The night one of the most feared Olympians ever fought a Japanese icon — was it real or fake? An investigation

Aleksandr Karelin was the "Russian Bear," one of the most ferocious Olympians to ever live. Akira Maeda was a retired shootfighting pioneer. Together they produced the biggest spectacle of its kind in 1990s Japan — but was it real or was it all a work?

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