
A Nihon Kempo instructor once told me: “Even the police call in riot squads when they need to round up bōsōzoku.”
Source: video.twimg.com / original clip here
What people said
If that happened to an average Joe like us, we'd be dead for sure.
Biker gang riding as a pack
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Buff foreigner driving behind them honks his horn
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Gang loses it
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Argument breaks out, escalates into a fight
That's just awful.
Feel bad for the guy.
When and where did he get "cocky", exactly?
Did you even read the timeline in Re: #4?
How do you know the play-by-play in such detail?
Being a loner makes you the weakest link there is.
It's not unusual for some random salaryman to hold a black belt in some martial art.
But there are always a few who'll pick a fight no matter how big you are, and those guys are the scary ones, so watch out 🥺
Guys who mess with someone who looks strong are usually carrying a blade.
Dead serious.
If someone starts a fight with you without hesitation even though you look tough, chances are they're packing something — better to just run.
Does "Yamato spirit" really mean strength in numbers now?
But the point stands — if they gang up on you, you can't win,
no matter how tall, ripped, or fight-trained you are.
Makes Mikuru Asakura's "2 vs 51" fight story sound like total nonsense.
He claims the guy he fought was throwing rocks at him,
but a dude throwing rocks sounds straight out of a manga — somebody get him a fight in RIZIN.
What kind of joke is this in the Reiwa era.
That story sounds made up though.
It was in the newspaper, wasn't it.
It genuinely became a criminal case.
He was protecting his little brother, and since it was 8-on-1, he one-sidedly knocked them all down — but walked away without charges.
who'd have guessed they'd go for a mob beatdown instead of a one-on-one duel?
Did you type that with your hands shaking?
Lol
Leave the guy alone lmaooo
These days bōsōzoku in Japan ride bicycles.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2086767741378158592/vid/avc1/1180×1516/xH1jFNfuNOMuZa-e.mp4?tag=29
You always post that same video.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
According to National Police Agency statistics, crackdowns on bōsōzoku gangs have been trending downward for years, which is the backdrop for the “wait, these still exist?” reactions. At the same time, the idea that numbers matter more than size or strength in a group-versus-individual fight is a point often raised even among people with real combat experience — commenters in the thread debated its truth by citing Mikuru Asakura’s multi-opponent fight and other examples. Note that partway through, the thread veered into an unrelated political spat over criticism of the Okinawa Prefectural Police, along with discriminatory remarks about race and ethnicity, so those posts have been excluded from this article. It’s also worth noting that the video alone doesn’t objectively establish the circumstances behind the horn-honking, so opinions remain divided on who was actually at fault.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G board) thread “[Sad News] Tall, Buff Foreigner Gets Mob-Lynched by a Japanese Biker Gang and Beaten to a Pulp — Guess Lifting Weights Was Pointless.”
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