{"id":3199887,"date":"2026-04-23T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/3199887\/celebrity\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:00:06","slug":"how-daigo-became-the-final-boss-of-fighting-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/3199887\/celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"How Daigo Became the Final Boss of Fighting Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FMrc7EmhD3o?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMenaRD, the two time Capcom Cup champion of Street Fighter V, the EVO Japan 2024, 2025 and EVO Vegas 2025 champion for Street Fighter 6, has challenged Daigo to a First to 10 showmatch. This feels almost like picking an unfair fight, until you realize the history and strength of Daigo in the long set format.<\/p>\n<p>Prep-time Daigo has long been revered as the ultimate competitor, the greatest display of fighting game excellence. Time after time, when a new world champion would be crowned, Daigo would be there to take them down, as the true final boss of Street Fighter.<\/p>\n<p>15% off your order of Okizeme Coffee with discount code &#8220;BrianF&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p>Get 10% off the Victrix Pro KO Leverless with discount code &#8220;BrianF&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p>Edited by Brain Genius Academy: @BrainGeniusAcademy<br \/>\nThumbnail(s) by: <\/p>\n<p>0:00 Who is Daigo<br \/>\n1:47 MenaRD issues a challenge<br \/>\n2:54 Why challenge Daigo?<br \/>\n3:52 Daigo is dethroned<br \/>\n4:51 Daigo vs. Xian<br \/>\n11:39 Daigo vs. Infiltration<br \/>\n19:06 Daigo vs. Luffy<br \/>\n21:52 Daigo vs. Momochi<br \/>\n26:57 Daigo vs. Tokido<br \/>\n34:39 How will Daigo vs. MenaRD go?<br \/>\n37:34 Epilogue<\/p>\n<p>#brian_f #streetfighter #fightinggames <\/p>\n<p>NEW MERCH:<br \/>\nSECOND CHANNEL:  \u2068@MoreBrian_F\u2069<br \/>\nTRASH TALK YOUTUBE CHANNEL:  \u2068@TrashTalkFGC\u2069<br \/>\nTRASH TALK + EXTRA TRASHY PODCAST:<br \/>\nPatreon:<br \/>\nTwitch stream:<br \/>\nTwitter:<br \/>\nMerch:<br \/>\nFighting Game gear\/PC Setup:<br \/>\nAmazon Affiliates link:<br \/>\nHeadphones: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MenaRD, the two time Capcom Cup champion of Street Fighter V, the EVO Japan 2024, 2025 and EVO Vegas 2025 cham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3199888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21045],"tags":[19509,1981522,1981523,26627,1981521,38223,21047,21046,42181,21425,38568,262855,1981524,593817,36448,6956,1981525,1981526,110391,38230,754015,38231,107056,593819,19054,744142,38217,38233,18208,22,5668],"class_list":{"0":"post-3199887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-boss","9":"tag-bri4n_f","10":"tag-bri4nf","11":"tag-brian","12":"tag-brian_f","13":"tag-capcom","14":"tag-celebrities","15":"tag-celebrity","16":"tag-combos","17":"tag-daigo","18":"tag-fgc","19":"tag-fighting","20":"tag-fighting-game-community","21":"tag-fighting-games","22":"tag-final","23":"tag-games","24":"tag-infiltration","25":"tag-long-set","26":"tag-menard","27":"tag-sf5","28":"tag-sf6","29":"tag-sfv","30":"tag-stream","31":"tag-streamer","32":"tag-street-fighter","33":"tag-street-fighter-6","34":"tag-street-fighter-v","35":"tag-tokido","36":"tag-twitch","37":"tag-vlog","38":"tag-xian"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3199888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}